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Brookhaven, Suffolk County · 11738

DTF Transfers for Farmingville, NY School Spirit Wear and PTA Fundraisers

Spirit wear runs in Farmingville move on a school calendar, not a retail one. Pre-orders close, sizes get tallied, and someone needs transfers in hand before the next pickup night. We print DTF transfers at $0.06 per square inch with no minimum, and an order placed by 3 PM Eastern on a business day ships that same business day.

What a spirit wear sale actually costs in transfers

Price is the bounding box of the design times $0.06. A 10 by 12 inch full front is 120 square inches, so $7.20 per shirt. A youth 8 by 10 front is 80 square inches, $4.80. A 3.5 by 3.5 left chest crest is 12.25 square inches, about $0.74. Run a mixed 120 shirt sale: 60 youth fronts at $4.80 plus 60 adult fronts at $9.24 for an 11 by 14 print comes to $842.40 in transfers. There is no minimum on standard DTF, so a 12 shirt club order prices at the same rate per square inch as the 300 shirt fall sale.

Sizing one design for youth small through adult 2XL

One artwork file does not serve a youth small and an adult 2XL. Most spirit wear runs need two widths: roughly 7 to 8 inches for youth, 11 to 12 inches for adult. Send both as separate 300 DPI PNGs with transparent backgrounds at final print size, because scaling a small file up at press time is how you get soft edges. Price follows size, which is the point: the youth version costs less because it covers less area. Left chest crests, sleeve hits and back name bars are priced the same way. A 10 by 2 inch name bar is 20 square inches, $1.20.

Putting every club design on one 14 inch gang sheet

DTF gang sheets are 14 inches wide and priced at $0.06 per square inch of sheet area, in fixed lengths: 14x18 at $15.12, 14x24 at $20.16, 14x36 at $30.24, 14x48 at $40.32, 14x54 at $45.36, 14x72 at $60.48. A 14x72 gives you 1,008 square inches to fill. Keep at least 0.25 inch between designs. Because you pay for sheet area rather than for each bounding box, packing is the whole game. A sheet carrying a band crest, a chorus logo, a grade level design and two sleeve hits earns its length. One 11 inch front repeated down the middle wastes the margins. The auto-build packer on the site handles the nesting.

The 3 PM cutoff against a fundraiser deadline

Standard DTF, UV DTF and gang sheets ship the same business day when the order is placed by 3 PM Eastern, Monday through Friday. That is the standard service, not a rush tier and not an added fee. After 3 PM, or on a weekend or federal holiday, the order ships the next business day. Shipping is not delivery: standard transit is 2 to 5 business days, expedited 1 to 3. A sale that closes Friday afternoon and needs shirts pressed for a Thursday event works if you order Monday morning. Specialty items run longer. Puff DTF and leatherette patches are 72 hours; raised UV patches and fauxbroidery are 48 hours.

Pressing 200 shirts with parent volunteers

Most volunteer press sessions happen on a folding table with two people and a clamshell. Cotton tees press at 300 to 325 F, polyester performance tees at 285 to 300 F, 10 to 15 seconds, medium-firm pressure. Drop the temperature on poly to keep dye from migrating into a white print. Press one test shirt from the same blank lot before you run 200. Applied to spec, transfers hold past 50 commercial wash cycles at 104 F, which matters once a shirt becomes the one a kid wears every week. Report a production defect with photos within 7 days of delivery and we reprint it.

Getting the box to Brookhaven: ship, pickup, or courier

Three ways to take delivery. Ship it: free on orders $99 and up in the contiguous US, which most spirit wear runs clear on the first invoice, with 2 to 5 business day standard transit or 1 to 3 expedited. Pick it up: same business day after production, by appointment, at our Huntington facility, which is our only location. Or use the $19.99 flat-rate local courier option, available at checkout for eligible Long Island addresses. Farmingville sits in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, and that courier option is confirmed at checkout for your address rather than promised in advance.

Who orders from Farmingville

PTA and PTO fundraiser chairs

PTA and PTO fundraiser chairs running a pre-order sale. You tally sizes on a form, order transfers against the final count, and press or hand off to a volunteer. No minimum means the order matches the tally exactly.

Booster and club parent volunteers

Booster, band, chorus, robotics and club parents ordering small runs. A 15 shirt club order is priced per square inch like any other, and multiple club designs can share one 14 inch gang sheet.

School staff apparel organizers

Staff and teacher apparel organizers buying for a building. Left chest crests at 3.5 by 3.5 inches run about $0.74 each, so a 40 person staff order in transfers is under $30 before blanks.

Decorators taking school work

Decorators and small shops in Brookhaven who take school work. You supply the blanks and the press; we supply transfers that ship the same business day when the order lands by 3 PM Eastern.

Farmingville questions

Is there a minimum order for a PTA spirit wear run?
No minimum on standard DTF transfers. A 10 shirt club order and a 400 shirt fall sale are both priced at $0.06 per square inch of the design's bounding box. Minimums exist on a few specialty items: puff DTF is 10 units, custom UV DTF carries a $35 order minimum, and leatherette patches are 10 per shape and color.
Can we add individual student names to shirts without a setup charge?
Yes. DTF has no screens and no setup fee, so 60 different name bars cost the same as 60 identical ones. Each name is priced on its own bounding box, so a 10 by 2 inch bar is 20 square inches, $1.20. Gang them onto a 14 inch sheet or order them as individual transfers, whichever packs tighter.
Our school logo is only a low-res JPG with a white background. Can you use it?
We need a 300 DPI PNG with a transparent background at final print size. A JPG on white will print the white box. The free background knockout tool on the site runs in your browser and strips flat backgrounds. Low resolution is the harder problem: a 600 pixel wide logo printed 11 inches wide is roughly 55 DPI and will look soft. Rebuild it first.
Our sale closes Friday and the pressing party is the next Thursday. Does that work?
Order by 3 PM Eastern Monday and it ships Monday. Standard transit is 2 to 5 business days, so Wednesday through the following Monday. Expedited is 1 to 3. If the math is tight, pickup at our Huntington facility is available the same business day after production, by appointment, and the $19.99 flat-rate courier option appears at checkout for eligible Long Island addresses.
Can we reorder the same spirit wear design later in the school year?
Yes, and there is no reorder penalty because there is nothing to set up again. Send the same PNG and the price is the same $0.06 per square inch. Spirit wear sales tend to reopen: a fall kickoff, a winter round for new families, a spring field day run. Keep the final-size PNG on file and every reprint is a fresh same-day order.

Talk to someone about a Farmingville order

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

Serving Farmingville

ZIP codes served
11738
Township and county
Brookhaven, 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 Brookhaven