Useful Tips

Tip 1:

Embroidery Tips

Computerized embroidery decorating is a popular method of providing quality cost-effective decoration onto all types of garments and pliable fabrics. However there are some production/quality limitations you should watch for. Care should be taken when trying to achieve fine detail in embroidery designs. Text smaller than 5mm high will likely be illegible. Fine detail in stipple or sketching form can be lost as a jumble of stitches.

Quoting

Unlike printing and other forms of decorating, embroidery costs are generally not based on number of colors used, but on the number of stitches a design requires. Estimating stitch counts from a printed or electronic design can be difficult and it is recommended that you do not commit to a price unless we have quoted set-up and production costs after viewing the design. To obtain firm quote prices, simply e-mail the design to our office and we will quote immediately. Be sure to explain where areas of the design will require stitching where there is a likelihood of confusion or error, particularly noting backgrounds and keylines which may not be obvious in the original or faxed artwork.

Be Fair

If you expect a first class job don’t start with less than first class instructions.

Embroidery Do's

The job must be sighted to quote.

Be sure you are clear on areas to bestitched, i.e. filled or unfilled voids

If you wish to follow an existing embroidery design, the sample must be sighted

Stitch estimates? Even every experienced digitizers get it wrong.

One rule to get an accurate cost: Have your Embroiderer quote it!

Artwork Quality

.jpg & .bmp FILES (100dpi MINIMUM) should be required size or larger.

Vector Files(.ai .cdr .eps .pdf ) are preferred.

Logo Guidelines

Provide PMS or Thread References

Embroidery Guidelines

Remember a cap design can be used on a garment but a garment design should not be used on a cap (without checking or a forewarning) ·
Text must be a minimum height of 5mm TALL ·
Fine detail & color gradient will mean comprising your design

Repeat Jobs

1 simple alteration to an older logo, makes it a NEW job.
Changes can occurs brought about by:

Garment batch changes
Thread batch differences
Machine changes
Tension changes
Garment style changes

You can expect production to vary from your sample

Setups

Setup charges cover the cost to prepare the design and prepare the machine
Setup charges normally do not imply ownership of the digitised file
Setup charges are normally applied only once
Check goods styles/colours/sizes before embroidering
Get our embroiderer to quote if at all possible
Think about print or applique for difficult jobs, fine detail jobs & impossible jobs
Provide your decorator with every necessary instruction-don’t leave him to assume anything:

Job name/ Purchase Order#
Needed In Hands By
Quantity
Style description/colur/sizes
Price
Quote reference
Thread colours
Artwork
position
Unpacking/repacking
Repeat references

Embroidery Don'ts

Don't assume anything
Don't leave yoru customer to assume anything
Don't leave your embroiderer to assume anything
Don't ignore any of the Do's above

Tip 2:

Printing VS. Embroidery

When it comes to embroidery and transfer printing, we are second-to-none in overall quality, value and service. if you wish to decorate Headwear in fact anything that can be decorated with embroidery or a heat-sealed plastisol transfer.

About Embroidery

Care should be taken when trying to achieve fine detail in embroidery designs. Text smaller than 5mm high will likely be illegible. Fine detail in stipple or sketching form can be lost as a jumble of stitches.

About Heat Sealed Plastisol Transfers

We would likely suggest this type of decoration if, the logo has complex detail that would not work for embroidery, works best on a foam front 5 panel, or the artwork includes gradient/small text that embroidery would not capture.

Heat transfers work as a secondary option to embroidery, if embroidery cannot quite capture the detail that a printed transfer could.