Custom Safety Vests: The Ultimate Imprinting Guide

Custom Safety Vests: The Ultimate Imprinting Guide

Hi vis safety vests are a must-have on all different kinds of work sites. From construction sites to manufacturing plants to warehouses and beyond, you’ll find hi vis vests wherever you find hard-working people and heavy equipment. Frequently, these vests also include the employer’s logo imprinted onto the vest material. 

These custom safety vests are much more than fashion accessories — they’re a key part of how many employers keep everyone safe and organized while on the job! To capture those benefits, you need a reliable partner like HiVis Supply that offers custom safety vests with high-quality printing. This guide will give you all the key info you need on ordering custom safety vests imprinted with your logo. We’ll kick things off with an overview of how our customization and printing process works.

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Basics of Custom Safety Vest Imprinting

Our goal is to make custom vest imprinting fast, easy and affordable for every business. HiVis Supply offers one-stop customization service that gives our customers hi vis safety vests with quality logo printing at an affordable price. Here’s the short (and rhyming) version of how it works:

  1. Vest. Choose a safety vest from our easy imprint collection for the fastest turnaround and most streamlined experience. Or, pick the perfect model from our selection of dozens of hi vis safety vests!
  2. Request. Send us a custom imprinting quote request along with your design, and our experts will provide you with estimates for cost and turnaround time. You can also submit your order request online.
  3. Test. Our designers create an imprint proof that shows how your logo will be printed on the vest and send it to you for approval.
  4. Pressed. Using state of the art printing technologies, we apply your design to the safety vests.
  5. The Best. Each of your custom vests goes through a three-step quality check process to make sure it’s exactly what you ordered.
  6. No Stress. We ship your custom safety vests directly to you, with expedited shipping available.

Sounds pretty simple, right? Frankly, that’s because we designed it that way! However, there are a few things it’s important to know before you embark on the process of designing your custom vests. 

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Why Add an Imprinted Logo to Your Safety Vests?

First, let’s talk about the “why.” Specifically, why do so many businesses choose to add a custom imprinted logo to their safety vests? We cover this topic in-depth in our list of five reasons to put your logo on your workwear. These are the basics to know:

  1. Identification: On job sites where contractors from multiple companies are working at the same time, work clothes with your logo are useful for telling everyone apart.
  2. Professionalism: A professional image is often the “secret sauce” that helps businesses get contracts, and matching printed safety vests are a key building block for a pro look.
  3. Unity: Workers take pride in their job and feel a sense of team spirit when they’re rocking a great-looking safety vest with their employer’s logo.
  4. Branding: A prominent logo on employees’ safety vests is a constant source of advertising for the business.
  5. Tax Deductions: Custom safety vests typically qualify as an employee uniform, which means that business owners can often write them off as a business expense on their taxes. 

Once you’ve thought about the why, it’s time to move on to the details of how to get your custom safety vest imprinting done. 

What Kind of Logos Can I Print on My Hi Vis Safety Vests?

HiVis Supply offers a wealth of printing options for custom hi vis vests, as well as friendly customer service that will help you navigate them and find the perfect printing solutions. Before you begin your custom vest design process, here are a few things to consider about your logo:

  • Just need plain text without a logo printed on your vests? We’ll handle the whole process for you, so you don’t even need to submit a design! Simply provide us with the text and your preferred location, and we’ll send the design proof with the text for your approval.
  • Our numerous printing options include standard single-color black printing, as well as full-color printing that will knock your socks off with its brightness and clarity. For low-light work environments, we even offer retroreflective printing!
  • Making your logo too large can affect your safety vests’ compliance with ANSI 107. To sum it up, the entire printed area on your safety vest can usually be no more than 72 inches to maintain ANSI compliance. In addition, both the front and back of your vests need at least 40 percent each of the required amount of hi vis material showing. Check the guidelines in our imprinting guide to learn more about ANSI 107’s logo size restrictions.
  • We ask that you send your logo as a vector graphic, rather than as a raster. Vector graphics provide much better quality when resizing your logo and avoid the dreaded pixelated look. If you only have raster versions of your logo, you can convert them to vectors in Adobe Illustrator, or by using one of the many vectorization converters available free online.
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Where Can I Imprint a Logo on a Safety Vest?

