What is the process for imprinting promotional products?
The process of imprinting promotional products requires specific art files called Vector art. Vector art allows us to separate colors, manipulate art, and shrink & blow up your art without it becoming pixilated. This allows for your product to have a clean, legible imprint. The most commonly used forms of vector art are created in Illustrator or CorelDraw and are saved as an .eps file. All text must be converted to outlines or curves/paths. Other forms of art files you may have are .jpg, .tiff, .psd, .gif, or .bmp. These are all forms of Raster art. We are not able to manipulate, separate colors, or increase the size of rastored art files. Therefore we are not able to use these files to imprint your products. Raster files can be used for certain types of imprinting. If you are using 4 color process art (full color), like a photograph, on a mug or magnet, we can use a .jpg or .tiff file if it is at the correct imprint size and 300 dpi. Please ask your sales rep. about this option, as it
