Customnia Blog: Custom T-Shirt and Hat Printing Guides

November 1, 2026

Same-day t-shirt printing: what can actually be done today

Same day is a real service with real edges. Order before 1 PM on a business day and your shirts are printed today. After that it depends on the job, which is why the honest answer is a phone call rather than a checkbox.

November 1, 2026

Rush orders in New York: how the same-day window works

In New York the slow part of a rush order is almost never the printing. It is the traffic, the elevator, the person at the venue who has gone to lunch. Here is how we plan around that.

November 1, 2026

How much do custom t-shirts cost in 2026

A custom shirt starts at $8.20 here and the blank you pick accounts for most of the difference after that. No setup fee, no colour charges, and discounts that start at twenty pieces.

November 1, 2026

Screen printing vs DTG: which one your order should use

Screen printing wins on long runs with simple art. DTG wins on short runs and photographs. The crossover sits somewhere around a hundred shirts, and which side of it you are on decides almost everything else about your order.

November 1, 2026

Custom t-shirts with no minimum: how ordering one shirt works

Most print shops want twelve shirts before they will talk to you. We do not, and the reason is the printer rather than generosity. Here is how a single-shirt order works, what it costs, and where a minimum still applies.

November 1, 2026

Best blanks for printing: what we would pick and why

We have printed more than twenty thousand Next Level 3600s and a couple of thousand of everything else, which is a reasonable basis for an opinion. Here is which blank suits which order.

November 1, 2026

DTG on dark shirts: what to expect

White ink is the whole story. On a light shirt the fabric does the work; on black, the printer has to lay down white first and then print your colours on top of it. Everything that looks different about dark garments comes from that one step.

November 1, 2026

Team and group shirts: names, numbers, rosters

On a screen press every different name needs its own screen, which is why personalised team orders are expensive. On a direct-to-garment printer a hundred different names is a hundred different files, and the price does not move.

November 1, 2026

Embroidery vs printing on hats: what holds up

We print shirts and we stitch hats, and that split is not a preference. A cap has a curved, structured, often polyester front, which is close to the worst possible surface for a flat printer.

November 1, 2026

Custom hats: thread, panels and placement

Four decisions decide whether an embroidered cap looks professional or homemade: the crown, the panel count, where the logo sits and how many thread colours you use. None of them are about the logo itself.

November 1, 2026

Same-day hat embroidery: what we can stitch today

Order a classic or trucker cap before 1 PM on a business day and it can be embroidered the same day. Here is which caps qualify, what artwork stitches cleanly and what takes longer.

November 1, 2026

Bulk custom t-shirts: price breaks and lead times

Discounts start at twenty pieces and reach 25% at a hundred. Past roughly a hundred and fifty shirts with simple artwork, the honest answer is that a screen printer will beat us, and we will say so.

November 1, 2026

What file do you need: PNG, SVG or AI

Send a vector if you have one and a transparent PNG if you do not. Everything else is a question of how much work it will take to get your artwork to one of those two.

November 1, 2026

How to design a t-shirt that prints well

Almost every printing problem starts in the file. Four things get it right: enough resolution, a transparent background, artwork built at the size it will print, and a hard edge where the design ends.

November 1, 2026

Heat transfer vinyl, DTG and screen print compared

Vinyl is cut from a sheet and pressed on. DTG is sprayed into the fabric. Screen print is pushed through a stencil. The three behave so differently that most orders only really suit one of them.

November 1, 2026

Cheap custom shirts without cheap results

There is a cheap that means efficient and a cheap that means regret. The gap between them on a shirt order is mostly about which blank you pick and how big you print.

November 1, 2026

Tote bags, hoodies and sweatshirts with no minimum

One hoodie is a real order. So is one tote bag and one sweatshirt. The no-minimum rule covers the core blanks in every category, and the catalogue marks the items that have one.

November 1, 2026

T-shirt sizing for custom orders

Sizing is the part of a group order that goes wrong most often, and it goes wrong before anything is printed. The fix is boring: collect real sizes, and measure a shirt rather than guessing a label.

November 1, 2026

Will my custom shirt shrink? Cotton versus blends

Most cotton tees lose about half an inch of length in the first hot wash and then stop. Which blank you chose decides how much, and how you dry it decides whether it happens at all.

November 1, 2026

How to wash custom printed shirts so they last

A DTG print fades rather than cracks, and almost all of the fading comes from heat and abrasion in the dryer. Get two things right and the print will outlast your interest in the shirt.