Screen Printing
for Long Island, NY

Setup is fixed, so quantity does the work

Burning screens, mixing ink and dialing in registration takes the same effort for 12 shirts as for 500. That fixed cost spreads across the run, which is why per-shirt pricing falls off a cliff early and then flattens. On a one-color, one-location print our published ranges run roughly $12–$18 per shirt at 12–24 pieces, $9–$14 at 25–48, and $7–$11 at 49–72.

The practical consequence for a Long Island order: the jump from 36 to 48 pieces often costs little more in total, and it drags you over the $500 free-shipping line at the same time. Our minimum on any screen printed order is 12 pieces. Full ranges are in our screen printing cost guide.

Every ink color is another pass

Each color needs its own screen and its own trip through the press, which adds roughly $1–$2 per shirt per color. A six-color chest print is not a small upgrade over a two-color one. If a quote comes back higher than you budgeted, simplifying the artwork usually saves more than cutting the order size — and a well-drawn one or two-color print often reads better on a shirt anyway. The six factors behind a quote covers the rest.

Send artwork that won't stall the job

The most common delay on an out-of-area order isn't shipping — it's waiting on usable art. Vector files (.ai, .eps, .pdf) separate cleanly to screens. A 300 DPI PNG at full print size works. A logo pulled off a website or texted as a screenshot does not, and rebuilding it adds days before production even starts. Send the best file you have with your first message and we'll tell you straight away whether it prints as-is.

When screen printing is the wrong call

Under about 24 pieces, or for full-color photographic art, the setup cost stops making sense and DTF or digital printing usually lands cheaper with no quality penalty at that size. We'll say so rather than sell you screens you don't need — see how the methods compare or go straight to digital printing. For polos, hats and staff uniforms headed to Nassau or Suffolk, custom work uniforms is the better starting point.