Live printing turns the merch into something that happens at the event. A guest chooses, watches, and leaves wearing the piece, usually about two minutes later. A Memphis job adds one stage up front: getting the kit from our Fullerton shop, 1,584 straight-line miles away, to your room.
Weeks before
You send the artwork, we proof it, and the screens or transfers are made at the shop. Garments, the size split and the station mix get settled against your run-of-show. Since the gear rides freight to Memphis, those decisions happen early and nothing gets improvised on the floor.
The day of
- Build - the crew, in Memphis since the day before, sets each station on roughly a 10x10 footprint. At Renasant Convention Center that happens inside your dock window; on Beale Street it happens before the street closes to cars.
- Choose - the guest picks a size, a garment, a design or a patch. Picking is what makes them care about it.
- Print - each press does up to 60 pieces an hour, and the standard two-press setup clears 100+.
- Wear - the finished piece goes straight on, still warm, and back out onto the floor.
What the room needs
About 10x10 per station, two standard 120V circuits, a level floor and a line that doesn't block a door. That holds in a hotel ballroom by the river and under a festival tent, where the power may come from a generator. See venue requirements.
Choosing the method
Volume points to screen printing, full color and names point to DTF, and a hat bar or embroidery suits a VIP room. Read how live printing works or tell us about your Memphis event.
Memphis planning
What we sort out before anything ships
Before the freight goes, we map the load-in route, the power at the station, the line and where guests choose a garment. At Renasant Convention Center that means a dock window; on Beale Street it means beating the evening closure.
The kit is the one we use everywhere: presses, flash dryers, heat presses, blanks, folding tables, signage and trained printers, freighted from Fullerton with the crew flying in the day before. Budget about 10x10 ft and two 120V circuits per station. With a short design menu, two presses clear 100+ shirts an hour.