Babylon, Suffolk County · 11757
DTF Transfers for North Lindenhurst Youth Sports and Travel Teams
Long Island DTF Printing supplies heat transfers to youth sports programs and travel teams in North Lindenhurst and across the Town of Babylon. Standard DTF is $0.06 per square inch of the design's bounding box with no minimum, so a fourteen player roster and one late signup are priced the same way. Orders in by 3 PM Eastern on a business day ship that same day.
What a fourteen player roster costs at $0.06 per square inch
Price the bounding box, not the ink inside it. A full front team mark at 11 inches wide by 9 inches tall is 99 square inches, so $5.94 per shirt. The left chest version at 3.5 by 3 inches is 10.5 square inches, or $0.63. A back number 8 inches tall with a 10 inch wide bounding box for two digits is 80 square inches, $4.80. A name bar at 10 by 2 inches is 20 square inches, $1.20. Full front plus number plus name bar is $11.94 a player, which is $167.16 for fourteen. That clears the $99 free shipping threshold on its own.
Gang sheet or individual transfers for a roster
Both are $0.06 per square inch. What changes is what gets measured. An individual transfer is priced on its own bounding box. A gang sheet is priced on the whole sheet, 14 inches wide at a fixed length, so you also pay for the 0.25 inch gaps and the edge margins. Run it. Fourteen two digit numbers at 8 by 10 inches are $4.80 each, $67.20 total, and at 10 inches wide only one fits across a 14 inch sheet, so they would need more than 115 inches of gang sheet. Individual transfers win there. Sheets earn their place on small pieces: sleeve marks, name bars, bag tags. You paid for the whole sheet, so fill the leftovers.
Working backwards from a Saturday tournament
Production runs Monday to Friday. An order placed by 3 PM Eastern on a business day is printed, inspected, packed and handed to the carrier that same business day. That is the standard service for everyone, not a rush option and not an upgrade. Same day shipping is not same day delivery. Transit is separate: 2 to 5 business days standard, 1 to 3 expedited. So a Saturday event means ordering early in the week, not Thursday night. Orders placed after 3 PM Eastern, on a weekend or on a federal holiday ship the next business day. Roster changes after that go on a second order, since standard DTF has no minimum.
Press settings for performance jerseys and cotton spirit wear
Most travel jerseys and warmups are polyester. Press polyester at 285 to 300 F. Cotton tees and fleece hoodies take 300 to 325 F. Either fabric, 10 to 15 seconds at medium firm pressure. Applied to spec, the transfer holds 50 or more commercial wash cycles at 104 F, which is the number that matters on a jersey washed after every game and every practice. Test press one blank from the same lot before you work through the roster. A change of blank lot mid season affects the result more than anything on the transfer side does.
Three ways an order reaches North Lindenhurst
Shipping is free on orders of $99 and up in the contiguous US, and a roster order usually clears that by itself. Standard transit is 2 to 5 business days, expedited 1 to 3. Local pickup is the same business day after production, by appointment, at our Huntington facility, which is our only location. A $19.99 flat rate local courier option is available at checkout for eligible Long Island addresses, so enter the delivery address and see what the checkout offers rather than assuming. If an order sits just under $99, one extra sheet of small pieces often costs less than the shipping you would otherwise pay.
Artwork from a team parent, and the tools that clean it up
Send a 300 DPI PNG with a transparent background, saved at final print size. Club logos usually arrive as a JPEG with a white box behind them, which is why there is a browser based background knockout tool on the site, free to use. The per square inch pricing calculator gives you the cost of a bounding box before you commit to a size. The drag and drop gang sheet builder and the auto build packer handle nesting numbers and name bars with the 0.25 inch spacing already enforced. There is also a catalog of 2,434 ready to print designs if you need something while the real mark is being redrawn.
Who orders from North Lindenhurst
Travel baseball and softball boards
Full front mark, back number and name bar for a fourteen player roster, plus parent hoodies from the same file. No minimum on standard DTF means a late signup gets one set printed at the same per square inch rate.
Soccer and lacrosse clubs running several age groups
One club mark printed at 11 inches wide for adult sizes and scaled down for youth. Each size is its own bounding box, so price the small and the large separately before you place the order.
Cheer and dance programs
Gold and silver foil DTF and glow in the dark DTF at $0.18 per square inch for warmups and bag tags. Pre cut contour cutting at $0.29 per transfer saves trimming time on a large batch of small pieces.
Team parents handling a one weekend shirt run
Tournament shirts for siblings and grandparents, printed from the same artwork as the jerseys. Order by 3 PM Eastern on a business day and it ships that day, with 2 to 5 business days of standard transit after that.
North Lindenhurst questions
- Can I get team transfers to North Lindenhurst in time for a weekend tournament?
- We hand orders placed by 3 PM Eastern to the carrier the same business day, Monday to Friday. Transit is separate: 2 to 5 business days standard, 1 to 3 expedited. For a Saturday event, order early in the week, or use pickup at our Huntington facility, which is the same business day after production, by appointment.
- Is a gang sheet cheaper than ordering the numbers individually?
- Not always. Both are $0.06 per square inch, but a gang sheet charges for the full 14 inch wide sheet including the gaps, while an individual transfer is charged on its own bounding box. Large back numbers cost less ordered individually. Densely packed small pieces are where a sheet pays off. Sheets run 14x18 at $15.12 through 14x72 at $60.48.
- Is there a minimum for a youth sports order?
- No minimum on standard DTF transfers. One transfer for a player who signed up late is priced exactly like a set of forty: $0.06 per square inch of the bounding box. Some other items do carry minimums, including puff DTF at 10 units and leatherette patches at 10 per shape and color.
- What press settings should we use on polyester jerseys?
- 285 to 300 F for polyester, 10 to 15 seconds, medium firm pressure. Cotton runs hotter at 300 to 325 F with the same dwell and pressure. Test press one blank from the same lot before running the roster. Applied to spec the transfer holds 50 or more commercial wash cycles at 104 F.
- Can we pick the order up, or is local delivery available?
- Pickup is at our Huntington shop, 205 E Main St, Ste 2-1, the same business day after production and by appointment. That is our only location, so there is no drop off point in North Lindenhurst. A $19.99 flat rate local courier option is available at checkout for eligible Long Island addresses.
Talk to someone about a North Lindenhurst order
Call 631.458.3842 or email [email protected]. Pickup is by appointment at our Huntington shop.
Serving North Lindenhurst
- ZIP codes served
- 11757
- Township and county
- Babylon, Suffolk County
- Local courier
- $19.99 flat rate, shown at checkout for eligible addresses
- Pickup
- By appointment at 205 E Main St, Huntington