Your name, on the thing people actually wear.
Uniforms, team gear, staff apparel and workwear — designed, printed and stitched inside one building on Elm Street since 1984.
- Printing since
- 1984
- Sq ft on Elm Street
- 30,000
- People
- 35+
- Pieces per run
- 6–10,000+
Screen printing · Embroidery · Design · Promo
Talk to a person · 1-800-417-7791Kits, crews and tournament art.
Forty-two years of it. Uniforms and travel suits, staff apparel and crew workwear, and the artwork underneath all of it — drawn here before anything is printed or stitched.








Four departments. One building.
Most decorators broker at least one of these out. When the art, the press and the embroidery machines sit on three different calendars, your delivery date is the thing that absorbs it.

Screen Printing
Ink on garment
In-house screen printing since the 1980s, from a single team's worth of shirts to ten thousand pieces.
- Running since
- 1980s
- Run range
- 6 – 10,000+ pieces

Embroidery
Thread on garment
A complete embroidery department running single-head, six-head, and twelve-head machines.
- Department since
- 1995
- Machines
- Single-head · six-head · twelve-head

Design & Art
Before anything is made
An in-house art staff that builds the concept first, then makes it printable and stitchable.
- Art staff
- In-house
- Starting point
- Finished art, a logo, or nothing at all

Promotional Products
Everything that is not a garment
Drinkware, bags, headwear, signage, awards, and giveaways, quoted alongside the apparel.
- Categories
- Drinkware · bags · headwear · signage · awards
- Catalog
- Live, searchable, thousands of items
You stop running the apparel.
A one-off order is a transaction. A program is a standing arrangement: a named account manager, your artwork and thread numbers held on file, and reorders that are a quantity rather than a project. This is what the monthly relationship actually buys.
Intake
The first conversation is not an order form. It is an account manager working out what the program actually has to do — who is wearing it, how often it gets replaced, what has gone wrong with it before, and what has to be true about it in four seasons.
We handle
Pulling garment options, building the artwork, proofing, and pricing the program as a whole.
You do
Tell us who wears it and when you need it.
The file
This is the part that makes everything after it fast. Once the art is approved it stops being an attachment somebody has to find. Your separations, your digitized file, your thread numbers, and your garment styles live on your account, and every reorder starts from them.
We handle
Approved artwork, separations, digitizing, thread colours, and garment styles held on file under your account.
You do
Approve it once.
Ordering
Some programs want a store their staff order from directly. Some want two buys a year and nothing in between. Some want the coordinator to call. The ordering method is set up around the organization rather than around what is convenient to run.
We handle
A private webstore, a standing order schedule, or a phone call to your account manager — whichever suits how your people actually order.
You do
Point your people at it.
Four rooms, four different problems.

Teams & Sports
Teams, clubs, schools, tournaments
The usual problem
The coach becomes the apparel coordinator, and spends the pre-season collecting sizes and money instead of coaching.
What we do about it
The program moves to a webstore and a file. Sizes come in through the store, artwork is already approved, and the reorder is a quantity rather than a project.

Restaurants & Hospitality
Front of house, kitchen, management
The usual problem
Turnover. A restaurant does not order once a year; it orders every time someone starts, and each of those is a small, urgent, annoying order.
What we do about it
A new-hire pack held on file. Same garment, same decoration, same sizes on the shelf — one phone call, or a store your GM orders from directly.

Workwear & Industrial
Crews, trades, hi-vis, outerwear
The usual problem
Workwear gets bought reactively, in ones and twos, from whoever has stock — so the crew ends up in four shades of the company colour.
What we do about it
A held program: fixed garments, fixed decoration, fixed thread colours. A reorder of two matches the rollout of two hundred.

Corporate & Institutions
Brands, health systems, universities
The usual problem
Every department orders its own apparel from a different vendor, and the logo comes back slightly wrong every time.
What we do about it
Brand control at the decorator. One digitized file, one set of thread numbers, one approved garment list — whoever inside the organization places the order.
Anything in here, decorated here.
Three live catalogs, open to browse. Find a style number, call it in, and it gets quoted against your quantity and your date — no account required to look.

SanMar
Apparel · outerwear · headwear · bags
The broadest apparel catalog Graph-Tex orders from — Port & Company, Sport-Tek, District, New Era, Nike, The North Face, Carhartt, Eddie Bauer, and OGIO.

alphabroder
Blanks · fleece · performance · promo apparel
Blanks and branded apparel at volume — Gildan, Next Level, Bella+Canvas, Comfort Colors, Champion, adidas, Under Armour, and Independent Trading Co.

Promotional Products
Drinkware · bags · tech · signage · awards
Everything that is not a garment — drinkware, bags, tech, signage, awards, and giveaways, searchable by item, colour, and quantity.
Cortland teams and national brands.
The same building runs a twelve-piece order for a travel team and a multi-site rollout for a national account. Neither one gets treated like the other one's overflow.
Athletics & education
- Syracuse University
- Army West Point
- IMG Academy
- NCAA
- Utica Comets
- YMCA
National brands
- Coca-Cola
- Amazon
- Benjamin Moore
- American Red Cross
- Pall
Health & institutions
- Guthrie
- Cayuga Medical Center
- Lime Hollow Nature Center
Central New York
- Byrne Dairy
- Ithaca Beer Co.
- Beak & Skiff Apple Orchards
- Greek Peak Mountain Resort
- Suit-Kote
- Mirabito
- Gutchess Lumber
- ADMAR
- McNeil & Co.
- Wadhams Enterprises
- Coffee Mania
Started with a used press.
Eight hundred square feet of rented second floor in 1984. Thirty thousand square feet and thirty-five people now, in a building the company has run out of since 2000.


A used press and 800 square feet
Graph-Tex opens in Cortland with a used manual press and 800 square feet of rented second-floor space, screen printing for local teams and businesses.
24 Court Street
The shop moves to 24 Court Street and grows to six employees.
Luker Road, and a storefront
A move to a 7,500 square foot facility on Luker Road. The same year, Geared 2 Sports opens as Cortland's hometown sporting goods store.
Embroidery comes in-house
An embroidery department is added, turning a screen printing shop into a full decorating house.
Two more doors in Cortland.

Cortland’s hometown sporting goods store since 1991, and a division of Graph-Tex. Equipment, footwear, and apparel for lacrosse, soccer, baseball, softball, basketball, football, and recreational sports.
- Address
- 24 Court Street, Cortland
- Phone
- 607-756-1875
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 10–6 · Sat 10–2

Built by Graph-Tex to sell custom lacrosse online — exclusive tees and hats through to men’s and women’s sticks, pads, helmets, and footwear.
Tell us what you need on it.
A quantity, a date, and whatever artwork you have. We will come back with garment options and a quote — not another form.

