Print only what people choose

Corporate swag printing that skips the box of leftovers.

Merch Troop sets up a live printing station at your HQ event, onboarding day, holiday party, or trade show booth. Employees pick the garment, size, and design — we press it in about a minute, while they watch.

Based in Orange County, CA. Crews cover Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, and travel nationwide.

Bulk order, printed ahead

500 pressed

Sizes guessed months early. The extra mediums ride home in boxes and age in a storage closet.

On demand, printed live

Every piece claimed

Nothing is printed until a real person picks it. The count matches the crowd, exactly.

Live swag printing station drawing a crowd at a corporate celebration event On-demand shirt printing and garment display wall in a hotel conference corridor Merch Troop staff folding freshly printed shirts at a corporate event table Branded outdoor swag booth staffed by a printing crew at a waterfront company event
Why on demand

Retire the inventory-tag graveyard.

Every company has the closet: bins of branded gear in the wrong sizes, from the wrong year, with the old logo. On-demand swag printing replaces the guessing game with a station that only produces what someone actually wants to wear out the door.

People choose, so people keep

Guests pick from a design menu you approve in advance — team logos, milestone marks, city art, or a single hero graphic — then choose garment and size on the spot.

Choice is the retention trick.

Budget goes to worn pieces

You pay for blanks that leave on a person, not a forecast. Finance gets a clean count of exactly what was produced, for whom, at which event.

No write-offs, no storage line item.

The station is the entertainment

A press running in the room gives people a reason to linger. Watching your own shirt come off the heat press beats finding a pre-bagged tee on a chair.

Swag table, upgraded to an attraction.

Crew member running garments through a conveyor dryer backstage at a company event
What we press

Full-color prints, hats, embroidery, and engraving — one station or several.

Our core method is DTF heat pressing: photo-quality, full-color transfers that go onto cotton, blends, and poly without color limits. Around it we can add a hat bar with pressed patches, live embroidery, laser engraving for tumblers and gifts, and UV stickers for laptops and bottles.

  • Apparel: Bella+Canvas 3001 tees, sweatshirts, hoodies, polos, and workwear.
  • Headwear: Richardson 112 and Flexfit caps finished with heat-applied patches.
  • Beyond fabric: engraved tumblers, journals, and UV-printed sticker drops.
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How it runs

From approved art to a moving line in four steps.

Lock the menu

We prep 3–8 designs with your brand team and send proofs before event day. You approve every pixel.

We load in early

Crew arrives ahead of doors with presses, blanks in a full size run, signage, and a backdrop that fits your space.

Guests order live

Pick a design, pick a garment, pick a size. Most pieces press in about 60 seconds; hats and embroidery run in parallel.

Clean wrap-up

We tear down, leave the room as we found it, and hand you a production count. Unused blanks never become your problem.

Where it fits

Built for the corporate calendar.

Illuminated merch booth at an evening company party under blue lighting

Holiday parties

A gift people pick themselves, made in front of them. Strong fit for evening formats and plus-ones.

Holiday party stations →

Fresh custom shirts being folded and stacked for corporate event guests

Onboarding & welcome weeks

New hires press their own first-day gear in the size they actually wear. HR never re-orders a hoodie again.

Onboarding swag →

Colorful branded cafe-style activation booth on a convention floor

Trade shows & conferences

Personalized merch stops booth traffic cold. Badge scans go up because the line gives your team time to talk.

Trade show booths →

~60 sectypical press time per shirt
75–150+pieces per press, per hour
10×10 ftspace for a standard station
2×120Vstandard circuits to run it
Get a quote

Tell us about the event once — we build the plan.

Send the date, city, headcount, and what you want people walking away with. We reply with a station plan, product list, and a real number, usually within one business day.

Reviewed by a Merch Troop event producer — you'll get a station plan and quote back, not an automated brochure.