Commercial pre-press, vector reconstruction, and embroidery digitising. We guarantee your brand prints flawlessly at any scale.
Melbourne Merch provides professional design and artwork services to ensure your logo, illustration or branding prints perfectly across T-shirts, hoodies, caps, uniforms and promotional merchandise.
Whether you need a simple vector redraw, Pantone colour matching, embroidery digitising or complete artwork preparation, our experienced pre-press team will optimise your files for commercial production.
You send us whatever files you have. Whether it's a high-res vector, a low-res JPG, or a photo of an old shirt, our pre-press team assesses its print viability instantly.
If your file is blurry or pixelated, our designers manually trace and rebuild the artwork into a razor-sharp vector, ensuring crisp edges for print or embroidery.
We map your brand colours to exact Pantone PMS codes and digitally scale the artwork to fit precisely across different garment sizes (e.g. S vs 3XL).
Within 24 hours, you receive a digital proof showing exactly how the design will sit on the specific AS Colour or JBS Wear garment you selected.
Once you sign off on the proof, the file is instantly converted into press-ready film separations or Tajima stitch files and dropped straight into the production pipeline.
Yes. If you're starting from scratch, our design team can create a professional logo, branding or custom illustration for your business. We also provide artwork preparation services, including vector redraws, print-ready artwork and file optimisation for apparel, promotional products and embroidery. Whether you need a new logo or existing artwork prepared for production, we'll make sure it's ready for flawless printing.
Embroidery digitising is the process of converting your logo or artwork into a stitch file that embroidery machines can read. Unlike standard image files, embroidery requires carefully programmed stitch directions, densities and underlay to ensure clean, durable results. Our digitising service creates professional embroidery files for caps, polos, hoodies, workwear and uniforms, ensuring your logo looks sharp on every garment.
Absolutely. If your logo is low resolution, pixelated or only available as a JPG, PNG or screenshot, we can recreate it as professional vector artwork. Our designers manually redraw your logo in AI, EPS or SVG format so it can be scaled to any size without losing quality. This ensures crisp, professional results for screen printing, embroidery and promotional products.
In most cases, you'll receive your first digital proof within 24 hours of submitting your artwork. Every proof shows exactly how your design will appear on your selected garment, including placement, sizing and colours. Nothing enters production until you've reviewed and approved the final artwork.
Yes. We use Pantone (PMS) colour matching wherever possible to achieve consistent branding across apparel and promotional merchandise. During the artwork preparation process, we match your digital colours to the closest Pantone equivalent, helping ensure your logo looks consistent across future print runs and different products.
Standard file checks, artwork scaling, colour checks and digital proofs are included free with all commercial print orders. If your artwork requires a vector redraw or embroidery digitising, we'll provide an upfront quote before work begins. Simple vector redraws start from $30, complex redraws from $80, and embroidery digitising is $60.
We accept AI, EPS, SVG, PDF, PNG, JPG and PSD files. If you're unsure whether your artwork is suitable for printing, simply send us what you have. Our pre-press team will assess the files and recommend the best solution.
Vector artwork can be resized without losing quality, making it the preferred format for screen printing, embroidery, signage and promotional products. Unlike JPG or PNG files, vector logos remain sharp whether they're printed on a business card or a large back print.
Yes. We optimise artwork for all decoration methods, including screen printing, DTF printing and embroidery. Each process has different artwork requirements, and we'll prepare your files to achieve the best possible print or stitch quality.
Yes. Once your artwork has been prepared, we securely store your production files. This makes it easy to reorder garments, promotional products or merchandise in the future without repeating the artwork setup process.
[ BASE_ESTIMATE: MOST ARTWORK PREPARATION IS INCLUDED FREE WITH COMMERCIAL VOLUME RUNS ]
We don't just make files look pretty on screen. We engineer artwork specifically to interact perfectly with heavy ink deposits and needle tension.
If your design has details too fine for embroidery or lines too thin for screen print, we'll tell you immediately and fix it before you pay.
Our pre-press team works directly with the production floor. Once you sign off, approved proofs hit the machines without delay.
Used Melbourne Merch for Merch for my daughter who's a Musician. Not only were Joe & Chris easy to deal with, they were fast with email reply's, mock up's and help full with any questions I had. The Merch arrived when they said it would and what fantastic quality it all is. The p...
JoJoB
a year ago
WHAT A TEAM ! My experience with Melbourne Merch , has been AWESOME! Super helpful, kind and informative Humans not AI - They answer your calls and return your emails Very professional from the start Products are great quality with a huge selection Colours are vibrant as promised...
ASV Academy
2 months ago
On behalf of CIEE Melbourne, we had an excellent experience working with Melbourne Merch and especially Joe, who took care of our recent t-shirt order. Joe Giampa was incredibly professional, patient, and supportive throughout the entire process. From refining our designs to mana...
Tharidhu Peries
7 months ago
Submit your artwork for a free review. Mockup and quote within 24 hours.
