Acceptable Artwork Formats

Please review the guidelines below for providing artwork.

 

Vector Art
 Artwork that have one, two, three, or more solid areas of colours are referred to as spot colours. The best format to provide artwork is in a vector format. Each object in a vector format design can be individually selected and manipulated independently from the rest of the design. These are files that have been created in programs like Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Macromedia Freehand.
 IMPORTANT: All text in the design to be printed needs to be converted to outlines. We may not have the exact fonts used in your design in our font library. Converting all text to outlines, will prevent this from being an issue.
 TIP: In Adobe Illustrator select all text and choose the "Create Outlines" selection under the "Type" menu.
In Corel Draw select all text and choose the "Convert To Curves" selection under the "Arrange" menu.

 Acceptable Vector Art Formats
• Adobe Illustrator
• Corel Draw
• Macromedia Freehand

Raster Art
Designs that have photographic images, or complex colour schemes like those created in Photoshop need to be reproduced with 4 colour process printing. We prefer Adobe Photoshop for 4 colour process artwork. All four colour process art needs to be provided at 300 dpi and actual printed size.

 Acceptable Raster Based Art Formats
• Adobe Photoshop (please leave in layers)
• TIFF (4-Colour Process and one colour only, no multiple spot colours)
These are the best ways of sending us artwork. If for some reason you can't get the artwork to us in one of these formats, send us what you have and we can check out other options. If you have any questions at all about art requirements just call or email us.

 

 

How To Send Us Your Art For Printing
The best way to provide us screen printing artwork is email it to us.

TIP: Providing a low resolution .jpeg along with your printable file is a great we to provide a reference for colour and other details.
TIP: When sending Adobe Photoshop files for 4 colour process artwork, please keep file sizes under 5 meg. You can compress your files using a program like WinZip and we will un-compress the files when we receive them.