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Suffolk County · 11937

DTF Transfers for East Hampton Nonprofits and Fundraisers

Long Island DTF Printing makes heat transfers for nonprofits in East Hampton and across the Town of East Hampton: charity walk tees, volunteer shirts, sponsor logos and donor gifts. Standard DTF is $0.06 per square inch of the design with no minimum order. An order placed by 3 PM Eastern on a business day is handed to the carrier that same business day.

What a charity walk order actually costs, worked out

Price is the bounding box of the design times $0.06 per square inch. A 9 by 11 inch front print is 99 square inches, so $5.94. A 3 by 3 inch left chest is 9 square inches, so $0.54. Put both on the same shirt and your transfer cost is $6.48. Run 150 walkers and that is $972 in transfers, a line item you can hand a board or a grant officer before you buy a single blank. A 12 by 4 inch sponsor strip across the back adds $2.88. An 11 by 14 inch full back for volunteer staff is 154 square inches, so $9.24. The pricing calculator on the site does this arithmetic for whatever size you settle on.

Late sponsors, walk-up registrations, and why no minimum matters

Fundraisers do not finalise. A sponsor commits the week of the event, twelve more people register at the table, a board member wants a shirt in 3XL. Standard DTF transfers have no minimum order, so a reorder of eight transfers is a real order, not a favour. Place it by 3 PM Eastern on a business day and it is printed, inspected, packed and handed to the carrier the same business day. After 3 PM, or on a weekend or federal holiday, it goes out the next business day. Same day shipping is not same day delivery: standard transit is 2 to 5 business days and expedited is 1 to 3, so count backwards from your event date.

Gang sheets when one event needs eight different logos

A walk with six sponsor logos, a main event graphic and a volunteer badge is eight separate files. DTF gang sheets are 14 inches wide at $0.06 per square inch of sheet area, in fixed lengths: 14x18 is $15.12, 14x24 is $20.16, 14x36 is $30.24, 14x48 is $40.32, 14x54 is $45.36 and 14x72 is $60.48. Keep 0.25 inch between designs. Because a sheet is priced on its full area, gang sheets pay off when you nest tightly and want one sheet to cut from instead of a stack of loose pieces. For a single repeated design at one size, individual transfers priced on the bounding box are usually cheaper. The drag and drop builder and the auto-build packer both show you the layout first.

Pressing onto donated blanks in mixed colors and blends

Donated and sponsor-supplied blanks arrive mixed, which is the normal condition for a fundraiser. Cotton tees press at 300 to 325 F. Polyester and poly blends press at 285 to 300 F. Both run 10 to 15 seconds at medium firm pressure. Sort the pile by fabric before you start rather than chasing one setting across everything, because the poly end of the pile is where scorch and dye migration show up. Applied to spec, transfers hold 50 plus commercial wash cycles at 104 F, which matters when a volunteer shirt gets worn at every event for two seasons. Press one test piece from each fabric group and wash it before committing the full run.

Getting transfers out to East Hampton: ship, pickup, or courier

East Hampton sits in the Town of East Hampton, Suffolk County. There is one production facility, in Huntington, and every order ships from there. Orders of $99 and up ship free anywhere in the contiguous US, with standard transit of 2 to 5 business days and expedited 1 to 3. If a volunteer is already heading west, local pickup is available the same business day after production, by appointment at the Huntington facility. A $19.99 flat rate same day local courier option appears at checkout for eligible Long Island addresses, so check whether your delivery address qualifies when you reach the shipping step rather than assuming either way.

Sponsor logos that arrive as a JPG with a white box behind them

Sponsor logos come in whatever state the sponsor has them. A JPG pulled off a website carries a white box behind it, and that box prints as white ink sitting around the mark on a coloured shirt. The background knockout tool on the site runs in the browser and strips it without a round trip to a designer. What you want in the end is a 300 DPI PNG with a transparent background, sized at the final print dimensions, because that file is also what the price is calculated from. If a sponsor only has a low resolution logo, chase it at your artwork deadline, not the night before the press run.

Who orders from East Hampton

Charity walk and 5K committees

A front graphic plus a back sponsor strip across 100 to 300 tees, ordered in one go and topped up when late registrations land. Per-shirt transfer cost is fixed arithmetic you can put in front of a board.

Volunteer and event staff coordinators

Small runs of full back prints that identify crew at a check-in table. No minimum means fifteen volunteer transfers is an ordinary order, and it ships the same business day when placed by 3 PM Eastern.

Rescues, pantries and shelters selling merch year round

Ongoing small batches instead of one large pallet. Order twenty transfers when stock runs low, press onto donated blanks, and keep cash in the programme rather than in unsold inventory sitting in a closet.

Gala and auction committees

Short runs for volunteer shirts, tote bags and donor gifts, plus UV DTF at $0.10 per square inch for hard goods like tumblers and signage where a fabric transfer will not work.

East Hampton questions

A sponsor signed on four days before our walk. Can we still get their logo on shirts?
Yes. Standard DTF transfers have no minimum order, so a run of twelve sponsor transfers is a normal order. A 3 by 3 inch logo is $0.54 each. Place it by 3 PM Eastern on a business day and it is handed to the carrier that same business day, but transit is 2 to 5 business days standard and 1 to 3 expedited, so count backwards from the event.
How do I give our board a per-shirt cost before we order?
Multiply the design's bounding box in inches by $0.06. A 10 by 12 inch front print is 120 square inches, so $7.20 per shirt in transfers. Add a 3 by 3 inch left chest at $0.54 and you are at $7.74 before blanks. The free pricing calculator does it for any size, and the rate does not change with quantity.
Our donated shirts are a mix of cotton and 50/50 blends. Do we press them the same?
No. Cotton presses at 300 to 325 F, polyester and poly blends at 285 to 300 F, both for 10 to 15 seconds at medium firm pressure. Sort the donated garments by fabric before you start. Press one test piece per fabric group and wash it, because dye migration on the poly end of the pile shows up after the wash, not on the press.
Can someone pick up in person instead of shipping to East Hampton?
There is one facility, at 205 E Main St, Ste 2-1 in Huntington, NY 11743, and pickup is by appointment the same business day production finishes. There is no drop off or pickup point in East Hampton. Shipping is free on orders of $99 and up, and a $19.99 flat rate local courier option is available at checkout for eligible Long Island addresses.
What happens if a batch comes out wrong before our event?
Production defects are reprinted. Per our terms, report a defective or incorrect order within 7 days of delivery with photos. Open the box and check the sheets when they arrive rather than the morning of the event, so there is time to reprint and ship inside your window. Call 631-458-3842 or email our order desk.

Talk to someone about a East Hampton order

Call 631.458.3842 or email [email protected]. Pickup is by appointment at our Huntington shop.

Serving East Hampton

ZIP codes served
11937
Township and county
Suffolk County
Local courier
$19.99 flat rate, shown at checkout for eligible addresses
Pickup
By appointment at 205 E Main St, Huntington

Everywhere we serve in East Hampton