Printing services
for Orlando, FL.

Printing for the way Orlando does business.

Orlando is conventions, hospitality, simulation technology and a fast-growing small-business economy, and it hands out print by the pallet.

Orlando hosts more conventions than almost any city in America, alongside the theme parks, a large simulation and defence technology cluster, a growing healthcare sector around Lake Nona, and the University of Central Florida. Downtown and Winter Park carry the offices, restaurants and boutiques; International Drive carries the hotels and the show floors; the suburbs carry a million households and the businesses that serve them.

Print in Orlando does two jobs: it works the show floor and it works the neighbourhood. A retractable banner and a sales sheet for the Orange County Convention Center, and rack cards, postcards and door hangers for the subdivisions. Hospitality and real estate hand out a lot of cards, and they expect them to look bright and professional.

Where print earns its keep in Orlando.

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

The Orange County Convention Center and International Drive. One of the busiest convention centers in the country and the hotels around it. Banners, booth cards and sales sheets.

Downtown and Thornton Park. Offices, restaurants and nightlife. Cards for the meetings and flyers for the nights.

Winter Park and Park Avenue. Boutiques, galleries and practices. Postcards and rack cards with a polished look.

Lake Nona and the UCF area. Medical, research and campus businesses. Sales sheets, cards and flyers by the thousand.

One clear purpose. The right piece of paper.

What Orlando tends to order. Orlando's simulation and training technology contractors, many working government contracts, still submit a trifold brochure or sales sheet thick with specifications long before a decision-maker cares how it looks. Vacation rental and property management companies serving the tourist trade around the parks lean on postcards and rack cards for owner recruitment and guest welcome packets, a different job from a theme park's own marketing. Orlando's timeshare and vacation-ownership industry runs on a trifold brochure or sales sheet built for a presentation table, the piece a buyer takes back to think it over.

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 Orlando note. Orlando print lives in bright light and warm hands. Gloss holds up; matte shows fingerprints on a show floor. Keep the design clean and the offer large, because a lot of your readers are tourists reading fast. A QR code on the back of a rack card outperforms a long URL every time.

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 Orlando. Orlando's sprawl along the I-4 corridor means Lake Nona, International Drive and Winter Park can be a real stretch of driving apart, especially once afternoon traffic builds, so do not assume they behave like one compact downtown. Central Florida's daily summer thunderstorm pattern arrives fast and heavy most afternoons, so anything left outdoors or on an uncovered dock is at real risk of getting wet. UCF's campus mail generally routes through a central department or housing office rather than an individual building.

Mailing in Orlando. For postcards by route, Winter Park, College Park, Baldwin Park and Dr. Phillips are neighbourhoods where a mailer reaches households rather than hotels.

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.