however, it’s important to fill your bleed areas completely, or you may end up with white, unprinted strips along the edge of your finished product. A bleed area acts as a buffer for slight inconsistencies in the manufacturing process. In printing, the extra printed image is referred to as a “Bleed Area” or margin, and it is removed from the finished piece.

When designing your product, it’s best to make sure that your image is slightly larger than needed. We class 20-100gsm as light (summer fabrics, gauzes and fine silks), 101-249 gsm as medium (most clothing fabrics) and 250+ gsm as heavy (upholstery fabrics, and other specialist fabrics). GSM uses the weight of a square meter (1000 x 1000mm) as an indication of the weight and thickness of a given fabric. Grams per Square Meter (GSM) is an international standard for measuring the weight of paper or fabric. What does this mean? In your editing software, choose RGB as the working space and assign the image profile as sRGB (full name sRGB IEC61966-2.1) Specifically using the sRGB image profile, to achieve best color results. We advise providing images in the RGB color space. Which color model should I choose? RGB or CMYK?.

For simple colors and low detail files, a jpeg is fine. Should I save my file as a TIFF or JPEG?įor multi-colored or very detailed files we recommend using a tiff format, but they must be flattened.Ideally your image should be scaled to 100% at 200dpi, this means that no resizing of your file occurs stopping any interpolation. We print at 200dpi, which is a good combination of quality and file weight. What's the best resolution to print in?.

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