Why would you want to Vectorizing your artwork for custom T-shirt and Promotional Printing?

When you go to a Custom T-shirt shop to have your design or logo printed on T shirt, they always ask you, do you have a vector version of you artwork.(Is it Vectorized) Why would you want your artwork in Vector format?

Vectorizing is a process of converting your design, into simple lines and curves, you can select colors, change them if you want to, resize it without losing quality. Depending on how it was vectorized, you might be able to even move parts of the image without affecting the rest. Like changing the color of the Ad-a-Print logo from black to blue.

Standard non-Vectorized images lose depth with resizing.

An example would be Ad-A-Print logo on the front page of the website Which is Saved in JPG.

Standard:

Stretched:

You can see as you stretch it, you see rough edges and the logo becomes blurry.

If I wanted to change colors in the logo, you would have to paint over it, while with vector format it is already converted in pieces that you can selected and change the color of each peice.

WHY DO I CARE?

If you are starting a business or thinking about promoting your business in a different way besides standard paper, you will want our image vectorized, and done right. The quality of the printing will be much better, you don't want to pay for vectorizing every time. Plus you will be in control of your logo. and how it will finallly looks like. It is very common;either for budget constrains or limitation of the promotional product, companies will print their logo as one color. A good example would be clocks, they are usually done in one color.