Custom Printing Guidelines for Customers & Designers

 Key Points for your designs.
  • Use a CMYK or sRGB v2 or v4 colour profile (ICC) for your design. P3 Display will incur an extra charge.
  • Make sure colours are separated, ie similar dark colours may blend together
  • Always embed an ICC profile when saving your image.
  • Design at 300dpi
  • Preferably a flattened TIF Image file, this will preserve sizing.
  • Be cautious when saving between file types. Ie PNG does not have sizing information.
  • Always order a test print first!

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Purchases from 3rd Party designers.
  • Confirm an ICC profile has been embedded.
  • Do not change the filetype, always send the original file.
  • Make sure the designers file is flattened.
  • Always request a TIF format file from the designer

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Colour creation on Displays and Textiles
A tablet or computer display (P3 Display) is a backlit RGB device which can create a much wider range of colours than a printer can. Our textiles are printed using ink, frontlit, and create different colours using Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, Green, Orange, Red and Grey ink (CMYKGORk). You should use a colour profile when designing that uses CMYK, or sRGBv2 or v4 then your colours will print correctly.   Make sure there is enough contrast between colours otherwise they may blend together in print form. Dark colours such as blacks and dark greys are affected most by this. We also recommend that in fine-detail areas that high contrast colours are used to maintain the detail when printed.

Samples
Always print a sample for approval before committing to a large order as refunds are not accepted on custom designs.  
Scale
Make sure you use a flattened and preferably a TIF as this will preserve sizing information. We also see that files come to us converted from other formats such as PNG which do not contain sizing information. This means that the print will need to be sized manually, and won’t be as intended. Always maintain size information in your designs.
Seamless Designs
We will print designs as you send them. For the print to come out correctly they must be seamless. There are many guides available on how to do this available on the internet for your favourite design application.
Purchases from internet designers.
When purchasing from designers we recommend that all the above guidelines are checked against the files provided by the designers. Please do not change these files from one type to another, confirm ICC profiles are embedded as per our bulletpoints above. Always send the originals.