Workwear and uniforms
Your logo on crew shirts, hi-vis, jackets and corporate polos, embroidered or printed in our own shop in northeast Calgary. Standard turnaround is three business days from artwork approval, and when a new crew starts on Monday there is a 24 hour rush.
Two short steps, with no account and no obligation.
Why CanCorp
Workwear is bought on a deadline. Somebody is starting on site next week, a contract needs the logo on every jacket, or the office wants matching polos for a trade show, and the order has to arrive right the first time.
Our standard turnaround is three business days from the moment you approve the artwork, and a 24 hour rush is there for the weeks when a start date cannot move.
Because the work is done in our own shop rather than sent out, the date we give you is a date we control, which is the part that matters when a crew is waiting on it.
A heavy canvas jacket, a mesh hi-vis vest and a cotton crew shirt do not take a logo the same way. Embroidery suits jackets, polos and caps, while screen printing and DTF suit large back prints and lighter fabrics.
We run all of these in one workroom, so the recommendation follows the garment. One order can mix them, and you deal with one shop and one invoice.
Embroidery needs your logo turned into a stitch file, which we digitize in house. Once it exists we keep it, along with your thread colours and placements.
That is what makes the single new-hire jacket in March look exactly like the forty that went out in September, without anybody having to dig out the original artwork.
If your company already buys workwear from a supplier, or has a stock of blank jackets in the back, send them in and we will decorate them.
If you would rather we supply the garments, we will put options in front of you, including Under Armour on a direct account for office and client-facing staff.
Who we outfit
Bulk orders and steady reorders, set up so the whole team looks like one company.
Crew shirts, hoodies, softshells and winter jackets for general contractors, roofers, electricians, plumbers and landscapers, with the company logo and crew names where you want them.
Hi-vis vests, shirts and jackets with logo placement chosen with you. If your site calls for a particular class of high-visibility garment, say so in the form and we will confirm what we can supply before we quote.
Polos, quarter-zips, fleece and outerwear for offices, dealerships and front-of-house staff, chosen so people wear them after work rather than leaving them in a locker.
Work shirts, coveralls and aprons for shops, warehouses, kitchens and service vans, decorated to stand up to the wash cycle they will actually get.
How it runs
Workwear is harder on decoration than a t-shirt. These are the four decisions we make with you before the run starts.
Stitched logos last as long as the garment and look the part on a softshell, a canvas jacket or a polo. We digitize the logo for each fabric, because a file built for a heavy jacket will pucker on a light polo. Our embroidery page covers the detail.
A large company name across the back of a hoodie or a hi-vis vest is usually better printed than stitched. Screen printing is the economical route once a run is large and the colours are few, and DTF handles full-colour logos on a handful of pieces.
Logo placement is chosen with the customer and confirmed on a mock-up before production.
Name bars, departments, numbers, positions and titles can be imprinted on individual garments. Your stitch files and placements are kept, so an embroidered reorder, even a single new-hire piece, matches the first batch.
How it works
Start with the garment, the quantity and where the logo goes. You do not need finished artwork at this stage, because a sketch or a photo of an old print tells us enough to price the work, and we come back with garment options, pricing and a schedule.
Choose from the brands we carry, or send in garments you already own. Both routes run through the same workroom, and neither one is treated as the awkward exception.
Before anything goes onto a machine we confirm the placement, the size and the colours with you, and nothing runs until you have said yes to what you are looking at.
The work is made at Bay 1 on 35 Avenue NE, so you can collect it here in Calgary once it is finished, or we will ship it out to you.
Questions
Decoration is as low as $3.50 a piece when you supply the garment. When we supply it, the price follows the jacket, vest or shirt you choose.
Beyond that, it depends on the size of the logo, the method and how many pieces are in the order. A left-chest logo on a polo and a full back print on a winter jacket are different jobs and price differently.
Tell us the garments and the quantity through the form and you will get real numbers back rather than a range.
Standard turnaround is three business days from artwork approval, and if you need the order sooner than that, a 24 hour rush is available.
The schedule depends on the garments being in stock and on how quickly you approve the mock-up. If the crew starts on a fixed date, put it in the message and we will tell you straight away whether it is workable.
Yes, and it is a normal way to work here. Jackets from your current supplier, blank shirts in the stock room, last year's uniforms that need a new logo: send them in and we will decorate them.
Tell us the garment and the fabric when you get in touch, because canvas, softshell, mesh and waterproof fabrics each need the job set up differently.
Yes. Logo placement is chosen with you and confirmed on a mock-up before production. If your site requires a particular class of high-visibility garment, name it in the form and we will confirm what we can supply, and where the logo can go, before we quote.
Embroidery is the usual choice for jackets, polos and caps, because it looks professional and lasts as long as the garment. Screen printing suits big back prints on larger orders, and DTF suits full-colour logos and short runs, including lightweight fabrics.
If you are not sure, say so in the form and we will recommend a method for each garment.
Yes. Name bars, departments, numbers, positions and titles can be imprinted on individual garments in the same order. List them in the message and we will include them in the quote.
Your stitch files and placements are kept on file, and there is no minimum on embroidery, so a single embroidered jacket can be ordered later and it will match the rest of the crew. For printed pieces, tell us the quantity and we will confirm it.
CanCorp is in its fifteenth year under the current owner, and the embroidery side is older still, because it grew out of JBM Embroidery, which has been running in Calgary since 1996.
We are at Bay 1, 2320 35 Avenue NE in Calgary, and you are welcome to drop garments off, look at samples and pick orders up. Call 403-536-0759 before you come so that the right person is on the floor when you arrive.
Next step
We will come back with garment options, pricing and a production schedule. A photo of the logo is enough to start with.
