Bulk printed T-shirts and hoodies from a UK maker, quoted per run. When to order in bulk, when to stay on demand, and how to work out which is cheaper.
We are built for making one garment at a time, but plenty of jobs are genuinely a bulk job: a team kit-out, an event, a first drop where you already know the sizes. For those we quote the run rather than charging the per-item catalogue price.
When bulk is the right call
- You know the sizes. A kit-out for a known team beats guessing a size curve for the public.
- One design, many copies. Bulk saves money by repeating the same setup, so ten designs of fifty is not the same job as one design of five hundred.
- There is a date. Events and launches justify holding stock because the demand is bounded and known.
When it is not
If you are selling to the public, bulk moves the risk onto you. The unit price looks better on the invoice, but the real cost includes the sizes that never sell, the storage, and the capital sitting in boxes. A design that sells forty units across six sizes usually costs less made to order, even at a higher unit price, because you never buy the twenty that would not have sold. If you are testing designs, stay on demand until one proves itself, then bulk that one.
How we print larger runs
Runs go through the same methods as single orders: DTF and DTG for print, embroidery for stitched logos. Because none of those need a plate or a screen set up first, pricing flattens out as quantity rises rather than dropping off a cliff at a magic number, and a bulk run will match a top-up of five ordered months later because both were made the same way. If your run is large enough that screen printing would genuinely be cheaper, say so when you ask and we will tell you straight.
Get a quote
Tell us the garment, the quantity, the size split and the print areas, and we will come back with a price for the run. Order a sample of the garment first if you have not held one, because the cheapest way to get a bulk order wrong is to pick the blank from a photograph.