Vector files for print on demand
Print on demand punishes low-resolution uploads. Trace the artwork into paths once and it is sharp on a sticker, a shirt and a two-metre banner.
- Preset
- Logo
- Palette
- 16 colours
- Output
- SVG
- Price
- Free preview
Drop an image here, or paste
Your image is never uploaded. It is traced in this tab.Open the full converter
Preset
- 01Logo — set for this page16 colours
- 02Line artBlack & white
- 03Photo64 colours
- 04Embroidery8 colours · Cutout
- 05Vinyl4 colours · Cutout
- 06LaserBlack & white · Polygon
- Output · SVG · PDF · EPS [soon] · DXF [soon]
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- Your file stays in this tab
What the software needs
- Resolution independence
- A vector file has no resolution, so one file covers a sticker and a banner. The upload rejection for "image too small" stops applying.
- A palette the process can hold
- Screen printing needs one screen per colour and DTG does not, so trace to the number the process quoted rather than to the number that looks nicest.
- Real transparency, no white plate
- A traced PNG keeps its alpha as holes in the geometry. A JPG source has no alpha, so delete the background path before uploading or it prints as a white rectangle.
- PDF or SVG, depending on the storefront
- Most print-on-demand back ends take PDF or SVG. Both hold the same geometry here; send whichever their upload form names first.
- Rights you actually have
- Tracing a mark does not create a licence to print it. That is a legal question about the artwork, not a technical one about the file.
Preset
The logo preset traces flat artwork with a sixteen-colour palette and spline fitting — enough colours for most designs, smooth enough for a poster, and low enough in nodes that the file opens quickly in a storefront preview.
Why vectortrace
- Ticket 1 / 3
In-browser and private
The engine is WebAssembly running in a worker on your own machine. Your image is never uploaded — so there is nothing to leak, nothing to delete, and nothing to take on trust.
- Ticket 2 / 3
Editable paths, not a wrapper
The engine groups the image into colour regions, takes the boundary between them and fits curves to it. What comes out is real geometry — one fill per region, every node yours to move — produced in the tab and never on a server.
- Ticket 3 / 3
Formats print and production use
SVG and PDF today; EPS and DXF for cutters, engravers and embroidery software as the exporters land. Real files, opened in Illustrator, Inkscape and LibreCAD — not an SVG with a JPEG inside it.
Benchmark
Measured, not marketed. The corpus, the method and every figure the run produced are published in full.
Methodology → /benchmarks- boundary error, p95
- 0.39 px
- region-count error
- 0.113
- node-count ratio
- 6.35×
Questions
- 01Will tracing fix a low-resolution upload?
- It fixes the resolution, not the information. A traced 200-pixel logo is sharp at any size, but the edge positions come from 200 pixels of evidence, so soft details stay approximate. It is a large improvement over upscaling and not a substitute for the original file.
- 02SVG or PDF for a print-on-demand upload?
- Whichever the storefront lists. Both contain the same traced paths — the exporters are two writers over one document — so there is no quality difference between them.
- 03Is my customer artwork uploaded to your servers?
- No. The tracer runs as WebAssembly in this tab, so customer artwork never reaches us. That is the whole reason the engine is client-side rather than a queue on a box somewhere.