Pridemaker Apparel currently operates three automatic presses such as the one you see pictured and 5 manual presses. We use the latest in screen stretching technology to make sure the screen tension for your design is perfect. This means that your custom t-shirt design will come out sharp and clean.

We have state of the art registering processes to line up artwork correct. When the colors are lined up correctly, they produce a sharp image displaying each color where it belongs. When this happens we say the job is "in register". In order to do this on multi-colored jobs we use a special registration system that starts with the artwork. This system, in combination with our automated presses, has a tolerance of less than 1/1000 of an inch. Again, look at one of the t-shirts in your collection and you’ll know right away how good the registration is.

We embroider a wide variety of apparel including golf shirts, hats, beanies, bags, custom t-shirts, and just about anything that’ll fit on our machines. Embroidery is the process of sewing a design onto a garment. Your design or logo can be sewn directly onto a garment through this process. Embroidered garments are priced according to the number of stitches needed to complete the design and the price of the garment. The first step is to digitize your logo. We can take your logo in any format you choose and put it in the proper format for embroidery. If you already have your design digitized you can email it to us and save on the initial digitizing charge.
Pricing for embroidery is based on the number of stitches in your design. The typical design is 5,000-7,000 stitches. The number of colors in the design does not have a bearing on the price. No matter what your requirement our experienced customer service reps can find the garments and colors that will work for you.

It all starts with the design. Just like a computer GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). That’s why we employ our art director Alex. He’s a professional artist and has been doing custom design art for years. He can create your custom design from a concept, a drawing, or an existing logo / design.
Since each color requires a different screen the artwork has to be done in a format that allows us to create color separations (seps). Each sep is printed on special high grade acetate film and is then “burned” onto a screen using an exposure unit that fixes the image onto the screen
Our designs are done in a vector format. If your design is in a .jpg, .gif or .bmp format it will have to be redrawn in order to print seps. If you blow up a JPEG image on your computer and look closely you will see that the image gets fuzzy. Vector formatted art maintains its integrity no matter what you do with the image. Once your design is complete a full color proof will be emailed to you so you can see what it will look like on the garment you are having printed*. Your design is also stored in a secure database for future use. If you want to change the size or a feature of your design all we do is pull it up from the database and the changes are done in minutes.

We do except customer - supplied artwork in the following formats…
Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
Abobe Photoshop (.psd)
(files may be sent in either native format or as a .pdf or .eps)
* Proofs are for “general viewing only! Because of descrepencies in monitors, printers and other output devices the proofs are not accurate gauges of color.