Legends and Logos

Is high quality black and white artwork that is ready to be processed and used for printing. No colors please. If the design is mufti-colored, a separate black on white image is required for each color (plates). As an alternative to numerous plates, we could use a black on white plate that is a complete outline of the design. We then would scan the plate into our system and add the respective colors where indicated by you.

Any type of photocopy
Anything Faxed
Business cards, existing t-shirts, or other printed items.
Dirty artwork - smudges, pencil lines, smudges, marks, etc.
Tone images - Black and white photos, Color photos.

We need images/designs in a Vector format (corel draw, Adobe Illustrator, etc) versus a "Bitmap" format (intemet images, gif, jpg, bmp, jpeg, etc). If you are using a "scanned image" it is a Bitmap. Images from websites and the Internet are not only Bitmaps but usually only 72 DPI (dots per inch) and very low resolution = low quality for printing. These look great on your computer monitor but are not useable for printing.

If you need our opinion on your artwork, or an estimate on how best to do the design for screen printing, then send us the Bitmap (.gif, tiff, jpeg, jpg or .bmp) image via email and we can give you an idea how best we can print the design. Remember however that this is not useable art for printing.

The best file formats to use for screen printing are: .cdr (corel draw), .eps (encapsulated postscript) or .wmf (windows metafile).

Yes. Sending your artwork via email is common. We receive many emails with attached artwork each day. Please be sure and use the above information and file formats. You can reduce the size of the artwork to an acceptable level for emailing as we will enlarge or reduce to fit the smallest garment in any order. After re-doing your artwork into our graphics system, we will email or fax it to you for your approval.

We suggest that you first "test send" your email with artwork to yourself, before sending to us. Simply attach your graphics file to an email addressed to your own email address, then send. Usually, what you receive (see) is what we will see.

The MAXIMUM file size for email is 8mb. We will scale your design to fit the garment, so no need to send us a 100% scale.

Yes you can "snail mail", or Fed. Ex your design to us on paper (hard copy - black ink on white paper only please), or on a disk. We are PC based so your disk should be a PC disk and your artwork should be in the desired file format as indicated above. We can accept art files on 3.5" floppy disks or on CD-R/RW's. Good artwork in a useable format is the basis of any order for a quality final product.

Screenprinting is the process of placing a wet ink on a substrate (item) - like t-shirts, sweats, aprons, towels, etc. The wet ink is then cured; in the case of garments, through a conveyorized heat oven at about 320 degrees. In "spot color" screen printing each color requires it's own screen.

Each final design (artwork) is sized according to the SMALLEST size garment in each order. Example: in an order of 20- youth mediums, 10 adult mediums and 3 adult XXLs, the final design is made to fit the youth mediums.

You can COMBINE our t-shirt styles, sweatshirt styles and polo shirt styles to reach any Quantity Price Break (ie: 36, 48, 72, 100, 150, 300) as long as each garment will get the SAME EXACT imprinting - ink colors, location on garment, etc. Garments cannot be combined with Aprons, Caps, Tote Bags, Towels since these require different screens and different printing processes.