Premium Polo Shirts

Technical Specifications for Premium Polo Shirts

We recommend you create your artwork in Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator (or other vector-based software) and supply your file as a print-ready PDF, saved under PDF profile PDF/X-1a:2001. Please submit your files as 1 layer without transparencies.

Your design should be supplied at the same size as the printable area, without a bleed. Please download our templates to find the maximum printable size for your selected product.

Due to the screen-printing process we use, colours should be used from the Pantone® Coated Library only. We cannot accept CMYK, RGB or unnamed spots.

We use plastisol inks that are phthalate-free, eco-passport certified and scentless.

• You can include a maximum of 4 Pantone® (spot) colours in your design, as 100% solid colours. Please note, gradients and percentages of a colour cannot be reproduced using this print process.
• Please ensure colours do not overlap in your design.
• Gradients and percentages of a colour cannot be reproduced using this print process.
• To print in black or white, please use the colours PANTONE Black C and PANTONE White (this is not part of the Pantone library so you should create a spot colour named PANTONE White within your colour swatches).
• Please do not represent the colour of your Polo Shirt on your artwork unless you are printing using PANTONE White. If you are printing PANTONE White please supply your artwork with a background colour, in CMYK, which represents the colour of the polo shirt which has been ordered.

• Outline or embed fonts.
• Please ensure the design is fully vectorised and does not use bitmap images. Any artwork containing bitmap images cannot be accepted.
• Submit your files without cut marks or printer marks.
• For optimal printing, we recommend lines should be at least 1.5pt and text should be at least size 14pt. For light and decorative lettering, we recommend a font size of at least 28pt.