Santa Ana is 12 to 18 minutes from our Anaheim shop straight up I-5, which keeps same-day pickup practical. Order before noon and collect that afternoon — useful for a city that produces a lot of short-notice, full-colour apparel work.
Distance from our press: 12–18 minutes off-peak, straight up I-5. 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), call (657) 439-0180 to confirm, then collect at 1911 E Ball Rd between 9:00am and 4:00pm, Monday through Friday. Free shipping usually reaches Santa Ana the next business day if you would rather not drive.
Santa Ana is the Orange County seat and one of the youngest cities in the country by median age, with a downtown creative district around the Artists Village and 4th Street that supports a dense cluster of independent brands, studios, and food businesses. That mix produces exactly the sort of full-colour, small-run apparel work DTF handles better than screen printing.
Those are facts about Santa Ana, not claims about our order book — we do not publish customer data by city.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 Santa Ana generates.
Small drops with detailed, multi-colour artwork where screen counts would make a run uneconomical.
Staff shirts and merch in small repeat batches, reordered as the crew changes.
Volunteer and event apparel in modest quantities on short timelines.
Photographic and gradient-heavy artwork that presses cleanly without colour separation work.
Direct-to-film printing lays your artwork onto a clear carrier film backed with powdered adhesive. A heat press bonds it into the fabric, you peel the film away, and the ink stays in the garment. Nothing is hand-cut and no screens are burned, so a twelve-colour design takes exactly as long to produce as a one-colour one.
That is the reason we charge for film area instead of per design or per colour. A gang sheet is one large piece of film with as many designs packed onto it as will fit — thirty small logos or a single oversized back print cost the same when they take up the same room. Photographs, gradients, and fine linework carry no surcharge.
If you are collecting in person, two things are worth knowing before you drive over. You will need a heat press at your end, because a household iron cannot hold even temperature or pressure. And it is worth buying one small test sheet on an early visit to check colour and hand-feel against the exact garment you intend to use.
Santa Ana labels often start with single test sheets and grow into steady monthly volume, which is exactly how film-area pricing is designed to work — your rate improves as your monthly area grows, without needing a large single order. Tax-exempt resale purchasing is set up 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.
About 12 to 18 minutes off-peak up I-5 to 1911 E Ball Rd, Anaheim. I-5 through this stretch is slow in the afternoon, so early orders are easier.
No. We print in Anaheim only.
Yes — that is its main advantage. Gradients, photographs, and unlimited colours cost the same as a one-colour design, because you pay for film area rather than per colour.
Yes, and we recommend it. One small sheet lets you check colour and hand-feel on your actual garment before committing.
4:00pm, Monday through Friday. Order by noon for the same day.
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.
