Working with vendors

- With a lot of the work that we produce, it all comes in different forms. We make enamel pins, patches, we're known for screen prints and lately, a lot of beer can labels and all those require different vendors. And each of those vendors have different sets of rules in terms of how they prefer to receive your final files. - So the beginning of that process is really understanding who your vendor's going to be, who's going to be printing this for you in the end. And you could have an upfront conversation with them about what file types they want, how many colors you might be working with, any considerations for the project. So hopefully, there's no surprises when you actually go to send them the file. But this might be an example of a file that we're ready to send-off to a client. So, it's really just as simple as an illustrator going to file package. And what's that's going to do is if there's any links in the file, we've talked about in file hygiene, the idea of collecting all your…