Embroidery
Digitizing, hooping, placement, thread setup, machine operation, trimming, and inspection.
Customer-Supplied Decoration Policy
Customer-Supplied Decoration Notice
Inkdnylon accepts customer-supplied apparel and other eligible items for decoration. Any apparel, garment, promotional product, or other merchandise that is not sourced and purchased through Inkdnylon is considered customer-supplied. This applies regardless of where the customer purchases the item or whether another supplier ships it directly to Inkdnylon.
When you supply your own items, you are purchasing a professional manufacturing and decoration service, not simply paying for embroidery, printing, or another decoration method.
What the decoration service includes
Customer-supplied pricing reflects the complete production service required to convert customer-owned merchandise into a finished custom product.
- Artwork preparation, vector conversion, or embroidery digitizing
- Decoration placement planning and production measurements
- Machine setup and production setup
- Machine operation and production labor
- Handling and preparation of customer-supplied items
- Risk management associated with items not supplied by Inkdnylon
- Replacement responsibility and production safeguards where applicable
- Quality control and production inspection
- Customer correspondence, artwork review, proofs, and production communication
- Finishing, handling, and order preparation
Decoration is manufacturing.
The cost of professional decoration can be greater than the cost of the blank garment itself. Blank apparel cost and decoration cost are two separate parts of producing a finished custom product.
What production actually looks like
Every method requires equipment, setup, positioning, machine operation, labor, quality control, and finishing before a decorated product is complete.
DTG Printing
Garment loading, pretreatment where required, platen setup, print passes, curing, and inspection.
DTF Printing
Film printing, white ink, powder application, curing, transfer preparation, pressing, and finishing.
Screen Printing
Screen preparation, registration, ink setup, press operation, curing, cleanup, and quality control.
Source your apparel through Inkdnylon
Whenever possible, the better approach is to purchase your apparel directly through Inkdnylon and add the decoration services you need.
When Inkdnylon supplies the apparel, the production value is built into both the item and the decoration service. The apparel is sourced through Inkdnylon, and the artwork preparation, production setup, machine operation, placement planning, labor, quality control, handling, and production management required for decoration are already part of the decoration service.
This allows Inkdnylon to control sourcing, garment specifications, receiving, production compatibility, decoration, and the overall order workflow from beginning to end.
When you supply the apparel
If the merchandise was purchased outside of Inkdnylon, it is customer-supplied merchandise even when another supplier ships it directly to Inkdnylon.
Customers who do not want to meet Inkdnylon's sourced-apparel minimums may purchase eligible apparel elsewhere and have those items shipped directly to Inkdnylon for decoration.
Those items follow Inkdnylon's Customer-Supplied Decoration Services pricing and production requirements.
Professional decoration is not a $5 or $10 small-order service.
Pricing at those levels is suited to high-volume production involving hundreds or thousands of pieces, where setup and manufacturing costs can be distributed across a much larger quantity. Those numbers do not accurately represent the manufacturing cost of producing 1, 5, 12, 24, or 50 decorated pieces. This applies whether the apparel is supplied by Inkdnylon or supplied by the customer. Small and mid-size orders still require artwork preparation, machine setup, placement measurements, production labor, machine operation, quality control, communication, finishing, and order handling.
Customer-Supplied Apparel Only
Available Decoration Paths for Customer-Supplied Apparel
These are Inkdnylon production methods available for eligible customer-supplied apparel and items. The list below is informational only and is not clickable. Method availability depends on the item, material, artwork, quantity, and production requirements.
Embroidery
Live On-Site Embroidery Event
DTF Printing
Vinyl
Rhinestones / Spangles
Not Sure
