Vector conversion
You have usable artwork — a decent PNG, a print PDF, an old EPS with problems — and you need it as clean, scalable paths. We rebuild it to match, precisely.
Best for: getting a print-ready master out of whatever the client sent.
Service
Vector art, drawn rather than traced.
An auto-trace looks fine on screen at 100% and falls apart the moment it goes on a press or a cutter — wobbling edges, hundreds of stray nodes, and every JPEG artefact baked into the outline. We rebuild the shapes instead.
Why it matters
Where a traced file gets found out.
Screen printing is the usual place. A traced curve has micro-steps in it, and once your separations are output and the screen is burned, those steps show up as a ragged edge you cannot fix at the press. Same story on a vinyl cutter — the blade follows every one of those little jogs and you can feel them with a fingernail.
Large format is the other one. Blow a traced logo up to two metres on a banner and the wobble becomes a design feature. A properly drawn path stays clean at any size, because there is nothing in it but the curve you meant.
And then there is the boring reason: a clean file is editable. Change the tagline, pull the icon out on its own, recolour it for a one-colour print — five minutes if the paths are sane, an afternoon of node-by-node repair if they are not.
What we do differently
- Curves drawn with the minimum number of nodes that describes the shape, with handles on the extremes where they belong.
- Typefaces identified and set as live text where we can, then supplied outlined as a second copy so nothing reflows on someone else's machine.
- Circles that are actually circles, right angles that are actually 90 degrees, and symmetry mirrored rather than eyeballed.
- Colours named to your Pantone references, with a CMYK and an RGB version so nobody has to guess at the next job.
- Layers and groups labelled in plain language, so your designer opens the file and knows where everything is.
The three jobs
Conversion, redraw, or image-to-vector.
Logo redraw
The source is too far gone: a 400px JPEG off a website, a photo of a van door, a scan of a fax. We draw it from scratch and match the typeface rather than trace the mush.
Best for: reviving a logo that only exists in the wild.
Image to vector
Illustration, mascot or badge with shading that needs to become flat, printable colour areas — with a decision made about how many colours it is worth.
Best for: artwork heading to screen print or embroidery next.
Pricing
Per artwork, all formats in.
Vector conversion
$10from
A clean, scalable rebuild of an existing logo. AI, EPS, SVG, PDF and CDR together.
- Paths rebuilt, not auto-traced
- Live text kept editable plus an outlined copy
- Colours named to Pantone where you have them
Logo redraw
$15from
For artwork too far gone to convert: low-res JPEGs, faxes, photos of signage.
- Shapes drawn from scratch
- Typeface matched or redrawn
- One clean master, five formats
Screen printing separations, spot-colour swatches named to Pantone, and a CMYK conversion are included when you ask for them. We do not charge extra to save the same artwork out again in another format.
You get all of these, not one of them
AI Adobe IllustratorLayered, live text kept as text, plus an outlined copy.
EPS Anything printWhat most print shops and screen printers still ask for.
SVG Web, cuttersClean paths, no stray groups. Also what your web developer wants.
PDF UniversalPress-ready, fonts embedded and outlined.
CDR CorelDRAWSaved down a version or two so older installs can open it.
Doing both at once is cheaper
If a logo needs vector work and it is heading for embroidery anyway, get them together. The rebuild we do for the vector file is most of the preparation the stitch file needs, so we discount the pair rather than charge the same work twice.
It also means the two files actually match. Where a shop buys vector art from one supplier and digitising from another, the printed shirt and the embroidered cap usually do not line up — different weights, different letter spacing, slightly different blue.
Send both in one message
- One rebuild, two deliverables
- Print and embroidery versions that match
- One quote, one invoice, one thread of messages
- Bundle price — just say what you need it for
Next step
Send the worst file you have.
A screenshot, a photo of a business card, a PDF where the logo is a flattened image. That is the normal starting point here, not a problem.
Or email orders@zbpunch.com — orders taken 24/7 — someone is on chat almost all day.