Union Made Custom T-Shirts
We can custom print T-shirts with the image or message of your design on front, back or sleeves.
• Our minimum quantity for screenprinted shirts is 36 pieces.
• A wide variety of ink colors are available.
• PRICES BELOW INCLUDE A ONE COLOR IMPRINT ON ONE SIDE OF A STANDARD 100% COTTON UNION-MADE LifeWear™ brand SHORT-SLEEVED T-SHIRT.
• The standard union-made T-shirts we print on are from one of the five union shirt manufacturers still in the U.S. – Lifewear, Windjammer, Bayside, Rubin Brothers or Platinum). They are made of 5.6 ounce 100% cotton, with crew neck, tapered shoulder-to-shoulder. Double needle bottom hem and sleeves. Side seam construction.
• T-shirts colors available are: White, Natural, Ash, Black, Red, Navy Blue, Royal Blue, Orange, Forest Green, Purple and Lime (a.k.a. Neon or Safety) Green. Other weights and styles are also available. 100% Organically-grown, unbleached cotton T-shirts are also available - but they are not available union-made at this point in the evolution of the organic/environmentally-sustainable movement and the organized labor/human rights movements.
• If you want 100% COTTON ORGANICALLY-GROWN IN THE U.S., we use S.O.S. From Texas™ brand 100% Organic Cotton T-Shirts. They offer the unbleached, natural color cotton shirt. Their cotton is organcally grown on a family farm in Texas and woven into fabric, cut, sewn and assembled in North Carolina: entirely made in the U.S.
If you've looked into organic shirts, you know how unusual it is to find a shirt that's organically grown and assembled in the U.S. AlternateApparel™ brand (for a softer ringspun feel), unbleached, T-shirts, or A.S. Tees' brand organic cotton T-shirts are two other good brands that offer grown and sewn in the U.S. organic cotton T's.
A.S. Tees are sewn in Columbia, South Carolina. A.S. Tees offers a few colors in their organic cotton t-shirts. T se their latest offering in t-shirts, visit their website: www.astees.com
Our union made shirts are either Lifewear, Windjammer (both made in Pennsylvania, UNITE! union), Platinum Sportswear (Georgia, UFCW union), Bayside's Union-Made line (Anaheim, CA) or Rubin Bros. (Chicago, UNITE! union)
Unsolicited customer comments about Lifewear™ brand T-shirts:
• “Lifewear shirts screen print better than any other shirts” - a buyer of Lifewear brand blank union-made U.S. T-shirts
• "I can't thank [Lifewear] enough for [their] constant help, support and willingness to go the extra mile. You help me look better in the eyes of our customers. Because of your attention to detail, quick response and pride in what you do, we can sell more American made garments to people who would usually settle for less." - Mike, Rochester, N.Y.
You can also order UN-IMPRINTED SHIRTS from us in any quantity, as few as one. Small through XL sizes are $6 each, add $2 for 2 XL, $3 for 3XL, $4 for 4 XL. Organic Cotton shirts in Small through XL are $9 each. UPS shipping is in additional to cost of shirts. The organic are also available in Youth sizes and women's cut styles for the same prices.
You may also ask us for a price quote for printing on shirts you provide.
• Remember that each imprinted ink color in your design requires a separate screen - the screen charge is $25 per color.
• PMS ink color matches cost $36 per color to mix the special ink color for your order.
• Emailed proofs are free.
• Paper proofs mailed to you cost $12.00 per color.
• Minimum order is 36 shirts
• The "Unite" union label is sewn into the collar. We can also imprint the screenprinter's union label on the shirt.
• Maximum imprint area for your design or text: 11.5" x 13" on front or back.
Set-Up Charges:
• $25 for each screen. Each color in your design requires a
screen.
Other Charges:
When white or light-color inks are imprinted on darker color shirts, a base print of white ink must first be imprinted, and Spot Drying ("Flashing")
is required to maintain brightness. This costs .20¢ extra per shirt, per location (front, back or sleeve).
