A graphic is not a picture
An apparel graphic has to survive being printed, embroidered or appliqued at a specific size on a specific pattern piece, in every size of the run. A design that works on screen can fail on a size XS front panel and nobody notices until the strike-off.
Designing against the garment rather than against a blank canvas is what removes that class of late failure.
Families, not one-offs
Most graphics work is a family: the same mark at several scales, in several colourways, across several categories. Generating those variants from one editable source keeps the family visibly related and stops each garment drifting into its own interpretation.
Because the artwork stays editable, a graphic can be recoloured or rescaled next season instead of recreated.
Into the tech pack
Placement, scale, colour separations and application method are specifications, not notes. Artifax carries them into the tech pack automatically, in the format vendors already use.
Related
See also print design, recolouring artwork, editable tech packs, or read how Artifax fits the rest of the workflow.