Looking For a Portland, Oregon T Shirt Screen Printer?

We are Manx Media, located in St. Johns. David pulls the prints and Steve handles the biz. We've been in the shirt printing biz since the 80s.

Quality is our focus. We do high quality work for our clients--local businesses like Cosmic Monkey Comics, but we've also done work for entertainers like Margaret Cho and the Residents, and corporations like Sony Music Distribution.

We'll do a great job putting the shirts you need in your hands. That being said, our prices are pretty darn good too. Give us a try!

Full color T-Shirt for Sarah's Science, art by Steve

Whether you need a price on getting 100 T-shirts printed, 25 Hoodies or 2,000 Black T-Shirts with a white print by Friday night, we're your guys. Of course we handle all major brands and styles, including Gildan, Bella, American Apparel and Hanes.

Call for a quote today on your next custom screen printing job!

Steve Lafler
503-213-3671
Email Steve

Performance T-Shirt from Gildan

I really like the longsleeve perfomance T-Shirt #42400 from Gildan. These moisture wicking garments are great for running and sports.

We print on the performance fabric through a fine mesh, adding a catalyst to the ink to properly adhere it to the specialty fabric. It comes in a range of colors including the insanely bright "safety green".
We can print one color on these from 9.95 on orders of 24 pieces or more. The unit price goes down as the quantity goes up. We can print up to six colors, drop me an email or call for more info.

Steve Lafler
Manx Media
Email me for a quote
503-213-3671

Here are the specs on this item:

4.5 oz., 100% polyester jersey knit performance t-shirt. AquaFX® moisture wicking and Freshcare® anti-microbial properties. Heat transfer label. Rib knit ¾" collar. Hemmed sleeve cuffs. Double-needle stitched sleeve and bottom hems.

Hanes Zipper Hoodie on Sale

Manx Media is offering special pricing on Hanes Comfortblend Hooded Sweat shirt through Oct 12.

Here's the specs on this item:

7.8 oz. ComfortBlend® EcoSmart® 50/50 Full-Zip Hood 50% cotton, 50% polyester Made with up to 5% polyester from recycled plastic PrintProXP® patented low-pill, high-stitch density fabric Ribbed cuffs and waistband Extra-large pouch pockets and dyed-to-match drawcord Light Steel is 75% cotton, 25% polyester Double-needle coverseamed neck and armholes

Order 24 - 59 pieces with a one color print for $19.50 per printed garment.
Order 60 pieces and up with a one color print at $18.95 per printed garment.
One time set up fee for film/screen is $40.00.

Price good on sizes S - XL. XXL, XXXL add $7.00 per shirt.

Print front or back -- we can only print on either side of the chest on the front; we can't print over the zipper.

Give me a call or email me and I'll get you set up.
Steve Lafler
Manx Media
503-213-3671


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Manx Media Wants to Print Your T-Shirts

Who Are We?

We are custom screen printers, offering high quality printing on T-Shirts and Sportswear at the wholesale level. Manx Media is Steve Lafler and David Perkin. I'm Steve. I handle the order processing, invoicing, sales, graphics, marketing and general office/business tasks. David runs the press, burns screens, handles shipping and maintains the production facilities. We've been working together as custom screen printers in Portland, Oregon since 2005, but both of us have been in the business since the 80s.

David is located over in the St. John's nieghborhood, Portland where he maintains the shop.  I work remotely from Oaxaca, Mexico where I've been since 2007.
 

What Have We Done?

David and I have printed T-Shirts and Sportwear for dozens of clients. Currently we do tourist T-Shirts for the San Francisco market, and summer camp T-Shirts for a company that has three camp sites in the Bay Area, California. We also do shirts for comic book stores and cartoonists.

Here are some of the clients we've worked with:

Cartoonists: Lloyd Dangle, J.R. Williams, Mary Fleener, R.L. Crabb, Renee French and Keith Knight.

Entertainment:

Sparkplug Comic Books, Top Shelf Comics, Margaret Cho, Liam Sullivan, The Residents, Anticon, Doseone, and Peaches.

Business, Schools and Organizations

Ruth Asawa School, Sony Music Distribution, Apple Computer,  Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, Transports, UC Berkeley Rugby, Comic Relief, Acme Bread, the Oakland Zoo.

My Latest T-Shirt Design

What Can We do for You?

