Forward Printing: Vendor Resources and Useful Links

This section has some useful links to garment brands and other vendors you may need.

GARMENT BRANDS - OUR FAVORITES

Sun Apparel - We love these Sun garments. Great lower-cost alternative to American Apparel for the basic styles. Check out their employment practices as well. They run a shop in Mexico, but it is sweatshop-free and fairly run.
Gildan - Good brand with a variety of styles ranging from basic t's to polo shirts. Excellent heavy fleece.
American Apparel - Sweatshop-free made in LA fashion garments in a wide variety of styles and colors.
Independent Trading Company - This company produces high quality hoodies in a variety of styles and weights.
Pro Club - Some of the most popular urban t's on the west coast. The t's are made from thick fabric with a small neck and they carry very heavy fleece as well. Sizes go up to 10X and 5X tall.
Bella - Great line of women's garments and reasonably priced as well . . .

Continental Clothing - Great hip garments from this English company. Wide color selection, tasteful styles, vintage-distressed and some of the thickest and most comfortable fleece available. Stock levels can be inconsistent so don't be surprised if we run into inventory issues.
Fruit of the Loom - They make some of the most economical choices for blank garments, so if you are most concerned with price you should ask for these.
Alternative Apparel - Probably the most expensive of the garment wholesalers, but they've got a huge selection of trendy styes and colors to choose from.
Hanes - A household name. They make basic t's (comparable to Fruit of the Loom), Beefy T's, and a selection of fleece and women's garments.
Jerzees - These are the sweatshirts to ask for if you are on a budget.

NW Tag is a recommended vendor of woven or printed tags on a variety of substrates. They can also print your hangtags.

Solutions Journal - The most valuable resource for screenprinters on the Internet. Educational and informative articles, books, plans and more. Solutions Journal is clarity amidst the ambiguity of contemporary screenprinting information available today. The articles contained in Solutions Journal are written by screenprinters who do this for a living and are written for those who desire a through understanding of the concepts necessary to become successful in screenprinting.
Screen Printers Resource is a great vendor of screenprinting supplies. We buy almost every product that we use from these guys. Stellar customer service.
T-shirt forums is the most expansive discussion forum for anything related to t-shirts.
Richard Greaves Outstanding source of technical info about screenprinting.

Read up on this info if you plan on printing garments for kids 12 and under.

CPSC.gov - The government CPSC website that has all the legal info, but kind of hard to understand and muddle through.
WhatIsTheCPSIA - Frequently updated blog that explains these laws more clearly.
Fashion Incubator - More good 3rd party info about the CPSIA

Monolith Press - Monolith Press is an independently owned printshop located in Emeryville, CA. They specialize in printing silkscreened posters, art prints and short-run record covers.
Sticker Guy - Contact them for vinyl screen printed stickers. We don't like paper stickers, so wouldn't know where to go for those.
Copy World Inc - The spot to get business cards and flyers on the cheap. If you want high quality offset printing, special stocks and spot colors - keep looking.
Fast Signs Oakland - If you need signs, banners or vehicle wraps.