EXPO HALL · LIVE STATION · DOORS OPEN
Merch Troop brings the presses, the crew, and the blanks to your conference. Attendees pick a design, watch it printed, and walk the hall wearing your brand — while your team works a line that never stops forming.
Attendees will cross the hall for a free shirt being printed in front of them. The queue itself becomes signage: a visible line signals your booth is worth a look, and every person waiting is a captive two-to-four minute conversation for your sales team.
Pre-printed giveaways end up in hotel trash cans. A garment an attendee chose — their size, their colorway, pressed while they watched — gets worn on the flight home. Full-color DTF transfers mean photo-quality art, not one-color compromises.
Selling a title sponsor on a lanyard logo is hard. Selling them the official merch station — their mark on every shirt, their name announced at the queue — is easy. We regularly co-brand stations so organizers recover most of the station cost from a single sponsorship tier.
Crew arrives with presses, dryers, and boxed blanks. We handle dock scheduling, carts, and venue paperwork you forward to us.
Test prints on every press, art files staged by design, sizes racked so the line moves. Your booth staff gets a 10-minute walkthrough.
Expo opens. One crew member runs intake and sizing, the rest keep presses moving at 60–80 pieces an hour each through the morning rush.
The biggest waves hit between sessions. We stage popular sizes ahead of the break so the queue clears before the next keynote starts.
Teardown, floor sweep, and a count of pieces printed by design — a number your team can put straight into the post-show recap.
Two-press station at an evening reception in Century City — 500+ shirts in sponsor colorways before the dinner bell.
Read the breakdownA patch bar on the expo concourse that kept a four-deep line through every session break at the LA Convention Center.
Read the breakdownMezzanine print station where attendees queued past the escalators — the organizer moved us to a bigger footprint by day two.
Read the breakdownSend the show name, dates, city, and expected attendance. We come back with a station format, a printed-piece estimate, and a flat quote — usually within one business day.
Prefer to talk it through? Call (562) 614-4800.