Standard turn-around time for embroidery is seven business days; this time period begins when all blank goods have been received at our docks and the final art files have been approved. If a shorter time period than seven days for production is required, a rush charge of 20% will be added to the fees listed below.
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND DESIGN DIGITIZING FEES ARE ADDITIONAL! See the Embroidery Download our stitch estimator to help determine your logos stitch count Pre-Production section for pricing and details.
The pricing below assumes that all blank goods are purchased from Red Dog Studios . If the customer wishes to supply goods for production, the minimum production quantity is 24 pieces. Also, production fees and requirements may vary on orders produced on customer-supplied goods.
Prices listed are per sewing and location using the same art, based on the quantity of sewings and the stitch count of the design*, on blank goods purchased from Red Dog Studios:
Download our stitch estimator to help determine your logos stitch count
Listed below are the technical requirements that will ensure perfect embroidery production from Red Dog Studios.
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE A LOGO OR GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERY
Art that is "100% READY FOR PRODUCTION" means the customer provides a digitized embroidery file to us in one of the formats listed below, ready for sewing. UNDER ANY OTHER SCENARIO, DESIGN AND/OR DIGITIZING CHARGES WILL BE BILLED.
DESIGNS, LOGOS AND ART FILES: Digitized embroidery files are created by importing an existing graphic or logo into a digitizing software program and then "tracing over" that design with stitch patterns. These images can be scanned from a paper copy that contains your design, or they can be imported from a digital art file (including low-resolution images taken from the web).
Paper copies of logos or designs should be presented at the highest resolution possible, and in a color format. Letterhead is an acceptable option (more so than business cards, because typically the logos on business cards are small and printed on textured paper). We can also use black and white line art as the tracing pattern, so long as any color breaks required are designated in some way.
Digital art files of logos or designs are created and saved from a professional graphics program or exported from a graphics program. Acceptable graphic program formats include files created in Photoshop, Freehand, Quark, PageMaker, CorelDraw, Illustrator, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint or any paint program that can export an image. Acceptable exported file formats include eps, gif, jpeg, or bmp at any resolution, but the higher the better. Any and all fonts and attachments must be included with every file type, or all fonts must be turned to paths. Images taken from websites are acceptable for creating digitized embroidery files, so long as they are large enough to see clearly.
The bigger and cleaner the provided art, the easier it is to digitize and the more accurate the final result. Color breaks must be made apparent on this artwork, so that these color breaks can be built in to the digitized file.
Standard turn-around time for digitizing existing artwork is three business days.
If the Red Dog Studios provides an estimate to you in regards to the number of stitches that a piece of art will require to complete as an embroidered file, remember that this number is only an estimate. All digitizing and embroidery fees will be billed based on the ACTUAL STITCH COUNTS that can only be determined after the file is digitized. Adjustments will be made to all estimates, both up or down, based on the final, actual stitch count.
DIGITIZED EMBROIDERY FILES: Red Dog Studios prefers to use TAJIMA [.DST] digitized embroidery files, as this format sews best on our embroidery machines. (IMPORTANT NOTE: we cannot edit or resize TAJIMA .DST files! Any .DST files provided must ready for sewing!)
We also accept the following digitized embroidery file formats: MELCO CONDENSED [.CND]; DATA STITCH [.STI or .STX]. Each of these file types can be opened, edited and resized through our systems.
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A LOGO OR GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR EMBROIDERY
The best in professional artwork and design services are available from the art staff at Red Dog Studios! Using our professionals to create your logo from scratch provides not only a high level of aesthetics, but also ensures that the designs will translate perfectly into screen printed and/or embroidered works.
Remember that there are two parts to creating an embroidered image: the development of a logo or graphic design, and the digitizing of that design to create a computer file that instructs the embroidery machine what to sew where. These are two distinct processes, and the billing for each process is separate see price chart.
[IF YOU WANT ONLY EMBROIDERED TEXT (no graphic/logo/design/image) ON YOUR PRODUCTS, THERE ARE NO DESIGN OR DIGITIZING FEES. You may choose any of our Stock Embroidery Fonts and we will set the text to your specifications in preparation for embroidery. Text setups include only type/letters/words; no graphics, icons or logos included. Standard turn-around time for graphic designs created from scratch is three business days.
If Red Dog Studios provides an estimate to you in regards to the number of stitches that a piece of art will require to complete as an embroidered file, remember that this number is only an estimate. All digitizing and embroidery fees will be billed based on the ACTUAL STITCH COUNTS that can only be determined after the file is digitized. Adjustments will be made to all estimates, both up or down, based on the final, actual stitch count.
Feel free to discuss ideas, time estimates and fees with your sales representative prior to submitting your order to us, so that both parties clearly understand the expectations and all of the potential applications for the design prior to development.
GRAPHIC DESIGN AND PRE-PRODUCTION SCHEDULE OF FEES FOR EMBROIDERY
GRAPHIC DESIGN SERVICES
DIGITIZING FEES
[NOTE: If Red Dog Studios provides an estimate to you in regards to the number of stitches that a piece of art will require to complete as an embroidered file, remember that this number is only an estimate. All digitizing and embroidery fees will be billed based on the ACTUAL STITCH COUNTS that can only be determined after the file is digitized. Adjustments will be made to all estimates, both up or down, based on the final, actual stitch count.]
MONOGRAMS OR EMBROIDERED NAMES
DIGITIZED ART FILE DISK