MotorsportFanWear.net is a China-based manufacturer making team shirts that carry sponsor logos from your own artwork. The motorsport range is 40 styles across 11 teams, marks are applied by heat transfer, screen print or embroidery, the minimum is 10 pieces per design, and base pricing runs $10 down to $8 per piece. Send files to +86 181 7757 2115.
What file format do you need for a sponsor logo?
A working file, not a picture of one. The formats that run cleanly are AI, SVG or EPS vector, or a high-resolution transparent PNG. A vector file defines the shapes mathematically, so a mark scales to any size on the garment without going soft at the edges, and it is what lets a thin line or a small interior counter stay open instead of closing up.
A screenshot, a photograph of a screen, or a logo lifted out of a PDF at low resolution will not hold. If the only file you have is a small one, send it anyway and we will tell you what it can carry rather than run it and hand you a soft mark. Colour references matter too - send the colour values you work to, because a mark that has to sit against a garment colour is a decision made in your layout, not ours.
Nothing goes to the line before you have approved a proof, so the file question is settled before production rather than after.
How many sponsor positions can one shirt carry?
Several, and the limit is the layout rather than the method. On the motorsport range the positions a shirt can carry are the chest centre, the left and right chest, the sleeve, the area above the back number, the area below it, and the collar or placket where the style allows. A shirt that carries four marks is a normal order, not a special one.
What has to be decided on your side is which mark goes where. Send the placement map with the files - which mark, which position, roughly what size - and we return a proof showing the whole layout together. Marks are laid out relative to the block, and the block differs by size across the XS to 4XL run, so the proof is the place to catch a mark that crowds a collar or sits too close to a number.
What decides how large a sponsor mark can be printed?
Two things: the space on the block and the resolution of the file you send. The block sets the ceiling, because a mark has to sit inside the panel without crossing a seam or colliding with another mark. The file sets the floor, because detail below a certain size closes up - the small interior shapes in a mark are the first thing to go.
So a large simple mark can usually be run bigger than you expect, and a small intricate one has a size below which it stops reading. That is a conversation to have on the proof with the file in hand rather than a number to quote in advance: send the mark, tell us the position and the size you have in mind, and we come back on what the file will carry at that size. Message +86 181 7757 2115 with the artwork and the placement map to start.
How does sponsor printing change the price?
The garment price is unchanged by the marks on it. Base pricing follows the quantity ladder: short-sleeve styles at $10 per piece at 10-49 pieces, $9 at 50-99 and $8 at 100 and above, with long versions at $16, $15 and $14, and the tier is set by the total volume on the order rather than line by line.
Print work is quoted per piece from your artwork, and a quote for a shirt carrying several marks covers them as one job rather than as a separate charge per mark. Name and number printing is the one fixed decoration charge at $2 per piece, covering a name of up to 20 characters together with the number. F1 jackets and race suits sit outside the ladder and are quoted per order, and freight is quoted separately by weight and destination.
The minimum is 10 pieces per design, applied per design rather than per size or per team, and sample orders start from 1 piece - which is worth using on a mark-heavy layout, because a single decorated piece shows you how several marks sit together in a way no flat proof fully does.
Can a sponsor mark be embroidered instead of printed?
Yes, on the pieces that take embroidery - polos and crew necks. Embroidery is a stitched mark, so it does not lift or peel and it reads as a mark built into the garment, which suits a solid simple shape on a chest or a sleeve. Heat transfer remains the route for fine detail, gradients and multi-colour work, and for names and numbers.
A shirt can carry both: a stitched mark in one position and printed marks in the others. Both are quoted per piece from your artwork, and both need the same working file. Production is about 7-10 days on blank stock and 10-15 days with decoration, shipping is DHL door-to-door in 5-12 days depending on destination with DDP available on most US, UK, EU and AU lanes, and the tracking number follows within 24 hours of pickup. Payment runs by T/T, PayPal, Western Union or USDT on TRC20 or ERC20, larger orders normally at 30% deposit with the balance against the tracking number, and quotes hold for 14 days. Send the marks and the placement map to +86 181 7757 2115 and the whole layout comes back priced.