We'ved put up an article in continuation on "How to contract manufacture T-Shirt" series. This time its about imprints - which may generally be silkscreen, heat transfer, embroidery, direct to garment or any other fabric printing techniques.

It is important that you communicate precisely what kind of imprints you need and how you want them to look like. Especially when it is your corporate or brand logo, the outcome needs to be very close to what you expect, else it may affect your image.

Do note, the more complicated your design imprints, naturally the higher the cost! So keep your design simple if you are on a tight budget.

Try to be specific and accurate as possible. To enable the manufacturer to quote properly, the more details you give the better. Here's a list of what you should be concern at.

• what kind of imprints
• number of spots
• position of imprints
• size of imprints
  
• number of colors/stitches of imprints
• pantone code of colors
• visual / high resolution or vector files of image