Print that holds up in someone's hand.
Business cards, brochures, labels and stationery, printed at American Paintbrush, the Laramie shop we run jobs through, and proofed on the stock you are buying.
The shop these cards run through.
No small format job on record carries a number of its own. What it carries is who prints it.
That frame is the American Paintbrush site we built. The finished work in it is theirs, photographed by them.
The one print figure on record.
Their number, and the artwork behind it.
Six everyday pieces, and the paper each one defaults to.
These are the defaults, not the upsell, and each one gets proofed on the stock the run prints on.
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Business card
32pt duplex, soft-touch, spot UV
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Postcard
16pt matte, full bleed
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Tri-fold brochure
100lb silk text, scored
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Die-cut sticker
White vinyl, cut to shape
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Letterhead
70lb cotton, watermarked
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Booklet
Saddle-stitched, foil cover
What You Get
Designed, printed and finished as one job.
How it runs
Use, audience, in-hand date
Who holds it, where it changes hands, and the date it has to exist. That picks format, stock and quantity.
Design or prepress
Laid out from your brand system, or your files checked for bleed, resolution, colour space and embedded fonts.
Proof on the real stock
A digital proof for layout, a physical one on the production stock when the colour has to be right.
Printed, trimmed, folded
Short runs digital, volume offset, cut and folded against the approved proof, then shipped or held for pickup.
Small format is a trimming and folding business wearing a design business's suit.
Cards, mailers and programs start life ganged up on one sheet, and most of what goes wrong happens after the ink dries: a fold two millimeters off that cuts a headline in half, a trim that eats the bleed on one edge.
A digital press does not need a warehouse-sized run to justify a setup, so you order the quantity the piece needs and reorder when it runs out.
How Small Format Print is priced
This gets quoted at every size. Here is where Mondo sits.
Quoted per project against quantity, stock and finish.
Questions
& Answers
Five questions that come up before the first run.
American Paintbrush in Laramie, the shop we run jobs through. Press, cutting and folding sit on one floor, so a mid-run fix is a walk across it.
Anything at or under roughly 13 by 19 inches: cards, brochures, flyers, labels, stationery. Bigger than that is large format.
Screens mix light, presses mix ink, and the two do not translate one to one. Colour-critical jobs get a proof on the production stock first.
Three to seven business days from proof approval. A tight date is a scheduling conversation, not a surcharge at checkout.
Quoted per project against quantity, stock, finish and design scope. Production files stay on hand, so a reorder matches the last run.
Print that earns its place in the room.
Tell us what you are handing out, who holds it, and when it has to be in their hands.
- A proof on the real stock before the run
- Short runs from the same press as the long ones