Printing services
for Phoenix, AZ.

Printing for the way Phoenix does business.

Phoenix is one of the fastest-growing metros in the country, and its businesses are printing for neighbourhoods that did not exist five years ago.

Phoenix runs on construction, real estate, healthcare, semiconductors and a growing tech sector, plus the tourism and golf that fill Scottsdale every winter. Downtown and Roosevelt Row carry the offices, arts and restaurants; Old Town Scottsdale carries the galleries and nightlife; Tempe carries the university; and the East and West Valleys carry hundreds of thousands of new households.

Print in Phoenix does heavy lifting in the neighbourhoods. Door hangers, postcards and flyers reach subdivisions where every household is choosing a dentist, a landscaper and a gym. Cards should survive the heat and a truck; gloss holds up. Design leans clean, warm and sun-bright.

Where print earns its keep in Phoenix.

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

Downtown and Roosevelt Row. Offices, galleries and restaurants. Cards for the meetings and postcards for First Friday.

Old Town Scottsdale. Galleries, boutiques and hospitality. Rack cards and postcards visitors keep.

Tempe and Arizona State. Campus businesses and tech. Flyers and cards by the thousand.

The Phoenix Convention Center and the spring training parks. Conferences and a spring of baseball. A retractable banner and a sales sheet.

One clear purpose. The right piece of paper.

What Phoenix tends to order. Phoenix prints for a valley still being built. Door hangers, EDDM postcards and rack cards do the heaviest work, reaching subdivisions across the East and West Valley where every household is choosing a landscaper, a dentist or a pool service for the first time. Business cards in 32pt ultra thick or 16pt gloss hold up in a truck better than a thin card. Sales sheets suit semiconductor and manufacturing suppliers pitching capability to a plant, and rack cards carry the winter resort trade.

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 Phoenix note. Phoenix print lives in heat and glare. Gloss cards and vinyl banners; matte only for the boardroom. Warm palettes read well here, and so does plenty of white space. Put the neighbourhood you serve on the piece; the Valley is enormous and people choose local.

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 Phoenix. Summer heat is the first thing to plan around: stock and adhesive left on a sunlit doorstep can soften, so placing door hangers earlier in the day helps. The Valley's freeway grid means the East and West Valley are a real drive apart, so a route built for one side rarely suits the other. Gated and age-restricted communities often control access through a single guard gate, worth confirming before planning a drop. Winters usually bring seasonal residents who change who is home to receive anything.

Mailing in Phoenix. For postcards by route, Arcadia, Ahwatukee, central Phoenix and the Chandler and Gilbert subdivisions are 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.