Direct-to-Film (DTF) prints your full-color artwork onto a film with adhesive backing, then a heat press transfers it onto fabric. Three reasons it has eaten screen-print's lunch for small-batch apparel: full-color in one pass, no minimum quantity, and works on cotton, poly, blends, even nylon.

How gang-sheet pricing works

Our DTF builder gives you a 22-inch-wide canvas with infinite height. Drop your designs onto the sheet, arrange them however you want, and you pay $0.017 per square inch of total sheet height used. That's it — no per-design setup fee, no minimum.

Pack the sheet tight

The cost is the same whether you put one design on a 12-inch sheet or twenty designs on a 12-inch sheet. So pack everything you're going to press in the next month onto one sheet — different sizes, different colors, multiple jobs all at once. The transfers are individually cuttable.

What artwork works best

300 DPI minimum, sized at final pressed dimensions.
PNG with transparent background — the white we don't print is what shows the shirt color.
Avoid hairline strokes under 1pt — they don't transfer cleanly.
Photos and gradients work great. Vector + photographic both fine.

Pressing instructions

315°F for 12 seconds, medium-firm pressure, peel cool. Same recipe for cotton and 50/50 blends. For polyester, same temp and press but reduce dwell to 8 seconds to avoid scorching.