Colour you can count on
The colours on your screen and the colours on a garment are made in different ways. Most disappointing transfers come from problems in the file that nobody spotted before it printed. We check every file before you pay, so you are not finding out when the parcel arrives.
What usually spoils a transfer
Screen colours
Screens mix light; printers mix ink. Bright screen colours, especially neons and some blues and greens, can print duller than you expect.
The wrong colour set-up
Files saved for a different kind of printing, or with mixed colour settings, can shift when they are converted for DTF.
Hidden problems
Low resolution at the size you ordered, faint semi-transparent pixels and very thin lines all look fine on screen and fail on fabric.
We use an expanded gamut print process. So does everyone else.
Our press runs eight ink channels, with dedicated orange and green inks alongside the usual process colours. That means more vivid colour, and a better chance of matching the one colour that has to be right. It is not a secret: whatever name a supplier gives theirs, the name is the only proprietary part.
Where no ink reaches, we say so.
Blue-violet is thin on every press, and neon is outside ink altogether. We name those colours in your file instead of letting you discover them on a box of shirts.
You see it before you pay.
Upload your artwork and the at-risk colours come back marked on your own design, with the direction each one will move.
About that “16.7 million colours” claim.
That is how many values an 8-bit file can hold: a fact about the file on your screen, not about any press. The question worth asking is which of your colours land inside the ink, and whether anyone tells you before it prints.
Every file checked before you pay
As soon as you upload, our system analyses the file and tells you what it finds. Checks include:
- Resolution at your print size, so a design that looks sharp on screen is not soft on the shirt.
- Colour space, so we know how your file describes colour and handle it correctly.
- Transparency, catching faint pixels that would print as a haze.
- Fine detail, flagging lines and gaps too small to print and press cleanly.
- A colour preview, showing how your colours are expected to print.
If everything looks good, we simply say so. If something needs attention, we explain it in plain English, and our art team reviews any file that needs a human eye.
Our approach
You should not need to be a prepress expert to get a great transfer. The checks run on every file, for every customer, at no extra step for you. You see as much or as little of the detail as you want.
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