Art Department

Providing a complete spectrum of art services is just another benefit Garments To Go, Inc. has to offer. Our art department assists our clients with their art needs from conception to completion, whether digitizing embroidery or developing art for screenprinting and promotional items.

Submitting Art:

• Please Supply camera-ready art that is clean and sharp with a very high contrast black/white that needs no further touch up on 8 ½ x 11 paper. Do not fax art if at all possible. The only faxed orders should be reserved for exact repeats with text changes, new orders with straight-line text, and requests for our creative ideas or stock art. Art provided on t-shirts, business cards, caps, embroidery, etc. requires considerable time to clean up, which slows down your order. Remember: Providing the best version of art available (that requires the least amount of touch up) significantly reduces your art charges and allows Garments To Go, Inc. to provide the best reproduction.
  
  
• Please Supply all fonts used (if known). Use PC TrueType© fonts only, not Mac fonts. If this is not possible, convert your type into paths. In Freehand, this command is "Convert to Paths," in Adobe Illustrator use "Create Outlines" and in Corel Draw it is" Convert to Curves."
  
  
• Sizing Art specify the size the art should be reproduced the exact size, the use of maximum imprint area. (Or we will reproduce at our discretion for best appearance.)
  
  
• Submit legible instructions that are printed or typed and provide a hardcopy print out of your design. This allows us to see if anything is left out, lost, or changed in the course of the file transfer. Please note color placements and exact dimensions (faxes like to shrink and distort your art).

Tips:

• Eliminate all unnecessary elements from your file including extraneous colors, patterns, and other elements that may be invisible or behind other elements or layers. Send a clean file.
• Make spot color names consistent, especially if more than one application is used to create your art. When colors touch, we may need to create traps. Prepare so the colors are in an editable format as outlines, curves, or vectors. If not, additional charges may be incurred.
• Please know that your art may not work on all of our products. Example: On rough textured items, halftones will not print well. For embroidery, detail such as fine outlines and letters less than ¼" in height are very difficult to reproduce and maintain quality throughout the production.