Artwork Guide

Many of our products can be personalised during the production process so that they fit your business perfectly. Traditionally, custom messages and pictures would be applied to a product after manufacturing, however, to achieve the perfect product with a higher quality finish, we need to apply your design as the product is being made in our factory. To do this, we need to have agreed on the artwork.

Your order

Many of our products offer a “personalisation” or “customise” option. When you place an order with this option selected, your order is automatically assigned to one of our designers.

Your artwork & our free design service

Every order we handle is unique and so too is your artwork. Our design team will contact you to discuss the artwork you have. From here, they’ll work out what they need to create or reuse. They’ll ask you about your ideas and what you’d like the final product to look like. Once the layout is agreed, your product goes into production. The scope here is large, since some customers have print-ready artwork, whilst others have a sketch of ideas.

Agreement

Regardless of how the artwork is created, the team shall always seek approval from you before we go into manufacturing.

The Free Design Service

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What is artwork?

Artwork is a generic term we use to mean the graphic elements of any design. The design will typically consist of your logo, branding, supporting images and any key messages. The artwork file will be in a specific file format and it’s this file that our printers, cutters and plotters read, hence why it’s important to be correct.

You’ll either have the artwork already, potentially from a prior project or your designers, or you’ll need to use our free design service. Both options will still be quality assured by our print and product teams prior to going into production. Simply tell us your preference from the above options, prior to adding the product to your basket.

Examples

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Ranging from small messages on mini chalkboards to poster layouts, our customers have ideas that need to be on the products they need. Here is a small selection of design outputs from recent orders. Remember that our design team are here to help.

museum print on a pavement sign scaled

Headed A-Board

“Our logo, ‘St Albans Museums’, using our fonts”

laser engraved menu for Cambridge scaled

Engraved Menu Clipboard

“The Eagle, Cambridge, in the same style as the pub, with the Eagle emblem”

barista pavement sign 1

Fully-printed Barista A-Board (natural finish)

“In the style of Crude Coffee, with a menu as follows…”

freestanding pocket menu holder 4

Engraved Menu Holder

“Engraved with our company logo please!”

The design process

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Your order will be passed to our design team and they’ll contact you by phone or email to introduce themselves. Working together, you’ll agree on a design (“the proof”) and it’ll be put into production. Generally, we’d expect a few iterations of the design prior to reaching an agreement. The team are likely to ask you about specific messages, fonts, colours and any images that you’d like to see. Rest assured that you’re totally in control throughout the process, meaning the design will only go to production once you have accepted the artwork proof.

SUPPLYING ARTWORK

Once you’ve placed your order, we’ll need your artwork. The preferred method of sharing is often via email or through a file sharng website. Your designer will be able to assist you with this. Our team will check the technical attributes prior to agreeing on the output with you. This step checks that our machinary printers can produce an optimal graphic for you.

We’ll always ask you to approve the artwork proof prior to production.

MINIMUM TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Our team will transform your base artwork into specialist formats specific to the media; for example, making a representative design for laser engraving from your source PDF or AI file. We’ve found that the best approach is to send us what you have and we’ll get creating!

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WHAT MAKES MAJISIGN DIFFERENT?

Our print and design services are managed by our team based in the UK. They are a dedicated team of creative artists, engineers and production managers that are experts in their field of design and manufacturing.

We have invested in the latest print media technology from Japan so that each printed product is finished to a high standard. The engineering that supports our machinery allows us to scale the fulfilment of your products so that they reach your business on time, even at a high velocity.

We offer a free design service as we want to work with everybody that has an idea! Not everybody has a design or product team within their business, so we’ll work with you to reach your goals. There are no minimum orders nor months of waiting for your product to arrive.

We import a small number of ancillary products and component parts but ultimately every product you see that is made of wood, we manufacturer ourselves. So no matter if you want a single personalised product or a regular delivery of printed inserts to each branch of your business across the UK, we can absolutely make it happen for you. 

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION & QUESTIONS

If you have a question just give us a call on 01284 724980 or email us at [email protected]