About
We are Against The Grain Screenprint & Design! We have been operating for 10 years & have over 20 years experience in the textile Screenprinting industry. We pride ourselves on our knowledge and expertise of the Screenprint & design industry.
Quality results & attention to detail is what we do!
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Get in touch with us for all your Screenprint, Embroidery, Garment Supply, Promotional items & Design Projects. We offer friendly advice and exceptional service from start to finish.
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We believe in building long-lasting business relationships with all of our clients. We’re here to make the print process easy & straight forward for you.
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We look forward to hearing from you soon!
James
ATG Director
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At 18 James started screen printing and 22 years on he’s still loving it!
James started Against the Grain back in 2014 in his Dad's garage & has never looked back!
He continues to grow his business, providing Christchurch and beyond with epic screenprinted garments.
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Out of the office James loves to hang with his family, Surfing, snowboarding & mountain biking.
His Pantone colour of choice is 382c
FAQs
What is your standard turnaround time?
Our standard turnaround is 7-10 working days from payment of invoice & approval of final proof.
Dependant of the schedule at the time of order, we may be able to produce it faster than this, we will update you on this during the process.
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Rush Orders-
Forgotten to place your order & need it for an event?
We can help you out here if our schedule allows it, but we do exercise a "Rush Fee" which is determined at the time of order.
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Do I have to pay a setup charge?
Screen print:
To create your finished print garment, we need to create a screen. for each individual colour in the print.
When we quote up your print job, we build the setup fee into the per unit final price, instead of a seperate charge.
Once your print is setup with your artwork, it remains property of Against The Grain.
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Embroidery:
There is a one-off setup fee for Embroidery designs, we outsource these files 'digitising' to some of the best in the world.
Once set-up its good to go & can be used repeatedly.
The Embroidery files remain property of Against The Grain.
Supacolour:
There is an initial setup fee of $50 +GST for Supacolour & then $28+gst for every subsequent print run going foward.
Number of colours & Finished print size doesn't come into consideration with supacolour setup fees, its stays the same.
What type of file do I need to supply you?
Files are always a bit of a curve ball!!
We prefer to use vector graphics, but we can work with most files to a point!
Have a look at THIS guide to shed some more light!
Can I supply my own garments to Screenprint or Embroider?
Short answer is....No
The main reason being that we cannot guarantee the print quality of garments we are not familiar with or are sub par quality.
We can supply everything from casual apparel through to Uniforms/workwear etc, basically if you can wear it, we can supply it, all at wholesale rates. Have a look at our SUPPLIERS.
Do you have a maximum number of colours for a Screenprint design?
Short Answer- Yes.
For Screenprint our largest carousel can print up 8 colours. In the case of your design having more than 8 colours, There is a high possibility we can still get the desired finished by using a spot simulation process or CYMK process with the use of halftones to create different shading/gradient effects.
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If your design is totally mad, with hundreds of colours or a photo image, perhaps Supacolour Heat Transfers would be the best option for you!
There are some limitations to Supacolour regarding shading or shadow edges,We can help you through this process either way!
How do I know my print colours will be correct?
Well the answer is PANTONE!
We use the Pantone Solid Coated matching system (PMS) which is basically the bible for colour matching worldwide.
If you don't have Pantone codes, we can find & match these for you, but if you have them... Amazing!
What is your max print area?
Multi-colour screenprints we have a maximum print size of 380mm wide x 470mm high, but this doesn't work on all sizes of garments!
So we always scale the print to what size fits best to required garments.
Single colour screenprints can be up to 550mm high
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Supacolour prints have a maximum size of A3
What is your order minimum?
We do have minimums yes.
Screen print:
*8 unit minimum for 1-3 colour screen prints.
*12 unit minimum for 4-6 colour screen prints.
* Any order with above 6 colour screen prints are 50 unit minimums.
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Supacolour:
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Supacolour transfers have a 10 unit minimum.
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Embroidery:
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Embroidery has a minimum of 6 units.
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DTG (Direct to Garment) & DTF (Direct to film Transfers):
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These are available as a one-off option, see more about these Here.
What Garment embellishments options do you have?
We offer the below options!
* Screenprinting​
* Embroidery​
* Woven & embroidered patches​
* Supacolour Transfers
​* DTF (Direct to film heat transfers)
​* DTG (Direct to garment prints)
* Promotional products