Cutline & bleed:

The cut line determines where the stickers will be cut, so it is important to include this in the artwork file positioned precisely where the sticker needs to be cut.  

• The cutline must be a path placed on a separate layer above the artwork layers. 

• A 3mm bleed area is required for designs that go right to the stickers edge. This bleed area must continue around the entire perimeter of the design.

• If there is a white border around the artwork, the minimum amount of space between the artwork and the cutline is 2 mm.

Vector art:

Program: Adobe Illustrator

File formats: ai / pdf / eps / svg

All fonts must be outlined

Minimum stroke line weight: 0.3 pts

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Vector files are perfect for screen printing. They can be scaled, modified and resaved easily without losing print quality. If a designer has provided your artwork, it is always worth checking if this file format is available. Please note: taking raster art and placing it inside a vector file does not automatically make it a vector. A file provided in this way will be treated as raster file rather than a vector file (see Raster Art below)

Raster art:

Programs: Adobe Photoshop, Procreate

File formats: psd / pdf / png / jpeg / tiff

Must be supplied at 1:1 scale or larger (print size)

Must be supplied at 300dpi resolution

Fonts must be rasterized

Minimum stroke line weight: 0.3 pts

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The initial dimensions and resolution are incredibly important when setting up raster art. If you’re unsure how big to create your art, always go bigger than you need. Providing low quality raster art will result in a low quality print

Preparing Fonts & Type:

When including text and fonts in your art, it’s important to make sure the type elements have been Outlined or Rasterised in order for us to be able to open your files successfully. If they haven’t been, and we open the file and don’t have the font on our system, it’ll be substituted with a standard system font (which will break the art). Files we aren’t able to open properly, won’t be usable.

Scanned Art and drawings:

If you’re looking to print a drawing created on paper and aren’t intending to modify it digitally, it’s still important to make sure the file is correctly prepared. Due to the nature of scanned art, we will assume that everything is to be printed exactly as supplied. We aren’t in a position to know what is intentional/unintentional, and will assume this for stray marks, smudges, hand written text, etc.

​For the reason above, it’s important to ‘touch up’ your scanned artwork before sending it to us. Things to watch for include: stray marks (from pencils, rubber usage), smudges, wonky / blurry text and dirt/dust from the scanner. You should make sure that the background / areas that aren’t the design are completely white (#FFFFFF) or transparent. If any slightly off-white background areas are left in the artwork, these could be picked up and carried over into the sticker print.