White-label design for commercial printers
We design the cards, brochures, menus, catalogs and booklets your customers order, and fix the files they supply that fail preflight. Everything comes back as a print-ready PDF with bleed, CMYK color and fonts embedded or outlined, in 24 hours on average, under your name, for $699 a month.
No contract, no setup fee, pause or cancel anytime.
Half the files that reach a prepress desk aren’t ready: RGB photos, no bleed, a booklet with 14 pages, fonts that didn’t travel. Each one is a phone call to the customer, and the job sits until they call back.
Forward the file to us. Fixes usually come back the same day, and the customer hears from you, not from us.
The jobs you get
- Business cards and stationery. Designed or rebuilt at trim size with bleed, on your house sizes and stocks.
- Flyers, menus and brochures. Folds set with the right panel widths, so a tri-fold closes flat.
- Catalogs and booklets. A page count that works for the binding, in multiples of four for saddle stitch, and exported as single pages unless you want spreads.
- Book covers. The spine width worked out from the page count and the paper.
- Supplied files with no bleed, RGB or missing fonts. Fixed and returned as the PDF/X you ask for, usually the same day.
- Ink coverage and black. Brought under your total ink limit, with small text kept to black only.
- Logos on repeat orders. A blurry logo redrawn as a vector once, so every later job starts from a clean file.
What comes back
- PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4, whichever your workflow asks for
- Bleed and crop marks to your spec, with the trim box set
- CMYK with your output intent, and spot colors only where you run them
- Fonts embedded or outlined, and images embedded
- The packaged InDesign or Illustrator job alongside the PDF
- On a supplied file, a short note of exactly what was changed
Standard sizes for this work: business card sizes, brochure sizes, flyer sizes, postcard sizes, and every print size.
Your customers never know we exist.
Every file ships under your name. No watermark, no credit line, no mention of us anywhere on the artwork or the invoice.
An address on your domain
We’ll work from an email address on your domain if you want one.
Ownership on delivery
Full ownership transfers to you on delivery, source files included.
Your trade area stays yours
We never contact your customers, and we never work for a shop inside your trade area without telling you first.
The plan is the same for every shop: unlimited requests, one at a time, for $699 a month. Without the plan, file fixes start at $10 a file. What the plan includes, and what it replaces.
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Questions from commercial printers
- Can you match our PDF preset and ink limit?
- Yes. Send your export preset, or tell us the PDF/X version, output intent, bleed and total ink limit. Every file is exported to that.
- Do you impose?
- No. You get single pages, or spreads if you ask, at trim size with bleed. Imposition stays with your prepress.
- What if a supplied file needs more than a fix?
- You hear before anything is done, with what it needs, so you can quote your customer first. On the plan it is simply the next request.
- Can our customers check their own files before they send them?
- Yes. The free print-ready checker can sit on your upload page, with your shop’s name and contact on it. It runs in the customer’s browser and the file is never uploaded.
Other kinds of shop: sign shops, screen printers, DTF and apparel decorators, label printers, embroidery shops. The plan, the price and how it compares: white-label design for print shops.
Clear the prepress desk.
Fifteen minutes. Bring the last three files you had to send back and we’ll work out what the delay cost.