Workwear embroidery can cost as little as £1.88 + VAT per product if you’re ordering 100 or more products. However, a single unit with a large design may cost considerably more than this. In short, the more you order the better your price. Even a small order of 5-10 makes a big difference in getting the best possible price. 

So you’re thinking of purchasing custom polo shirts for your business? We’d suggest keeping your design small and simple to get the best price. 

How much does it cost to add a logo vs text, for my personalised workwear?

Embroidering logos and text both cost similar amounts. Instead, the biggest factor in price is the size. A small logo will be cheaper than a single word across the back of a polo shirt.  No matter whether you want to add your company’s logo to your uniform or add job titles or names to your logo workwear, our online product designer allows you to do both with ease. Just upload your logo or simply type out the text you want added.

The level of intricacy that can be achieved with custom workwear is down to two primary factors: the quality of the embroidery digitisation, and the quality of the machinery used. 

At A.M. Custom Clothing, we use some of the most advanced machinery in Europe. Combined with years of expertise in digitising, this ensures we deliver the best results for your custom workwear.

If you’re looking for a left breast logo, then we recommend having your artwork 70-110mm wide, depending on how complex it is. On more intricate designs or ones with small text, a larger size will help us to capture more of those finer details. It will depend on exactly how you want to customise your uniform, but we can help if you have any questions.

The word ‘quality’ is somewhat subjective. Some may feel that a soft organic polo shirt is the best quality, others may think a heavyweight thick custom polo shirt is good quality, while someone else may prefer one that’s lightweight but durable. Ultimately, quality is more a test of whether the product fits your needs and desires.

With many different interpretations of the word ‘quality’ it’s usually easier to look at your priorities: is it garment weight, is it organic and sustainability credentials or is it something else?

For most people, these options will usually tick most boxes.

• Our most popular organic polo shirt
• Our most popular heavyweight polo shirt
• Our most popular polo shirt for uniforms

All of our products are manufactured to the same standards you’d expect from high street retailers, so you don’t have to worry about cheap embroidered polo shirts that feel scratchy.

Combined with our market-leading print and embroidery machinery, this means you can trust that your custom polo shirts will come out looking great when you buy from us.

We have a number of production sites across the UK, ensuring we’re as local as possible to our customers. So whether you need embroidered workwear in Glasgow, London, Leeds, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester or anywhere in the UK for that matter, we can help.

We also ship internationally, allowing us to provide workwear to larger companies with international offices and staff. Or to those who are based overseas.

All of our products can be purchased blank or with your logo applied to them. Whether you need black T-shirts to go under aprons in a restaurant, or unbranded hi-vis jackets for multiple use cases, we can help.

Both options can look great on personalised workwear, and in most instances, it’s entirely down to your personal preference. However, there are a few situations where one is better than the other.

When you should choose embroidered workwear 

Workwear caps, hats & beanies

Ever seen a woollen beanie with a print? No, that’s because print doesn’t really work on materials like this. For most hats, caps and beanies, embroidery will give you the best results.

Workwear fleece jackets

Whether you’re looking for standard fleece jackets or something more eco-friendly like our recycled fleece jackets, embroidery is the best option as print doesn’t stick to fleece materials.

When you should choose printed workwear

Waterproof jackets

When you add personalised embroidery to your products a needle is required to push threads in and out of the product to create your logo or design. As you can imagine, puncturing lots of holes into a waterproof fabric isn’t a great way to keep it waterproof. In instances like this printed workwear is often a better solution.

Personalised hi-vis

If you’re on a building site or involved in construction, custom printed hi-vis vests are essential. We typically recommend choosing print as print is better suited to the material and because your logo or text will stand out more.

Lightweight T-shirts

Large embroidered logos can be pretty heavy and this may feel a little uncomfortable on a lightweight T-shirt, in this instance, print is the best option.

Small orders

Print is typically most economical on small orders of workwear. That said, you don't need to be buying thousands for embroidery to work for you. Just increasing the order from 1 to 5 units can make a big difference in getting significant discounts.

Intricate designs

Got lots of gradients in your design or lots of very small and intricate details? These may get lost with embroidery. Thread is solid and thicker than ink pigments, so sometimes print is better for those complex designs.

Which is the cheapest option for my workwear?

Printing is typically more economical on smaller orders. However, on larger orders with designs that are multicoloured, embroidery can be the most economical option for you. If your design is just a single colour, printing will likely always be the cheapest option for your workwear clothing.

You might have noticed that most brands have their logo on the left breast (as worn). 

There is a long-winded history behind why this is, however, the important takeaway is that people typically remember a brand better if the logo is placed on the left. This is according to a study by the Nielsen Norman Group. For this reason, at least 89% of brands in the world choose to put the logo on the left.

If you're looking for workwear printed and embroidered in the UK, we can help. We have a number of production hubs across the UK, so whether you're in Chester, London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Bristol or anywhere in the UK we can help with your custom workwear.

If you’re looking to make your business more sustainable, organic embroidered polo shirts and workwear are a fantastic way to reflect your values and limit the impact that your uniforms have on the environment.

It’s also a great way to influence your company culture and integrate social value and your ESG goals into part of your supply chain.

What’s more, organic cotton is typically softer and more durable than conventional alternatives, so will last longer and feel nicer on your team.

Our organic cotton polo shirts are also our cheapest polo shirt, making swapping over to organic cotton a no-brainer.

We also stock recycled workwear options, alongside a wide array of other eco-friendly workwear, ensuring that your organisation can lead the way with sustainability

We offer a wide variety of recycled options, head this way to learn more about our recycled custom clothing and workwear