Uptown energy you can wear out the door
For the planner with a brand book: we run the press at your Charlotte Convention Center booth, Uptown tower reception, or race-week hospitality suite — colors matched, art approved, merch made on the spot.
Charlotte is a headquarters town, and its events get planned like it — brand guidelines, stakeholder sign-offs, run-of-shows timed to the minute. Good; that is how we work too. We proof your art before the date, match the build to the room (a convention booth, a tower lobby, a hospitality suite out by the speedway), and run the press so every guest carries out a piece your brand team already approved.
How it works
Signed quote to
fresh prints, four moves
Send the brief
Art gets approved
We load in & build
The presses run live
Live stations
Ways we print
live in Charlotte
Choose the stations the agenda calls for. A single press keeps a corporate reception tidy; add the cap-and-patch bar and an embroidery head when the brief wants a fuller experience. Apparel, headwear, totes, drinkware — all finished on site, all inside your brand palette.
Occasions
Charlotte events we
print live for
Why live
Giveaways get shelved.
Made-to-order merch gets worn.
Ordering a pallet of shirts is procurement. Putting a working press in the room is programming — a station guests visit, a line that becomes conversation, and a giveaway that leaves in the right size because it was made to order. Polished enough for a client audience, fast enough for a stadium one.
Plan your Charlotte activationAcross Charlotte
We print where
Charlotte gathers
Tower lobbies Uptown, breweries in South End and NoDa, ballrooms in Ballantyne, campuses in University City — we build the station wherever your venue contract says, anywhere in the Carolinas.
- Charlotte Convention Center
- Spectrum Center
- Bank of America Stadium
- The Fillmore Charlotte
- Camp North End
- Bojangles Coliseum
Questions
The planner FAQ
For budgeting, hold $5K–$15K all-in; staffed Charlotte programs begin near $5,000 with travel from our Southern California base included. Guest count, press hours, garment tier, and footprint drive the total. You get one itemized, procurement-friendly number within 24 hours.
Figure up to 60 shirts an hour per press and 100+ from our standard two-press, two-printer crew. We scope capacity to your run-of-show — a reception trickle needs a different plan than a post-panel surge — and stage sizes so the line never stalls.
Your venue checklist is short: about 10×10 ft of floor per station, two standard 120V circuits, and room for a queue. Ours is long, and we handle it — presses, dryers, ink, garments, tables, staff. For outdoor dates, add cover and we are set.
Tees are just the default. Live DTF carries multicolor sponsor lockups cleanly, the hat bar lets guests build a cap with pressed patches, embroidery reads executive, and totes and drinkware cover hard goods. Most Charlotte planners pair one core tee with a single upgrade station.
Yes — the whole Charlotte metro and the wider Carolinas. The crew tours out of Fullerton, CA with the full kit, and travel and lodging sit inside your single quoted number, not as surprises later.
Very much so. For a Charlotte Convention Center booth, send the dimensions, freight schedule, and power drop; we design the station around them — intake on one face, pickup on the other, stock behind the crew — so show management stays happy and the aisle stays open.
The full production: staffing, presses and support equipment, garments across sizes, load-in and load-out, and every item printed at the event. An executive dinner might run one refined station; an expo or game-day program scales up. Either way the quote itemizes it completely.
Anywhere Charlotte hosts: the Charlotte Convention Center, Spectrum Center, Bank of America Stadium, The Fillmore, Camp North End, hotel ballrooms, and private venues. The crew prints live at corporate functions, conventions, festivals, and activations across Uptown, South End, NoDa, Plaza Midwood, Ballantyne, and University City.
Merch Troop overview
Preview the exact setup your event will get.
Start your Charlotte quote
Tell us about
your Charlotte event
Bring us the brief — date, venue, headcount, and any brand rules. We will spec the station for your Queen City event and return an itemized quote in 24 hours.
- Full Charlotte-metro coverage, travel and lodging inside one quoted number