Textile Printing Services in Turkey

Textile printing services are two different jobs: piece printing, which prints a specific place on cut parts or finished products (T-shirts, sweatshirts, jerseys), and printing fabric by the meter on the roll before cutting; this category lists the workshops and companies that do them. A comparison of methods is in our textile printing methods guide; this page is about choosing a company, not a method. Companies that sell printing ink, print paste and DTF consumables are in the textile printing inks category; companies that sell or service printing machines are listed under textile printing machines. For logos worked in thread, see embroidery companies.

Questions for garment (piece) printing

In garment printing the design goes in a specific place on a cut part or a finished product. Ask the workshop:

• Method: which methods are done in-house and which are outsourced? Have the method and the ink or film system written in the quote.
• Set-up items: are screen or film charges separate? Are the screens kept for repeat orders?
• Wastage and quality control: how many extra pieces are needed for misprints? How are registration and color consistency checked?
• Flow of the parts: number the cut pieces going to print by ply and size to prevent mix-ups. The parts travel to the workshop and back, so add the shipping time to your lead time; the province filter shows nearby workshops.

Questions for yardage (fabric) printing

Yardage printing is done on rolls of fabric before cutting; rotary, flat-bed screen and industrial digital printing belong to this group. Rotary printing uses perforated cylindrical screens and is a yardage method used for long runs.

In the Industry Database of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), 235 of the 639 firms with a valid capacity report for printing services on fabrics and textile articles (product code 13.30.14) are in Istanbul, 154 in Bursa and 75 in Tekirdağ (October 2026). The code's sub-items describe printing on woven and knitted fabric, so do not read the figure as the distribution of garment (piece) printing shops. Facilities without a capacity report are not counted.

Ask the company:

• Minimum length: what is the shortest length accepted for one design?
• Design preparation: does your design need cylinder or screen preparation, and is its charge a separate line in the quote?
• Samples and short runs: is digital printing available for samples or short runs? If the sample is printed digitally and the bulk by rotary, approve the difference in appearance between the two at the start.

In both jobs, ask for fabric compatibility, samples and test reports

• Fabric compatibility: state the fiber content and fabric type; ask the company to show a sample printed on the same fabric.
• Sample: approve a sample printed on your actual fabric, before and after washing.
• Tests and documents: can the company provide, or have done, wash and rubbing fastness reports to the ISO 105 series (ISO 105-C06, ISO 105-X12)? For inks and chemicals, ask for an OEKO-TEX ECO PASSPORT certificate or the ZDHC MRSL conformance level.
• Durability: write your expectation not as "number of washes" but as a test standard and a wash program.

Method, quantity, color count and print area set the printing price

The method, quantity, number of colors, size of the print area, fabric type and set-up items determine the price. Which method is economical at which quantity depends on the job, so get quotes from at least two companies on the same specification. A CMT (cut, make, trim) sewing fee generally does not include printing; printing is done in a separate workshop and priced separately.