How to send us camera ready digital art

We are in the business of printing great T-Shirts.  We prefer to work with customer owned art when possible.  We also will design it to your specs when required.  The following tips are to help you save money by doing your own design work.  Ask if you have questions, and be sure to send us a file if you have any questions about it.  There is never a charge to look at your design and give you recommendations on how to print it.  Browse our online catalog to choose a shirt.

• PDF (Acrobat) - Preferred
• PDS (Adobe Photoshop)
• EPS
• GIF 200dpi or higher
• TIF200 dpi or higher
• AI (Adobe Illustrator)
• PUB (Microsoft Publisher)
• DOC (Microsoft Word)
• PPT (Microsoft Powerpoint)
• Word Pefrect

• Fax it
• Xerox it
• Mail it on paper
• JPG (tends to have "trash" around edges)

• View your art at print size when possible.
• Use Vector art when possible
• If you are using non-standard fonts we highly recommend that you convert the file to Adobe Acrobat.
• Fonts Supported by our conversion process (applies to MS-Office files)
• Be sure to put your artwork on a white background.
• Make sure the areas that represent each ink color are separate and distinct. I.e. Make them Red and Black, not Black and Grey. Then let us know what color is supposed to be what color ink.

• Send a copy of a fax
• Scan a tiny picture
• Scan artwork for multi-color prints
• Scan in resolutions of less then 600 dpi
• Try to make the background the color of the t-shirt. This delays the process.
• Send an art file with colors that are similar (i.e. Black and Grey or Royal Blue and Light Blue)

• Print the file at full size, or the largest size your printer can accommodate.

• Submit a Texas Shirt Company Copyright and Trademark Release form for all copyrighted and trademarked designs that will be printed.
• Negotiate copyrights prior to printing or commission of any design.
• NOTE: If you created it, you own copyright automatically.

• Assume that you have the right to use something.
• Copyright violations are up to a $250,000 Federal fine!
• Assume that you can use a Trademark because you are a franchisee or because you carry the product.  We must have it in writing from the Trademark or Copyright owner. 
• Assume that because you have had it printed by someone before that you purchased the copyright.

• Keep in mind that if it's in the art, it will be on the print.
• Ensure that there are no pinholes, dust specs, or other "features" that you do not want to reproduce on the shirts.
• That the edges and lines are very clean.  If it is not crisp in the design it will not be crisp on the shirt.
• Try to remove anything that is in the file that you don't want on the shirt.  i.e. dust specs outside the design.

• Have fuzzy edges
• Small details
• Extra Colors
• Expect us to clean it up for free.  -Graphic work is a minimum charge of $30. Billable at a rate of $60/hr.

• Files must be uploaded using the order management page.
• Contact us if your upload fails because the file is too large.

• email a file
• mail a disk