We would like to share a couple of tips to help you select the best picture for printing on mugs, mousepads & jigsaw puzzles.

Colour reproduction from heat transfer usually will deviate a little from what you see on screen as the colours go through a metamorphic process when they are heated up. Hence, sometimes what may seem like a pretty picture on screen, that has been illuminated by your pretty LCDs, may not seem as pretty on print. However, that being said there are also just as many cases whereby the pictures turn out really well on print just as they are on screen. Hence this post is really here to share with you some of the tips that we have found that can help you get those perfect prints!

Here goes:

1) Choose a bright picture taken in daylight and ensure that there aren’t any shadows on the face.

The example above shows ample lighting in broad daylight.

Here’s an example of a picture that looks good on screen but will not work as well on print:

Light is shinning from the back. The faces are in shadows and if you look close enough, the picture is pixelated.

2) Ensure that pictures are not pixelated, meaning you don’t see those little dots and pixels on the photos when you stare at it hard enough.

If you look at the following picture closely enough, you can see the little pixels on it.

3) A picture with high (good if not possible) resolution please. If your picture is small, it will become pixelated when we expand it to fit the mug. A good guideline is that a picture file of at least 500KB is good. Else, minimally it should take up at least 200K.

There you go, 3 tips on improving your printouts. Do leave a comment below if you have other tips you would like to share with the rest of us.