How long printing takes
A normal banner or visiting card order is usually ready in about four hours. What decides the jobs that take longer.
- 01
The four hour jobs
Flex banners and visiting cards, in a normal order, are usually ready in about four hours. Design, proofing and printing all happen in the same building, which is where most of that speed comes from.
- 02
Your approval is part of the clock
A proof goes to you first and the job waits there until you reply. The press waits for your written approval, so when a deadline is tight the fastest thing you can do is answer the proof.
- 03
What makes a job longer
A larger quantity. A magazine or brochure, where the page count and the binding have to be settled before anything is quoted. An engraved memento, where the text has to be final before production begins. Each of these is given its own deadline.
- 04
The deadline is agreed with you
Whatever the job, you are given a date the studio can hold, and you are given it at the start. If the day you want cannot be worked to, you find that out while you are still asking.
- 05
What to do if it is urgent
Call the studio and say the date before anything else, because that is what decides whether the rest is possible. Shop hours are Monday to Saturday, 9 to 7.
Where this applies
The work this is about
Start a job
Ready when you are
Send what you have and the studio will tell you what is still missing before quoting.