Custom Hi-Vis Shirts

Start here, because it is usually not your call. Hi-vis classes come from the ANSI/ISEA 107 standard, and which one your crew needs is normally set by the general contractor, the DOT, or the site safety plan — not by preference. So the first thing to do is read the contract or ask the safety lead, then order to that. We would rather ask you that question than sell you a shirt that gets someone sent off a job site.

Class 2 is the common one: enough background and reflective material for most road, utility, and site work in daylight and ordinary conditions. It comes as a short-sleeve tee or polo. Class 3 requires more area and has to cover the arms, so it is a long sleeve or a jacket — that is the one specified for higher-speed roadways, night work, and poor visibility. If someone tells you "Class 3" and hands you a short-sleeve shirt, something is wrong.

A thing worth knowing before you buy: a hi-vis shirt that has been decorated wrong is not a hi-vis shirt any more. The standard is about how much visible and reflective material the garment carries. Cover enough of it with a print and the garment no longer meets the class it was sold as, which matters at an inspection and matters more at dusk.

This is the part most shops will not talk to you about, so here it is plainly. The logo has to live in the clear areas between the reflective striping — typically a left-chest mark about 3 to 4 inches wide above the stripe, and a back print in the panel between the shoulder stripes, which is where your company name and phone number belong because it is what people read while your crew works.

What we will not do is run a big print straight across the striping to make a design fit. If your art does not fit the clear panel, we will resize it, split it, or move it rather than cover the stripe — and we will show you exactly where it lands in a free mockup before anything runs.

On method: screen printing and DTF both work on hi-vis polyester, and DTF is usually the better pick for a full-color logo or a smaller run because there is no per-color setup. Embroidery is the right call on a hi-vis polo collar-up, though it adds weight and we keep it to the chest. One technical note on printing hi-vis: the fluorescent dye in the fabric can creep into the ink over a few weeks — dye migration — which turns a white logo dingy. We print with a blocker underbase on these so it does not happen, which is the kind of thing you only find out about after it has happened to you once.

Three things drive it: the blank, the decoration, and quantity. For the anchor, a printed standard work tee runs about $12 to $17 each at 48 to 71 pieces, and an embroidered mid-range work polo lands in the low-$20s per piece all in. Hi-vis sits above both, because the blank costs more before a stitch or a screen goes near it — and Class 3 sits above Class 2, for the same reason: more material.

We are not going to print a hi-vis price list here that we would then have to walk back, because the spread between a basic Class 2 tee and a segmented-stripe Class 3 long sleeve from a name brand is genuinely wide. Tell us the class, the sleeve, and the headcount and you get every line quoted up front — blank, decoration, and setup separately, so you can see what you are paying for.

Digitizing and screens are included through a company store or on a bulk order that meets our minimums. And if a number lands higher than you hoped, the lever is the blank, not the safety spec: we will show you a less expensive shirt in the same class rather than quietly dropping you to a lower one.

A one-time run starts at 12 pieces for embroidery and DTF, 48 for screen printing, and most orders run about two to three weeks from the approved mockup. If a hi-vis blank is backordered anywhere in the country, you hear that from us before you commit, not after — which matters more on safety gear than on a giveaway tee, because a crew without it does not work.

Hi-vis is also a consumable. It fades, it gets torn, and a faded shirt is a compliance problem rather than a scruffy one, so plan on replacing it rather than keeping it forever. That is what an online company store is good for: your approved shirts in the right class sit at a private link, anyone orders their own size with no minimum, and every one matches because it is the same saved file.

We outfit construction crews, electrical and HVAC companies, landscaping and road crews across Arizona, and ship anywhere. If your techs also work around live electrical, arc-rated gear has its own decoration rules — those are on our custom FR shirts page. Otherwise, send us your logo, the class, and a headcount and we will come back with options, a free mockup, and a straight quote.