Hours on site
Your quote covers setup, live run time, breaks, and teardown — not just the hours doors are open. Longer events and multi-day load-ins scale accordingly.
Rental pricing
What a live printing rental costs.
Rentals are quote-based because they bundle equipment, an operator, blanks, and setup into one date. Here are the real anchors so you can budget with confidence.
How rentals price
What you’re paying for — and roughly what it runs.
A live-print rental is quote-based because it’s a package, not a shelf item. Here are the real anchors so you can budget before you call.
| Line item | Anchor | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Staffed station (local) | from ~$5,000 | Rig, operator, setup, teardown for a Southern California date |
| Additional staffing | $250 / hour | Extra operators for higher throughput or a second station |
| Travel fee | $900 | Applied outside Orange County, LA, and San Diego |
| Blanks | at cost + prep | Bella+Canvas, Gildan, Richardson 112, or your supplied goods |
Product mix
Premium hoodies, embroidered caps, and specialty totes cost more than basic tees. Tell us the goods and the guest count and we’ll size the blank order.
Artwork prep
Clean vector art is quick; recoloring, digitizing for stitch, or building transfers from scratch adds prep time. A test press is always included.
Why we don’t post a flat per-shirt price
A live printing rental bundles equipment, a trained operator, consumables, and setup into one date. The same rig serves a 150-guest ribbon cutting and a 900-guest festival very differently — different staffing, different blank volume, different hours. A flat sticker price would either overcharge the small event or under-deliver on the big one.
Send the specifics and you get a real number instead of a range: date, city, hours, product, guest count, and any power or space limits at the venue. Most planners find a staffed rig lands close to what they’d spend cobbling together a bare-machine rental, transfers, blanks, and a freelance operator — without the risk of any one piece falling through.
Check a date
Reserve this rig for your date
Tell us the date, city, hours on site, product, and guest count. We build a turnkey quote for the press, the crew who runs it, the blanks, and the artwork prep — one booking, one arrival, one team.