How To Get The Brightest Possible Digital Print

If you are looking to get bright and vibrant prints for your artwork, you have come to the right place. This article covers key decisions to get the most vibrant digital prints.

Disclaimer: We will not refund or reprint orders that appear faded due to the material or color of the garment, insufficient contrast between artwork and base garment, or because you believe the print is not bright enough.

Artwork Colors

In general, DTG will print lighter colors than you see on your computer monitor.  We recommend reviewing your artwork at different levels of saturation prior to printing.  Typically increasing saturation by 150% will result in bright prints.

Base Garment Selection

Choosing the right base garment has a huge impact on how bright or faded your print turns out.

Material of Garment

Digital prints will be most vibrant on 100% cotton base garments. Digital printing on a blended garment (for example, 50% cotton / 50% polyester) will appear faded versus the same print on a 100% cotton garment.

Color of Garment

Selecting a white colored garment will always provide the brightest printing results. White garments will also be more affordable because they don't require printing a base of white ink below the design. Light colored garments can also provide good results. Dark and bright colored garments (like reds, blues, greens, pinks) tend to "show through" your design, making the print appear more faded or making print colors different than you may expect because the garment color adds it's own base layer of color. watch a quick digital print comparison video.

Contrast Between Print And Base Garment

Ensuring contrast between the color of the garment and the colors in your artwork will provide more vibrant prints. For example, printing blue artwork on a blue shirt, will not provide a vibrant print.

Brightest Prints

It is noteworthy that screen printing consistently delivers brighter prints. In some cases only a screenprint can deliver a super vibrant print. For example, white artwork on a dark base garment.

Black on Black Printing

Additional attention to details must be used when printing black on black.  We recommend you checkout this help file for additional approaches to achieve good results when printing black on black.

The Vintage Aesthetic

We allow digital prints on nearly all colors and materials of t shirts and hoodies, even though they don't offer the most vibrants prints. We have done this to accommodate designs that are intentionally printed to appear vintage or faded.

• Related Articles

• How To Prepare Artwork For High Quality Digital Print (DTG / Direct To Garment)

  This article covers artwork requirements for achieving great print quality when using digital printing. File Resolution Recommend: 300 dpi Acceptable: 150 dpi Not acceptable: less than 150 dpi Files Size Files must be provided at the size you need to ...

• How To Get The Colors You Want In Digital Prints

  While digital prints have the advantage of creating photo-realistic images there are some limitations with regards to colors and steps you can take to ensure you get a print you will love. Disclaimer: It is your responsibility to manage the colors in ...

• The Ultimate T Shirt Digital Print Comparison

  Published on Mar 27, 2017 Don't even think about printing t shirts until you watch this video. Make sure you get the results you want when you use digital printing. custom t shirts

• How Do I Add A Print To My Shirt?

  Printing is one of the most popular ways to put artwork onto garments, because it is cost effective and can support so many different types of artwork. Adding a print to your design is fast & easy when you are designing products online. Once you have ...

• How To Prepare Artwork For Screen Print

  This article covers artwork requirements for achieving great print quality when using screen printing File Resolution Recommend: 300 dpi Acceptable: 150 dpi Not acceptable: less than 150 dpi Files Size Files must be provided at the size you need to ...