Digitized FIRST Logo for embroidery

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by BenF1776

Hey,
My team is interested in making t-shirts with the FIRST logo embroidered on the shirt. After looking into this we found it would cost upwards of $50 to get the logo "digitized". Has any other team digitized the logo and if so, can you share it with us.

I'd suggest consulting the company to ask exactly what file format they need for their machines. Most shirt companies will need some sort of a vector image format (.eps or .ai). These can be created from scratch in Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks, etc, or if you just need the FIRST logo you can download the .zip file from FIRST's website with all the different versions of their logo already in .eps format, using the link from Madison's post.

The .eps and .ai files are industry standard for vector images (whether they use Mac OS X or Windows computers), and any equipment should either be able to directly read them, or be able to convert them to a format it understands.

It sounds like the $50 they want to charge would only be applicable if the image you supply to them was in JPEG (or other similar raster) format; because then they would have to trace a new vector image over the logo to recreate it and that can take a while.

Originally Posted by iCurtis

If you want a big jpeg of the FIRST logo, Art Dutra made this one a while back.
http://www.team228.org/images/graphi..._logo_1600.jpg

From our website logs, a lot of people use that image. Which was the reason why I hosted it on our website: because no where else could people find a high-res copy of the FIRST logo. And if they were on a computer where MS Paint was the extent of their image editing software, trying to make use of the .eps files would be impossible.

I mostly created that to have a high resolution picture for Powerpoint presentations, posters, or just for printing out large FIRST logos from any computer. One of these days I'll upload just the plain .eps and .ai FIRST logos to our Logos and Graphics page to compliment the JPEG images, so people don't need to hunt through the .zip files from FIRST for the right version of their logo.