What it is
The 5.3-ounce heavyweight cotton tee that has been the default of American printing for thirty years. Boxy through the body, a proper shoulder seam, a collar that holds its shape past the first wash. Nobody buys a Gildan 3000 for the feel — they buy it because it is cheap, consistent from box to box, and it takes a transfer flat without fighting you.
How it presses
Standard settings, no adjustment: 285–305 °F at medium pressure, 12 seconds and a full cooldown for a cold peel. Pre-press the garment first — this cotton holds moisture and a skipped pre-press is the usual reason one shirt in a batch lifts.
When to pick something else
If the garment is the product rather than the carrier — a label piece someone chooses off a rail — this is not it. Go to the Comfort Colors 1717. If you need a softer drape on a women’s cut, the 64000 ringspun is a dollar more and worth it.
Turnaround and delivery
Orders with clean artwork placed on a business day print that day and go out the same afternoon.
| Chicago & collar counties | Same metro as the press — the shortest leg we run |
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| Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan | A single ground leg from Schaumburg |
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| Ohio and the near Midwest | Past the first ring, still Midwest ground |
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| Rest of the lower 48 | Cross-country ground |
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| Cost | Free over $100, flat $4.90 below it |
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We do not publish day counts — the print is ours to promise, the truck is not. Your tracking email carries the carrier's own estimate for your address. Sheets up to 24 inches ship flat between boards; longer sheets are rolled face-in and boxed. Nothing is folded. What each ground leg looks like.
Returning a blank
Unworn, unwashed and unprinted, within 30 days. A blank garment is a stock item, not a made-to-order one, so the custom-print rules do not apply to it. Tell us what you are sending back and we refund it once it arrives.
Once you have pressed it, it is yours. A transfer applied to a shirt makes it a finished piece, and we cannot take that back — which is the argument for ordering one of something before you order forty.
Wrong item, a fault in the garment, or transit damage is ours either way: photographs within 7 days and we replace it. Full policy.
