A solid rectangle printed around my design
The file has no transparency. What looks like a white background on screen is part of the artwork, and the printer prints it.
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What is actually happening
JPEGs cannot store transparency at all, so every JPEG has a background. A PNG can be transparent but is often saved flattened onto white. On a white shirt you may not notice. On any other colour the box is obvious.
How to fix it
- 1.Check the file — the scan reports whether there is a transparent background at all.
- 2.If there is not, remove the background and save as PNG, not JPEG.
- 3.Look at the result against your actual garment colour, not against white.
Not sure this is your problem?
The check looks at everything at once — edges, transparency, resolution, stray pixels, garment contrast — so you do not have to know which one to look for.