Deluxe Art Guidelines

Detailed guidelines for different process types

Vehicle Wraps
Banners
T-Shirts
Screen Printed Posters
High Resolution Digital Printing
Laser Engraving
Mechanical Engraving

More in-depth information about artwork

A detailed comparison of vector and raster image types
Printing on dark or colored substrates such as a black shirt

Art Requirements Overview

Generally

  1. All fonts must be converted to curves or rasterized. Optionally, Windows TrueType or Type1 fonts may be provided.
  2. Use ZIP or StuffIt to compress Vector images if needed.
  3. You may use ZIP or StuffIt to compress and combine several files into one file for convenience. You can try the free Windows program, 7-Zip if you'd like.
  4. We can redraw most art if needed (of course, we can't redraw a photograph). Redrawn art will never match the original exactly but will be of high quality. While we can redraw letter forms if the font isn't known or can't be provided, it's a time consuming process and the results are not perfect.
  5. Offset printer CMYK separations and film do NOT work for screen printing. Deluxe Design must separate all multi-color art intended for screen printing in-house to match our press requirements. In virtually all cases, an art charge will apply.

Accepted File Types

We do not accept Microsoft Publisher Files*

Resolution

*Microsoft Publisher format is poorly supported in high-end graphics processing RIP software. Please export from Microsoft Publisher to EPS format using the Composite RGB option.
How to export Microsoft Publisher 2007 files to EPS