Artwork
Sending your logo
Send us your logo and we’ll silk screen, heat transfer, embroider, pad print or laser it onto any promotional product. Here’s how to get it to us ready to print.
Checked as you upload
Every upload box on this site checks your file as you add it: whether it’s sharp enough at the size it will print, whether a background would print as a box around it, and whether fades and thin lines will hold up on the garment or the material.
When something needs a fix, the fix is right there, usually one click: clear the background, redraw it as sharp shapes, make fades solid, or use fewer colors. Your first file is kept, so you can undo any fix, or have our artist redraw it instead.
- What you can addPNG, JPG, SVG, PDF or Illustrator files up to 50 MB. A picture from your phone is fine.
- EPS filesAdd them too. We can’t draw them on screen, so we check them on your proof.
- Photoshop, TIFF or CorelDRAWEmail them to us, or attach them when we reply to your order or quote request.
- Checking is freeSo is your proof. Nothing is made until you approve it.
Submission guidelines
- Preferred format
- EPS
- Other formats
- Adobe Illustrator (.AI), Adobe Photoshop (.PSD), PDF, TIFF, uncompressed JPEG, CorelDRAW
- Color mode
- RGB
- Platform
- PC
General
- Use Pantone solid colors to create your art, and reference standard Plastisol colors for screen printing.
- Give us either the width or the height you want. Artwork stays in proportion when it’s enlarged or reduced.
- Label your artwork with your name, the placement (front, back, left chest, sleeve and so on) and the colors.
Vector art
- Include all fonts, or save them as curves or outlines.
- Free-standing lines should be at least 2 points thick.
Photo art
- Images need to be at least 300 dpi at 100% size.
- Embed all fonts, or save them as curves or outlines.
- For a one-color design, make the color black (grayscale or bitmap).
- For several colors, put each color on its own layer.
- Don’t flatten the image unless it’s one color with no background.
Screen printing questions
How large should my logo be?
There are no set standards: this is art, and it’s all very subjective. Print your image on paper in a few sizes, for example 6, 8 and 10 inches wide. Hold each one where you want it on the garment, on a person rather than a shirt laid flat on a table, so you see how it looks when someone wears it.
Word, Excel and PowerPoint files
We accept them, but they aren’t ready artwork. We can’t make color separations from them, so they need our design services first.
Photoshop images in Illustrator
When you place an image made in Photoshop into Adobe Illustrator, don’t enlarge it there. Resizing changes its resolution: a 300 dpi file enlarged 300% becomes 100 dpi. Images made for the internet are usually 72 dpi, too low to print well on a t-shirt.
Your garment’s color
Think about the color of the garment when you send your artwork, and place your art on a background of that color. Artwork is separated differently for different garment colors.