Big Frog of The Upper West Side

2244 Broadway, New York, NY 10024

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Which Decorating Service is Best for Your Custom T-Shirt Needs?

Not sure which decorating service to choose for a fun run, corporate or group shirt? Here’s a quick guide to help you:

Direct-to-Garment-T-Shirt-Printing

DIRECT-TO-GARMENT (DTG) PRINTING

Uses an all-digital process to inkjet print onto a garment or merchandise.

Benefits:

  • Printing can be done fast—usually in 24 hours
  • Images can be high resolution and full color
  • Water-based ink is eco-friendly
  • Printing feels soft to the touch

DIRECT-TO-GARMENT (DTG) PRINTING WITH WHITE

Prints a white layer as a “primer” on darker garments, then adds colored inks on top of the primer.

Benefits:

  • Images can be high resolution and full color
  • Works with most garment colors, including dark colors like black and navy blue
  • Works best with 100% cotton products
  • Provides excellent color saturation

Embroidery

EMBROIDERY

Uses decorative stitching to create a raised design with threads of different types and colors.

Benefits:

  • Works with most garment colors, including dark colors like black and navy blue
  • Can be used on cotton, cotton blends, and synthetic materials
  • Provides excellent color saturation
  • A great choice for businesses or someone wanting a professional look

SCREEN PRINTING

Uses a series of screens to force ink through fibers in order to create a design. Multiple layers of screen printing are used to achieve designs with numerous colors.

Benefits:

  • Works with most garment colors, including dark colors like black and navy blue
  • Provides excellent color saturation
  • Has a great artsy, vintage look

Ultra-Print

ULTRA PRINTS

Almost identical to screen printing with inks applied onto specialty paper. The inks are transferred from the paper to the garment using pressurized heat.

Benefits:

  • Works with most garment colors, including dark colors like black and navy blue
  • Provides excellent color saturation
  • Specialty paper can be used for another printing order of the same design at a later time

VINYL APPLICATION

Uses vinyl cut into a pattern or design that is applied to a garment using pressurized heat.

Benefits:

  • Exceptionally durable, often used for sport uniforms
  • Works with most garment colors, including dark colors like black and navy blue
  • Provides excellent color saturation
  • Can be used on cotton, cotton blends, and synthetic materials

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    What Our Customers Say

    The printing was exact, the logo perfect and the shirt quality was excellent
    By Lucretia La Mura
    Awesome people work here! Graphic artists with great suggestions and quick work. Items cup in a rainbow of colors. We customized t-shirts & they were exactly as shown in screen.
    By holly rouse
    Amazing staff that makes the impossible, possible...everytime!
    By Leon Katselnik
    Easy to email and fast response. They were able to make 40 graphic shirts in one week!
    By Jane Kim
    We needed T-shirts for an up and coming event with a crazy turn around. Exceptional customer service and communication. Excellent quality on the screen printing. Will use them again for a larger order.
    By Aolani Charters
    Great pricing, amazing, thoughtful customer service, and outstanding products!
    By Jeff Gladstone
    Amazing help to customize shirts and hats. They were able to take my image and help with coloring and position, all with a helpful smile! Price points were perfect and were better than others shops that I visited. Will absolutely be going back!
    By David Barone
    Great small business . They created a wonderful TShirt design based on an image I had. Highly recommend for any custom work.
    By Yael Shapiro
    Great team with reliable communication, attention to detail, good pricing and flexible turnaround time.
    By Savva Tcherniavski
    The tee shirt that I ordered was high quality and the printing of my design was also high quality. The Big Frog staff was enormously helpful throughout the whole process and replied to questions quickly, usually within an hour or less. And the price for a custom designed shirt was more than fair.
    By Ray Paradis
    Aisha was so great!
    By Nancy Widjaja
    They have done terrific work on multiple t-shirt custom orders. Quality is excelkentn
    By Jackie weiss
    Amazing local business. Owner went above and beyond to fulfill my custom jersey order. Highly recommend
    By Tim N
    Great service! All employees deserve a raise!
    By Joseph Kemp
    This team is fantastic. They turned around a bulk order of custom pillow cases for my team in less than 48 hours for a very fair price. Would 1000% recommend and will be returning !
    By Julia Vaccaro
    Aisha was super helpful with my order!
    By Will B
    Great experience start to finish. Very fast (next day) printing on my order. Aisha was so helpful and offered different designs for me to choose from. Will be back for any printing in the future.
    By John McQuaid
    In September at the store the salesperson helped me search online for the perfect coordinated images to print on the tee shirts I was buying for my son and daughter-in-law and the onesie for their newborn son. In March it was easy to order by phone another printed onesie in a larger size with the same image. I highly recommend Big Frog for your custom printing needs.
    By GRT OnLine Promotion, LLC
    Had a rush shirt, customer service was perfect, the shirt is very decent quality, will use again.
    By Adam Aultman
    I had a great experience using Big Frog to plan out family t shirts - the shirts turned out exactly like I wanted and was faster and more affordable than other online vendors. Great customer service and online design tool!
    By Hilliary Beneventi
    Rating very responsive to client request perfect execution. Thank you for a quick and perfect turn around.
    By Nadav Glucklich
    Bought t-shirts here. The designer was friendly, helpful, and efficient. Prices very fair for quality merchandise.
    By Chris Hiland
    Love this place! They come up with amazing design super fast and are super easy to work with. Very reasonable price and fast turnaround as well.
    By Sid He
    Awesome service. Great quality. Fast and reliable. Highly recommended!! I needed help with an order, went to the store, and Brittany was beyond helpful. She made my design much better, improved its quality, and went the extra mile to make what I wanted look awesome. Thank you!
    By Juls
    Thank you Dori and the team for a super quick and wonderful work!
    By ella ben amram
    Love that it's local and that I could talk with an actual human to design a custom shirt
    By Rachel Eisman
    The employees are great and the products are good quality! I strongly recommend them!
    By Andy Mac
    Absolute lifesavers. I contacted them at 3:45 on a Saturday afternoon and had a custom tote order for an event in hand by 6:30pm. Impeccable service and extremely nice people - I will certainly use them again and highly recommend!
    By Laurie Heller
    I thought they were professional and they did a good job in a good frame of time and I was satisfied with how they did the T-shirt.
    By Lee Gerstmann
    I’ve been working with Big Frog for the last 3 years. So this is a long overdue review. Have nothing but great things to say about everyone who works there especially Julia & Cherry. My orders are always correct & done in a timely manor. A+ service. We appreciate you guys! From Falco Marble & Granite
    By Camille Provenza
    Did a good job in a very professional and pleasant manner
    By stella sayles
    The employees of Big Frog are attentive to what you ask for and their products are of good fabric. You will like it.
    By Victor Martin
    I'm very pleased with a tee-shirt I ordered about a week ago. Everyone at Big Frog was very efficient and easy to work with. I have a coffee mug on order and am sure it will be just what I wanted.
    By Elizabeth Busch-Le Ne'
    Super helpful and attentive staff! They made it easy for me to design and get my T-shirts. Great service overall!
    By Lorenzo Soler
    I discovered this store walking by and later ordered a custom t-shirt as a gift. Great communication, quick service, great prices. I highly recommend them!
    By E Willard
    The team at Big Frog are professional, quick with printing designs and very helpful.
    By Rob Gaetano
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