Top 5 Percent - Joliet, IL
Veteran Owned • Joliet, IL

Digital Vinyl Shirts & Apparel

Top 5 Percent produces custom digital vinyl shirts, hoodies, hats, and more for individuals, groups, and businesses throughout Joliet, Shorewood, Crest Hill, and Will and DuPage County. Digital vinyl is printed in full color on a special vinyl film and then heat pressed onto your garment. The result is photographic quality detail, smooth color gradients, and vivid artwork that standard cut vinyl cannot achieve.

The Top 5 Percent Difference

In-house manufacturing, experienced and professional. Here is why businesses and residents across Chicagoland choose us:

We carry a five star rating on Google
We offer same day service on most orders
Our pricing is always transparent and upfront
We have no minimums on custom shirts
Our in-house design team handles your artwork
We use top quality materials and premium inks
We produce every order in-house from start to finish
Our team brings 40+ years of combined experience
We welcome rush orders with fast turnaround

Top 5 Percent Will Handle Your Digital Vinyl Shirts Needs, Same Day

Overview of Services:

Same day turnaround available on most orders
Business signage, yard signs, and banners made in-house
Quality workmanship and satisfaction guaranteed on every order

Founded in 2017, Top 5 Percent - Serving Joliet, Plainfield, Romeoville, Bolingbrook, Lockport, Shorewood, Channahon, Minooka, New Lenox, Mokena, Frankfort, Homer Glen, Lemont, Naperville, Aurora, Oswego, Yorkville, Crest Hill, and the greater Chicagoland area. Friendly, reliable service. (815) 349-8600

5 Stars!

"We needed full color logos on shirts for our business and Top 5 Percent delivered. The colors matched our branding perfectly and the shirts looked incredibly professional."

— Dominique R.

Full Color Designs on Any Shirt

Full color digital vinyl shirts pressed in Joliet Illinois

Digital vinyl printing lets us put full color, photo quality artwork directly onto shirts, hoodies, hats, and other garments, making it one of the most versatile methods in our custom apparel shop. The process starts with your design being printed in full color onto a special printable vinyl film, cut to shape and heat pressed onto the garment, much like our DTF transfers but with a slightly thicker hand feel and the ability to work on any fabric regardless of type. The result is a finish that holds every color, gradient, and fine detail in your original artwork.

Standard cut vinyl works great for simple one or two color designs made up of solid shapes and text. Digital vinyl opens up a much wider range of creative possibilities because there are no limits on the number of colors and no need to separate artwork into individual layers. For businesses with detailed brand marks or artists creating custom apparel, digital vinyl is the clear choice, and our design team can help build your artwork to get the most out of the process.

Top 5 Percent produces digital vinyl shirts for customers throughout Joliet, Shorewood, Crest Hill, Rockdale, and all of Will and DuPage County. Call us at (815) 349-8600 to talk about your design, or stop by 121 Springfield Avenue in Joliet.

Digital Vinyl Hoodies and Sweatshirts

Custom digital vinyl hoodies with full color artwork in Joliet and Shorewood Illinois

Digital vinyl hoodies give you the same photographic quality as digital vinyl shirts but on the heavier, more comfortable canvas of a pullover or zip-up hoodie, a popular option for corporate wear packages that include both shirts and outerwear. We press digital vinyl designs onto pullover hoodies, zip-up hoodies, crewneck sweatshirts, and fleece jackets for individuals, groups, and businesses throughout Joliet, Will and DuPage County. A hoodie with a detailed full color graphic makes a bold statement that stands apart from standard embroidered or screen printed apparel.

Digital vinyl on hoodies works especially well for brand logos that include gradients or photographic elements that would be difficult or expensive to reproduce through other methods. Embroidery can only approximate complex color artwork, and digital vinyl handles all of it in a single print and press cycle, which keeps production time and cost reasonable. For group orders that include both hoodies and spirit wear jerseys, we can coordinate designs across all garment types for a unified look.

