Service area · Milwaukee, Wisconsin

DTF transfers in Milwaukee, one day up the interstate

Ninety miles is nothing to a ground truck. We print outside Chicago and ship to Milwaukee on a single ground leg, at ground prices, which is faster than most of what Wisconsin’s apparel people are currently waiting on.

A different state, the same next-day map

Milwaukee tends to get treated as an outpost by suppliers based anywhere warm, which means Wisconsin orders sit in the same five-to-eight day economy tier as everywhere else. From Schaumburg it is a single leg north. The order that prints here on Tuesday afternoon is on a Bay View kitchen table on Wednesday.

Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay sit on the same side of the map. The shipping page has the full table, and it is carrier estimate rather than promise — we would rather publish the real number than a marketing one.

Who orders here

• Breweries and taprooms. Wisconsin has more of these per block than seems reasonable and nearly all of them sell merch. A tap-takeover shirt, a seasonal release tee, a staff hoodie: small runs, frequent, always tied to a date.
• Festival and event vendors. The summer festival grounds run a schedule that punishes slow suppliers. Restocking mid-run is only possible if the film can arrive mid-run.
• Bay View and Riverwest makers. Small labels, screen-print refugees, people selling at markets and online. Mixed sizes, high standards on finish, low volume per design — the exact case gang sheets were invented for.
• Wisconsin identity merch. State pride sells year-round here. Note that our Chicago and Great Lakes collection is Illinois-and-Michigan heavy today; if you want Wisconsin designs in the library, tell us which ones and we will pull them in. That is how the collection is being built.

Cold matters here more than it does south of the border

Two practical notes for a Wisconsin winter. First, let film that has been in a cold truck come up to room temperature before you press it — an hour indoors is enough, and pressing cold film is a common cause of poor adhesion that gets blamed on the transfer. Second, fleece and heavyweight hoodies, which is most of what sells here from October, want a firm pre-press to drive out moisture before the transfer goes down. The pressing guide covers both.

Delivery and the practical bits

Orders placed on a business day print that day. Milwaukee is ninety miles from the press — one leg for a truck. Free over $100, $4.90 below it. There is no pickup; everything ships.

If you resell what you press, you can buy without sales tax once a valid resale certificate is on file — submit it here and we will set the account up before your next order rather than refunding after.

Postal codes this reaches

Ground reaches 53202, 53204, 53207, 53208, 53210, 53211, 53212, 53215 and 53219, with Wauwatosa (53213), West Allis (53214) and Greenfield (53220) on the same run. Ninety miles of interstate is one leg for a truck, so Milwaukee sits in the same transit band as the Chicago suburbs.

Questions we get

What does a sheet cost shipping across the state line?

The same as everywhere else: $0.40 per linear inch, and the state line costs nothing extra. A 22 × 60 inch sheet is $24.00 in Milwaukee exactly as it is in Chicago. There is no Wisconsin surcharge and no fuel line on the invoice. You can pack that sheet in the browser for the same rate as an upload. the full size and price table lists every length.

How long does ground from Chicago to Milwaukee actually take?

Ninety miles is one leg for a truck. Orders placed on a business day print that day and go out the same afternoon, which puts Milwaukee in the same transit band as the Chicago suburbs — faster than most of what Wisconsin shops get from out-of-state suppliers. The shipping page has the current bands for 53202 through 53219.

Is there pickup anywhere in Wisconsin?

No. We print in Illinois and ship; there is no Wisconsin location and no counter at the press either. Wauwatosa, West Allis and Greenfield are on the same run as the city itself.

Do you have a minimum for wholesale orders?

No minimum at any volume, and no separate wholesale price list to negotiate your way onto. The per-inch rate is the same for one sheet and for fifty, which means a Milwaukee shop reselling to its own customers can work out margin from the first order. A proof run is the same arithmetic: a single piece at its own size, no sheet to fill first.