What is vector artwork for t-shirt printing?
Vector artwork is the best possible type of file for t-shirt printing. The reason for this is because vector artwork is the highest quality artwork available. You can resize vector artwork up or down without losing any of the quality. It can literally be blown up to the size of a building and not have any jagged edges or pixelation.
Vector artwork is most commonly found from programs such as Adobe Illustrator or CorelDRAW. Most clipart designs can be converted into vector artwork even if they are a raster format to begin with. Raster artwork, which is the opposite of vector artwork, is most commonly known as jpeg's, bitmaps, gifs, or png's.
If the design provided for T-shirt printing is in a raster format, it has to go through the process of conversion to vector artwork. In some cases this can be very easy but in others it can be very difficult and time-consuming. It really depends on the quality of the raster artwork being converted and the amount of detail in the design.
Regardless of whether your design is raster or vector or if you are unfamiliar with which format your design is, a good t-shirt printer should be able to help you out. We'll take anything you have that we can open up and look at and get the job done.
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