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Luxury metallic finish with reflective gold and silver accents at $0.12/sq inch
4 x 4
$1.92
8 x 8
$7.68
11 x 11
$14.52
14 x 12
$20.16
Wholesale rate of $0.12/sq in, held on every unit of every order.
Gold and Silver Foil DTF Transfers create a premium metallic finish that elevates apparel, accessories, and promotional products. The foil is printed as its own transfer, so the metallic areas land exactly where your artwork says they should.
HOW IT WORKS. You receive a printed foil transfer. If your whole design is metallic, that is the only transfer you need: press it once and you are done.
IF ONLY PART OF YOUR DESIGN IS METALLIC, it is TWO transfers and TWO files. One file holds ONLY the metallic areas, with the full color removed. The second file holds the full-color CMYK areas with the metallic areas removed.
WHAT SIZE TO MAKE THEM. If the metallic sits INSIDE your artwork (metallic text, metallic accents), export both files on the SAME canvas at the SAME size and move nothing. That is the easiest way to get exact registration: the foil lands precisely where it belongs. If instead the metal OUTLINES the design or extends past the color, the two are genuinely different sizes. Size each file to its own artwork. Each half is priced on its own square inches.
PRESS THE FOIL FIRST, THEN THE CMYK ON TOP. That order is not a preference, it is the only one you can actually line up: the gold and silver are opaque, so once foil is down you cannot see through it to place anything. The CMYK transfer is translucent, so you can see the foil underneath it and position it accurately.
Priced at $0.12/sq inch for the foil, with the CMYK portion billed at the standard DTF rate of $0.06/sq inch. The two halves are quoted separately, on their own dimensions, and appear as two lines in your cart. No minimum order.
Golden Reprint Guarantee
If we mis-produce your order, we reprint free. No forms, no back and forth. Same production line, same quality target, every time.
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Order by 1 PM ET for same-day print. VIP members get the 3 PM ET cutoff.
Live Configurator
Drop your design
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PNG, JPG, SVG, or WebP up to 14" wide. AI/PSD/PDF: export as PNG first.
Upload multiple designs, each with its own size and quantity
Sadie says: I'll press it same-dayDrop your artwork. We check every file automatically the moment it lands.
100% Quality Guarantee : defects get reprinted free, no questions asked.
Ships in 24 hours
Same-day print by 1 PM
Free Shipping $49+
US ground, tracked on every order
Reprint Promise
We mis-produce it, we reprint it, free
No account setup, no minimums, no waiting on a quote email. Every order runs the same production line at the same wholesale rate.
Upload a PNG, JPG, or PDF. The configurator auto-detects the print area and quotes the wholesale rate on the spot.
Commercial DTF printers, calibrated daily. Same color match on run 1 or run 100. Orders placed by cutoff ship the same business day.
Standard heat press at 300 to 325°F, 10 to 15 seconds, medium firm pressure. Rated 50+ wash cycles at 40°C (104°F).
Every Golden DTF transfer is calibrated to press on a standard commercial heat press. If you can press a screen-printed transfer, you can press a Golden DTF.
Temp
300 to 325°F
Time
10 to 15 sec
Pressure
Medium firm
Peel
Warm
Every decorator category below runs Golden DTF on their production floor. Same wholesale rate, same 24 hour ship, no minimums.
Common Applications
Industries That Order This
Every image below came off a Golden DTF sheet ordered through this same configurator.
Nothing hidden, nothing padded. This is exactly what ships when you check out.
Need a spec confirmed for your press? Email [email protected] and we will send you a validated sample.
Sadie has been quality-checking every print run since day one. If a sheet does not meet the mark, it never leaves the door. If somehow one does, we reprint it free, no forms, no fine print.
Ships in 24 Hours
Every order printed and dropped with the carrier the same business day it enters production. Free ground shipping over $49.
Golden Standard Color
Commercial USA-made inks calibrated daily. Order 10 or 10,000, the color matches the last run.
One Wholesale Rate
Priced at $0.12 per square inch, no minimums, no coupons, no application. What you see on the configurator is the price you pay at checkout.
Reprint Promise
If a transfer fails to lay flat, cracks in the wash, or ships with a defect, send us a photo. We reprint it free within 24 hours.
If your customer sits in one of these categories, this is the transfer to quote them. If not, scroll to the alternatives below.
Boutique apparel brands running short retail drops where the price point supports a premium finish.
Bridal, bachelorette, and anniversary decorators where metallic branding is what the customer is paying for.
Corporate anniversary and awards programs building milestone apparel in low volume.
Concert and tour merch shops where a foil detail lifts a $28 tee to a $45 tour tee.
Small clothing brands testing a limited edition SKU before committing to screen-printed foil at volume.
This is where we tell you not to buy. If any of these fit your program, the alternative in the callout is the smarter quote.
Photographic or gradient designs
Foil prints as one flat metallic with no tonal range. Gradient and photorealistic art has nothing to resolve into once the color is stripped out of the foil file.
Full CMYK for photo-real work.
High-abrasion workwear and children's play clothing
Foil is a laminate. It survives 40-plus wash cycles under normal care, but it will scuff and shed on a hoodie that gets dragged through a jungle gym.
Same fabrics, more durable ink layer.
Tiny reversed text and hairline detail
Anything under 1.5 pt stroke weight is too thin to hold a clean metallic edge. Fine detail cracks or fills in.
Raised UV holds fine detail with dimensional relief.
