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TWO SERVICES.
EVERYTHING
YOUR FILES NEED.

Embroidery digitizing and vector art — both built for production, not just preview. Every file is manually reviewed before it leaves our hands.

🪡 Embroidery Digitizing ✏️ Vector Art Design ⏱ 2–12h Turnaround ✓ Manual Review

EMBROIDERY
DIGITIZING

We convert your artwork, logos, and designs into production-ready embroidery files. Every job is digitized manually — no auto-conversion, no templates. Stitch flow, density, underlay, and fabric behavior are all set by hand for your specific placement and material.

Whether it's a simple left chest on a polo or a full 3D puff cap run, the file that comes back to you is built to run correctly on your machine, first time.

2–12h
Standard turnaround for most jobs. Complex designs may take longer — confirmed at review.
100%
Manual digitizing. No automated conversion. Every stitch path set by a human.
$9+
Starting price for simple designs. Exact pricing confirmed in your dashboard after file review.

PLACEMENT TYPES

Every placement has different requirements. Here's how we handle each one.

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Custom & Logo Digitizing
The most common request. Your artwork or logo, digitized for the placement and fabric you specify. We match stitch direction to the shapes in your design and calibrate density for clean sew-out.
Suitable for: polos, shirts, uniforms, bags
Accepts: any file format
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Hat & Cap Digitizing
Caps are one of the trickiest placements. Curved surface, foam front, tight hoop area. We use center-out stitch direction and proper underlay to prevent distortion and keep designs sitting flat after sew-out.
Structured & unstructured caps
5-panel, 6-panel, snapback, fitted
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Left Chest Digitizing
Small placement, high visibility. Left chest logos on polos and uniforms need tight stitch control — readable at small sizes, no puckering on lightweight fabrics. Density is reduced and path sequence is short to avoid pulling.
Typically 3–4 inch wide area
Optimized for polo, dress shirt, uniform
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Jacket Back Digitizing
Large-format digitizing is where most auto-converted files fail — thread breaks, puckering, poor registration. We map stitch paths to minimize travel distance, balance density across the full design area, and sequence the run to reduce fabric stress.
Full back: up to 14" wide
Run sequence optimized for large area
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Sleeve & Side Panel
Narrow, curved placements like sleeves and side panels require adapted hoop orientation and stitch direction. We account for fabric stretch direction and the curved surface when setting up the file.
Sleeves, shoulders, side panels
Curved surface adapted
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Towel & High-Pile Fabric
Terry cloth, fleece, and high-pile fabrics swallow stitches if density isn't right. We increase stitch count and add a topping-appropriate underlay so the design sits on top of the pile rather than disappearing into it.
Terry, fleece, velvet, performance
Pile-control underlay included
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Gloves & Specialty Items
Tight placement areas like gloves, bags, hats with logos, and non-standard garments. We adapt the digitizing to the constraints of the item — hoop size, fabric behavior, and seam proximity all factored in.
Small tight placements
Non-standard garment adapted
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3D Puff Embroidery
Puff digitizing is a completely different technique — wrong stitch type collapses the foam. We use the correct satin borders with steep undercuts, puff-specific fill technique, and height-aware path sequencing. Correct on first run, not after three test samples.
Foam-specific stitch structure
Satin borders, puff-fill core
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Unusual Placement or Fabric?
Have something that doesn't fit the list above — a non-standard item, a difficult fabric, a placement with specific constraints? Submit your design with full instructions via the dashboard. We review every job manually before pricing, so we can handle it properly.
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Output Formats
DST PES EXP JEF VP3 XXX HUS + more on request
Common Use Cases
Apparel Uniforms Promotional Corporate Headwear Sports

VECTOR
ART DESIGN

Your client sends a blurry JPG, a phone photo of a business card, or a low-res PNG from their website. You need a clean, scalable file for screen printing, DTG, vinyl cutting, or embroidery prep. That's the gap we fill.

Every vector file is manually drawn or traced — clean paths, correct structure, output formats matched to your production method. No auto-trace artifacts, no broken paths.

2–12h
Standard turnaround. Complex custom artwork or multi-use files may be quoted for longer.
Clean
Manual vector paths only. No Illustrator auto-trace. No artifacts or broken bezier curves.
$12+
Starting price for basic vectorization. Exact pricing confirmed after design review in your dashboard.

