Prints We Have Pressed

Nine finished pieces

Nine finished pieces. This is the newest of the three methods in the shop and it is the smallest gallery on the site for that reason - every frame here is a job somebody ordered, and there are not yet many of them to show.

The tote is the one to look at first if you only look at one. It is a canvas bag carrying a full-color print, and the frame beside it is the same print shot close enough to see how it sits on the weave - a thin flexible layer on the surface rather than something sunk into the cloth. That difference is the whole method, and it is easier to see in a photograph than to explain in a paragraph.

What gets ordered

Two shirts carrying one design is the job this method exists for. Printing the same artwork twice costs what printing it twice costs, and no more, because there is nothing to set up between them - which is why a mother-and-daughter pair, a pair of sisters, or two people who wanted the same shirt is a normal order here and would be an awkward one anywhere that has to burn a screen first. The folded run in the next frame is the same idea at a larger count, boxed and ready to go out.

The first-day shirt is exactly what it sounds like, and it is the kind of order that arrives with a date attached rather than a budget. A tee with script set in a circle is a one-off. So is the pink trucker with a printed panel across the front, which is worth noticing because it shows the method is not only for flat cotton.

Two objects, one file

The cap crest and the matching koozies are the same artwork on two very different objects, ordered together. That is the other thing this method is good for: once the file exists, putting it on a second kind of item is not a second project.

Printed and pressed in the same room

Transfers are printed and pressed at the shop in Yukon, Oklahoma, inside the Oklahoma City metro, rather than ordered in from somewhere else and passed along. Stephanie photographs each finished piece on her phone before it goes out, which is why these are shot on a couch, a workbench or a brick wall instead of on a model. Nine is the honest count, and the nine above are a fair sample of what gets asked for. Every job here is quoted on its own rather than priced off a rate card, and the mock is approved before anything goes on film.

More is coming. Stephanie photographs pieces as they leave and this page grows as she shoots them. If what you want to know is what a DTF transfer is, how it holds up in the wash, and what to send, that is on the DTF transfers service page rather than here.