There are three most common types of fabrics used in retail- cotton, polyester, and fabric blends. If you use a transparent design on a dark garment, the white underbase will show through, so do that only if it’s part of your design idea.

Customers also tend to forget that prints on all non-white garments have a white underbase to help the colors stand out. The printer will print all the colors it sees in the design, so avoid adding a background color unless it’s a part of your design. This is particularly important for products printed using the direct-to-garment (DTG) technique.

The background color and transparency of your designs.

But in this article, I’ll focus on two aspects in particular because they are absolutely essential when creating a print file. We have a blog article with an in-depth explanation of all the steps that go into creating the perfect print file.

The key to a great product design is a great print file. If your ecommerce platform doesn’t have this option and you want to make some changes to the design, it’s better to just delete the product and push a new one to your storefront. With some ecommerce platforms it’s possible to update synced mockups (also known as Repush mockups), but not with all of them. Any updates to the product, like changing the color of a t-shirt, won’t be visible on the storefront. Secondly, be careful when you make changes to your products. You can do that in your Dashboard under Stores-just click Refresh data to re-sync products from your store. First, always make sure to sync everything you add to the store that’s fulfilled by Printful. How to avoid this? There are two solutions. That will lead to delayed orders and time spent trying to figure out the cause of the problem. Remember that mixed orders (where some products are synced and others aren’t) won’t be fulfilled, even if there’s just one unsynced item. You need to sync everything you want to sell so that your products are visible on your storefront.

Syncing Printful products is a crucial step.

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