Design Advice - Acrylic Products

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How to make great looking designs for Acrylic. 

Acrylic products are some of our most popular, and really showcase the designs you create with advanced technical features such as transparency and even an optional LED light base! 

Here's how to make sure they look the best they can.  

Size matters!

The previews of products that you see are close-up shots, with the designs digitally rendered. This may make text and other design elements appear larger and/or more legible than they may be on the finished product. 

Make sure you check the physical dimensions of the acrylic product you have chosen. This can be found within the description of the product in the product creator. You will need to make sure that the designs you create will look good at this size.

The size of this product is ideal for short messages with clear fonts, simple photos, and simple illustrated designs.

If you want to make sure your design will look great, print it out at the correct size on a regular printer! If it looks great there, it will look fantastic on the real thing. 

Check your color profile.

When uploading your design to our system ready for print, your image will be converted to a .PNG file. This file type does not support CMYK color profiles, and so the color in your image will be converted to an RGB color profile. This will still work just fine, but If you have designed your artwork using the CMYK color profile, the colors in the image might look slightly different when printed.

If you require pixel-perfect color, we recommend designing your products using an RGB color profile.

Choose the correct DPI.

The DPI (dots per inch) setting controls the amount of detail a print will have when the artwork is applied to the product. For best results, you should set the DPI of your artwork to 300. Lower DPI settings will work too, but you'll be missing out on quality.

Try transparency.

On acrylic products, it's possible to make parts of the design see-through using transparency. Transparency will only work with .PNG files. Make sure you are saving your design as a PNG with transparency enabled from within your design software.

Acrylic products support the printing of white and all other colors on the transparent design. So you can make all sorts of different designs work. 

Transparency is especially great for allowing the light of the LED light base to shine through!