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Digital Art Work Files - Requirements
for Full Color Decorated Ceramic Wall Tiles
and Sample Tiles
Single tile decorations:
For full-color, single-tile decorations the same quality requirements apply as those recommended for the decoration of our ceramic coffee mugs.
Multi-tile Mural decorations:
Since indoor mural decorations are normally substantially larger in dimensions than single-tile decorations, much higher quality requirements apply in order to be able to produce quality images for larger murals. There a two digital image file formats that can be considered: 

 

1 - Vector Format Files

The ideal file format for digitally produced art work should be in the vector format as vectors are completely resolution-independent. Vector files permit us to enlarge any such original, digital decoration to the size required by the mural without losing any crispness and sharpness of the image, and no pixellation at all will occur. 

Graphic applications that create such vector files as their native format are, for example: CorelDraw (.cdr) and Adobe Illustrator (.ai). Vector files can be sent to us as an attachment to an e-mail as they tend to be rather small in size.

 

2 - Raster and Bitmap Format Files

Should no vector files be available or impossible to create -  as for example in the case of already existing photographs and similar continuous-tone images - special care has to be taken when preparing digital image files in the bitmap or raster format:

Digitized images have to have very high resolutions (~600 dpi's) and should have the same physical dimensions as the mural/tile to be created, or any of its constituent parts - which is not always possible.

This will produce files of such large sizes  that they can no longer be e-mailed nor directly uploaded to our FTP servers. Even zip disks might not be able to handle the resulting size load even for files compressed with such popular compressors as WinZip of StuffIt.

Raster or bitmap files of such sizes should be burned onto CD's or DVD's and then mailed to us. All files sent to us have to be in a format that can be opened and read by our PC-based computers. We prefer the Photoshop .psd and/or the .tif file formats. Please do not send any .gif files.  Files in the .jpg format can only be used if they are in the required minimum resolution.

Should you not be able to supply digital files at all, we might be able to use a very large-size photograph of your decoration. Please note that already printed images - either from art books, your own printer, etc. etc. - are not acceptable at all nor are scanned images from such sources, even if the resolution requirements of the resulting digital files are met.  Only high quality, large-size "old-fashioned" photos made from film negatives can be used and even then some limitations might exist.

In general, the same quality requirements apply as those recommended for the decoration of our full-color decorated ceramic coffee mugs.
We also offer many tips and suggestions with respect to digital files, images and full-color, sublimation decorations in the FAQ section of our gift mugs web site.

 

For more details on digital and non-digital image material as well as prices,
please click here.

 

Samples of Full Color Tile Decorations:

Under certain circumstances, you might first want to see a sample tile decorated with your digital art work before placing an order with us. This not only permits you to see the quality of our sublimation decoration and tile quality, but also, the suitability of your digital art work file.

The requirements for successful tile decorations are very similar, if not identical, to those for our gift mugs. Hence our policy with respect to our full color tiles is the same.
You can evaluate our requirements right here even though they are written for our full color gift mugs.

For further information and details on this very important topic, you might want to contact us by e-mail.

Send digital files to:
Fullcolortiles by Bitmark, Inc.
4155 Dow Rd, Suite X
Melbourne, FL 32934 - USA

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