When you order uniforms with a logo, you're choosing between two decoration methods: embroidery and screen printing. Both work well — but they sit on the garment differently, and the right one depends on your logo, your fabric and how many pieces you're ordering.

Embroidery — the logo lives in the fabric

Embroidery stitches your logo directly into the material, so it sits in the fabric rather than on top of it. That makes it durable — it holds up to repeated washing and daily wear better than a printed mark — and it reads as more premium, which is why it's the default choice for corporate shirts, polos and blazers.

It works particularly well on thicker material — woven shirts, jackets, coveralls — where the stitch has something substantial to sit in. At GR Garments there's no setup charge for embroidery, so it's available from a single sample onward.

The trade-off is detail. A needle can only resolve so much: simple marks — a wordmark, a crest, a clean geometric logo — reproduce cleanly. Fine detail, thin gradients or small multi-colour artwork tend to lose definition once stitched. Embroidery comes in single colour and three colour.

Screen printing — better for artwork with more going on

Screen printing lays ink on top of the fabric through a stencil made per colour. That makes it the better choice for artwork embroidery can't hold — large graphics, photographic-style detail, gradients, or logos with more than three colours. It sits on the fabric rather than in it.

Because each design needs its own stencil made up before printing starts, there's a one-time setup charge per design. That cost is fixed regardless of how many pieces you print, so it matters more on a small run than a large one — see how many do you actually need? for how that plays out at different order sizes.

Both embroidery and screen printing are available on tees, polos and woven garments.

Choose this if…

Choose embroidery if your logo is a simple mark, you want the most durable and premium finish, or you're ordering a small batch — even a single sample — and don't want to absorb a setup cost.

Choose screen printing if your artwork is large, colourful, or has detail embroidery can't hold, and you're ordering enough pieces that the one-time setup cost spreads thin.

Either way, team pricing starts at 20 pieces — smaller orders and single samples are also possible.