DTF transfers in Lawrenceville

We print at 480 Pike Park Drive in Lawrenceville — not a warehouse in another state. Choose Pickup at checkout and your transfers are usually ready within 24 hours. We email you the moment they are. Pickup is free.

In a hurry? Next Day Morning RUSH ($50) has it ready by 10:00 AM tomorrow. Same Day RUSH ($100), ordered by 1 PM, is there when the date can’t move.

Not local? One business day on UPS Ground across metro Atlanta, free over $99.

We’re already on the Gwinnett County Public Schools preferred vendor list — under Morché Designs dba MoreTranz, the name we decorated apparel under for years. No vendor application, no procurement wait. We flag your account and you’re ordering on Net 30 the same day. Same in DeKalb County.

No Georgia sales tax. Public schools and colleges are automatically exempt — no form needed. Booster clubs and PTSAs send an ST-5 once and it covers every order after.

DECA, FFA, FBLA, HOSA and SkillsUSA chapters: we already print conference shirts, chapter tees and school store stock. Send your artwork and your date and we’ll tell you straight if it’s doable.

Georgia Gwinnett College Athletics is one of our customers, ten minutes up the road — along with campus recreation, student activities and orientation.

Two kinds of classroom order from us regularly in Gwinnett County, and they order for different reasons.

DECA and business programs. School store stock, chapter tees, competition and conference apparel. The product side of a school store is the curriculum — sourcing, pricing, margin, inventory. We supply the part that makes it real instead of theoretical.

Industrial arts, engineering and technology. You already have the space, the power and the safety protocols. Adding apparel decorating gives students a complete production run — design, print, press, finished product — inside one class period.

Why it works in a classroom:

• No minimum. Order a single running foot if that’s all you need — a class of twenty is a completely normal order here. And because the rate drops the longer the sheet, two classes on one sheet costs less per shirt than two separate orders.
• Send CorelDRAW files. Gwinnett County schools are licensed for it, so send the .cdr as-is — no exporting, no converting.
• Pickup within 24 hours. A lesson doesn’t wait on a shipping label.
• No sales tax, and Net 30. Your program budget works the way it already works.

Buying a heat press? If you run a career-tech pathway — what Georgia calls CTAE — federal Perkins funding exists specifically to buy equipment like this. Your CTAE director will know the process, and we can quote against a requisition. See the three presses before you buy elsewhere.

Free workshops. We run hands-on sessions at the Lawrenceville shop for industrial arts, engineering and CTAE teachers. You press a shirt in the first ten minutes, then we work through temperature, time and pressure, what causes peeling and cracking, and what a shirt actually costs to make against what a program can charge. No cost, nothing to sign, and everyone leaves with a sample pack.

Every sport charges its own Player Dues, and apparel is a real slice of every one of them. Buy your own blanks and you keep the markup a decorator would otherwise take.

Say a student plays basketball and soccer. That’s two sets of Player Dues and two separate apparel lists — a spiritwear shirt and a travel shirt for basketball, then three practice tees, a spiritwear shirt and a hoodie for soccer. Seven decorated pieces for one student in a single school year.

A decorator makes money twice on all of that — once marking up the garment, once pressing it. Buy the blanks yourself and you keep both. Here’s what that looks like:

A tee. A Gildan 64000 Softstyle blank costs about $3.05. A full-chest transfer is half a running foot, about $3.25. Your cost is $6.30. A decorator marks the blank up and adds around $1 to press it — call it $8.00. You save about $1.70.

A hoodie. A Gildan 18500 blank is about $10.00, same $3.25 transfer, so $13.25 to you. A decorator marks that $10 blank up to $15 or $20, adds the transfer and $1 to press — $19.25 to $24.25. You save $6 to $11 on a single hoodie.

That’s the whole point, and it’s worth saying plainly: the saving is in the markup on the garment, not in the pressing. Which is why a hoodie saves you three to six times what a tee does, and why programs buying jackets, bags and heavier goods save the most.

Across that one two-sport athlete — six tees and a hoodie — it’s around $16. Across a 22-player soccer roster at four tees and a hoodie each, about $280 a season that stays in the program instead of going out the door.

But the real money is in what you sell, not what you save. Take 200 spiritwear shirts at $15 to parents and fans. They cost you $6.30 each to make, so $1,260. You take $3,000.

