Screen printing
Custom Screen Printing for Businesses, Organizations & Events
Some apparel simply makes more sense printed. The Piedmont Stitch House offers professional screen printing for company T-shirts, employee and staff shirts, event apparel, school and nonprofit programs, retail merchandise, and larger runs where printing is the right choice for the design and the garment.
We work with businesses and organizations nationwide and ship anywhere in the country. Businesses in central North Carolina and Southern Virginia get free delivery.
Why screen printing
Already Working With Us for Embroidery?
We can also handle your printed apparel, so your organization does not need a separate vendor for every project. One shop, one point of contact, and the same artwork already on file.
Recent job
Adios Junk: Crew Tees That Advertise on Every Job
Screen printed tees for a local junk removal crew: a two-colour chest logo, a full back print with the call-or-text line, and "Hablamos Español" on the sleeve so customers know up front.
What we print
Screen Printed T-Shirts, Sweatshirts & Event Apparel
Screen printing is the right call when one design repeats across a group: a race, a festival, a church trip, a crew that needs to be recognizable on a job site, or a rack of shirts you intend to sell. Full front and full back designs are where it looks best, and sleeve prints work well alongside a chest mark.
Fabric affects the result more than most people realize. A retail-weight cotton tee takes ink beautifully. A performance shirt built to wick moisture behaves differently and needs its own approach. We choose the garment with you rather than printing whatever is cheapest and hoping it holds up.
Designs that print well
Solid shapes, clear type, and a defined number of colors are ideal, and gradients print well too. Photographs and designs carrying dozens of shades can be screen printed, but unless the order is a large one they belong in DTF, which handles them without the setup each color needs here.
- Soft finish — ink cured into the fabric, not a plastic slab sitting on the surface
- Twelve garments to start — that is where screens make sense; under twelve, DTF is the better answer
- No screen or setup fees — worked into the piece price, not billed separately
- Cost drops with quantity — setup is spread across the run, so bigger orders price better per shirt
- Large designs handled easily — full front, full back, and sleeve prints
- Brand colors mixed to match — solid colors reproduced consistently across the whole run
- Proof before production — your design on your garment color, approved by you first
How it works
How Screen Printing Orders Are Produced
Artwork separated
Your design is split into its individual colors, one screen per color, and sized to the garment rather than stretched to fill space.
Screens and ink
Screens are burned and ink is mixed to your colors, chosen against the actual shirt so the result reads the way you expect.
Your proof
You approve the design on the garment color you chose. Screens are not made until the proof is signed off.
Printed and cured
Shirts are printed, cured so the ink is locked in, counted, folded, and delivered or shipped.
Common questions
Screen Printing Questions
Why does screen printing get cheaper in larger quantities?
Most of the work happens before the first shirt is printed: separating artwork, burning a screen for each color, and mixing ink. That effort is the same whether you order a few or a great many, so spreading it across more shirts lowers what each one costs.
Can you print a photograph or a design with gradients?
Gradients, yes. Photographs can be screen printed, but unless the order is a large one they are better suited to DTF, which prints the whole image at once without the setup each color needs here.
Can every shirt have a different name and number?
Yes. A team set with names and numbers is screen printed as part of the run. Where DTF earns its place is the single piece afterward — a replacement, a player added late, or one shirt for one person.
Can I sell these shirts?
Yes, and many customers do. Tell us at quoting time so we can steer you toward garments people will actually pay for rather than the cheapest blank on the shelf.