The Chicago
live printing
booth
Chicago shows run on logistics — dock windows, drayage, freight elevators — and our crew arrives fluent in all of it. We stage live printing (DTF, hat bars, embroidery, screen presses) inside your booth or ballroom, and walk-by traffic becomes a queue.
Run of show · 01–04
Four steps from booking
to fresh prints
Tell us about it
We dial in the art
We roll in & set up
We print it live
Live stations
Ways we print
live in Chicago
Show-floor schematic
A 10×10 booth,
fully spec'd
This is the rig, drawn to the same spec we hand a floor manager. One station lives inside a 10×10 booth on two 120V circuits; bigger headcounts just stack stations.
Occasions
Chicago events we
print live for
By the numbers
The rig, spec'd
Field log · sample builds
Chicago-ready builds
Four ways a station gets spec'd for a Chicago-scale event — and roughly what each turns out. The gallery has the photos.
Across Chicago
We print where
Chicago gathers
Loading dock or lakefront lawn, Loop tower or West Loop loft — if there's power and a path for the cases, the rig sets up. We work all of Chicagoland.
- McCormick Place
- Navy Pier — Festival Hall
- theMART
- United Center
- Morgan Manufacturing
- Salesforce Tower / Wolf Point
Questions
Good to know
Most Chicago productions run $5K–$15K all-in, driven by headcount, print hours, and garments. One itemized number — crew, equipment, blanks, setup, teardown, every print — within 24 hours.
Figure 60 shirts an hour per press; the standard two-press rig clears 100+ when the aisle surges. Blank to worn: about two minutes.
A 10×10 footprint per station and two 120V circuits for the flash dryers. Presses, ink, blanks, tables, and crew all arrive in our cases.
Two to four weeks is comfortable. Gear stays staged and we've turned Chicago dates in under a week — ask anyway.
No — live DTF, a hat bar, embroidery, and hard goods like totes travel too. The usual build: a core tee plus one upgrade station.
Yes — Chicagoland is quoted door to dock, with travel and drayage inside one number. We're based in Fullerton, CA and haul the full rig to your venue.
That's home turf. Send the show name, booth dimensions, and your power and drayage orders — we spec a station that fits the footprint and plays by the floor's rules.
Everything the show requires: crew, presses, garments, setup, teardown, and each print handed over live. It all lands as one itemized quote.
Every scale of Chicago room — McCormick Place, Wintrust Arena, the United Center, Soldier Field, and Navy Pier down to hotel ballrooms and loft venues. The crew works The Loop, River North, West Loop, and Fulton Market, printing apparel, hats, and merch live at conventions, corporate events, festivals, and brand activations.
Start your Chicago quote
Tell us about
your Chicago event
Name the show, the footprint, and the dates. We'll spec the station to your floor plan — power, drayage, and all — and return an itemized quote inside 24 hours.
- Door-to-dock pricing for Chicagoland — travel and drayage live inside the single number