VECTOR SERVICE TYPES

What you send determines the service. Here's how each scenario is handled.

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Logo Vectorization
The most common request. Client has a logo in JPG, PNG, or PDF — not editable, not scalable. We manually redraw it as a clean vector with correct paths, smooth curves, and proper anchor placement. Scales to any size without quality loss.
Input: JPG, PNG, raster PDF
Output: AI, EPS, SVG, PDF
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Image & Sketch Tracing
Hand-drawn sketches, scanned artwork, or printed designs that need to become usable vector files. Every line is traced manually — not auto-converted — so the final file is clean and editable with no excess nodes or messy paths.
Input: scans, photos, hand-drawn
Clean path structure, fully editable
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Apparel Print Design
Vector artwork sized and structured for garment printing — chest prints, back prints, sleeve prints. Correct dimensions for production, color layers separated, ready to hand to your printer without additional cleanup.
Screen print, DTG, sublimation
Production-sized with bleed marks
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Print-Ready File Prep
You have a vector file but it's not production-ready — wrong color mode, broken paths, missing bleeds, fonts not outlined. We audit and fix what needs to be fixed so the file goes straight to your printer without rejection or rework.
File audit + correction
CMYK, Pantone, spot color setup
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Color Separation
Screen printing requires each color on its own layer with correct knockout and overlap. We set up separations for your exact number of spot colors, accounting for trapping and print order. Each layer ready for film or direct-to-screen output.
Spot color separations
Trap + overlap ready
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Multi-Use Production Package
One design, multiple outputs. We build a master vector file and derive the correct format for each production method you need — screen print, embroidery prep, vinyl cut, laser engrave, digital. One job, all use cases covered.
Multiple derived outputs
AI · EPS · SVG · PDF · DXF
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Custom Vector Requirement?
Need something specific that isn't on the list — a complex illustration, branded asset package, or unusual output format? Submit your brief via the dashboard and we'll review it before quoting.
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Output Formats
AI EPS SVG PDF DXF PNG + format on request
Production Methods
Screen Printing DTG Vinyl Cutting Laser Engraving Sublimation Embroidery Prep

WHAT TO SEND.
WHAT YOU GET BACK.

We work with whatever you have. Here's an honest look at how different input quality affects the process.

You Send
What Clients Typically Have
  • Low-res JPG or PNGScreenshot from a website, phone photo, compressed export. Works fine — we'll work from it, though complex artwork from low-res sources may need more time.
  • Photo of a business card or printed itemOne of the most common inputs we get. Usable if the photo is in focus and well-lit. We'll extract and rebuild from there.
  • PDF that won't open cleanlyFlattened PDFs, locked files, rasterized PDFs — all treatable. We'll work with whatever is extractable from the file.
  • Hand-drawn sketchScanned or photographed sketches are fine as a starting point for both vector redraw and embroidery digitizing.
  • "I just need it to look like this"Reference images, mood boards, verbal descriptions — we'll ask clarifying questions in the dashboard before starting.
You Receive
What Comes Back
  • Production-ready embroidery fileDST, PES, or your machine's format — with stitch count, color list, and production dimensions included. Runs on first sew-out.
  • Clean vector file in your required formatAI, EPS, SVG, or PDF — fully editable, correct paths, no artifacts. Scales to billboard or shrinks to business card without quality loss.
  • Color informationThread color list for embroidery (by brand and code). Pantone or CMYK breakdown for vector files where provided or requested.
  • Revision access via dashboardIf anything needs adjusting — stitch density, size, color, path cleanup — you request a revision directly in your order and we handle it. No email chains.
  • Permanent order historyEvery file you've ever ordered is stored in your dashboard. Download anytime — even months after delivery.

PRICE IS SET
AFTER REVIEW.

Every design is different. We review your file first, then confirm the price in your dashboard. You approve before we start — no surprises, no hidden charges.

Embroidery Digitizing
$9–$120+
Based on stitch count & complexity
Simple text or small logo from $9. Jacket back, 3D puff, complex multi-color artwork toward $120+. Exact price shown in dashboard before work starts.
Vector Art Design
$12–$150+
Based on complexity & detail level
Basic logo vectorization from $12. Complex illustrations, full apparel design packages, or multi-use files toward $150+. Exact price in dashboard after review.
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