That’s $1,740 raised on one run — six times what the dues saving is worth, and the reason most programs end up doing this.

You’ll need a heat press. That’s the catch, and better said up front than found out later: all of the above assumes someone presses the shirts. It’s a one-time purchase, and one good spiritwear run covers it.

We sell the presses too. Three machines for three different jobs — see which one your program needs. We sold these for years before we became a transfer supplier, and every lower platen fits both flat presses, so a program can start small without stranding anything.

And it gives you something to offer a family that can’t pay. Once your program presses its own kits, a student whose family is struggling with Player Dues can earn theirs — coming in and helping decorate the team’s gear alongside everybody else. We ran exactly that under Morché Designs, and it worked: the students earned their kit, picked up a trade skill, and got on the field.

Most PTSAs use a decorator, and honestly that’s the right call. Budgets are tighter than a high school program, volunteers are harder to come by, and nobody has a spare evening to learn a heat press.

What we can do is point you at the right decorator. Tell us what you need and we can help you locate a shop nearby that presses our transfers. That matters more than it sounds — the same transfers mean your school colors come out the same on this year’s field day shirts as they did last year, and a local shop can meet you in person.

Spiritwear, field day, fun run, Robotics Club. The shirts a PTSA is responsible for are predictable and annual, which is exactly the work a decorator quotes well when you plan ahead instead of three weeks out.

And one thing you can run without a decorator at all: TrueColor® UV decals. No heat press, no pressing — they peel and stick to tumblers, water bottles and laptops. A decal fundraiser needs no equipment and nobody in the middle.

If you’re turning away shirt work, you’re turning away the easiest margin in the building. You don’t need a printer — you need transfers and a heat press.

We’ll never compete with you. We don’t sell decorated apparel and we don’t run team stores. We closed our own decorating business to become a supplier, so your customer stays yours.

And we still get asked for finished shirts every week. That work has to go somewhere — if you press our transfers, it can come to you.

Everything is priced by the running foot, and the rate drops the longer the sheet. The prices below are for premade gang sheets, where you upload a layout you’ve already arranged. The Gang Sheet Builder arranges it for you instead and costs $0.50 more per foot.

• TrueColor® — five-color printing (cyan, magenta, yellow, black and white), from $6.00/ft, down to $4.80 at 40 feet. 22.5 inches wide. Our everyday transfer.
• TrueColor® MAX — nine-color printing: the same five plus red, green, blue and orange, from $8.00/ft, down to $5.20 at 40 feet. A far wider color gamut than four-color DTF, which is what it takes to hold a specific school red or navy the same way across separate reorders.
• TrueColor® SUB — sublimation, 23.5 inches wide, from $6.00/ft. For polyester, performance wear, mugs and drinkware.
• TrueColor® UV — peel-and-stick decals, from $15.00/ft. Tumblers, water bottles, glass, wood and metal. No heat press needed, which makes them a fundraiser on their own.
• TrueColor® Glitter MAX — from $15.00/ft. Spiritwear, dance and cheer.
• Spangle transfers — spiritwear, dance and cheer. Three to five business days in production, ordered separately.

There’s no minimum. Order one foot or forty. The only thing that changes the per-foot rate is how long the sheet is — so filling a sheet is what brings your cost per design down.

It depends how you order.

Premade gang sheets — you’ve already arranged the layout, so we accept PNG, AI, PDF and CDR. Gwinnett County schools are licensed for CorelDRAW, so if that’s what your lab runs, send the .cdr straight over. No exporting, no converting.

Gang Sheet Builder — every design must be a transparent PNG. The Builder nests your artwork automatically and it can only do that with PNGs, so convert before you upload.

Either way, 150 DPI at final print size is the minimum; 300 gives the crispest detail.

We don’t redraw, vectorize or color-correct artwork, so what you send is what gets printed. Not sure a file will hold up at the size you need? Send it and ask before you order.

The free sample pack arrives with the transfers side by side, so you can press them with your own equipment, on your own blanks, before spending anything.

In Lawrenceville? Pick up the pack in person and bring a shirt with you. We’ll press one using our equipment while you watch, so you can see the temperature, the timing and the peel done properly before you try it yourself.

And ask about heat presses while you’re here. Watching one work tells you more than any spec sheet, and we’d rather you bought the right machine than the cheapest one.