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Design Requirements For Small Run Printing

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Your artwork is very important. If the design is low quality, chances are, the finished print will be also.

Small run t-shirts are done with a DTG machine. It's like an inkjet printer for tees. It just prints what the it sees in the art file.The better the quality of the file the better it will print.

The best file you can give us is the following.

- A file that is 300 DPI,
- A file that is at print size
- A file that ends in .png
- A file that has a transparent background
- .jpgs will work for white garments only

If the file has a smaller DPI then stated above, the print will generally be quite good, however the lower the number is the more pixelated the final result will be.

If you are a graphic artist and you want to know more, you can read about DTG artwork requirements in more depth here.