The metallic areas are printed as their own DTF transfer. A fully metallic design is one transfer pressed once. A design with metallic accents on full-color artwork is two transfers, foil pressed first and CMYK pressed on top. Best on cotton and other fabrics that take the full 338F press. Heat sensitive blends run under a lower ceiling and give a softer, less reflective metallic.
Presses cleanly on
Ringspun cotton, 4.3 to 6 oz weight
Boutique retail tees, the target market for foil.
Cotton/poly blends and tri-blends
Fashion tees and heather colors where a metallic accent pops.
Cotton fleece hoodies and crew sweatshirts
Bachelorette and anniversary programs, where the finish is the story.
Avoid or approach with care
Textured surfaces like French terry face or knit ribs
The metallic layer cannot conform to the surface, coverage goes broken.
Water-repellent polyester shells
Adhesive skips on the DWR coating and the foil peels within a few washes.
Standard DTF construction with the metallic finish printed into the transfer itself. Nothing is laid over the design at the press.
Layer stack: printed metallic face, white underbase where the garment calls for it, polyamide adhesive on the fabric side.
Foil colors: gold and silver are stock. Rose gold, copper, holographic, and prism are available on 24 to 48 hour lead time.
Press cycle: 300 to 315°F, 12 to 15 seconds, medium to firm pressure, cold peel.
Two-transfer designs: foil goes down first, CMYK presses on top of it. Foil is opaque, CMYK is translucent, so that is the only order you can register.
Durability: 40-plus wash cycles cold, inside-out, tumble low, no fabric softener.
The foil finish sits slightly proud of the fabric surface. After the re-press it settles to a slightly matte metallic rather than a wet mirror, which is the durable state and not a defect. Hand is softer than a screen-printed foil at the same age.
Weight
Similar hand to standard DTF plus a fine metallic laminate
Hand
Smooth reflective face, no texture
Stretch
5% garment stretch is the safe ceiling before hairline cracking
Peel
Cold peel on the foil transfer, 20 to 30 seconds to cool before lifting the carrier. A CMYK transfer pressed over it follows standard DTF peel.
Every decoration decision is a tradeoff. Here is how this product stacks up against the products you would compare it to in a quote conversation.
Alternative
You want full CMYK color and photographic detail. Foil is a solid-fill effect.
View CustomAlternative
You want the premium hand and dimension of embroidery on retail apparel. Foil is flat luxury, faux is dimensional luxury.
View FauxbroideryAlternative
You want a rubberized raised branding effect for a full retail apparel program, not a single-drop metallic accent.
View LuxuryThese are the recurring jobs behind the orders we see for this product. Not marketing filler, actual production programs.
Bridal and bridesmaid tees, tanks, and robes
Bachelorette weekend drop programs
Anniversary, milestone birthday, and reunion apparel
Boutique retail tees with a metallic logo accent
Concert and tour merch upgrade tier
Corporate anniversary and award-recognition apparel
Holiday-drop retail apparel with metallic accent artwork
Small clothing brand hype drops running under 200 pieces
Each link jumps to that industry's hub with the full decoration workflow and program templates.
Foil works best with bold, chunky artwork. Send solid-fill designs or vector logos. If only part of the design is metallic, send it as two files rather than one tagged file. Each half is measured and quoted on its own square inches, so the two files do not have to be the same size.
File Specifications
Avoid these in artwork
Halftone gradients in the metallic areas
Text under 12 pt with foil applied
Overlapping metallic colors, each metallic color is its own transfer and its own press
Cropping or repositioning either file after the canvases have been matched, the two transfers stop lining up
Cross-linked products, buying guides, and industry pages so you never have to leave the site to make the call.
Frequently Bought Together
Foil is a premium ask. These three are how you build the pitch and press it right.
“For the color art that lives underneath the foil hit. Foil is an accent, not the whole design.”
“Foil in a photo does not sell. Foil in the hand closes the order.”
“Prefer this instead when the customer wants embossed-feel branding on premium goods.”
Combined total
from $39.25
Priced-by-size items open in their own page so you can size the art.
Recommended Alternatives
Here is what to grab instead, and why. We would rather send you to the right product than watch you bounce to a competitor to compare.
Luxury Branding Transfers
from $0.75/sq in
Best for premium boutique and retail apparel programs
Prefer this if the customer is branding premium goods. Luxury transfers have a heavier, embossed hand.
Custom DTF Transfers by Size
from $0.06/sq in
Best for short-run apparel and full-color designs
Choose this if the design does not need metallic. Standard DTF is 60% cheaper for full-color art.
Fauxbroidery (Embroidery-Style) DTF Transfers
from $0.55/sq in
Best for embroidery shops and complex artwork
Prefer this if the customer asked for embroidery. Fauxbroidery gives the raised texture without the hoop time.
Every Golden DTF order carries the same written guarantee. Email us within 14 days with your order number and a photo, a production lead reviews it within one business day, and approved reprints ship free with tracking. You never re-upload and never re-pay.
If the printed transfer does not reproduce the file you uploaded, allowing for the difference between a backlit screen and printed ink, we reprint it. We calibrate our press against the same target ICC every day and keep a press log for every run.
White ink dropouts, thin black lines that did not lay down, or missing detail from a small text run: if it left our shop that way, we reprint it.
If the PET film separates before you press the transfer, that is a materials defect, not user error. We track film lot numbers per production run.
If our team packed the wrong artwork or produced at the wrong size, we cover the reprint plus the reship.
Upload your design, see your price by the square inch, and get your transfers on the truck the same business day.
