Three machines, three different jobs. The flat presses handle shirts, totes and anything that lies flat; the cap press handles hats, beanies and patches. Start from the work and the choice makes itself.

Every machine here is priced, with shipping quoted alongside it — the dual platen and lift table travel LTL freight with a liftgate, and the clamshell and cap press go UPS Ground. Tell us what you are pressing and we will point you at the right one.

• 16″ × 20″ clamshell — the everyday press for flat goods. A slide-out base you can thread a shirt onto, so you are not working over a hot platen. Right for a copy shop, a single classroom, or a program under about 100 shirts a week.
• Cap and patch press — hats, beanies and patches. A desktop machine with upper and lower heated platens controlled separately, which is what a curved seam needs. Plugs into a normal outlet, about 44 lb, ships parcel.
• 16″ × 20″ dual platen — the volume machine, and still a one-person station. Load one side while the other presses, so nobody stands watching a timer. Close to double the output from the same single volunteer. Laser alignment for placement, a full control panel, and no foot pedal — nothing on the floor to trip over in a shared classroom. This is the school and booster press.

Choosing between the clamshell and the dual platen? The question is not size — they share the same 16″ × 20″ platen and take the same lower platens. It is whether one person needs to get through a run without standing and waiting on the press.

Lower platens fit both flat presses. Full fronts, youth sizes, sleeves and pockets — they change tool-free, and the clamshell and the dual platen take the same ones.

Everything carries across. Start with the clamshell, add the dual platen later, and every platen, every Teflon cover and every bit of setup comes with you. A program still finding its feet can buy the smaller machine and keep growing into it.

The lift table is optional. The dual platen sits on any bench that will hold it, so use the one you have. Where a shared classroom or a concession building needs its own surface, the lift table is it — on locking casters at a height you set, so the press rolls out for a run and back against the wall afterwards.

We print what you will press. If your press cannot hold temperature, our transfers get blamed — so we have no interest in putting you on a machine that will make our work look bad. We spent twelve years decorating apparel as Morché Designs before we printed a single transfer.

Press one before you buy it. Come to Lawrenceville, bring a garment from your own program, and decide in twenty minutes what a spec sheet would take a month to tell you.

Twelve months on every press, and we handle it. A lot of this equipment is sold with six. If something fails you call Lawrenceville and speak to people who press garments themselves, rather than opening a ticket with a distributor who has never run the machine.

Laser alignment on the dual platen and the cap press. On premium equipment it is a several-hundred-dollar add-on. Here it is standard on both, and it is the difference between a logo that sits straight and a garment you throw away.

Freight is a flat fee, not a quote. One price to anywhere in the lower 48, liftgate included. It exists because a school cannot raise a requisition against “call for a freight quote” — a bookkeeper needs a total that will not move between approval and invoice.

That covers the lower 48. Alaska, Hawaii and US territories we still ship to, but freight has to be priced individually — email us with your address and we will quote it.

And we do not compete with you. We do not sell decorated apparel and we do not run team stores, so your customer stays yours.

A press is how you stop paying a decorator to do something your volunteers can do in an evening.

A Gildan 64000 tee is about $3.05 blank and a full-chest TrueColor® transfer about $3.25 — so $6.30 pressed in house. A decorator marks up the blank and adds a press charge, and the same shirt comes back around $8. On a hoodie the gap is wider: about $13.25 in house against a blank marked from $10 to $15–$20 before the transfer and the press charge.

That difference comes off player dues, and a family with a student in two sports pays those dues twice.

We run free hands-on workshops at the Lawrenceville shop. You press a shirt in the first ten minutes, then we cover temperature, pressure, peel timing and what to do when a print lifts. Bring a garment from your program and press it on the machine you are considering.

Georgia public schools and colleges are automatically exempt from sales tax and need no form from us. Booster clubs and other 501(c)(3) groups are exempt once we have your ST-5 on file. We invoice on Net 30 once your district has us set up, and our invoices read Morché Designs dba MoreTranz — the name already in several Georgia vendor systems.

If you are turning away shirt work, you are turning away the easiest margin in the building. You do not need a printer — you need transfers and a press, and the customer stays yours.

We still get asked for finished decorated apparel every week and we no longer do that work. Those inquiries have to go somewhere.