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What Is Vector Art, and When Do You Need It?

The Prodigy chevron mark shown twice side by side: blocky and pixelated when a small raster image is enlarged, and crisp with clean edges as vector art.

Ask a decorator for a quote and you will usually get a question back before you get a price: “Do you have vector art?” You can order without it. Our designers work with whatever a client sends, and if your logo needs rebuilding, we rebuild it. Depending on the artwork, that may add some time … Read more

How to Wash Printed Shirts So the Print Lasts

White hoodie printed with laundry care symbols in front of laundromat washing machines

A printed shirt almost never dies of old age. It dies in the laundry room: hot water, a scorching dryer, a capful of fabric softener, and a logo that cracked years before the fabric wore out. Our Lindon shop decorates thousands of tees a month, and we see the aftermath too, because a company’s swag … Read more

Can You Iron a T-Shirt?

Neatly folded custom-printed t-shirts in a flat lay - gray halftone, black, cream, olive, and pink Prodigy sample tees

Yes. Mostly. But we decorate thousands of tees a month in our Lindon shop, and we can tell you that most ruined-shirt stories start the same way: a hot iron and about four seconds of confidence. The good news is that ironing a t-shirt is genuinely easy once you know two things: what the shirt … Read more