Dunlap, TN · Sequatchie County · Family-Owned Since 2001
Screen Printing, Custom Shirts and Embroidery for Dunlap, TN First-Timers
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Screen printing in Dunlap, custom t-shirts in Dunlap, embroidered polos, custom hoodies, custom hats, team uniforms, spirit wear, work shirts, DTF transfers, laser engraving and sublimation, all handled by one family shop that has been doing it since 2001. Veteran-operated. 4.6 stars from 71 Google reviews. Shop Local. Get It Fast.
New to This? Six Things Dunlap Customers Ask Before Their First Order
Nobody is born knowing how custom apparel gets made. Most people who call us from Dunlap are calling for the first time in their life, usually because they got handed a job by a booster club, a church, a shift crew or a family reunion committee, and now they own it. So instead of a sales pitch, here are the six questions we field constantly from first-time buyers in Sequatchie County, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.
"I have never ordered custom shirts before. What do you actually need from me?"
Artwork, a headcount, and a date. That is the whole list.
Artwork can arrive rough. Vector files (.ai, .eps, layered .pdf) are what our press crew wants most because they scale to any print size without softening at the edges, and they separate cleanly for screen printing. A high-resolution PNG or JPG clears the bar for a lot of Dunlap custom t-shirt jobs too. If all you have is a logo somebody's cousin drew in 2009, send that. Our art department redraws things for a living.
Headcount tells us which process fits. A dozen custom hoodies in Dunlap and two hundred fundraiser shirts get built very differently, and the per-piece number moves a lot between those two.
Date is the piece first-timers forget to mention, and it is the one that decides whether we are having a normal conversation or a rushed one. Lead with it.
"The only version of my logo is a photo of the sticker on my truck. Am I out of luck?"
No, and you are far from the first person to say that sentence to us.
A phone photo of a decal has glare, angle distortion and a background. None of that survives a squeegee. What our art team does is rebuild it clean, trace the shapes, flatten the colors, and hand you a digital proof showing exactly how your Dunlap custom shirts or embroidered polos will come out. Embroidery gets an extra step called digitizing, where the artwork is converted into stitch paths so the machine knows the order and direction of every needle drop.
You see the proof before anything happens. No screen gets burned, no thread gets loaded, no shirt gets touched until you reply and approve it. That single rule protects first-time buyers more than any promise we could make.
"How small can a Dunlap order be before you turn me down?"
Depends which process, and the answer is friendlier than most first-timers expect.
Screen printing starts at 12 pieces. Embroidery starts at 12 pieces. Both carry real setup on the front end, screens for one and digitizing for the other, which is why they want some volume behind them.
DTF transfers start at 1. Laser engraving starts at 1. Sublimation starts at 1.
Practical translation for Dunlap. Forty spirit wear tees for a school group, screen printing. Twenty-four embroidered polos for a shop crew, embroidery. One custom hoodie for a coach who got left off the original order, DTF. A single engraved tumbler for a retirement gift, laser engraving. Nobody gets sent away for ordering small, they just get pointed at the right machine.
"Nobody has given me a number yet. How do I find out what this costs?"
Two roads, both free, neither one obligates you.
Fastest is the live pricing calculator. Pick your garment, enter your quantity, tell it how many ink colors your design uses, and you get a real figure in about a minute. First-timers love this one because it lets you sanity-check a budget before you have to talk to anybody.
The other road is the quote form. Upload the art, describe the job, and a person at our Cleveland shop writes you back. Use this when the order has moving parts, like mixed garment styles, front and back prints, names and numbers on team uniforms, or a Dunlap spirit wear package that combines screen printed tees with embroidered hats.
Worth knowing before you price anything. On screen printing, ink colors matter more than most first-time buyers assume, since every color in the design needs its own screen and its own pass. A one-color Dunlap fundraiser shirt and a four-color one are different jobs at the exact same quantity. If your budget is fixed, say the number out loud and we will shape the artwork to land inside it.
"I need these by a specific Friday. Walk me backward."
Standard turnaround is 10 to 14 business days, counted from the day you approve your proof.
Read that last part again, because it is where first-timers lose days without realizing it. The clock does not start when you email us. It starts when you hit approve. Sit on a proof over a long weekend and your delivery date slides right along with it.
We are closed Saturday and Sunday, so weekends are not business days in that count. If your Dunlap event, tournament, camp, reunion or grand opening lands on a hard date, work backward from it and give yourself margin. Tight timeline already? Call (423) 728-6000 and ask straight. We will tell you honestly whether it fits rather than take the order and disappoint you later.
"Can I do all of this without leaving Sequatchie County?"
Yes. Most Dunlap orders run start to finish without anybody driving anywhere.
Art comes in through the quote form or by email. Proofs go out digitally. You approve by reply. Finished custom apparel gets to you without you burning a morning on the road. Plenty of our Dunlap customers have never once stood in our building.
The door at 15 Broad St NW in Cleveland is open on weekdays if you want the in-person version, though. Some people need to feel the difference between a heavyweight cotton tee and a soft ringspun blend, or hold thread colors up next to a hat before they commit. If that is you, come see us. If it is not, nothing about the process changes.
