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 Newcastle and nearby areas of KwaZulu-Natal.
Screen Printing in Newcastle
For screen printing in Newcastle, 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 Newcastle and the rest of KwaZulu-Natal can then work out the screens and give you a price per piece.
New to this? Read the screen printing guide for the choices and the points worth checking before you pay.
What to know locally in Newcastle
Clothing factories make Newcastle a good place for big garment orders: printed T-shirts for campaigns and churches, embroidered workwear and school tracksuits. Screen printing pays on a long run of one design, while DTF suits smaller mixed orders for a stokvel or family reunion. Sports clubs in Madadeni and Osizweni order sublimated kit. Ask whether the blank garments are made locally or bought in, since that changes the price and timing.
Newcastle: the work, the weather and the print shops
Steel and clothing built this northern KwaZulu-Natal town. The steelworks, engineering shops and the many garment factories in the industrial areas order job cards, labels, safety signs and large runs of workwear, and some factories also take screen printing and embroidery work for the wider region. Madadeni and Osizweni add a constant flow of funeral programmes, church posters, stokvel and wedding print. The CBD and the shopping centres along the main roads hold most print shops and copier dealers, with sign makers in the industrial area. Winters are cold and summer brings hail and wind off the escarpment, so ask about strong frames and laminated print. Specialist stock usually comes up the N11 or from Gauteng.
The requests we see from Newcastle usually come from:
- Designers, agencies and resellers: contract screen printing for clothing labels, promotional suppliers and agencies
- 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
Local tips for Newcastle
Print shops and suppliers serving Newcastle mostly work from here: the CBD, the main road shopping centres and the industrial area. The requests that come up most: workwear, factory labels, funeral programmes and church posters. When you ask for quotes, ask the garment factory for a sample before a big run.
Requests range widely: best from about 30 to 50 pieces upward. Here, designers, agencies and resellers lead the requests, typically for contract screen printing for clothing labels, promotional suppliers and agencies. One local point to raise: couriers from Gauteng and Durban, often a day longer than the metros.
Service area: Newcastle and surrounds
Requests from Newcastle go to print shops and suppliers that already deliver to Madadeni, Osizweni, Blaauwbosch, Utrecht, Dannhauser, Charlestown and the rest of the area. Mention an installation height, a deadline or an event date, because they change the price.