Custom Merch Manufacturer

One hundred pieces per style, per colour. For merch that usually means a drop of three or four hundred across a couple of garments — a tee and a hoodie, say — rather than one of everything. The advice we give most often is to resist the temptation to launch a wide range: a hundred each of six styles costs substantially more per piece than three hundred each of two, ties up cash in stock that has not proven itself, and leaves you guessing about what actually sold. Merch tends to succeed on a small number of strong pieces reordered repeatedly. Start narrow, see what moves, then go deeper on the winner — the reorder is cheaper than the first run because setup is already paid.

POD until a design proves itself, then us. That is genuinely our advice, and it costs us the early orders. Print-on-demand risks nothing: no stock, no upfront cash, ships tomorrow — perfect for finding out whether a design sells. What you pay for that is two to three times the manufactured unit cost, no control over fabric, fit or labelling, and a garment that is fundamentally someone else's blank with your artwork on it. Once a style sells consistently, that premium is money you are handing over every single unit. At a hundred pieces the economics flip decisively. The pattern that works is running both — POD as your testing ground, manufacturing for the winners. Do not manufacture a range nobody has bought yet, whatever we might prefer.

Because you inherit every decision someone else made. When a printer works with blanks, they receive finished garments and control nothing about them — not the fabric weight, not the fit, not the seam placement, not the neck construction. If the fabric is too textured to hold fine detail, they find out at print stage. If a seam sits exactly where your design needs flat fabric, the design moves rather than the seam. You also cannot label it properly: most blanks carry their own neck label, so you are either overprinting someone else's brand or paying to relabel. Making the garment means the print is planned alongside it — seams kept clear, fabric chosen to take the ink you want, flat panels printed before assembly where a design crosses a seam.

That is standard rather than an add-on. Your logo can be applied by screen print, embroidery, sublimation, heat transfer or woven label depending on the garment and the look you want, and we will tell you which suits your artwork rather than defaulting to whichever is easiest. Packaging covers hangtags, polybags, tissue, stickers and cartons, printed with your artwork. Everything ships under your brand with nothing identifying the factory. The one thing to send early is vector artwork — AI, EPS or PDF — because a low-resolution image has to be redrawn, and redrawing means someone interprets your logo rather than reproducing it. If all you have is a PNG, send it anyway and we will tell you honestly whether it will hold up at the size you want.

Yes, DDP to the US, UK, EU, Australia, Canada and most other markets — we handle export, freight, customs entry and duty, and quote you a landed price rather than a factory price with surprises attached. Air freight suits launch dates and smaller drops, adding roughly five to eight days depending on destination; sea freight adds four to six weeks and costs a fraction as much, which makes sense for repeat bulk. We can ship to your warehouse, to a third-party fulfilment centre, or split a run across two destinations if you are selling in more than one region. What we do not do is dropship to individual customers — we are a manufacturer, and per-order fulfilment is a different business done better by specialists.