A problem that a lot of printing companies have is people sending over artwork in a vectorised format that contains text that hasnt been converted to outline (People certainly send us over a lot of Illstrator files for t shirt printing without outlined text!). The reason for this is that the printing company may not have the same beautiful fonts that you have used in creating your artwork, and if it goes unnoticed,  it can leave your print in, well, a bit of a mess!

When converting your text to outline it takes your text from being regular text and relying on a font, to vectorised shapes which can then be viewed on any computer even if it doesnt have the original font installed.

Anyway, however confusing that may all sound, converting text to outline in Illustrator is very straightforward.

First you need to select your text

Then Type>Create Outlines

Now your text is outlined and ready to send to the printers! One thing that I would like to add here is that your outlined text will now not be editable as regular text would be, so, if you would like to make adjustments to your design in the future it would definately be better to save your outlined design as a seperate file!

Happy Outlining!