Costa Mesa is 20 to 25 minutes down the SR-55 from our Anaheim press. Most Costa Mesa customers take the free shipping — order before noon and it generally ships the same business day — because the work here tends to be small, design-led batches rather than same-day emergencies.
Distance from our press: 20–25 minutes off-peak, the SR-55 south. Treat that as an estimate rather than a promise — Southern California traffic does what it likes between 3pm and 7pm.
Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm. We are closed weekends, so a Friday 12:00pm (noon) order is the last call for a Saturday event.
Order by 12:00pm (noon) for same-business-day dispatch and free delivery in one to two days. Pickup in Anaheim is available weekdays between 9:00am and 4:00pm if a deadline demands it.
Costa Mesa functions as Orange County's design and retail centre: South Coast Plaza is the highest-grossing shopping centre in the United States, and the SOCO and The LAB districts concentrate independent boutiques, studios, and makers. Several long-established surf and action-sports companies are headquartered in or near the city.
Those are facts about Costa Mesa, not claims about our order book — we do not publish customer data by city. What follows is simply where direct-to-film printing tends to fit the kind of work Costa Mesa generates.
Detailed, multi-colour artwork on runs of a few dozen, where screen separations would cost more than the garments.
Photographic and gradient artwork that presses cleanly without colour-count compromises.
Small branded batches with consistent colour on reorder.
Test a design in small quantity before committing to a production run.
A DTF transfer is your artwork printed onto clear film with an adhesive powder layer on the back. You apply it with a heat press, peel the carrier, and the ink is bonded into the fibres. There are no screens to burn and no vinyl to weed, which is what makes short runs economical in the first place.
Pricing follows film area, not design count and not colour count. Fill a gang sheet with forty small prints or one enormous one and the cost is identical if the space used is identical. A full-colour photographic print is priced the same as a plain wordmark of the same size, which is usually the deciding factor against screen printing on runs under a few hundred pieces.
Since your order will arrive by courier, plan two things in. You need a heat press to apply the transfers — an iron will not do it reliably. And order a single small sheet first: it costs very little, arrives just as fast, and tells you how the print behaves on your actual blanks before you commit to a full run.
Design-led brands usually care more about colour fidelity across reorders than about unit price, and printing everything in-house on the same presses is what makes that repeatable. Wholesale film-area tiers are available once monthly volume justifies them, with resale certificates through our tax exemption page.
If you decorate apparel commercially — a print shop, an embroiderer, a uniform supplier, a school district, or a reseller — talk to us about a wholesale account rather than ordering at retail. Resale and exemption documentation is filed through our tax exemption page before you order, so invoices arrive without sales tax applied. Reach us at (657) 439-0180 or support@dtfgo.com.
Your own artwork arranged on a sheet of film. The most common order, and the cheapest way to buy transfers by area.
Single designs sized to your garment, pressed and ready to apply on arrival.
For hard surfaces — tumblers, mugs, glass, and cases. No heat press needed; these are applied by hand.
The full range, including supplies. For banners, signs, and large-format work, see Anaheim Prints.
No. Everything is printed at 1911 E Ball Rd, Anaheim, and shipped or collected there.
No. You pay for film area, so a photographic design and a single-colour logo cost the same for the same size.
As small as one sheet. There is no minimum, which is why small drops are a common order here.
Yes, provided the artwork file is the same — same shop, same presses, same profiles.
Yes, weekdays 9:00am to 4:00pm, on orders placed before noon.
Same press, same pricing, same cutoff — these are the neighbouring areas we serve.
See also: Orange County overview · all locations.
No minimum order, no setup fee, and free standard shipping. Order before 12:00pm (noon) on a weekday for the fastest turnaround.
DTFGO · 1911 E Ball Rd, Anaheim, CA 92805 · (657) 439-0180 · support@dtfgo.com · Monday–Friday, 9:00am–5:00pm
The transfers cane out great and went on even better. Thank you!
The best way to get your DTF. customer service is great and helpful.
add and make the selection tool so we can select all objects on the artboard so we can place them manually also can you make the auto build feature place multiple duplicate objects automatically easier and efficient.
Great quality prints every time! Easy to use site.
