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Cut-and-sew.
garments printed as flat fabric panels, then cut and stitched into the product
The route for all-over prints that must reach every surface of a garment. Threadless explains that its cut-and-sew tee is sublimation-printed onto fabric and then sewn together; the tee is assembled from five sections but has seven printable areas, and it takes one art file for all sizes, scaled to the garment, on a template of 9038 x 8148 px (60.253 x 54.32 in). It adds that all cuts may have around a 1 in margin of error, so the material can show more or less of the design than the template. Subliminator's blog says panel proportions change with every size, so an alignment drawn for one size would be wrong on the others, and names the seam allowance, the strip folded inward and stitched, as the part of each panel that does not show on the finished garment: an element placed in it disappears. Neither page states an allowance in millimetres or inches, so that value comes from the template. A design that must sit exactly on a seam is at the mercy of the cut margin. See all-over print for the file itself.
Where this matters: All-over print › Print area and canvas size · All-over print › All-over print template: one per panel and product
Related terms: Sublimation · All-over print