We serve customers across Joliet, Shorewood, Plainfield, Romeoville, and the broader Chicagoland area. Whether you need one hoodie or a full set for your team, we are ready to help. Call (815) 349-8600 to get started on your digital vinyl hoodie order.

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Digital Vinyl on Hats, Caps, and More

Custom digital vinyl hats and caps in Joliet, Will and DuPage County Illinois
Bold full color digital vinyl shirts in Joliet Illinois

Digital vinyl is not limited to flat garments, and our custom apparel shop in Joliet can press digital vinyl onto hats, caps, beanies, bags, and other accessories. A hat with a full color logo looks sharp and professional and is a popular item for corporate wear packages where businesses want to outfit their team with branded headwear. For events, digital vinyl hats let you put an intricate event design on headwear without the color restrictions that come with embroidery or other hat decoration methods.

We also use digital vinyl for shirts and hoodies where bold neon colors, vivid artwork, or photographic content is part of the design. If you are creating merchandise for a band, an artist, or a reunion group with complex artwork, digital vinyl gives you the production flexibility to do it right without requiring large minimum orders. You can order as few as one piece and get the same photographic quality on every item we press.

Bring your design to us or let us help you develop something from scratch. We have an in-house design team ready to work with you on artwork that will look great pressed in digital vinyl on any garment you choose. Call (815) 349-8600 or visit 121 Springfield Avenue in Joliet.

Business Branding and Event Merchandise

Custom digital vinyl zip-up hoodies and branded apparel in Joliet Illinois

Businesses throughout Joliet, Shorewood, and Will and DuPage County choose digital vinyl apparel when they want to put a full color logo on uniforms, giveaways, or branded merchandise, making it a popular companion to our corporate wear programs. Digital vinyl is one of the few decoration methods that can reproduce the full complexity of a brand identity system, including gradient fills and multi-tone color palettes, without compromise. Your brand looks exactly the way it should on every garment that leaves our shop, and our logo design team can help if you need your artwork built from scratch before production.

Event organizers and merchandise sellers also rely on digital vinyl for items where the artwork is too complex for standard vinyl or where the event calls for a premium, detailed look. Concert shirts, tournament gear, memorial shirts, and fundraiser merchandise all benefit from the photographic quality digital vinyl provides. Check out our promotional items to pair your digital vinyl apparel with branded mugs, tote bags, and giveaways for a complete event package.

We are here to help businesses, teams, organizations, and individuals throughout Will and DuPage County and the Chicagoland area create apparel that represents them well. Call us at (815) 349-8600 or stop by 121 Springfield Avenue in Joliet to place your digital vinyl apparel order.

5 Reasons to Choose Digital Vinyl for Your Apparel

Digital vinyl printing is one of the most versatile and capable apparel decoration methods available today. It bridges the gap between simple cut vinyl and more complex print methods like dye sublimation, giving you photographic quality on a wide range of garments without fabric-type restrictions. We have been producing digital vinyl apparel for customers throughout Joliet, Shorewood, Crest Hill, and Will and DuPage County since 2017. Here are five reasons why digital vinyl might be the right choice for your next apparel order.

Full color digital vinyl shirts and apparel made in Joliet, Will and DuPage County Illinois

Full Color With No Color Limits

Standard cut vinyl limits you to solid colors, and screen printing requires a separate screen for every color in your design, which gets expensive quickly for complex artwork. Digital vinyl has no color limits. Your design is printed in full color on the vinyl film before it is applied to the garment. That means gradients, shadows, photographic images, and artwork with dozens of colors all come out exactly as intended. If your design has detail that other methods struggle to reproduce, digital vinyl handles it without compromise, making it an excellent partner for layered glitter or rhinestone designs on the same garment.

Photo Quality on Any Garment

Digital vinyl printing produces sharp, photographic quality output that looks great at close range and at a distance. Fine lines, small text, detailed logos, and photographic imagery all reproduce clearly. This is a significant advantage over embroidery, which approximates fine detail with thread and cannot render smooth color transitions, making digital vinyl the better choice for complex brand marks and photographic designs.

