Sign Printing

Using high-quality outdoor signs to advertise your business can often be the first impression you make on potential customers – so it’s really important that the design of your business or shop signs reflect the quality of products or services you offer.

Like banners , good signage can be the silent salesperson of your business. Exterior signage has the power to capture the focus of passers-by. Meanwhile, indoor signage won’t just help your customers to find what they’re looking for, it can boost those all-important impulse sales too.

But, most important of all, custom signs have the power to get your brand out there. Whether it’s bespoke event signage to stand out from the rest at a trade show or something stunning to sit in a prominent roadside location, your sign lets people know who you are and what you do.

At instantprint, we leave no stone unturned in the business card printing process, before the end product arrives on your desk looking fresh and shiny, ready for you to begin networking.

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1. Pick your sign Choose your material and size

2. Add to basket Once you’re happy with your choice, add it to your basket

3. Upload your artwork Upload when prompted or add it in your basket

4. Place your order We’ll check your artwork and get it printed ASAP!

At instantprint, our custom signage – like all large-format print products – is produced using our HP Scitex printer right here at our state-of-the-art UK production centre. We’re always investing in new machinery so that we’re able to produce high quality products quickly, while keeping our costs down at the same time. So, you get the best print solutions at the best price!

It’s our aim in life (seriously) to make sure you can design and print signs online easily – so we’ve made the whole process really simple. Here’s a little checklist to help make sure you’ve set your artwork up correctly:

1. Size – You’ve set the size up to the correct size of the sign you want
2. Colour – If possible, you’ve set your colour mode of your preferred design program to CMYK for printing
3. Bleed and safety – You’ve added an extra 3mm around the edge as a bleed area so there are no unexpected white lines after we’ve trimmed your sign down to size and you’ve got an additional 3mm safety zone inside your document to avoid important info getting trimmed
4. Resolution –For high-quality printing, we recommend using high resolution images and logos, and saving your file with a resolution of at least 300dpi
5. Fonts – We’ll manually check your design to make sure it prints perfectly, so flatten your fonts by saving your artwork as a JPEG or PDF before sending it to us so none of the fonts change or move about when we open it up
6. Holes – Remember that some of our signs have pre-drilled holes in the corners, meaning it’s a good idea to keep important information away from the corners

For more information, check out our artwork guides here .

Stuck for inspiration? No money to spend on design services? With our free design tool , it only takes a few minutes to create awesome indoor or outdoor signs for your business. We’ve loads of sign templates to choose from and customise, so you won’t be short of ideas.

Making your design using a different tool like Microsoft Word, Adobe InDesign or Canva? Check out our easy step-by-step set up guides for a perfect design first time.

If you’ve already got your design sorted, that’s no problem either. Just upload it to us and we’ll take care of the rest.

Custom signs for your business are fantastic for promoting your store, giving directions and even for health and safety signage – and their size means you can get really creative with your design. Here are our top tips!

• Use big, bold fonts – Signs are used to attract attention from a distance, so it’s important that the reader can actually read your message. So don’t be scared to ramp up your font size!

• Make sure text is clear – Speaking of fonts, it’s a good idea to choose a blocky sans serif font. If it makes it even clearer, see what your sign looks like with all capital letters!

• Use bright colours – We offer full colour printing on all of our signs, so choose something that stands out, whether that’s your brand colours, a yellow hazard sign or bright red for a sales promotion.

• Be mindful of your background – Where is your sign going to sit? Is it by some bushes on a fence? If so, avoid green), don’t use white if your sign is going on a white wall, etc. If you want it to stand out, pick a contrasting colour to your background.

• Pick your sides – Some of our signs, like correx, can be printed double sided. This is useful for when you can see both sides of a sign, like an estate agent board. If you can, add an extra side so you’re covered from all angles.

Great business signs can tell people a lot about what you’re offering without actually including a huge amount. After all, pictures can tell a thousand words – so why not consider using a logo or a drawing to represent what your brand stands for?

It’s also important to get the use of colours right. Not only do you want to make sure you stand out, you’ll want to make sure that passers-by pay attention to any text or imagery you’re using.

And what about the text? Well, it’s essential to include what your business does or exactly what you want someone to get from your sign. Research has shown that 75% of people driving down the street pick out a key word from a sign the first time they pass it. So, make sure they do!

You might also want to consider including a catchy slogan, contact details and a call-to-action.

All sign orders approved by 5pm (weekdays) will be dispatched for delivery the next working day, with delivery taking a further working day. So, approve your order by 5pm Monday and we’ll dispatch it on Tuesday for it to arrive with you on Wednesday.

If you need your signage sooner, next working day delivery is available.

We know what it’s like to be a small business – and we know how important getting an amazing print product can be. We’re one of the leading signage companies in the UK, delivering fantastic indoor and outdoor signs to businesses across the country at an equally fantastic price.

And with upwards of 5 million print jobs completed, we’ve helped over 350,000 small businesses just like yours with their advertising. With over 380 experts on hand at our production centre, we’re waiting for you to get in touch and see how we can transform your business.

And if you needed any more persuading as to why you should choose instantprint for your custom signs, our customers rate us as ‘Excellent’ .