If You Provide Your Business Card As Artwork...

You can provide a business card, web page logo or other form of your logo but keep in mind that your artwork will probably need to be adjusted for embroidery. This may involve resizing text and images. Often design elements must be simplified for embroidery. The detailed serif font that looked great on your business cards won't translate well into embroidery and will need to be modified. The drop shadow effect highlighting your business name on your web page may need to be eliminated. Your embroider will know what changes to make so your embroidered logo looks good but its a great idea to check an artwork proof of your embroidery set-up before your shirts are embroidered.

Embroidery vs. Screen Printing Cost

If your logo design has a few colors, screen printing may be more expensive because you’ll have a screen charge for every color. Although most likely you’ll pay an embroidery set-up charge, the number of colors in your embroidered logo won’t affect your cost unless you exceed 12 to15 colors. If your logo isn’t too complicated then your embroidery set-up charge could be less then your screen charges. Also, almost any type of artwork format can be used for an embroidery set-up. With screen printing, vector art (line art) is often necessary so you may be charged an artwork fee to convert your artwork into vector format. Still not sure whether to choose screen printing or embroidery? Ask your decorator!