What We Make for Dunlap
Screen Printing in Dunlap
Screen printing in Dunlap is the right call any time you need 12 pieces or more of the same design. Thick ink, strong color, prints that hold up through years of washing. Dunlap fundraiser shirts, church group tees, team uniforms and business runs all sit in this lane, and the price per shirt drops as the count climbs.
Custom T-Shirts in Dunlap
Custom t-shirts in Dunlap start at 12 pieces for screen printing and 1 piece for DTF transfers. Softstyle, heavyweight cotton, performance poly, tri-blends, youth sizes through big and tall. Whether you need three dozen custom shirts for a Dunlap event or a couple hundred for a season, the artwork and proofing steps stay identical.
Embroidered Polos in Dunlap
Embroidery in Dunlap covers polos, button-downs, jackets, aprons, bags and beanies at a 12-piece minimum. Embroidered polos in Dunlap are what businesses order when they want staff to look sharp without babying the garment, since stitched logos survive industrial laundering that would wreck a print.
Custom Hoodies and Spirit Wear in Dunlap
Custom hoodies in Dunlap start moving the second the mornings turn cold. Pullovers, full-zips, crewnecks, screen printed on the back or embroidered on the left chest. Dunlap spirit wear hoodies for schools, teams and booster clubs are one of the most reordered things that leave our shop every fall.
Custom Hats and Team Uniforms in Dunlap
Custom hats in Dunlap come embroidered on structured caps, dad hats, trucker mesh, snapbacks and beanies. Team uniforms in Dunlap can carry screen printed numbers, embroidered player names, or both. Hats attach easily onto an existing Dunlap spirit wear or work shirt order, which is why most groups add them at the last minute.
DTF Transfers, Laser Engraving and Sublimation in Dunlap
DTF transfers in Dunlap start at a single piece, handle full-color art without a color count penalty, and cover one-off custom apparel beautifully. Laser engraving in Dunlap goes on tumblers, wood, metal, plaques and awards, also from 1. Sublimation in Dunlap puts edge-to-edge full color onto poly garments and hard goods with no minimum to clear.
Dunlap, Sequatchie County, and an Honest Word About Where We Are
Let us be plain about geography before you read another line. Express Screen Printing & Embroidery is not in Dunlap. Our shop, our presses, our embroidery machines and our art department all live at 15 Broad St NW in downtown Cleveland, Tennessee, and they have been there since 2001.
What we are is the shop that serves Dunlap, along with Pikeville, Whitwell, Signal Mountain and the rest of the valley, without pretending to be your neighbor. There is a real difference between a print shop that sells you a story about being local and one that just tells you where it is and does the work well.
Here is why Dunlap groups use us anyway. We are the primary sports-apparel supplier to Cleveland-area schools and to the Boys and Girls Club, which means athletic seasons, roster churn, wide size runs and repeat reorders are our normal week, not a special request. A coach in Dunlap who adds three kids after the deadline is a situation we have solved a thousand different ways.
Family-owned. Veteran-operated. Weekdays only, closed weekends. 4.6 stars from 71 Google reviews, earned one order at a time rather than bought. When you call (423) 728-6000, somebody who works in the building answers.
Leftover Questions From Dunlap First-Timers
Everybody in my group wants a different shirt color. Is that a problem?
Usually not. Mixed garment colors on one Dunlap screen printing run are common on spirit wear orders, as long as the ink still reads well against every color you picked. Note it in the quote form and we will flag anything that will not work before we print it.
My headcount is going to change. It always does. Then what?
Tell us the moment you know at (423) 728-6000. Before ink goes down, adjustments are usually simple. After the run is printed, adding pieces means a second setup and second run pricing. Early is always cheaper than late.
Does it cost extra to have you fix my artwork?
Light cleanup comes with getting your Dunlap custom apparel order press-ready. A full rebuild from scratch gets quoted up front, in writing, before you approve anything. No surprise line item at the end.
If this goes well, is reordering easier the second time?
Much easier. Once your Dunlap design is set up in our system, the screens and stitch files are done and reorders skip most of the front-end work. Minimums still apply on the new run, but the slow part is behind you.
We are a small business, not a team. Do you do work shirts?
Constantly. Screen printed work shirts, embroidered polos, safety-color tees, jackets and custom hats for Dunlap crews, contractors, restaurants and shops. Business orders and team orders run through the same shop.
Can you put our logo on something that is not clothing?
Yes. Laser engraving and sublimation cover tumblers, awards, signs, wood and metal goods, all starting at one piece. Dunlap businesses pair these with an apparel order more often than you would guess.
Bring Us Three Things and We Will Handle the Rest
Artwork in whatever shape it is in. A rough headcount. A date.
That is genuinely all a first-time Dunlap customer needs to get moving. We take it from there, through cleanup, proofing, your approval, and then 10 to 14 business days on the press or the embroidery machines.
Send Your Artwork and Get a Written Quote
Run the Numbers Yourself in the Pricing Calculator
Call the Shop at (423) 728-6000
Express Screen Printing & Embroidery. 15 Broad St NW, Cleveland TN 37311. Screen printing, custom t-shirts, custom hoodies, embroidery, embroidered polos, custom hats, team uniforms, spirit wear, work shirts, fundraiser shirts, DTF transfers, laser engraving and sublimation for Dunlap and Sequatchie County. Shop Local. Get It Fast.
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