Artwork

Artwork is the very essence of your design. Without the right quality nothing we do is going to make your design look like it should! For screen printed designs, we recommend vector artwork. For embroidery or transfers, we can use any file including raster images. Always send images through at 300dpi and preferably to the scale you need.

Vector files are images made of lines, fonts and shapes. They scale up and down without losing quality. For supplying vector artwork, any font that has been set must be converted to outlines. If the vector file contains any linked/placed raster images, these images must meet our minimum requirement for resolution when printed at 100% size. These must also be submitted with the original vector file. Convert all your colours to spot colour and choose Pantone® Coated colours where possible. See link in our ‘Resources’ for Pantone® Coated colours as a download.

Raster files are typically photographic and you might use Adobe Photoshop to make the design. All raster elements and art files must be sized at 100% or larger than the actual print size. All raster images must be 300dpi or more. All raster elements must be submitted in the original colour space. We recommend full colour graphics in RGB but if its been created in CMYK don’t convert it to RGB.

Art charges are usually only incurred where we create artwork from scratch or we are asked to modify existing artwork significantly. We will always let you know if artwork charges apply. Colour separating charges are usually included in the set up costs however if the artwork is particularly technical and requires significant time in separating the colours, artwork charges may be incurred.

Artwork is charged at $80 per hour.