Bowling league shirts with no minimum order let a 5-bowler team or a 200-bowler league pay the same per-shirt price. Bear Grips Pro Shops uses on-demand US printing, so the minimum is one shirt. No 12-shirt batch, no 24-shirt cutoff, no screen setup fees that price out the small leagues.
Traditional screen printing requires a separate screen for each color in the design and each print position on the shirt. The shop charges a setup fee per screen ($25 to $40 each), so a 4-color front-and-back design has $200 to $320 in screen costs before any shirt is printed. To make the math work, the shop spreads that cost across a minimum order (12, 24, 48 shirts).
The math collapses below the minimum because the screen cost stays fixed. A 5-shirt order pays the same setup fee as a 50-shirt order, which is why most shops just say no to small orders.
Bear Grips Pro Shops uses direct-to-garment and DTF (direct-to-film) printing, which does not require screens. The art file goes straight to the print head, the print head lays ink on the shirt, the shirt comes off the line. No screens to make, no setup time to amortize.
This means a single shirt costs the same per shirt as a 100-shirt order. No setup fees, no per-color charges, no per-position charges. The shirt blank costs the same. The print cost is the same. The shipping is free per order.
Bear Grips Pro Shops: Custom Apparel for Your Team. No Minimums. Free Shipping.Every one of these orders is profitable for the league because there is no setup cost spread across the batch.
Small leagues (5 to 20 bowlers) are the most underserved segment of the custom apparel market. Most print shops will not quote them. Most online printers require a 6-shirt or 12-shirt minimum. Most leagues this small end up either:
Pro Shops makes small-league shirts the same as large-league shirts. Same product quality, same printing quality, same per-shirt cost, just at a different volume. The small league finally gets its real custom shirt.
The traditional model: captain places a 12-shirt minimum order, fronts $300 of his own money, chases each bowler for $30, deals with two bowlers who never paid, eats $60 of the cost. Every season.
The Pro Shops model: each bowler pays at his own checkout. The captain never sees the money. No fronting, no chasing, no eating the cost when a bowler quits. The bowler who quits never paid for the shirt, so the league never lost money on it.
Start a free league store and order any quantity, from 1 shirt to 1,000. Same per-shirt price, free shipping, US-printed in about a week.
Start FreeYes. The minimum is one shirt. The per-shirt price is the same whether you order 1 or 100.
No. There are no setup fees, no screen fees, no per-color upcharges. The shirt price you see is the shirt price you pay.
Yes. The same print method, same equipment, same operators. One shirt and 100 shirts come off the same line.
Yes. The team store stocks multiple styles, colors, and sizes. Each bowler picks what he wants. The team logo prints in the same position on every shirt regardless of style or color.
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