Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about booking Canyon Canvas for your next event.

Booking & Event Planning Basics

Unlike traditional vendors who bring standard pre-printed merchandise, Canyon Canvas brings a live, fully functional manual screen-printing press directly to your venue, office, or backyard. We prepare custom screens beforehand, set up a professional mobile station, and guide your guests through the interactive process of grabbing the squeegee, applying the pressure, and pulling the ink themselves to create custom apparel on the spot.

Because every event requires dedicated graphic preparation, digital film production, and precision exposure of custom screens, we request a minimum booking window of 2 weeks before your scheduled date. This ensures your apparel inventory is secured and your custom design concepts are fully finalized, cured, and tested before load-in.

Yes! While premium tri-blend t-shirts are our most popular option, we also print on heavy-duty hoodies and cotton tote bags—which are a massive hit for corporate markets, outdoor gatherings, and community wellness days. We are also open to printing on any other items that you might think of, but will need time to print tests on those items to ensure they work well with our heat press and the ink can fully cure.

Logistics, Site Setup & Space Requirements

Space Footprint: A minimum space of 10×10 feet is required for standard booth staging. A 12×12 foot space is preferred for larger, higher-volume tiers to manage proper crowd flow safely around the manual equipment.
 
Power Access: We do not require electrical access since we do have portable power stations, but we do PREFER to have access to at least one dedicated, standard power outlet within 50 feet of the press setup. This power is necessary to safely operate our heat press for curing the inks on-site.
 
Surface & Venue: The manual printing press must be balanced on flat, solid ground (concrete, asphalt, hard indoor flooring, or highly compacted dirt). Level surfaces are essential to ensure even ink deposits during manual squeegee pulls.
 
Load-in/Access: Our equipment is professional-grade and quite heavy. Venues should feature direct street-level access, ramps, or wide service elevators if the printing station is located on a secondary floor.

We handle 100% of the labor, load-in, ink calibration, and station cleaning. Our team arrives roughly 60 to 90 minutes before the official event start time to calibrate the press and heat up the dryers. Teardown and clearing the footprint typically takes about 30 to 45 minutes after the final print run wraps up.

We can set up outdoors or indoors. Our setup is thoroughly self-contained, clean, and highly organized. We employ drop-cloth protective underlying structures and strict on-site safety boundaries. If an outdoor event faces high winds or severe storms, we do provide a canopy with weights to protect the equipment and inks. Having an indoor backup space or a fully enclosed, sturdy canopy/tent footprint is an added benefit but not required.

Graphics, Custom Screens & Apparel

Every package includes up to 4 custom screen designs built directly into your flat pricing menu. We excel in designing single-color vector art, geometric aesthetics, and minimalist layouts. For corporate gatherings or specialized events, we can structure your 4-screen menu to include a mix of company logo options, role-specific identifiers (e.g., separating departments or teams), or themed event graphics.

Absolutely. Prior to the event, we will coordinate with you to establish your exact desired sizing breakdown (from Adult XS up through 3XL). For optimal on-site speed and consistent ink chemistry, we typically recommend choosing 1 or 2 core apparel colors that complement a single, unified ink color across all 4 screens.

Pricing, Tiers & What's Included

We organize our operations around four transparent pricing brackets designed to fit everything from small private parties of 10 guests up to massive company-wide celebrations of 100+ guests. Screen exposures, setups, and local travel are built directly into the upfront tier price—no unexpected fees on your final invoice. For more information about our pricing, please visit our pricing page found in our website menu.

To ensure we can bring our professional print press to you, we include travel for all events within a 50-mile radius of our home base in Ogden, Utah. For events located further than 50 miles away, a “Mobile Service Travel Fee” will be applied to cover the logistical overhead of transporting our equipment. This fee is calculated at a transparent rate of $5.00 for every 10 miles traveled beyond the initial 50-mile radius. This will be calculated during your booking phase using GPS coordinates.

Regardless of the size bracket you choose, every Canyon Canvas live print package is completely comprehensive. Each rate includes:

  • Premium Blanks: High-quality, tri-blend garments scaled to your tier quantity bracket (ranging from 10 up to 100+ items, with flexible sizes from youth S to adult 3XL).
  • Custom Screen Prep & Pre-Production: Precision film printing, screen preparation, precise multi-screen exposure, and pre-event test runs for up to 4 distinct designs.
  • Mobile Printing Press Infrastructure: On-site load-in and calibration of our professional-grade manual screen printing equipment, pallets, and station boundaries.
  • High-Heat Curing Systems: Professional heat press brought directly to your venue to safely cure inks instantly, making garments wash-ready immediately off the line.
  • All Raw Material Supplies: Premium screen-printing inks, block-out tapes, screen chemistry, print alignment materials, cleaning supplies, and protective floor drop-cloths.
  • Professional Live Instruction & Labor: Dedicated on-site guidance throughout the entire duration of your event, ensuring every single guest receives hands-on instruction to pull their print successfully.
  • Complete Setup & Tear-down: Full-service logistical management, including standard setup, ink calibration, post-event cleanup, and meticulous area cleanup—leaving your space exactly as we found it.
  • Local Travel & Transit: Round-trip equipment transportation and vehicle logistics built directly into the base rate for all events within a 50-mile radius. A Mobile Service Travel Fee applies beyond that range. See question above for more details.

Still have questions?

Reach out directly—we’re happy to talk through your event details.

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