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The Print Factory Bet That One Vendor Could Print the Whole Brand
A business card, a tent and an embroidered polo look like separate errands. This Ontario print shop built its proposition on making them one conversation.
The T-Shirt Company That Washes the Trouble Out Before You Wear It
Massive Prints built a large apparel operation around a small domestic annoyance: the shirt that changes shape after the first wash. Its answer is part chemistry, part choreography, and a useful lesson in making the boring step the business.
The Company That Makes Trucks Speak at 60 MPH
Airmark built a durable business around a deceptively hard problem: making a logo survive weather, washing, curves, chemicals and years on the road.
The Little California Shop That Will Stitch One Shirt - or One Thousand
Most decorators want volume. 5 Star Apparel built its pitch around the awkward orders - one cap, a school fundraiser, a firehouse patch, then the thousand-piece run.
AdArt knows a good idea has to stand up
A retail display has to do more than look good in a presentation. The AdArt Company turns artwork into physical objects, then tackles the packing, shipping, and installation that get them in front of shoppers.
Advertising Edge and the small decisions that make a shirt worth wearing
A Santee merchandise company offers a useful lesson in branding: the logo is only part of the order. Fit, quantity, artwork and the date on the calendar do much of the work.
Troo Wear and the social life of a T-shirt
A screen printer, a box of tees, and a reason to show up. Christopher C. Lee’s Bay Area label reveals how clothing becomes a calling card for a creative community.
Novelty Printing and the fine print behind a $2 tote
A Rancho Cucamonga promotional-products shop shows how much work sits between picking a giveaway and putting it in someone’s hands.
APG puts your business on paper. And on the truck.
From business cards to vehicle wraps, Advanced Printing & Graphics turns a company’s identity into things people can hold, wear and spot across the street. Its pitch is continuity: one creative idea, carried through production.
Protech Graphics makes the factory floor legible
Control panels, nylon parts, truck graphics and school shirts: this Michigan shop puts design to work on objects that have somewhere to be.
Quality Punch makes the logo survive the needle
A 300,000-stitch monster shows what Quality Punch can do. Its everyday business is making sure a customer’s artwork survives the trip from screen to shirt.
IQ Graphics makes the neighborhood look good
From restaurant menus to storefront lettering, this family-owned San Diego shop turns business identities into things people can hold, wear, and spot from the street.
Custom Ink
Custom Ink is an online retailer that lets anyone design and order custom apparel and promotional products - t-shirts, hoodies, hats, drinkware and swag - without order minimums or design software. Founded in 2000 in a Virginia basement, the company built an easy online Design Lab plus human design and support help, turning group orders for teams, schools, businesses, nonprofits and events into a business that has grown to roughly $500 million in revenue. It has since expanded into corporate swag management through acquisitions like Swag.com and Printfection.
Mad Engine Global, LLC
Mad Engine Global is a Glendale, California-based designer, manufacturer and distributor of licensed, branded and private-label apparel and accessories. Founded in 1987 as a small Southern California t-shirt supplier, it has grown into a vertically integrated, omnichannel consumer-products company that turns pop-culture properties - from Disney and Marvel to Fortnite, Netflix and Coca-Cola - into wearable merchandise for mass retail, specialty and e-commerce channels worldwide. It also owns brands including LRG, Neff Headwear, Mighty Fine and Fifth Sun, and runs a Take Back recycling program as part of its sustainability push.