Printing services
for Dallas, TX.

Printing for the way Dallas does business.

Dallas is a city that does business over lunch, at the club, and in the lobby of a tower on Ross Avenue. The card you hand over has to keep up.

Dallas runs on relationships and scale at the same time. Corporate campuses in Plano and Frisco, the banks and law firms downtown, the design and showroom trade around the Design District, and a real estate market that never quite slows down. A lot of first meetings happen in a conference room off the Dallas North Tollway, and a lot of second ones happen at a restaurant in Uptown.

That mix rewards print that looks established. A thick card with a clean layout reads as someone who has been here a while, even if you opened last spring. Postcards work hard in the neighbourhoods, where a mailer about a new practice in Lakewood or a studio in Bishop Arts still gets read at the kitchen counter.

Where print earns its keep in Dallas.

Print works differently in different parts of a city. These are the places in Dallas where a printed piece tends to do the most work, and the piece that usually suits each one.

Uptown and McKinney Avenue. Client dinners and after-work introductions. This is where the business card gets handed across a table, so the stock matters as much as the logo.

Deep Ellum and Bishop Arts. Shops, studios and venues with a foot-traffic crowd. Rack cards by the register and postcards for the weekend outlast a social post.

The Design District. Showrooms and trade-only buyers. A sales sheet with real specifications does the talking after you leave.

Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center and the Dallas Market Center. Trade shows and market weeks. A retractable banner you can carry in one hand and put up in ten seconds.

One clear purpose. The right piece of paper.

What Dallas tends to order. Dallas relocation and real estate volume, plus insurance and financial advisory offices, favour trifold brochures and sales sheets a broker can leave after a listing walkthrough or a portfolio review. Suburban homebuilding pushing into Frisco, McKinney and Prosper keeps door hangers and EDDM postcards busy for new-community marketing. Independent insurance agencies and financial practices spread across the metro keep rack cards busy at a strip-centre office, doing quiet work a social feed cannot match.

Put a readable name first, then one line about what you do, then the one contact route you want people to use. A finish should support that, never make it harder to read.

Make the whole set feel like your business.

A Dallas note. Dallas branding leans bold and confident, and it competes with a lot of it. Give your card one strong colour and plenty of white space. A soft touch finish reads as expensive in a handshake, and it photographs badly on a phone, which is where most Dallas cards end up within the hour.

A brand does not need every piece to look identical, only a consistent voice, a deliberate palette and type that works at several sizes. Bring your logo, or start from nothing: print product design is $97 and logo design is $250, set up for the product and finish you picked.

Plan around the day you need it in hand.

Work backward from the day the materials have to be ready, and leave room for artwork, the proof, production and shipping. Each product page states its own time on press: two to three business days for most cards and postcards once you approve your proof, three to four for soft touch and door hangers, seven to twelve for the XL banner. Shipping sits on top of that. Give us the delivery address and your date when you order, with a receiving name if it is going to a venue, a hotel or a shared office. If the date is fixed, say so and we will tell you whether it is possible before you pay.

Getting print into Dallas. Dallas-Fort Worth is one of the largest metros by land area, so a delivery to a Plano office and one to a Design District showroom are effectively different trips; confirm the building and floor first. Long summer heat can warp uncoated stock left too long on a hot loading dock or in a car, so bring deliveries inside once they reach a warehouse or office park. High-rise towers downtown and in Uptown generally route deliveries through a loading dock and reception rather than straight to a suite.

Mailing in Dallas. For a neighbourhood mailer, Lakewood, Lake Highlands, Oak Cliff and the M Streets are dense enough that a postcard route reaches real households rather than office parks.

Give the file your full attention.

Use the artwork guide on the product you picked, because the finished size, the bleed and the safe area are not the same for every format. Upload a PDF, PNG or JPG and the size, bleed and resolution are checked in your browser, then your proof arrives by email and nothing goes to press until you approve it. Read your own details out loud when it lands: names, numbers, web addresses, dates, spelling and which side is which. If there is a QR code, scan it yourself.