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Cortland, New York · Since 1984

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

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The work

Kits, 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.

A TC Panthers lacrosse program — a Nike hooded sweatshirt, a green quarter-zip jacket with a sleeve number, and a long sleeve tee, each carrying the same embroidered and printed team mark
TC Panthers Lacrosse — printed and embroidered program
A men's sublimated lacrosse club kit — a white reversible pinnie with a 10th Mountain Lacrosse crest and a sunset-gradient mountain design on the reverse
Sublimated reversible club kit
2019 NCAA Wrestling Championships design for Cornell University — a Pittsburgh skyline inside a shield above a bear mascot
NCAA Wrestling Championships — drawn in-house
Three baseball players in green and white Vikings raglan jerseys and matching caps
Team raglans and caps
An Under Armour reversible basketball kit in orange and white with a Tigers mark and player numbers
Reversible basketball kit
Three panels of football action — a quarterback throwing, a receiver catching, a running back breaking through the line
Friday nights, in gear we printed
A Carhartt workwear program — an olive hooded sweatshirt, a black pocket tee and a brown knit beanie, each carrying the same decorated company mark
Carhartt crew workwear program
Cold Brook Lacrosse Lake Placid design — a stag head above collegiate lettering, printed on orange
Cold Brook Lacrosse — Lake Placid
Concierge programs

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Who wears it

Four rooms, four different problems.

Names on the racks

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
46 Elm Street

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.

The Graph-Tex facility at 46 Elm Street in Cortland, New York — a white painted brick building with the red Graph-Tex oval above the sales office entrance
46 Elm Street, Cortland — art, screen printing, and embroidery
A 1995 newspaper advertisement — Graph-Tex, dedicated to the lacrosse community, quality screen printing on quality sportswear, 24 Court St, Cortland NY
Newspaper advertisement, 1995 — from the company archive
The whole story
  1. 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.

  2. 24 Court Street

    The shop moves to 24 Court Street and grows to six employees.

  3. 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.

  4. Embroidery comes in-house

    An embroidery department is added, turning a screen printing shop into a full decorating house.

Also ours

Two more doors in Cortland.

Geared 2 Sports

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
Hours
Mon–Fri 10–6 · Sat 10–2
The store
GTX Lacrosse Supply

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.