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Quality Recommendations
Judge quality at the final physical size and through the complete production workflow. A visually clean file on screen can still fail because of insufficient pixels, unsuitable edge transparency, color conversion, placement tolerance, or material behavior.
For stronger image quality:
- Start from the highest-quality original or editable source
- Export once at the required final pixel dimensions
- Avoid repeated enlargement, resampling, and re-exporting
- Inspect text, edges, gradients, and transparency at 100 percent view
- Use the requested color profile and validate critical colors physically
- Keep essential content inside the product safe area
- Produce a proof when the file, material, machine, or placement has not been validated together
Quality priority
| Priority | Question |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | Is this the correct design, revision, product, and personalization? |
| Suitability | Does the PNG contain enough information for the final size and method? |
| Appearance | Are color, detail, transparency, and placement acceptable? |
| Durability | Was the selected process completed and finished correctly? |
| Consistency | Can the same result be reproduced across the order and future orders? |