PRINTING REQUIREMENTS

Supplying Manatee Bay with your Design

• Customer supplied, separated, camera ready design, no additional charge.
• We can accept many graphic files. Simply email it to us at:
  
  service@manatee-bay.com or send to us a CD to:
  
  Manatee Bay Enterprises, Inc.
  12399 Belcher Road, #160
  Largo, FL 33773
   
• Technical Details for supplying us with your art.
• Send us the best artwork that you have. Hi resolution graphic files will be necessary to produce the finest quality print job.
• Our production specialists will review the artwork or other reference materials that you’ve provided and contact you to discuss your project.
• Approval of your design is required before actual production.

Other Print Colors or Locations
The pricing guidelines are applicable to most custom printed sportswear projects. Additional requests including printing on more than one location, more print colors than listed and other issues not addressed in this pricing guideline should be directed to us to address and verify the options available.

Higher Quantity Discounts
Please call us if you need a higher quantity than shown on the web site. Pricing on many items will change at each increment of 500 or 1000 pieces.

For quantity discounts and other printing options, Contact Us for accurate quotation.

Production Ready Artwork

They’re here – Updated Production Ready Artwork Standards and Guidelines! The Production Ready Artwork Standards Committee is proud to announce the rollout of updated standards and guidelines to improve the transfer of electronic artwork within our industry.

Acceptable Formats for Electronic Art

Vector Art:
1. PDF (preferred format)
2. EPS
3. Adobe Illustrator – AI (Version 10, or higher)
4. CorelDRAW – CDR (Version 10, or higher)

Note: These formats are also acceptable for art that contains both raster/bitmap art and vector art in the same graphics file.
All files must be created in approved professional graphics software. Files saved without vector data or from unapproved software are not considered Production Ready Artwork.

Raster Art (bitmaps):
1. PDF at final imprint size
2. TIFF at final imprint size

Unacceptable Formats for Electronic Art

1. PowerPoint
2. Word
3. Excel
4. Publisher
5. JPEG
6. GIF
7. WMF
8. Scans of logo, letterhead or business cards
9. Page layout files (Quark, PageMaker, InDesign)

The above formats explicitly do not comply with Production Ready Art Standards and if submitted, will incur cleanup charges. This is not a comprehensive list, rather a list of the most common unacceptable formats

Approved Professional Graphics Software

Preferred professional graphics software:
1. Adobe Illustrator CS2
2. CorelDRAW X3

Acceptable professional graphics software:
1. Adobe Ilustrator - Version 10, or higher
2. CorelDRAW - Version 10 , or higher

The Production Ready Artwork committee will announce when the next version of software is recommended and provide a minimum 3 months notice before it becomes a requirement to maintain certification.

EMBROIDERY REQUIREMENTS

Supplying Manatee Bay with your Design

Digitizing your Design

• Customer supplied digitized design (.dst), no additional charge.
• Supply us with a .jpg file of your logo and we can Digitize your Design. (All art revisions or creation is quoted at $40/hr) Item #: Z1-SUC
• Digitized Design Special - $69.95 ($100 - $150 value), for up to 8,000 stitches; $79.95 ($150 - $200 value), for 8,001 – 12,000 stitches. Item #: Z1-DDS.
• Bonus Volume Special - Free Digitized Design with order of 144+ pieces. ($100 - $150 value)
• Prices do not include any modification or creation to your artwork that may be needed for embroidery.
• Art fees: By quotation at $40 per hour.

Approval of your Design

• A scan of your embroidered design will be emailed to you for approval at no charge.
• An actual sew out on a swatch can be mailed to you for approval for $9.95. Item #: Z1-ES.
• An actual spec sample can be mailed to you for approval for twice the actual item price.
• Approval of a new design is required for actual production.

Our order minimum for custom embroidery is 24 pieces. For quantity discounts and other embroidery options. Contact us and tell us about your proposed project.


PROMOTIONAL PRODUCTS

Supplying Manatee Bay with your Design

The quality of your imprint depends upon the quality of artwork supplied to us! All orders requiring artwork must be sent in as Black and White CAMERA READY art. Artwork can be submitted via E-Mail or by Mail on disk (3.5 or CD) or Camera Ready PMT's, color separated if more than one color. Laser copies of 1200 DPI resolution are also acceptable. We are Macintosh platform; however, whether you are Mac or PC based, we are able to accept your graphic files if you meet the requirements listed. To avoid delays and art charges please supply CLEAN CAMERA READY artwork.

NOTE: OUR DELIVERY SCHEDULE MAY DEPEND ON THE QUALITY OF THE ARTWORK SUBMITTED.
 

USEFUL TERMS / DEFINITIONS

Vector Artwork: Artwork that stores mathematical information about shapes and lines is called vectors. They can be scaled easily without producing the "stair-step" edges you will see in pixel-based (raster) images. They adapt to the resolution of any output device and are considered to be resolution independent. They are produced by programs like Adobe Illustrator®, Macromedia FreeHand® and CorelDRAW®.

Raster Artwork: Artwork and images that are defined by a checkerboard pattern, similar to viewing mosaic tiles. Raster images are limited by the number of pixels and cannot be enlarged without producing noticeably jagged, stair-stepped edges. They are produced by digital cameras, scanners, and can also be created by programs like Adobe PhotoShop and CorelPHOTO-PAINT (among others).

Spot Color: Solid, generally flat fields of color. Used for silk screening where a printer can lay down several solid areas of color to produce multi-colored artwork; also used to identify additional colors in a four-color process file or print job.

Color Space: Refers to the use of color in an imprint or graphic file. Defined for our purposes as spot color, no color, RGB or CMYK.

RGB: Colors defined as a combination of three colors red, green and blue to produce millions of other colors.

CMYK: Colors defined using a combination of four colors cyan, magenta, yellow and black to produce millions of other colors; often refered to as four-color process.

Resolution: The measurement of quality (pixel per inch in file or dots per inch in output). Low-resolution images may be as low as 72 dpi (or less). High-resolution images may be as high as 600 dpi (or more).

What images can I send for use in designs, and how do I properly prepare those images?

We hope the information below will give you the guidance you need to successfully send images for use in your designs, but please feel free to call us if you have questions or need assistance. Similarly, we'll contact you if there are problems pertaining to the artwork submitted with your order.

First of all, please make sure your image is suitable for the decoration method you're using.

Screen-printing - we can work with black and white photographs or illustrations with clear, distinct areas of color as opposed to multiple shades and tones. You can submit images for screen-printing that contain half tones (also known as gradients).

Embroidery - images must only contain clear, distinct areas of color. Subtle tones and fades can't be embroidered.

Secondly, ensure that you have properly prepared the image you're uploading.

The best types of images for our service are vector illustrations created in programs such as Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop and CorelDRAW. These images should be saved or exported and then uploaded in "eps format". Before saving or exporting as "eps" please (1) flatten the image, (2) outline fonts, and (3) convert to Pantone or RGB colors.

Raster images, such as those created in Adobe Photoshop and Corel PHOTOPAINT, should be saved or exported as .gif, .tif, or .jpg files. You're best off using .gif with a transparent background (if that is, in fact, what you want). Most importantly, such images should be high-resolution. The final product won't look good unless your image is at least 300 dots per inch (DPI) at the actual size you want it printed. That means that if you want to print a .gif image at a size of 5" x 5" on a T-shirt, it should be about 15" x 15" on your 72 DPI computer monitor.

Finally, to send a file to us, the filename may not contain spaces. Please be sure to rename the file accordingly before uploading.