25-piece minimum

Print 25.
Ship one box.
Know the price.

Real screen-shop merch at a minimum a working band can actually hit. Build your size breakdown, see the full cost and the ship date before you pay, and get the whole run delivered to one address.

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No platform fee · No surprise quote · Printed in Portland, Oregon

Why band merch is harder than it should be

The quote arrives
after you've committed

01 — THE MINIMUM

The shop wants 50. You need 25.

Screen printing is priced for volume a touring band doesn't have yet. The tier that makes financial sense is always one step above the number you'd actually sell.

02 — THE PRICE

Nobody will tell you the number.

Email the shop, describe the job, wait two days, get a quote, change one thing, wait again. You're deciding on a tour budget without knowing what the shirts cost.

03 — THE FILE

The art problem shows up at the press.

Resolution too low, art outside the print area, colors that can't be stitched on a hat. You find out after the money is spent, not while you're still designing.

How a run works

Four steps,
no phone calls

01

Put your artwork on a garment

Drop a file onto a real blank and move it around. The safe print area is drawn for that exact garment, the mockup recolors when you change shirts, and you get told before you order if the file is too small to print sharp.

02

Build your size breakdown

Twenty-five is the floor, and you split it however you want across sizes and colors. Six mediums and eight larges, or twenty-five of one thing. The mix is yours; only the total has to clear 25.

03

See the real number, then pay once

Full price and a real ship date on screen before you commit — garments, printing, shipping and tax, itemized. One charge, one card, no invoice chase. Change the mix and the number updates.

04

One box arrives

The job goes into the shop's queue that day and the whole run ships to a single address, sorted and counted. You unpack it onto the merch table.

25
Unit minimum
21
Days on press
0%
Platform fee
1
Box, one address

The designer

Set up the print,
not just the picture

Most design tools let you make something that can't actually be printed, then let the shop discover it. This one knows what garment you're on and what machine it's going to.

  • Real print areas. The dashed box is that garment's actual safe zone in inches, not a generic rectangle.
  • Resolution warnings. Below 150 DPI at the size you picked, it tells you it will print soft.
  • Truthful color. Swap the garment and the mockup recolors, so white ink on black looks like white ink on black.
  • Embroidery mode. Move a design onto a hat and the palette caps, gradients switch off, and fine detail gets flagged.
  • One design, every blank. The same artwork carries from tee to hoodie to tote without rebuilding it.

What you can put a run on

Blanks you can name

DTF · full color

Apparel

  • Bella+Canvas 3001 tee
  • Gildan 64000 tee
  • Gildan 18500 hoodie
  • Gildan 18000 crewneck
  • Cotton tote

Photographs, gradients and unlimited colors all print fine. Mix garments inside one run as long as the total clears 25.

Embroidered

Headwear

  • Yupoong 6245CM dad hat
  • Sportsman SP15 beanie

Stitched, not printed — so 6 to 15 thread colors, no gradients, and nothing finer than about a quarter inch. The first run on a new design adds setup time.

Straight answers

The limits, up front

You're buying a run of shirts, so you're fronting the cost the way you would with any print shop. Here's exactly what that means before you get invested.

Minimum
25 units per run, in any mix of sizes, colors and garments.
Payment
One charge for the whole run when you place it. You see the itemized total first — this is stock you're buying, not a pre-order someone else funds.
Production
21 days from the day you place the run, plus transit. Every screen shows the real date, never an estimate we hope holds.
Shipping
The full run in one box to one address in the United States.
Cancellation
Free until the job enters production. Not after — by then the blanks are bought and the film is burned.
Cost
The shop's price plus card processing. We add nothing on top.
Artwork
It has to be yours, or licensed to you. You confirm that when you submit a design.
Coming later

Fan-funded runs. Same shop, same garments, but your people commit individually and the run only prints if it reaches 25 — so nobody fronts anything. It's the version where you don't carry the inventory risk, and it's what we're building next.

Who prints it

One shop.
Real people.

Every run is printed by Portland Ink in Portland, Oregon. Not a fulfillment network, not whichever partner is closest to your fan. The same press, the same hands, every time — which is why we can tell you exactly what blank you're getting and exactly when it ships.

Built by the team behind MusiPortal,
which already runs booking and payments for working bands.

Twenty-five isn't a hoop we're making you jump through. It's the number where a real shop can print a real garment at a price that doesn't insult you.

— Why the minimum exists

Get started

Price a run
before you commit

Make an account, put your artwork on a garment, and build a size breakdown. The full itemized price and ship date are on screen before you pay anything.

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