Shipping and turnaround
Everything prints in Schaumburg, Illinois, and leaves by ground. From here, ground is not the slow option; it is the option that reaches most of the Great Lakes before the second day is out, without anybody paying for a plane.
Turnaround
Order on a business day and it is printed that day and handed to the carrier the same afternoon. Anything placed after the last carrier pickup, or on a weekend, prints the next business day. Large sheets and very long runs can take a day longer; if yours will, we tell you before it prints, not on the tracking page.
Turnaround counts from a clean file. If we find something in the artwork that will not print well and have to email you, the clock restarts when you reply.
Transit by ground from Schaumburg
| Where | What the ground leg looks like from Schaumburg |
|---|---|
| Chicago and the collar counties | Same metro as the press. The shortest leg we run. |
| Rest of Illinois | One leg, in state. |
| Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay | One leg north. Milwaukee is ninety miles. |
| Indiana — Indianapolis, Fort Wayne, South Bend | One leg east. |
| Michigan — Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing | One leg around the bottom of the lake. |
| Ohio — Toledo, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati | Past the first ring, still Midwest ground. |
| Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky | Past the first ring. |
| Rest of the lower 48 | Cross-country ground. |
| Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico | We ship there, and expect the carrier to charge for it. |
The short legs are worth naming, because they are the reason ordering here beats a national supplier on the same print. City and collar-county addresses are one day off the press. So is the North Shore run through Skokie and Wilmette, and the western suburbs leg out past Aurora. The towns around the press itself are closest of all, and across the state line Milwaukee is a single leg north — ninety miles, not a tier change.
We do not publish day counts, and that is deliberate: we control when a sheet prints, not how a truck performs. What we will tell you is that printing happens the same business day and the parcel leaves that afternoon, which is the half of the timeline that is actually ours. Your tracking email carries the carrier’s own delivery estimate for your address. Add time around federal holidays and in the week before Christmas, and if a date is fixed, say so in the order notes — we will tell you honestly whether ground makes it before you pay.
Rates
| Orders over $100 | Free ground shipping, anywhere in the lower 48. |
|---|---|
| Orders under $100 | $4.90 flat, ground. A single 22 × 12 sheet is a $4.80 print; we are not going to pretend a free box makes sense on it. |
| Expedited | Not offered at checkout yet. If you need it, email before you order and we will quote the actual carrier price with no markup. |
Blanks ship differently to film
A sheet of film weighs almost nothing and travels flat in a mailer. A hoodie does not. Garments are charged on their own rate — $8.90 ground, against $4.90 for film — and an order with both in it pays both, because it leaves as two parcels.
Blanks are picked and packed alongside the print run, so a transfer and the shirt it is going on arrive together rather than from two different places on two different days. Same turnaround, same transit table.
How it is packed
Sheets up to 24 inches go flat, in a rigid mailer, between two boards. Longer sheets are rolled face-in around a core and boxed, which is how film travels without creasing. Transfers by size go flat in a stiffened envelope. Nothing is folded, ever. If a sheet arrives creased or the box is crushed, photograph it before you open it further and send us the pictures; that is a reprint, not a debate.
Tracking, addresses, and the rest
- Tracking is emailed when the label prints. If it has not moved after two business days, tell us and we chase the carrier so you do not have to.
- PO boxes are fine for flat mailers. Rolled sheets need a street address.
- We ship within the United States only for now.
- An address typo caught before the label prints is a free fix. After it ships, the carrier’s re-route fee is passed through at cost.
- Local pickup is not available. We are a print floor, not a counter, and the transfers reach the North Side faster by truck than you would by the Kennedy.