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Yes. The ordering system at my.alpineapparelco.com prices your job as you build it — pick garments, choose your print type, and the number updates. If you’d rather ask a question first, the assistant in there is trained on how I actually quote and it can take your whole order.

20 pieces per design for screen printing. They can be a mix of styles, sizes, and colors — they just all need the same print. Under 20, DTF transfers have no minimum at all and are usually the better call anyway.

Most shops print with plastisol, which sits on the fabric like a thin layer of plastic. You can feel it, it doesn’t breathe, and it cracks eventually.

Water-based ink soaks into the fibers instead, so the print is soft, breathable, and lasts as long as the garment. It’s harder to print with and less forgiving on press, which is why most shops don’t bother. It’s the only ink I use.

On average, about two weeks for screen printing and about a week for DTF — and that clock starts once your art is approved and the balance is paid in full, not when you place the order.

Those are averages rather than guarantees, because the two things that actually move the date are outside the shop: whether your garments are in stock at the distributor, and what’s already booked on the press. If you have a hard in-hands date, tell me up front and I’ll give you a real answer — including “no” if that’s the honest one.

No. Vector files (.ai, .eps, vector .pdf) print sharpest, but send whatever you have — a photo of an old shirt, a sketch, or just the idea.

If I clean up a logo you already own, the print-ready file is yours — it is your brand. If I design something original, the design fee covers printing it here, and getting the source file to use elsewhere is a separate art release fee, quoted up front. Screens and separations stay with the shop either way.

Yes — there’s an option for it in the ordering system. One caveat: if a piece spoils on press I can’t replace it, so bring a couple of spares.

Both. Pickup in Castle Rock, or shipped anywhere in the US.

No — and it isn't that I can't get a machine. I don't think it's the better product. Embroidery is thick and stiff, the backing sits against your skin, fine detail turns to mush at small sizes, and your logo gets reinterpreted into stitch paths rather than reproduced. On a lightweight polo or a performance fabric it puckers and adds weight.

DTF gives you full color, your exact brand colors and real detail with a much lighter hand — and I run it on hats, polos, quarter-zips, jackets, all the places embroidery normally goes. So if you came looking for embroidered polos, ask me about DTF instead. In my opinion it's the nicer end product.

The honest caveat: if what you specifically want is that raised, stitched texture, that's a real thing and I'm not the shop for it. I'd rather say so than talk you into something you didn't want.