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Low-MOQ print bases
Prepared-for-print bases — RFD and light greige poplins, cambrics and lawns — ready for your prints on our low-minimum programme.
Low minimums are our sourcing programme, not a per-fabric figure — confirmed per article when you enquire.
Why the base decides your minimum
A print programme has two separate minimums: the print itself, and the base underneath it. The print method is usually the one people plan around — digital and sublimation start at 100 m per colour, per design, while rotary carries an engraved screen per colour and only becomes sensible from around 3,000 m. The base is the one that catches people out, because a printed fabric still has to come from somewhere.
Starting from an available RFD or light greige quality is what keeps a small print run workable. Commissioning a new construction is a different purchase with a much larger commitment, and it is rarely what a first print programme actually needs.
What to specify when you enquire
Send the artwork or a description of it, the number of colours and designs, the base you have in mind or the end product if you do not, and your quantity per design. Fibre matters for sublimation in particular — the process suits some compositions and not others, so the minimum alone does not tell you whether it can be applied to a given cloth.
If the numbers do not fit, the usual fix is fewer designs rather than less fabric. Enough total metreage split across too many small lots is the most common and most fixable version of this problem.