How to Prepare your Artwork for Printing

Editing Your Artwork

Acceptable Formats: Foil Hot Stamp • Flexo Ink Stamp • Ink Screen Print

Artwork must be sent to us in Vector format for non-digital prints. Vector format looks like this image below when you use your mouse to click on it.

Vector format allows for your logo to be outlined, so that the machine making the printing plates can follow the outlines in your logo.

Vector formats can be saved in several file types including, .ai, .pdf, .psd, & .eps

For: Foil Hot Stamp • Flexo Ink Stamp • Ink Screen Print

Unacceptable:

Pixelated Logo has rough edges when resized:
(.jpeg, .jpg,.png,.gif, of .tiff)
Acceptable:

Vector Logos have smooth edges when resized:
(.ai, .pdf, .psd, & .eps)

Artwork with Fine Lines may "fill in".

Fill in means that if lines in artwork are to close together, they may merge.

It is possible that the printing plates can not be cut to the fine detail of some artwork.

Original Logo:

Lines within this Crown will likely fill in when printed in either ink or foil:
As Printed in Foil:

Shown as printed all in one color with a Silver Foil Hot Stamp with lines filling in.

Adapt your logo into 1 or 2 colors to print with Foil Hot Stamp, Flexo Ink Stamp, or Screen Print

Artwork with multiple colors or shading will need to be reduced to 1 or 2 colors in order print with:

Flexo Ink Stamp • Foil Hot Stamp • Screen Print