Unfortunately, we can’t put tiny versions of your logo all over the vest like a Louis Vuitton. However, most vests do offer three or four easy places to print your logo. Typically, you can print a logo on the upper back, lower back and/or front chest pocket of the vest. If your safety vest model has sleeves, you’ll also have the option to print a logo on them. The upper back is our most popular option since it offers the largest space for your logo. Many businesses use a full-size logo on the upper back with a smaller version on the chest. The choice is up to you — just make sure to consider the size of each graphic or piece of text.

When you’re deciding where to imprint your logo, it’s best to aim for at least one full inch of space between the logo and the vest’s zippers, pockets or other features. These things can distort your logo, so avoiding them will help ensure that your custom safety vest comes out looking clean and sharp. In addition, we strongly recommend that you don’t plan to print on top of your vest’s reflective striping material. This can harm the reflective capabilities and potentially leave you out of compliance with ANSI 107.

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What Safety Vests Are Available for Imprinting?

HiVis Supply’s Easy Imprinting collection is the perfect place to start looking for your custom imprinted vests. We offer these popular vest models with a range of quick imprinting options to make the process as fast and easy as possible. Browse our easy imprinting options now and find a time-saving custom safety vest solution. Need more choices for your safety vests? HiVis Supply can imprint any safety vest model that we offer with the logo of your choice. Check out our full selection of hi vis safety vests, where you’ll find everything from basic enhanced visibility vests to fully loaded ANSI 107-compliant work vests.

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How to Choose a Safety Vest for Customization

A great custom safety vest starts with finding a safety vest that has the features you need. When it comes to picking the right safety vest to imprint, here are some factors to think about: 

  • ANSI Level: Your workplace might require a vest with a specific ANSI 107 protection level. Make sure to see our selection of ANSI Class 2 safety vests and ANSI Class 3 safety vests if ANSI 107 compliance is a must. On the other hand, if you don’t need ANSI 107 compliance, consider our wide selection of non-ANSI enhanced visibility vests
  • Breakaway: Safety vests with breakaways are designed to come off when pulled, which helps workers escape safely if a vest gets tangled in moving machine parts. HiVis Supply’s collection of breakaway safety vests is ideal for anyone who needs protection from moving parts, particularly workers in industries like construction, sanitation and manufacturing.
  • Pockets: For a lot of workers, safety vest pockets are crucial for holding small tools like pens, notepads and handheld electronics. If pockets are a must-have, look at our surveyor vests for models that offer all the storage space you could want. 
  • Flame Resistance: People who work around arc flash hazards or other potential sources of extreme heat often need flame resistant (FR) safety vests. The special design of these vests allows them to self-extinguish rather than catching on fire when exposed to open flames. Read more about FR hi vis clothing here, and browse HiVis Supply’s collection of hi vis FR vests for our best FR vest solutions. 
  • High Contrast: For some workers, such as construction and road maintenance workers, it’s critical to keep visibility at maximum at all times of day and in all weather conditions. High contrast safety vests are a great choice for these demanding applications, thanks to their contrasting color schemes that help them stand out even more. Naturally, HiVis Supply has you covered here, too, with our lineup of high contrast safety vests.
  • Color Coding: Increasingly, workplaces are using color coded vests to distinguish workers in different roles and departments. This can be especially important in workplaces that use some variation of the incident command system. See our guide to enhanced visibility color coding for more information! 
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What Will It Cost to Get My Custom Hi Vis Vest Printed?

Here’s a basic breakdown of the costs involved for printing a custom hi vis safety vest: 

  • Vest Cost: Like with any other piece of a work uniform, it’s important to find a safety vest solution that fits your financial needs without compromising performance where it matters most. HiVis Supply’s lineup of safety vests features solutions for every budget, including a range of budget saver safety vests that offer ANSI-related performance at an affordable price point. 
  • Imprinting Cost: This is the price of the labor and materials that we use to create your custom vests. See our table of imprinting fees for a full breakdown of our prices. Remember that you’ll pay less per unit the more vests you have imprinted, so consider stocking up with some extras!
  • Additional Fees: Unlike other custom imprinting companies, we don’t charge a setup fee or an art fee for processing your logo files. However, we do ask that you provide your logo in one of our acceptable formats, and your order might be subject to an art fee if we have to modify your logo for printing. 
  • Shipping: Cost of shipping can vary widely according to the number of vests you’re ordering and the destination point. See our shipping and return policies for more information. 

When you’re ready for your custom safety vests, our custom workwear pros are ready to hear from you! Get your quote today on custom safety vests from HiVis Supply, or browse all of our vests to find the one that’s just right for your job site. 

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