Print Design
Professional Print Design Service
At Stationery Direct we offer a professional and cost effective in-house design service for all of our print products, if you do not have print ready artwork and would like us to design something eye catching for your business, or copy an existing design in a print ready format, then you have come to the right place.
Design Service Costs
The fee for design will depend on the product in question, please navigate to the print product of your choice using the navigation to the left, select your required specification from the drop down box and click 'View Prices'. A pricing table will be displayed, the set design fee for your chosen print product and option to add this to your order will be displayed at the bottom of this pricing table. Once you have placed your order online we will contact you with regards to your design requirements.
What do I need to provide?
All prices for design quoted online are based on you supplying the following: You will need to provide a detailed design brief explaining exactly what you need including any specific design requirements (if any), such as preferred fonts or colours. You will also need to provide all text/copy that you wish to have displayed on your artwork in the form of a word document, e-mail or similar. We will also need your logo (if you have one) and any photographs/images that you wish to have displayed, these must all be supplied in high resolution (minimum of 300dpi), if you have your logo in vector format then this is even better, vector files usually end in .ai or .eps. If you have no ideas as to what you require and need some guidance then don't worry, get in touch and we will see what we can do.
What is 300dpi?
300dpi (300 dots per inch) is the resolution that a design/image has been created or scanned at. When providing photographs and scanned images, please ensure that photographs have been taken at the highest setting possible on a quality digital camera and that scanned images have been scanned at a minimum of 300dpi. Logos, photographs and images taken from your website cannot be used at all as these will only be 72dpi.
I do not have a logo, can you help?
Take a look at our logo design page for further information.
I only have my logo in low resolution, can you help?
Take a look at our logo design page for further information.
I have no photographs/images to supply, can you help?
Of course, we have access to a database with over 1,000,000 royalty free photographs/images that we can use in your design, all photographs/images will be of high resolution and perfect for print. Typically prices are in the region of £5-£10 per photograph/image depending on the time taken to source them and the photograph/image required, this cost is in addition to our set design fees. All photographs/images will be shown to the customer for approval prior to purchase or use in any artwork.
I have my design in a Word document/Publisher file, do I still have to pay for design?
Artwork created in any of the Microsoft programs such as Word or Publisher will not be print ready files, this will be the same response from all commercial printers, however, it may still be possible to get your artwork print ready so get in touch.
