Sublimation Production Settings

This screen contains the production configuration options for the Sublimation decoration process. Configuring production settings to match your business processes and equipment will increase the overall efficiency of DecoNetwork and your business.

Prerequisites

• You must have administrator access to use this feature

To configure your sublimation production settings:

1. Log into your DecoNetwork Website.
2. Browse to Admin > Decoration Processes.

   

   

3. Select Sublimation, then click Production Settings.
   

   The production settings for sublimation will be shown in the main work area.

   Production Options

   • Minimum DPI sets the lowest DPI that the online designer will accept as a reasonable quality graphic. (DPI is used to describe the resolution by number of dots per inch in a digital print). If graphics are below this DPI, either because they are low resolution to begin with or are enlarged or stretched (thereby reducing resolution) the online designer will warn the user that the graphics they are using may produce poor results.
   • Production DPI should be set to the best or native resolution your printer provides. Images with a DPI higher than this will be down-sampled to this setting.

   WARNING: Due to the way image coordinates are presently stored, changing production DPI will render all previously configured decorated products as unusable. It is highly recommended that these settings are put in place prior to making decorated products. Decorated products will need to be rebuilt after accepting this change.

   
   

   Product Ready File Options

   • File format lets you select the type of file that will be sent to your production team for creation of the decorated product. Select the format that best suits your internal business processes.
   • Crop image is an option that becomes available if PNG is selected as the production file format. When enabled, this option will crop any transparent space from around an image, bringing the edge of the product images back to where non-transparency commences. Select the option that best suits your equipment.
   • Convert Text to Curves, when ticked, converts objects recognized as text to outline objects. You should tick this checkbox if the system you use to print the production files does not contain the fonts that are used in the order. If your machine does not have the font it will be replaced with the closest matching font, which may cause the text to shift in the design. Converting to curves prevents your fonts from shifting when you send your file to print. However, the text itself will no longer be editable as a text field.
   • Include Background Color, when ticked, will include the background color in production files if the customer has set the background color in the designer. For this to function customers must be permitted to set background color at the product level (Products > [Product] > Decoration Areas > Configure Areas (cog) > Allow Custom Decoration Areas (Advanced) > Configure Area (cog) > Allow Custom Decoration Area (Advanced) > Select area in view image and tick Can set background color). This setting is not normally used for garment decoration and is more commonly used for types of product such as buttons and badges, and even then only if the printed media background is not available in a requested color.
   • Teamnames (less than 100 / more than 100) sets the output behavior of production files when teamnames are being used in the design. You can set the behavior for the case of less than 100 teamnames and for the case of 100 or more teamnames.
     • If 1 File per teamname is set, then a separate production file will be generated for each team name.
     • If 1 File with static background, and 1 Overlay file per teamname is set, then 1 production file is generated with a background layer containing the static part of the design and a separate layer for each teamname.
     • If 1 File with static background, and 1 csv file containing teamnames is set, then 1 production file with only the static background part of the design is generated along with a csv file containing the teamnames for you to use as a reference to manually create production files for each teamname.

   Edit Ready File Options

   • File format lets you select the format of production files when you edit them.
   • Include Background Color, when ticked, will include the background color in editing files if the customer has set the background color in the designer. For this to function customers must be permitted to set background color at the product level (Products > [Product] > Decoration Areas > Configure Areas (cog) > Allow Custom Decoration Areas (Advanced) > Configure Area (cog) > Allow Custom Decoration Area (Advanced) > Select area in view image and tick Can set background color). This setting is not normally used for garment decoration and is more commonly used for types of product such as buttons and badges, and even then only if the printed media background is not available in a requested color.
   • Convert Text to Curves, when ticked, converts objects recognized as text to outline objects. You should tick this checkbox if the system you use to edit the production files does not contain the fonts that are used in the order. If your machine does not have the font it will be replaced with the closest matching font, which may cause the text to shift in the design. Converting to curves prevents your fonts from shifting when you open your file for editing. However, the text itself will no longer be editable as a text field.
   • Teamnames (less than 100 / more than 100) sets the output behavior of files for editing when teamnames are being used in the design. You can set the behavior for the case of less than 100 teamnames and for the case of 100 or more teamnames.
     • If 1 File per teamname is set, then a separate production file will be generated for each team name.
     • If 1 File with static background, and 1 Overlay file per teamname is set then 1 editing file is generated with a background layer containing the static part of the design and a separate layer for each teamname.
     • If 1 File with static background, and 1 csv file containing teamnames is set, then 1 editing file with only the static background part of the design is generated along with a csv file containing the teamnames for you to use as a reference to manually create production files for each teamname.
4. Configure the settings as required.
5. When finished, click Save.