DTF Gang Sheets — Fit More Designs, Waste Less Film
- Up to 22.75" wide, any length
- Mix designs, sizes and quantities
- No minimums
- Order by 2 PM ET
The saving is area, not rate.
This is the part most explanations get wrong. Ganging does not get you a discount per square inch — our rate does not change with quantity. What it does is remove waste.
Order fifteen small designs individually and each one is priced on its own bounding box, with unavoidable empty space around it. Pack the same fifteen onto one sheet and that empty space collapses into the gaps between them. Same rate, considerably less area, noticeably smaller invoice.
The practical rule: one large print, order it individually. Lots of small ones, gang them.
- Each design is priced on its own bounding box.
- Every one carries unavoidable empty margin.
- Fine when you are ordering one large print.
- Simplest option if the designs go out at different times.
- Designs pack together across the full roll width.
- Empty space collapses into narrow cutting gaps.
- Mixed designs, sizes and quantities all share one sheet.
- Same rate per square inch — you just buy fewer of them.
Build it here, or bring your own.
Drop your artwork into the browser, set sizes and quantities, and it packs the sheet for you with the total updating live. Open the builder →
Already laid it out in Photoshop or Illustrator? Upload it as a single file at the finished size through the normal order flow. Transparent background, around 300 DPI at print size.
From artwork to pressed garment.
- 1Add your designs
Upload each design and set how large you want it and how many copies. Mixed sizes and mixed quantities on one sheet are completely normal.
- 2Let it pack the sheet
Designs are arranged to use the 22.75-inch width efficiently. The sheet grows in length as you add more, and the price grows with the area — not with the number of designs.
- 3Check the total and order
The price updates live. Add the cutting service at $0.25 per copy if you would rather not trim them yourself.
- 4We print and ship
Ordered before 2 PM ET on a business day, printed that afternoon, shipped the next morning, packed flat.
- 5Cut and press
Trim each design out, then press it like any other transfer — the sheet is only a delivery format, not a different product.
Getting the most out of a sheet.
About a quarter inch between designs. Tighter packing saves a small amount of film and makes trimming genuinely annoying — and one slip through a design costs more than the film saved.
Mixing very tall and very short designs across a row leaves dead space above the short ones. Grouping similar heights packs far more efficiently.
Empty canvas around a design is area you pay for. Crop to the artwork, not to a comfortable-looking square.
The roll is 22.75 inches across whether you use it or not. A sheet that only uses 12 inches of width is leaving the rest on the table.
Small designs are the ones that get miscut or mispressed. The marginal cost of two more copies of a 2-inch logo is a few cents.
Same rate, less waste.
$0.0249 per square inch of sheet area. No setup fee, no minimum sheet size, and no charge for how many separate designs you put on it — a sheet with twenty designs costs the same as a sheet of identical area with two.
Gang sheet questions
- What is a DTF gang sheet?
- One large printed sheet with many separate designs packed onto it. You cut them apart yourself (or add our cutting service) and press each one individually. It is the standard way to order when you have lots of small designs rather than one big print.
- Is a gang sheet cheaper than ordering designs individually?
- The rate per square inch is identical. What a gang sheet saves is wasted area — packing designs tightly onto one sheet means you pay for far less empty film between them. On a run of many small designs that difference is significant.
- What size can a gang sheet be?
- Up to 22.75 inches wide, which is our roll width, and effectively any length. Long sheets packed with small designs are the most efficient way to order.
- Can I upload a gang sheet I already made?
- Yes. If you have already laid out your sheet in Photoshop, Illustrator or another tool, upload it as a single file at the finished size. Make sure the background is genuinely transparent and the resolution is around 300 DPI at print size.
- Can I mix different designs and sizes on one sheet?
- Yes — that is the point of ganging. Different designs, different sizes and different quantities of each can all share one sheet.
- Do you cut the designs apart?
- Only if you add the cutting service, which is $0.25 per copy. Without it you receive the sheet whole and cut it yourself, which most shops with a decent pair of scissors prefer to do.
- How much space should I leave between designs?
- Enough to cut cleanly — roughly a quarter inch is comfortable. Packing them tighter saves a little film but makes trimming fiddly, and a slip of the scissors through a design costs more than the film you saved.
Also available
Free, in the browser. Drop in artwork, set sizes, see the total live.
Ordering designs individually — better when you have one large print.
Standard placements and sizes, with the price beside each one.
Account pricing and saved design libraries for shops ganging regularly.
Build your sheet in the browser.
Drop in your designs, set the sizes, and watch the total update as you go. No account needed to try it.
$0.0249 / sq in · No minimums · Up to 22.75" wide