Premium Branded Apparel & Merch, Littleton, Colorado

Your brand,
elevated.

A full-service custom print studio building premium branded apparel, uniforms, and promotional goods for businesses that care how their name shows up. DTF, sublimation, UV, embroidery, laser engraving, and screen printing, hand-finished under one roof.

Plate No. 04, The Studio, Dusk
DTFSublimationUV PrintEmbroideryCap EmbroideryLaser EngravingScreen Print
Chapter I, What we do

Three ways
to work with us.

Whether it's a single shirt on a Tuesday afternoon or a thousand-piece merch run for a Saturday festival, the same shop, the same hands, the same standard.

01Custom prints, one at a time

For You

One-off gifts, matching family shirts, event tees, tumblers, or that idea you sketched on a napkin. Send us the art, we quote fast and print by hand.

Start a custom order
02Branding & merch, in-house

For Business

Uniforms, promo giveaways, trade-show swag, embroidered polos, engraved awards. One studio, every decoration method, no middleman, no drop-shipping.

Talk about branding
03Our own designs

From the Studio

Colorado-inspired art, mountain graphics, and small drops from our own studio, printed in-house, shipped from Littleton to your door.

Browse the shop
Chapter III, From the archive

A short catalog
of recent work.

Three jobs from the last quarter, the brief, the spec, and the note we kept in the ledger after the run was done.

Case No. 011

Bear Creek Trail Runners

120 pcs · DTF on tri-blend tee · 4-color

A season kit that survives the summit.

A local trail-running club asked for a race-day shirt that could take sweat, sun, and a wash cycle without cracking. We proofed three tri-blends before landing on the one, then pressed the run in a single afternoon.

Stack of folded tri-blend trail-running tees with a DTF mountain print on top
Case No. 014

Kettle & Kiln Bakery

36 pcs · Embroidered aprons · Gold thread on charcoal

A uniform that looks earned, not issued.

The owner wanted staff aprons that felt like a piece of the shop, not corporate merch. We digitized her hand-drawn mark, tested three thread weights, and stitched the run over two evenings.

Charcoal bakery apron with a gold-thread embroidered logo on a floured wooden counter
Case No. 019

Front Range Fabrication

500 pcs · Laser-engraved anodized tumblers

A trade-show giveaway people kept.

For a Denver expo, the team needed something a welder would actually take home. Anodized steel, mark deep enough to feel with a thumbnail, tuned across two proofs so the logo held at 3 mm.

Row of black anodized steel tumblers laser-engraved with an industrial logo on a steel bench
Case No. 001

Mile High — The House Mark

House run · Screen print on cotton & fleece · Off-white + ember on ink

The shop's own colors, worn on our backs.

Our badge, printed on the same bench that runs your work. A heather charcoal hoodie and a black cotton tee, off-white and ember ink, cured on the belt at 320°, folded before they cooled. If you catch us on the floor, this is what we're wearing.

Heather charcoal hoodie screen-printed with the Mile High Custom Prints hexagon badge, warm amber rim light on dark wood
Chapter IV, The bench

How a job moves
through the shop.

Four small acts, in order. No portal to log in to. No account to make. Most jobs are quoted in hours and pressed within the week.

i.

Consult

You send the art, the deadline, the vibe. We reply, same day, most days, with method, stock, and a real number. No forms, no bots.

ii.

Proof

Before we press a single unit, we press one. You get a photo, or a physical sample, of the exact garment, ink, and placement. Nothing runs until you nod.

iii.

Press

The run happens on one bench, in one shop, under our hands. Ink temperatures, cure times, and thread tensions are set by feel, not by a spreadsheet on the other side of the country.

iv.

Finish

Every piece is folded, inspected, and counted before it leaves. Rush jobs go out the same evening; larger runs are ready for pickup or shipped within the promised window.

Chapter V, Materia

The stocks, inks,
and threads
we keep on the shelf.

An abbreviated index. If the substrate you need isn't listed, ask - odds are we can source it, or we already have it on the back wall.

S.01Cotton, ring-spunThe bread-and-butter tee stock. Softens with wash, holds DTF ink deep.
S.02Tri-blendCotton, poly, rayon. Drapes light, the runner's, the barista's, the maker's choice.
S.03100% polyesterThe only stock that takes sublimation. Full-bleed, no hand, forever bright.
S.04Twill & duck canvasAprons, tote bags, workwear. Embroiders clean; screens sharp.
I.01PlastisolThe classic screen ink. Vivid, opaque, built to last a decade of wash cycles.
I.02Water-based & dischargeSinks into the fabric. Soft hand, vintage feel, no plastic sit-on-top.
I.03DTF transferFull color, fine detail, any garment. Our go-to for small runs and complex art.
I.04UV-curedRigid substrates, wood, metal, acrylic, leather. Instant cure, photographic detail.
T.01Poly-wrapped threadThe standard. 60+ colors on-shelf, matched to your brand.
T.02Metallic & specialty threadGold, copper, matte-black. For marks that need to catch the light.
F.01Anodized aluminumLaser-marked to a permanent white. Awards, tumblers, tags.
F.02Hardwoods & leatherEngraved by CO₂ laser. Signage, coasters, patches, gifts.
Volunteers in custom-printed shirts at a local Colorado charity eventPlate No. 12, In the field
Chapter V½, Community

Prints that
give back.

We donate printed apparel, banners, flyers, and event merch to local Colorado charities, schools, and neighborhood causes every year. Volunteer tees for food drives, jerseys for youth teams, care-package shirts for the Denver Veterans Stand Down — no invoice, no strings.

The founder of Mile High Custom Prints at the studio workbenchPlate No. 07, At the bench
Chapter VI, A note from the shop

I was sick of buying cheap, imported, generic marketing materials and apparel that had no brand identity. So I built the alternative.

Johnny, a native of Tipperary, Ireland, moved to Colorado six years ago. He came from a clinical background in marketing and business development within the senior living sector, then earned an MBA from WGU with a concentration in marketing. Working with local private healthcare businesses, he kept running into the same problem: everything was outdated, mass-produced, and forgettable.

Mile High Custom Prints is the answer. High-quality, custom-designed and printed business apparel and branding materials, made locally with locally sourced materials where possible. We partner with businesses of every size to elevate their brand, because your marketing should stand out, not blend in.

Johnny, Founder

Mile High Custom Prints · Littleton, CO

Correspondence

Got an idea?
Let's print it.

Send us your art, tell us the deadline, and we'll come back with a real quote, usually the same day. Walk-ins welcome; the coffee is on.

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