Production
Time: Normally allow 10-15 working days from when we receive your order
to when we ship it. Shipping costs vary with distance and how quickly you need
to receive it. We can quote shipping costs for your job.
Prices
include short-sleeved T-Shirt & imprint on one side:
| Quantity |
36-99 |
100+ |
250+ |
500+ |
1000+ |
|
1
color print
|
$8.70 |
$8.25 |
$7.95 |
$7.75 |
$7.65 |
| 2
color print |
$9.55 |
$9.05 |
$8.70 |
$8.30 |
$8.10 |
| 3
color print |
$10.40 |
$9.50 |
$9.05 |
$8.80 |
$8.50 |
| 4
color print |
$11.15 |
$10.25 |
$9.80 |
$9.50 |
$9.20 |
Additional Locations
Printing
To print on another location on your garment-- the other
side or the sleeve--add the appropriate cost from this chart to the price from
the chart above.
| Quantity |
36-99 |
100+ |
250+ |
500+ |
1000+ |
|
1
color print
|
$2.55 |
$2.05 |
$1.80 |
$1.60 |
$1.55 |
| 2
color print |
$3.00 |
$2.40 |
$2.15 |
$2.05 |
$1.90 |
| 3
color print |
$3.35 |
$2.75 |
$2.50 |
$2.40 |
$2.55 |
| 4
color print |
$4.10 |
$3.35 |
$3.10 |
$3.00 |
$2.75 |
Contact
us to
place an order, or to request more information.
• NEW IN 2011 - ONE COLOR to FULL COLOR IMPRINTED SHIRTS AS FEW AS ONE!
If you want just one, two, or fewer than 36 shirts this can be done on white or natural t-shirts, using digital imprint technology, known as Direct-To-Garment (DTG) imprinting. The shirts must be 100% cotton for best imprint quality.
The cost per imprinted shirt is $25, for a one side impint up to 9" wide x 12" tall). This price includes the cost of the t-shirt. There is no set-up or screen charge, and the image can be one or many colors or even a full color photograph. If you want to send us your own blank shirts, you may deduct $5 from the price.
Your artwork should be supplied in one of the following files formats:
• Adobe Illustrator CS2
• Adobe Photoshop CS2
• Adobe Indesign CS2
Accepted files include:
• Illustrator EPS
• TIFF (high-resolution, 300 dots-per-inch at 100% image size)
Photoshop PSD
All fonts must be outlined (vector art)
ANOTHER REASON WHY WE USE U.S. UNION-MADE T-SHIRTS:
Rather than importing fair-trade produced t-shirts, the shirts we use support
U.S. workers in an all-but-gone domestic textile industry. 99.5% of the
t-shirt manufacturing jobs are now in sweatshops in countries that
prohibit unions
(or consider union to be a threat tothe garment business owners, management
and investors. These sweatshops are contracted to be run by third party
harsh managers, thus absolving the corporations from any direct culpability
for
wrong-doing. The criminally-negligent absentee transnational corporations
are absolved of guilt as they may not directly hire the thugs and assassins
who torture, disappear and murder union organizers. Corporations go to
wherever a local workforce is the cheapest to hire, impoverished, desperate
for work,
un-organized and easily controlled by fear, threats and coercion. Just
like big business operates inside the U.S. today.
If you want to know why we do not use American Apparel™ brand shirts,
please go to the archives of the now-defunct quarterly magazine, Clamor.
They published a 16-page expose of that company in what became their final
issue,
(Fall 2006). A $250 million dollar a year textile industry giant
was very threatened by any negative publicity that a tiny indie quarterly magazine
could publish about them. Another example of David versus Goliath. Unfortunately,
Goliath won that round. American Apparel is flourishing. Many progressives
are still unaware of all the issues concerning American Apparel. Like Wal*Mart,
the unethical and ruthless too often rise to the top in corporate America.
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