We can print your T-Shirts and Sportswear. Our focus is on top quality and service. We want to deliver the best possible printed shirts to you that exactly fulfill your needs. We put the goods you need in your hands, when you need them.For example, when Margaret Cho (a comedian) was on tour, she wanted 2 - 400 T-Shirts to magically appear at each venue the day of her show. We made that happen.

We'll match you up with the style and color of shirt that fits the bill. There is a dizzying array of T-Shirts and Sportswear to choose from. Before we print the job, we'll show you a proof to be sure you are satisfied with the quality of the work.

We can print up to 500 one color T-Shirts per day, 250 mulit-color shirts (2 - 4 color) or 150 full color shirts (5 - 6 color.) 

The Dancin' Cat Design

How Do We do it?

We are expert garment printers. We print on a Workhorse 6-color manual press. We can print up to six colors in perfect registration. We offer a complete in-house art service at realistic rates.

Ask For an Estimate on Your Custom Screen Printing Job

Call me at 503-213-3671 or send me an email to request a quote.

Steve Lafler
Manx Media

Hoodies are Here

 

Manx Media Custom Screen Printing offers great values on imprinted hooded sweat shirts. Pictured here are top brands Gildan and Jerzees in both youth and adult styles. Call or email Steve Lafler at 503-213-3671 for a quote on printing your hooded sweatshirt order. View our complete catalog with dozens of shirt styles at this link.

Bella Scoop Neck T 1003

The Bella 1003 is a great basic scoop neck T for women. It comes in a wide range of colors and takes a print great. We can print on the Bella #1003 in one color ink for as low as 6.99 for 100 pieces (even lower on white shirts). Show us your design and we can talk about the best way to do your screen printing project.

See the 1003 and other Bella styles at the Manx Media online catalog.

Call Steve Lafler at 503 213-3671 for a quote on your custom shirt printing job, or email here.

Manx Media Custom Screen Printing

The Best T-Shirt: Gildan vs. Gildan

 Gildan 5000

At present, the best basic T-shirts for quality, price, color selection and availability are the Gildan 2000 and the Gildan 5000. The 2000 is a standard heavyweight T-Shirt, while the 5000 is a medium weight T. Both are 100% cotton.
These days, it seems like the hipsters and kids prefer a lighter T-Shirt like the 5000, or even the American Apparel 2001. The baby boomers like the heavier T's like the 2000. The American Apparel 2001 is pricier than the Gildan styles, it should be noted, but it's a darn nice shirt.
You can view color charts for at the highlighted links above, and with the 2001 color chart you can click on the color to see it modeled.

American Apparel 2001

Let me know if you'd like to quote a custom T-Shirt printing job on any of these great shirts. Manx Media can print anywhere from 20 to 2000 shirts and up, just let me know how many you want and what sizes. Show me your art file and we'll talk price.
We are all about quality and service, putting the shirts you want in your hands, printed just right, and on schedule.

Cheers,
Steve Lafler
Manx Media
Phone 503-213-3671

Full Color T-Shirt Decorating

Manx Media is able to offer our customers two great options for decorating T Shirts with full color graphics.

Screen Printing
Traditional screen printing continues to be the best way to produce full color images on T Shirts when you need a large quantity of shirts. Our minimum order for full color (4-6 colors in your design) screen printed shirts is 72 pieces.
In terms of the brillance of color and the durability of the print, there is no technology better than screen printing to decorate garments.
Depending on the nature of your design, we can use spot color, index color, simulated process color, or index color to recreate your graphic on a shirt. We use a Photoshop plug-in program created just for the apparel decorator to generate the best possible version of your graphics for T Shirts.
As it is necessary to produce a film positive and screen for each color in your design, the economies of scale kick in nicely at the six dozen quantity.

Digital Imaging
The revolutionary good news in the shirt biz is that transfers are back. These are not your dad's transfers--the cheesy muscle car design that washed off before you could even break it in. With improvements in ink and transfer technology, todays digital transfers look vibrant and are washfast.
For full color apparel decorating on quantities less than six dozen, transfers are a great option. Working from your digital image, we create transfers that are heat pressed onto shirts. You get a great full color shirt that is easy on the budget.
At present, this technology works best on white or light colored garments.
If your design requires one, two or three colors, screen printing is still the way to go even with smaller quantities.

Questions? Send Steve an email at steve.lafler@gmail.com with your apparel decorating question.

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