The majority of Fuel’s products are DTG. Garments are pre-treated, a white underbase is applied, and the designs are printed and cured to allow the colors to bind with the fabric.

After uploading your designs, they are automatically resized according to the proportions you’ve set. You can reposition and resize the designs to your liking.

Below, you'll find the maximum print area for each of our garment types. Click here to find the specific maximum print area varies for each product.

**Some smaller ladies' apparel will use max print dimensions of 9.5” x 10.9”

Vector files will produce the highest quality results. For non-vector files, submit high-resolution files of ​at least 300 DPI​ (dots per inch). The standard print area for most garments is 15" x 19" or 4500 x 5700 pixels.

Text size should be at least 300 DPI and a minimum of 10 points (13 pixels) to ensure crisp and legible fonts.

Protip: Before exporting your design, improve the clarity by turning off the “anti-aliasing” feature in your design editor.

When using fine lines, ensure that there are at least 6 pixels of transparency around all sides of the design elements. Also, ensure ink is not printed into small areas of transparency that you included 6 pixels.

Low-resolution designs will print with low quality. Resizing designs can also affect the overall image quality, too. Ensure the edges of your artwork are clean and crisp at print size.

The Fuel app will indicate the estimated print quality. You have the option to reduce the print size or upload another design if the print quality is poor.

Crop all designs to the bounds of the artwork, leaving a few pixels wide on all sides. Negative space is OK inside the design itself, but space between the edge of the canvas will get factored in while printing. Click here to learn about how negative space can impact the design.

Example:

Fuel supports printing transparent glow, transitions, and fades. However, when using transparent glows or gradient effects on dark garments, a lot of the design’s color may be removed because the white underbase will be visible.

We recommend you use the colors listed below for the best results.

Typically reds, browns, blues, and purples are the hardest colors to print in CMYK, but here is an example to see how they printed.

Depending on the garment color, off-black and off-white inks may print inaccurately. 100% black has a value of (0, 0, 0) for RGB, and 100% white has a value of (255, 255, 255). Please see the image below for an example of an off-black design.

It is difficult for dark designs to stand out on dark garments and vice versa. For dark designs to pop, adding white/contrast or picking a light garment would be best. Conversely, place darker designs on light-colored garments.