05:20 PM EST Saturday, December 14, 2024 | Pick Up Available M-F 10am-8pm
05:20 PM EST Saturday, December 14, 2024 | Pick Up Available M-F 10am-8pm

Our process for any print job begins with you and your needs. Once you've placed your order with us via phone call, email, or on our website, we can start putting your order together. If you need a design created from scratch or have an existing design that requires some tweaks, our graphic designers and pre-production teams will help make those edits or make an original design that will wow you! Once your design is complete or If you already had a print ready design submitted in your order, we'll confirm the files meets our quality standards and add any aditional elements you've purchased such as a Union Bug. From there we send the files to our production teams to print, cut, and package your order. After production is finished, completed orders are either picked up at our Farmington location, delivered by our delivery team, or shipped out to their final destination via national postal services like FedEx.

Typically, orders should be expected by the last day of the provided turnaround window for whichever turnaround time you have selected while placing your order. You will receive automated updates as your order moves through our production process via the email address associated with your account, and can check the status of your order at any time by signing in to your account on our website.

When you submit a design, photo, or any other image for use in a print project, there are a few things to double check to ensure your prints come out looking how you expect. There are two primary elements to consider when submitting a file to print, size / aspect ratio, and DPI. On a Windows computer, these can be found by right clicking the file and selecting "properties" from the dropdown menu. On a Mac, these can be found by opening your file and clicking the "i" symbol in the top bar. Size /Aspect Ratio: Ensure the digital file matches the final print dimensions. For example, if the banner is 8 feet by 4 feet, the digital file should be set to these dimensions. Maintain the correct aspect ratio to ensure the image does not get stretched or distorted. For instance, a 3:2 aspect ratio design should not be printed in a 4:3 aspect ratio without adjustments. Verify that the digital file’s aspect ratio matches the intended print size (e.g., 8:4 feet banner should maintain a 2:1 aspect ratio). DPI (Dots Per Inch): Minimum DPI: For images that are half-size or greater, a minimum of 150 DPI is recommended. Ideal DPI: For full-size images, aim for 300 - 400 DPI to ensure the highest quality print. This is particularly important for viewing from close distances. Ensure that the DPI setting in your design software matches these requirements to avoid pixelation. Additional Tips: Use high-resolution images and vector graphics where possible. Convert text to outlines to avoid font issues. Include bleed and crop marks as needed.

There are two main reasons not to attempt to print images you've found online. Firstly, digital images can often appear perfectly crisp and legible on a screen, but still not follow our "Print-Ready File" guidelines, leading to a messy, blurry, or pixelated final print. Secondly, images found online are often subject to copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property protections. These images cannot be used for commercial purposes without the express consent of their intellectual property owners.

Scanning images from printed material like magazines has a very special problem (copyrights, which is a serious consideration too). dotted pattern in your scanned images from printed material, one example is shown below.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) is a file compression algorithm used for image compression. JPEG is so popularly known and used because its widely supported and uses the best compression algorithm for images transferred through the internet. PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format by Adobe. This file format helps to view, partially edit files originally made in almost any designing/word processing software. A PDF file can be viewed using Acrobat Reader. JPEG files can only ever contain one image or "page", while PDF files can contain multiple "pages" of images, and can keep them in sequential order. To send someone a set of five images could be done with etiher five seperate JPEG files, or one shared PDF file. Think of a JPEG like a picture frame, and PDF like a folder.

We don't keep one complied list of all we can offer and their prices for several reasons, but a few include flucutations in supplier pricing within the print industry, our ability to accomodate custom sizes for almost any print project, and the impact that your required turnaround time will have on the final price of your order. We are able to provide an instant quote for almost any item on our site. Even for items or situations where an instant quote isn't available, we are happy to provide you with a custom quote for any print job you require via our customer service team.

Yes, our online pricing will automatically calculate a discount based on your order volume!

We print using CMYK, Full Color Offset Printing

Your image can still be printed at less than 300dpi, however the print quality will be sacrificed significantly. We print all jobs using 200Line Screen, which means you can utilize up to 400dpi for any print job. We recommend at least 300dpi to obtain the best print quality.

CMYK are the four colors that make up all other colors in the world. They are short for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black