Founded in a small Buffalo shop in 1987, New Buffalo Shirt Factory produces decorated apparel and manages the creative, finishing, and fulfillment work behind it. The company helped pioneer simulated process printing, a technique for rendering photographic detail through layered color separations, and remains particularly associated with tour merchandise and large brand programs. Re-established in 2016, it now serves more than 1,000 businesses from its Depew operation.
Buffalo Embroidery & SilkscreenVeteran-owned Buffalo Embroidery & Silkscreen has been producing custom embroidered and screen-printed apparel in Elma since 1995, with all work handled in-house. Its nine embroidery machines and automatic screen-printing press serve businesses, schools, teams and nonprofits, while in-house artists and digitizers prepare logos for garments and promotional goods. The shop accepts orders as small as 12 embroidered pieces or 48 screen-printed pieces.ELMA, NY
Double Eagle EmbroiderySince 2002, Double Eagle Embroidery has been a Buffalo small-business shop serving Western New York with custom apparel decoration. Its work spans customers from private clubs and school teams to corporations, with low minimums and the capacity to handle both small and large orders.LACKAWANNA, NY
Northbrook PressNorthbrook Press began in a garage with a hand-me-down printing press, online tutorials and 40 blank T-shirts before becoming a hand-printing studio in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Today, it creates custom apparel for businesses, organizations and events, with its work shipped to customers nationwide.WEST CHESTER, PA
518 Prints, LLCFounded in 2004 by New York natives Jesse Brust and Amelia Valero-Brust, 518 Prints is a grassroots-born, independently co-owned shop in Upstate New York. It has spent more than two decades helping clients nationwide turn their designs into custom merchandise, with particular experience serving clothing lines, touring bands and community organizations.AVERILL PARK, NY