Printing services
for Jacksonville, FL.

Printing for the way Jacksonville does business.

Jacksonville is the biggest city by area in the country, a logistics and finance hub with a beach, and its businesses cover a lot of ground.

Jacksonville runs on logistics through its port and rail yards, financial services and insurance back offices, the Navy at Mayport and NAS Jacksonville, and a healthcare sector anchored by Mayo Clinic. Downtown, Riverside and San Marco carry the offices, restaurants and shops; the Beaches carry a scene of their own; and the sprawl between them carries the households.

Because Jacksonville is so spread out, print that travels does the work: cards that survive a truck, door hangers and postcards that reach a neighbourhood, and rack cards at the beach that visitors keep. Design here is practical and friendly; a clear offer beats a clever one.

Where print earns its keep in Jacksonville.

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

Riverside, Avondale and San Marco. Independent shops, restaurants and practices. Postcards, rack cards and flyers.

Downtown and the Southbank. Finance, law and the venues. Cards for the meetings and a banner for the event.

The Beaches: Jacksonville Beach, Neptune and Atlantic. Surf, restaurants and rentals. Rack cards and postcards for visitors.

The Prime Osborn Convention Center and the stadium district. Shows and game days. A retractable banner and a sales sheet.

One clear purpose. The right piece of paper.

What Jacksonville tends to order. Jacksonville's business happens at a distance: a warehouse meeting near the port, a claims office downtown, a beach shop by the boardwalk. Business cards in gloss or the thicker 32pt stock survive a truck cab or a site visit better than a thin card. Sales sheets suit the insurance, logistics and staffing firms that pitch by the packet, and rack cards and postcards carry the coastal and golf-resort trade. EDDM postcards and door hangers reach Southside and Mandarin subdivisions no single mailer covers.

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 Jacksonville note. Jacksonville design should be clear at arm’s length: big offer, big phone number, one colour. Gloss stock for anything that lives near the beach or in a truck. If you serve one part of the city, say which; Jacksonville is big enough that it matters.

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 Jacksonville. Jacksonville is cut by the St Johns River, so a downtown delivery and a Beaches delivery are different bridge crossings, not a quick hop. Summer humidity can soften uncoated stock and curl a door hanger overnight, and afternoon storms are routine enough to plan around for anything outdoors. Coastal condo towers usually route deliveries through a front desk, while addresses near the Navy bases at Mayport and NAS Jacksonville often need a name confirmed at a gate first.

Mailing in Jacksonville. For postcards by route, Riverside, Avondale, San Marco and Mandarin are established neighbourhoods where a mailer reaches households.

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.