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No Minimums: Why One Custom Shirt Costs the Same to Make as Fifty

One thing print-on-demand gets you that a traditional print shop usually can't: you don't need to order fifty of something to make it worth making.

Single Orders Get the Same Treatment

A lot of custom apparel places have a minimum order size baked into their pricing — order less than that and either it's not worth it for them, or you pay a big markup for going small. Because nothing here gets pre-produced in bulk, one shirt for one person gets built the same way a batch order does. You're not subsidizing unsold inventory sitting in a warehouse somewhere.

Where This Actually Matters

  • A single custom shirt for someone's birthday or retirement
  • A one-off design you just want to try before committing to anything bigger
  • Small teams or groups that don't need 30+ of the same thing

None of that requires a special conversation about minimums. It's just an order, same as anything else.

— Jorge

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