• Artwork Specifications

Customers can speed up their orders by providing artwork through email. We also accept simple artwork by fax and can often make it useable through computer recreation/touch-up methods. We can also accommodate those individuals supplying hand drawn artwork, through scanning, photocopying, and traditional paste-up methods. Remember, if you have any questions regarding artwork, please contact us or call us 866-495-5522. We'll be happy to help you.

• Graphic File Formats

Here are the types of files that we can accept: (We use PC's and Mac's.)

Ideal Files:

• Adobe Illustrator EPS or .ai
• Photoshop EPS or .psd
• Adobe .pdf
• CorelDraw .cdr
• Tiff files

Less than Ideal Files (May incur an art charge):

• JPG
• BMP
• Microsoft Word .doc
• Microsoft Publisher .pub
• Microsoft Powerpoint .ppt
• GIF

What is an .EPS file?

An .eps stands for "encapsulated post script," and is basically a printer file that is viewable and editable in some programs. You may be able to view it in a current version of Adobe Reader (as if it were a .pdf file). It's editable in Adobe Illustrator , Freehand and Corel Draw. You can open it in Photoshop, but I'd recommend only doing that for your own use. When you open an .eps in Photoshop, it converts the file to something that is not as universally sizeable. Any production house or print shop should have no problem dealing with the .eps if you email it or give it to them on a disc. They'll probably thank you for giving them something that's easy for them to use.

• Submitting Artwork

Illustrator files should include any embedded image files placed in the image and convert all fonts to paths. We can take care of spreads and traps according to our needs.

Photoshop files should be saved as TIFF files. Resolution is important when dealing with Photoshop files. To get a crisp image on your shirt we need at least 300 ppi (pixels per inch). The image must be CREATED at this resolution or higher. To take an image created at 72 ppi and boost the resolution is not going to change the way it prints out but only increase the file size. Images downloaded off the Net are mostly 72 ppi. We can finish off a 72 ppi image but most of the time it would require a slight art fee. If supplying a black and white save it as a TIFF bitmap. When creating a New image in Photoshop the default mode is an RGB file. Although one could create and submit a perfectly good black & white outline image in RGB mode this is much larger than a B&W TIFF file needs to be. To reduce the size dramatically go to Image > Mode > Grayscale. Go ahead and discard color info. Then go to Image > Mode > Bitmap. Set Resolution output to the same ppi as the input value. This should be at least 300 ppi which is what the scan or New image should have been created. Set Method to 50% threshold. File > Save As > TIFF and click on the LZW Compression option in the dialog box which appears. This will compress the file similar to Stuffit or other compression programs.