Mandatory electrical requirments:
One dedicated 20-AMP outlet per heat press stattion.
Pop-Up Heat-Press Station For Custom T-Shirts, Hats and Totes
Our mobile, pop-up Heat-Press stand is the perfect addition to any event. We can quickly make your guests custom hats, totes, mugs, hoodies, and t-shirts that add a personalized touch to store brand activations, corporate parties, college activities, homecomings, and family parties like Bar/Bat Mitzvahs, Communions, birthdays, and more.
Our pop-up heat press stations provide a seamless and exciting experience for your guests, delivering high-quality custom patches and t-shirt designs that leave lasting impressions.
We proudly provide heat press events in all major markets across the U.S., including New York, LA, Austin, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago, New Jersey, San Diego, Orlando, Philadelphia, Delaware, and everywhere in between.
Materials We Can Heat Press
We offer a wide variety of customizable heat press options to bring your brand to life, including:
Embroidered patches
DTF transfers
Custom CAD-cut vinyl
Holographic, metallic, and patterned vinyl
Glow-in-the-dark and glitter vinyl
Silicone patches
Full-color screen-printed transfers
Sublimated graphics and patches
Frequently Asked Questions
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A mobile station where guests design and press custom apparel and accessories on the spot — t-shirts, hoodies, hats, totes, mugs, and patches — for an interactive, take-home moment.
We can press transfers for a more silk-screened look or patches.
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Custom t-shirts, hoodies, hats, tote bags, mugs, patches, and leggings using your designs, event graphics, or a menu of options guests choose from.
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One dedicated 20-amp outlet per heat-press station — this is required. Tell us your venue's power situation early and we'll plan the layout around it.
It’s about the same power as a standard blender or microwave.
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Yes. Sun Dreams books insured professional hand chain-stitch artists and coordinated production support across the U.S. and Canada, with subcontracted local teams when needed.
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Pressing is quick, so throughput is high; it mainly depends on how many choices guests make.
The pressing itself may only take 40-60 seconds, but there is time needed for cooling, re-pressing, positioning and of course getting requests from the guests.
So basing it on 2-3 minutes per item is a good
For big crowds we add stations and staff — tell us your headcount and hours.
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Brands supply their own blanks to keep it on-brand; we can also help you source quality shirts, hats, and totes.
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Not much — a sturdy table and chair.
We're flexible for tighter spaces and outdoor setups; just flag it and we'll plan around it.
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There's no hard minimum — we regularly pull off last-minute activations.
About four to six weeks' notice is the sweet spot: it lets us finalize your design menu, source anything needed, and lock in artists in your market.
On a tight timeline? Reach out anyway; we'll try to make it work.
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Every activation is quoted to fit — pricing depends on your market, guest count, event length, number of artists, and whether we're sourcing product.
Send us the details through the contact link and one of us will be in touch.
Heat Press Event Case Study:
FP Movement
To celebrate the one year anniversary of the New York City Flagship store, FP Movement partnered with us to produce custom DTF heat press transfers to customize apparel on site during the event.
We set up two heat press pop-up stations and added a customization option that customers and staff loved.
We produced high-quality custom DTF transfers for which are soft, durable and long-lasting.
Heat Press Event Case Study:
DTLR - HBCU Tour
Our long-time client DTLR called on us to do a heat-press pop-up for their HBCU tour at Delaware State.
We personalized tote bags for the students with high-quality patches from event partners: NIKE, Ethika and McDonalds.
We proudly provide heat press events in all major markets across the U.S. including New York, LA, Miami, Washington DC, Chicago, New Jersey, San Diego, Philadelphia, Delaware and everywhere in between.
Heat Press Event Case Study:
Netflix Launch NYC
Netflix’s anime series Sakamoto Days had a launch party in the Chelsea section of Manhattan, and their set & vibe experts, Slug Global called us in to set up a heat press pop-up for the staff and guests.
We heat pressed custom tote bags until past midnight and the event producers told us that the heat press was more popular than the bar!
We had custom heat press DTF transfers made for the event and guests picked from three options and we personalized everyone’s tote bags on the fly.
Heat Press Pop-Up Case:Study:
School Party
In addition to the thousands of brand activations and corporate events that we handle across the country, we also love working with schools.
Colleges, universities, private and public schools love heat press pop-up stations.
At this school party, we were asked to customize trucker hats with heat press patches.
The kids and parents alike loved the heat press customizations.