No Minimum Orders

Digital vinyl is cut and pressed piece by piece, which means there are no minimum order quantities. You can order a single shirt with a complex full color design and the cost per piece is still very reasonable. This makes digital vinyl a practical choice for one-off custom pieces, sample orders, memorial items, personalized gifts, and small batch reunion shirt orders where ordering a large quantity is not practical or necessary.

Works on Dark and Light Fabrics

Because digital vinyl is printed on a film and then applied to the garment, it works equally well on dark and light colored fabrics, unlike dye sublimation which only works on white or very light polyester. Digital vinyl lets you press a full color design onto a black shirt, a navy hoodie, or any dark colored garment and have the colors show up exactly as intended. That versatility makes digital vinyl a strong choice when your design needs to go onto the full spectrum of corporate wear uniform colors your team might wear.

Durable and Long Lasting

Digital vinyl printed and pressed with professional equipment holds up well through regular washing and wearing. We use quality printable vinyl and calibrate our press settings to ensure full adhesion on every garment. With proper care, digital vinyl designs stay looking sharp for the life of the garment. We include care instructions with every order so you know how to keep your apparel in great condition, and our same-day service makes reordering fast when you need replacements.

We are a veteran owned custom apparel shop in Joliet, Illinois, proud to help local businesses, organizations, and individuals create apparel that truly represents their brand. We serve customers throughout Joliet, Shorewood, Crest Hill, Rockdale, Plainfield, and all of Will and DuPage County, and we pair our custom apparel with custom signs and promotional products for businesses that want a complete branded presence from shirts to storefront.

Call us at (815) 349-8600 or stop by 121 Springfield Avenue in Joliet to talk about your digital vinyl apparel order. We can also add glitter or rhinestone accents to your digital vinyl design for a layered specialty finish.

5 Stars!

"The digital vinyl shirts we ordered for our event looked incredible. Every detail in our logo came through perfectly. Could not be happier with the result."

— Priya K.

The Top 5 Percent Difference

Why Choose Us?

01

Veteran Owned

Proudly serving our community with the same honor, dedication, and discipline we brought to service.

02

Premium Quality

Only the finest materials and equipment for lasting results you can be proud of.

03

Fast Turnaround

Quick production times without cutting corners. Rush orders available when you need it now.

04

Local Service

Based in Joliet, IL with hands-on service. Stop by our shop or order online with confidence.

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Digital Vinyl Printing

Full Color Designs on Any Garment

Digital vinyl lets us put photographic quality, full color artwork on shirts, hoodies, hats, and more. See how Top 5 Percent creates digital vinyl apparel for businesses and individuals in Joliet, IL.

Digital Vinyl Printing in Joliet, IL

Digital Vinyl FAQs

Digital vinyl printing is a process where your design is printed in full color onto a special vinyl film, which is then cut to shape and heat pressed onto a garment. It allows photographic quality and unlimited colors on shirts, hoodies, hats, and more.

Standard cut vinyl is a solid color film cut into shapes. Digital vinyl is printed in full color before being applied, which allows gradients, photos, and complex multi-color artwork that standard cut vinyl cannot produce.

Yes. Because the design is printed on a film and then applied to the garment, digital vinyl works on dark and light colored fabrics alike. Your colors will show up clearly regardless of the shirt color underneath.

No. We press digital vinyl orders starting from a single piece. There are no minimum order requirements, making it a great option for custom one-off items, samples, and small batch orders.

With proper care, digital vinyl holds up well through years of regular washing. We recommend washing inside out in warm water and avoiding high heat in the dryer to keep the design looking its best.

We prefer vector files such as AI, EPS, or PDF for the sharpest results. High resolution PNG or JPG files also work well. If you only have a low resolution file, contact us and we can discuss your options.

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