Need custom t-shirts for a San Francisco event? We print them at the event, your design in your colors, while guests watch. Each guest waits about two minutes, and there's nothing to box up or ship.
Custom t-shirt printing, made live in San Francisco
A normal custom order gets printed somewhere else and shows up in cartons a week later, in whatever sizes you guessed. A live station prints to order. A guest picks a size, watches the print go down and walks off wearing it, and at a product launch or a developer conference that line becomes part of the event.
What we can print
- T-shirts: soft tees from XS to 4XL, printed per guest.
- Hoodies and crewnecks: the pieces people actually wear on a foggy evening by the bay.
- Caps: built at the live hat bar.
- Totes and hard goods: promo items for crowds that already have enough shirts.
Screen printing or DTF?
One bold design for a big crowd prints fastest with live screen printing. Full-color art, photos or a name on every shirt goes through live DTF printing, which has no color limit. Send the art and we'll tell you which fits.
Why print at the event: no shipping, no guessing sizes months ahead, and every guest leaves with a shirt they watched get made.
Ranges are on the pricing page, output per hour is in this answer, and a San Francisco quote starts with the event form.
Planning notes
Before the truck leaves La Habra
Shirts for a Moscone booth, a Union Square pop-up or a warehouse party at The Midway in Dogpatch get planned the same way: where the line forms, where guests pick sizes and where the press plugs in.
San Francisco is a long day up the I-5 from our shop, so the kit goes up by truck the day before: presses, heat presses, flash dryers, blanks, tables and signage, with the printers who run them. Plan on about 10x10 ft and two 120V/20A circuits per station. A two-press station does 100+ shirts an hour with a short design menu.