Printing brought to your premises is priced per deployment, not per shirt alone — you are booking a crew, equipment, and product as one unit. The anchors:
- From about $5,000 for a staffed station at a local (OC/LA/SD) date, product included for a mid-size list.
- $250 per hour for staffing, clocked from setup through teardown.
- $900 flat travel fee beyond the three SoCal metros; none inside them.
Worked examples
200-person office merch day, Irvine. One DTF station, crew of two, three-hour lunch window (about five staffed hours), one design, mid-tier tees. Lands near the entry anchor. No travel fee.
500-attendee conference, downtown San Diego. One full station plus a hat bar, crew of four, six-hour window, two designs plus a patch menu. Roughly mid-five-figures territory once product for 500 is on the sheet. Still no travel fee.
800-guest gala, Las Vegas. Two stations, crew of four to five, evening window with early load-in per hotel rules, premium blanks. Add the $900 travel line and hotel dock time to the math.
Reading a competing quote
Wherever you buy, insist on line items. A single "event package" number hides the three places corners get cut: teardown labor (you find out at 11 p.m.), insurance (you find out from the venue), and product tier (your guests find out immediately). Our quotes itemize all three because that is where trust is either built or billed later.
The same answer, question by question.
What is the starting price for onsite printing services?
A fully staffed deployment in Orange County, Los Angeles, or San Diego typically starts around $5,000, covering equipment, crew, blank product for a mid-size guest list, artwork prep, setup, and teardown.
How is staffing billed?
Staffing runs $250 per hour, and the billable day includes setup and teardown — a four-hour guest window is usually a six-to-seven-hour staffed day.
Is there a travel charge?
Deployments outside Orange County, Los Angeles, and San Diego carry a flat $900 travel fee. Las Vegas and nationwide dates should budget for it; SoCal metro dates should not see one.
What makes the price go up or down?
Window length, headcount, product tier, artwork complexity, and site logistics. A 200-person lobby pop-up and an 800-person gala are different machines, and the quote reflects it line by line.
Open a service request.
Send the date, venue, headcount, and what you want printed. You get a scoped quote back within one business day — with power, footprint, and load-in specs already written in.