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SUBLIMATED APPAREL PROCESS

ART PREPARATION

Our art room will require any logos or images in vector format. If you are unable
to supply in this format, we can convert into that format for you.
At this point, your design is likely to come from three avenues:

You would have found a design on our website (see below our ‘Design your Own’
portal) that you would like customised to your requirements, or
If you want something more specific, you can prepare a brief for our in-house
designers to follow, or

You can come in and sit down with our in-house graphic designers and talk them
through your specific requirements, this whilst they implement your instructions
onto the screen at the same time.
Once the concept is complete, our designers will send this through to you for
your final alterations or approval.

When the concept has been approved by you the customer, we will then transfer
the concept to final print lay-ups. This means creating each print file which is
required to produce your garments.

If you have any concerns about specific colours, positioning or logo sizes, we can
generate a flat sample panel for you to check, this before we go into final print
and production.

PRINTING
Once all the artwork has been prepared and signed off and the order has been
received, the printing is the next matter to be dealt with.

The printers used are very high speed when compared to the traditional dye
sublimating printers of old. These cutting edge printers provide great flexibility to
print volume accurately and quickly and therefore enable us every opportunity to
meet all of our deadlines.

Most people learning about dye sublimating for the first time think that the
printers print directly onto fabric. This is in fact incorrect. The artwork is printed
onto dye sublimating paper.

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