Les guides de l'atelier

We print in Ottawa and ship to Greater Montreal in 1–2 days, customs-free. What a Montreal t-shirt order really costs, how fast it lands, and why bilingual artwork needs a second look — plenty of fonts quietly drop the accent in Café or Fierté long before anything reaches the press.

Quebec City buys shirts for tourism crews around Vieux-Québec, festivals, Université Laval groups and trades in Lévis and Beauport — and a printer being in Ontario changes nothing that matters: one country, no customs, no duty, no currency conversion. This covers what a printed tee actually costs, how long it takes to reach the Capitale-Nationale, and how to stop é, è, ç and the œ ligature from quietly vanishing between your file and the press. Design it free at /mockup-creator, and a human designer checks the accents before anything reaches a press.

You don't need a shop on your own street to get custom shirts printed in Quebec. We print in-house in Ottawa and ship across the province — Montreal and the island, Laval, Longueuil, Brossard, Quebec City, Sherbrooke and beyond — with no customs, no duty and no brokerage, because Ontario to Quebec is a domestic shipment. Here's what it costs, how long transit really takes, how to order in French, and how to keep your accented text from breaking on press.

Work uniforms are an equipment purchase, not an apparel purchase — they get worn five days a week, washed hard, and replaced one shirt at a time as staff turn over. This guide covers what actually survives a work week, how hi-vis ratings really work (they belong to the blank, not the decorator), embroidery versus print, bilingual name tags and French job titles, sizing a crew including tall and plus sizes, and how to set up the first order so reordering three shirts in November is a sentence instead of a project.

Nobody can hand you an honest ranked list of Montreal print shops — the jobs aren't comparable. Here's the framework instead: whether a shop can actually set French (accents, ligatures, line breaks that blow out a chest print), whether its invoice works for a Quebec business, whether it prints in-house or brokers to a US supplier, whether its lead time survives festival season, and whether a human designer proofs your file. Includes a copyable list of questions to ask anyone.

Real Canadian price ranges by quantity and method, why the per-shirt number drops so sharply with volume, the hidden fees to ask about up front, and five legitimate ways to bring the cost down without cheapening the shirt.

Screen printing, DTF, heat-transfer vinyl or embroidery? Here's how our Ottawa shop chooses the right custom t-shirt printing method for every design, quantity and fabric — what each one costs, and where it shines.

Resolution, colour mode, bleed, fonts and format — the five things that cause almost every reprint, plus the rich-black rule nobody warns you about.