Your customer stays your customer
We print it, you deliver it. No tags with our name on the box, no marketing slipped into the shipment, no contact with your client. The relationship you built stays yours.
Contract Screen Printing
Contract screen printing for shops that need more press time
Sometimes the work comes in faster than the press can turn it around. When it does, DDESIGNS runs contract screen printing for other decorators, distributors, and brands — you send the blanks and the art, we print, cure, and pack them to your specs. Same crew, same quality control, and a delivery date set at the time of purchase so you can promise your own customer a date and mean it.
What Contract Screen Printing is best for
- Best for:
- Overflow & peak-season capacity
- Shops without a press
- Distributors & promo agencies
- Apparel brands & labels
Why it works
What you get with our contract screen printing
A date you can pass along
Your delivery date is set at the time of purchase, so you know exactly when the job lands and can commit to your own customer with confidence instead of hedging.
Print-ready or we tell you
Send your separations and we'll run them. If something in the file will cause trouble on press — trapping, registration, a halftone that won't hold — we'll flag it before we burn screens rather than after.
Nearly two decades on the press
We have been printing in Springfield since 2008. Contract work gets the same production team and the same quality checks as everything else that goes through the shop.
Behind the craft
How contract screen printing works with us
Send us the job: garment counts by size and color, your artwork or separations, print locations, and the date you need it back. We'll confirm the minimum for your run, quote it, and put the delivery date in writing before anything starts. Contract work carries a minimum that depends on the piece count and color count, and we'll tell you exactly what it is when we quote.
You can ship blanks to us or we can source them for you — some shops prefer to control their own garment cost, others would rather hand the whole thing off. Either works. From there we burn screens, print, cure, and pack to your instructions: folded, boxed by size, poly-bagged, or however your customer expects to receive it.
FAQ
Contract Screen Printing questions
Straight answers before you order — and a real person on the phone if you'd rather just ask.
What is contract screen printing?
Contract screen printing is when one shop prints for another business rather than for the end customer. You handle the client, the design, and the sale; we handle the press. It's how decorators cover overflow during a busy season, how shops without a press offer screen printing anyway, and how brands get production done without buying equipment.
Do I send you the garments, or do you supply them?
Either way works. Plenty of contract customers ship us their own blanks because they've already got garment pricing they like. Others would rather we source everything so it's one line item. Tell us which you prefer when you send the job over.
Is there a minimum for contract screen printing?
Yes. Contract runs carry a minimum, and the exact number depends on your piece count and how many colors are in the design — we confirm it with your quote so there are no surprises. If a job comes in under it, we will say so up front and point you toward whether DTF makes more sense for that particular run.
Will you contact my customer or put your branding on the order?
No. Contract work ships blind — no DDESIGNS tags, no inserts, no contact with your client. As far as your customer is concerned, you printed it. We're comfortable putting that in writing if you'd like it in the agreement.
How fast can you turn around a contract print run?
Your delivery date is set at the time of purchase, so you always know exactly when the job will be ready. Tell us the date you have promised your customer when you send the job, and we will confirm before you commit whether we can hit it.
Where are you located?
We are in Springfield, Missouri, and we have been printing here since 2008. Local shops are welcome to drop off and pick up; we also ship contract work out to customers further afield.
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