Artwork Guidelines
Screen Printing
The screen printing process for t-shirt printing requires a separate film positive and screen for each color and print location of your t-shirt design. A color separated file format of your artwork allows us to quickly output your design to film for print setup without having to re-create your design, thus reducing the potential for misspellings or other design errors during re-creation.
We use CorelDRAW® for all of our artwork separations and film outputs. The following is a list of vector file formats that we can open with our graphics software.
Please convert all fonts and strokes to curves or outlines.
*** Some Adobe Illustrater® .ai files may have to be exported as .eps or .pdf ***
CorelDRAW®
.cdr .eps .svg .pdf
Adobe Illustrator®
.ai .eps .svg .pdf
Canva Pro
.svg
Raster Files
.jpg, .jpeg, .png, .bmp, .tiff, .gif
Vector Files
.eps, .ai, .svg, .pdf
Embroidery
Setting up a design or logo for embroidery requires a digitized file that's manually generated using industry specific software. If you've had your design or logo embroidered before, likely you've paid for the digitized logo and should have access to those files. We use Wilcom® embroidery digitizing software and the native source file for this software is .emb. We utilize a Tajima® 4-head embroidery machine which requires a .dst file. We can use either file type if available.
If you've never had your logo or design embroidered before or you can't access your embroidery files, we can digitize your logo with an embroidery order. Since we will be recreating your logo or design using or Wilcom digitizing software, any image file will work. The following is a list of image file types that will work for embroidery digitizing.
DTG/DTF
The Direct-to-Garment and/or Direct-to-Film process utilizes a CMYK + White digital printer that prints directly on t-shirts or DTF film. We use a Brother GTX Pro® DTG printer and the optimum file type for this software is a high resolution transparent .png image file.
The following is a list of popular graphics software that can be used to generate quality print files for DTG/DTF digital printing