A garment printer quotes better when it knows the garment, how many, the method and where the print goes. Send one request with the details and we pass it to garment printers and branding shops working in Johannesburg and nearby areas of Gauteng.
Screen Printing in Johannesburg
For screen printing in Johannesburg, give the item and colour, the quantity and size run, the number of colours in each print, the positions and your date. Screen printers in Johannesburg and the rest of Gauteng can then work out the screens and give you a price per piece.
Want to know more first? Our screen printing guide covers the options, the files and what affects the price.
Apparel & promo in Johannesburg: local notes
With blank shirts, cutting and stitching close at hand in the eastern CBD, screen printers and embroiderers there can turn round big runs for churches, stokvels, political rallies and amateur soccer clubs. Smaller DTF and sublimation workshops across the city handle short runs of memorial T-shirts, family reunion tops and matric jackets. Offices in Rosebank and Parktown ordering promotional items usually ask for a physical sample before they approve a bulk order.
Johannesburg: the work, the weather and the print shops
Johannesburg's inner city still runs on paper and cloth. The eastern blocks of the CBD around the fashion district hold cutting rooms, garment makers and small screen printing and embroidery workshops, while older print works and finishing houses sit in Doornfontein, Jeppestown and City Deep. Demand comes from every direction at once: taxi rank traders wanting flyers, churches ordering funeral programmes, students at Wits and the University of Johannesburg printing posters, and stadium events at Nasrec and Ellis Park needing banners and branded shirts. Most jobs are collected, or cross the metro by courier and motorbike delivery the same day or overnight. Outdoor work faces strong Highveld sun and violent summer hailstorms, so ask for UV-resistant inks and properly fixed sign frames.
The requests we see from Johannesburg usually come from:
- Small businesses and start-ups: merchandise shirts and totes for a brewery, a band or a market stall
- Shops, restaurants and salons: printed tote bags and staff tees in one design for every branch
- Events, conferences and clubs: hundreds of shirts in one design for a fun run, festival or cycle race
Local tips for Johannesburg
Common here: branded garments, taxi rank flyers, event banners and funeral programmes. Ask each printer or supplier about this: ask whether delivery into the CBD is included or whether you must collect. Where they work from: the fashion district in the eastern CBD, Doornfontein, Jeppestown and City Deep.
Requests range widely: best from about 30 to 50 pieces upward. Here, small businesses and start-ups lead the requests, typically for merchandise shirts and totes for a brewery, a band or a market stall. One local point to raise: collected in the CBD or couriered across the metro, often same day or overnight.
Service area: Johannesburg and surrounds
Printers and suppliers on our network work in Johannesburg and surrounding areas, including Sandton, Randburg, Roodepoort, Soweto, Rosebank, Fourways, Melville. Give the suburb and whether you will collect or need delivery or installation, so the quote can allow for it.