For artwork services

Steady art work, with a brief worth having

Digitizing, vectorizing, separations, and cleanup for distributors already running orders through supplierlive. Every job arrives with the exact size, placement, and colors.

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The work

Digitizing

Embroidery files from customer artwork, at a specified placement and size. The stitch count you produce is what the job is priced on, so it is read from the file rather than reported.

Vectorizing

Clean vector from raster originals, usually because a customer sent a logo pulled off their own website.

Color separation

Production separations for screen printing, at the color count the job was quoted at.

Cleanup

The everyday work: knocking out backgrounds, fixing edges, and making a bad file printable without redrawing it.

How this differs from our decorator network

Worth reading before you apply, because the two arrangements are not the same.

We send the work, and we pay you

Jobs come from distributors already running orders through supplierlive. You invoice nobody and chase nobody. We pay you directly for completed work.

We set the rate

Being straight about this: unlike our decorator network, art rates are ours, published per service type, and the same for everyone doing that work. You are not bidding and you are not negotiating per job.

The brief is specific

Every job arrives with the decoration type, the exact placed dimensions, and the colors or thread requirements. No back and forth to find out what size the customer actually wanted.

Source files are required

You return the editable source alongside the production file, always. Next year the customer changes 2026 to 2027, and that has to be an edit rather than starting over. If keeping the source to yourself is part of your model, we are not a fit.

Questions

How do you decide what to pay?

Rates are set per service type and published, not negotiated per job. You see the rate before you accept anything.

We are also flexible on structure: some providers work per task, others on a flat monthly arrangement for unlimited volume. Tell us which suits how you are set up.

Who is the customer here?

A distributor selling decorated apparel, and behind them their own end customer. You will not deal with either directly. The brief comes from us and the finished files come back to us.

Why do you insist on source files?

Because a logo comes back. The same design gets reordered a year later with a date changed or a size adjusted, and without the editable file that means paying to redo work that was already done once.

It is the single thing we are least flexible on, and it is worth saying plainly before you apply rather than after.

What happens if artwork is genuinely unusable?

Say so. Some files cannot be rescued at the size requested, and flagging that early is far better than producing something that fails on the machine. We would rather go back to the customer than to a decorator holding ruined garments.

Can I also join as a decorator?

Yes, and plenty of shops do both. It is one account with both capabilities rather than two separate sign-ups.

The two work differently though: decorators set their own prices and are paid by the distributor, while art services are priced and paid by us.

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