This tool was developed so you can see how various garment colors and ink or thread colors look together. The garment color can be changed by clicking on the left colors and the screened or stitched colors can be changed by clicking on the colors to the right.
Select if the garment is to be screen printed or embroidered.
ARTWORK GUIDELINES AND TIPS FOR SCREEN PRINTING
Camera Ready Artwork:
Digital Artwork. Spot color or Process (CMYK) vector artwork should be done at actual size and saved as a CorelDraw (cdr) or Adobe Illustrator (ai) file on a PC (IBM) formatted floppy, Zip disk or any CD-R or CD-RW. All fonts should be converted to curves (Corel) or outlines (Illustrator) and saved -- or copies of each font involved in the design should be supplied as TTF files.
Bitmap or Raster images (like those typically done in Photoshop,) should be saved as a TIFF or PSD file with the resolution set no lower than 300 ppi. Multi-color images should be saved in RGB mode; for black and white images (non-greyscale) the bitmap mode - with the resolution set @600 ppi - works best. When providing digital artwork it's always a good idea to include a "hard copy" print-out of the design.
"Non-Digital" Artwork. Physical paper size should be no larger than 8.5 x 11 (letter.) Technical pens, or any pens using black India ink, work best for illustrations. Black markers - such as Sharpies - can be used, but they often times bleed and leave a fuzzy line. Black or red ball point pens can be used IF the lines are clean, solid and strong. Blue or green ball point pens and pencils should be avoided as much as possible (except for special "artistic" effects.) Here again, very fine or light lines should be avoided. Paper should be white and clean, without folds or staples. Stay away from any colored paper, especially on the red end of the spectrum. Whenever possible, provide us with artwork that is as close in physical size to the size you'd like the actual imprint to be. Small artwork sources, like business cards or stationary, rarely ever look good blown up.
"Ready To Burn" Artwork. You provide us with one clean film positive (or vellum) for each color in your design. Multi-color designs should be in perfect registration and have no extra-fine lines. Any halftones should be no more than 50 lines-per-inch and should not be outside a density range of 20% to 60%.
Your art files can be sent as attachments to an e-mail(everett@shirtz.com) or uploaded directly to our server(see left buttons) which is best for larger graphic files. If you have more questions about your art work please contact us.
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