JohnnyMo

Generally speaking, I do most files for design/art in EPS format as it is "Vector friendly" and enables you to edit/resize, etc....

You can have him give you the print ready PDFs but ask him to also send along the EPS of the file. Your husband is correct in that he can give you a TIFF by just converting it in PS/ILL but the art guy is correct in saying if he gives you a TIFF that it will have to be converted to a bitmap as opposed to vector and will give you oproblems if you edit or resize. So though you can edit the TIFF they will not "resize" well and if you decide you need to do the logo larger for the back of a shirt and then small for a front breast you will lose the image clarity as it pixelates on resizing and may have to send it back to him for retouching, thus the reason he wants to send you a photo ready PDF. (If you need a bit more info on this, just do a google search for the difference between bitmap and vector images and you'll get the idea of why you want to use vector art as opposed to bitmaps.)

Hope that makes sense.

Good luck.

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