The Print Doctor prints custom t-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, tanks and long sleeves for Lincoln and Columbus, Nebraska, ordered online with no minimum. Pick the garment, the colors and sizes, one or two print sides, upload your artwork, and sign in for the live quote. The Apparel lane has the full list.
Screen printing or digital: which one you are getting
Two ways to put ink on a shirt, and they suit different orders.
- Digital printing puts the full-color image straight onto the garment with no screens to make. That is what makes a no-minimum order possible: one shirt costs about the same per piece as ten, photos and gradients print fine, and every shirt in the box can be a different design. This is how the catalog orders run.
- Screen printing pushes ink through a stencil, one screen per color. Setting up screens costs the same whether you print 24 shirts or 240, so it wins on price once a run gets long and the design is one to three flat colors: team shirts, staff uniforms, event tees by the hundred. Those we quote by hand: email sales@print.doctor with the garment, the quantity by size and the artwork.
Rule of thumb: under a few dozen pieces, or anything with a photo or more than three colors, order online. A hundred-plus shirts with a simple logo, ask for the screen print quote.
The garments
- T-shirts: heavy cotton (8.8 oz and 10 oz per linear yard), softstyle and fine jersey lightweights, and triblend crews and V-necks, in men's, women's and youth cuts. Sizes run XS to 6XL on most adult styles.
- Long sleeves and tanks: cotton and 50/50 long sleeves, 6 oz heavyweight long sleeves, jersey, muscle, racerback and triblend tanks.
- Hoodies and sweatshirts: sponge fleece pullovers and crewnecks, 12 oz double-dry eco fleece, 13.3 oz 50/50 heavy-blend hoods and crews.
Heavier cotton holds a print flat and takes more washes; triblends drape softer. Every product page lists the available colors. Fabric weights by style are on the apparel materials page.
Artwork that prints well on a shirt
- Send a vector file (PDF, AI, SVG) for logos and type; it prints sharp at any size. Photos should be 300 dpi at the printed size, usually 10 to 12 inches wide for a full chest.
- Use a PNG with a transparent background for anything that is not a rectangle, so no white box prints around the design.
- Design for the shirt color. Light ink on a dark shirt needs an underbase, which digital printing handles, but very thin lines and small text under about 1/4 inch tall get lost either way.
- The file check runs on every upload and shows a proof before you pay. Our designers can build the design from your notes with "Design it for me" on any product.
Vector versus raster, and how to get a logo that scales, is in this guide.
Hats, polos and beanies
Those are usually embroidered rather than printed. See custom embroidery in Lincoln.
Ready to print? Browse the catalog, sign in for a live quote by size and quantity, and upload your file when you add the item to the cart. Not sure the file is right? The file check runs before checkout, and our designers can fix it or build it from your notes.