03 — Print Design
Design that survives contact with a printer.
A billboard read at eighty kilometres an hour and a business card read at thirty centimetres are not the same design problem. We treat them that way — and supply artwork your printer does not have to ring you about.
- Brochures
- Flyers & Leaflets
- Billboards & Outdoor
- Business Cards
- Wallpapers & Wall Graphics
- Packaging
- Signage
- Print-Ready Artwork
The problem
Most print problems are set up months before the print run.
A file exported in the wrong colour space, type set too fine for the stock, a logo with no vector original, a bleed nobody added. None of it shows on screen, and all of it shows on the press — usually the afternoon before a trade show.
The other failure is quieter: print that is technically fine and looks nothing like the website, because it was made by someone who never saw the brand system.
What kinds of print design does Digital Pro produce?
Brochures, flyers and leaflets, business cards and stationery, billboards and outdoor, posters, wall graphics and wallpapers, signage, banners, trade-show collateral, catalogues, menus and packaging.
Everything is supplied as press-ready artwork — correct colour space, bleed, trim, resolution and fonts — along with editable source files, so you own the work rather than renting it.
What's included
How the work breaks down.
Scoped to the problem, not to a package.
Format & purpose
What it has to do, where it will be seen, from how far, and for how long. A pull-up banner and a mailer are different jobs.
Design
Layout, hierarchy and imagery built from the existing brand system rather than invented for this one piece.
Production setup
Bleed, trim, safe area, colour space, overprint, resolution and substrate — agreed with the printer before artwork starts.
Supply & check
Press-ready files, a proof to sign off, and editable sources handed over at the end.
Got a problem shaped like this one? That's a good reason to talk.
Book a Strategy CallHow we work
From brief to result.
Five stages, with something reviewable at the end of each.
- 01
Brief
Purpose, audience, quantity, distribution and the deadline that actually matters.
- 02
Specify
Format, stock, finish and printer requirements settled up front.
- 03
Design
Concept, then layout, then copy fitted to the real space rather than a placeholder.
- 04
Prepress
Colour, bleed, trim and a proof you can check before anyone commits to a run.
- 05
Handover
Press-ready artwork plus editable files, named so they can be found again.
Related work
This capability, in practice.
One project where this work did the heavy lifting.
Ready to talk
Let's talk about your print design.
Book a strategy call and we'll go through where you are now, what's getting in the way, and whether this is genuinely the work that would move things.
- Talk through your situation
- Get an honest read on the fit
- Leave with a clear next step
A conversation about your business — not a sales script.
Choose a time directly from our calendar. We'll look at where you are, what's getting in the way, and what we'd actually do about it.
Book a Strategy CallFAQ
Print Design questions, answered.
The things clients ask before they commit.
Can you work with our existing printer?
Yes, and we would rather you kept them. We ask for their spec sheet up front and supply to it exactly — colour space, bleed, trim, resolution, font handling.
If you don't have a printer, we'll tell you what to ask for so you can compare quotes on the same basis.
Do we get the editable files?
Yes. You own the artwork. You get press-ready output and the editable source, organised and named so a future designer can pick it up.
Holding files hostage is a business model we'd rather not have.
We only have a low-resolution logo. Is that a problem?
For anything larger than a business card, yes — and it's fixable. Print needs vector artwork or genuinely high-resolution files; a logo pulled off a website will fall apart on a billboard.
Rebuilding a logo as clean vector artwork is a small job and it solves the problem permanently, for every piece of print after it.
Can you handle the printing as well as the design?
We manage the process and the prepress; the press run itself goes to a printer. We'll brief them, supply correct artwork and check the proof.
Being independent of the press means we specify what the piece needs rather than what a particular machine happens to be good at.
Other capabilities
They work better together.
Each capability stands alone, but the compounding happens when they connect.
Branding & Design
We don't simply make businesses look better. We work out what a brand should stand for, how it should communicate, and why a customer should choose it.
Explore Branding & Design 02Communication Strategy
Most businesses don't have a marketing problem. They have a clarity problem. We settle what you say, who you say it to, and in what order.
Explore Communication Strategy 04Video Editing
One good edit beats ten rushed ones. We cut for the platform, the sound-off viewer and the first three seconds, because that is where video is actually won or lost.
Explore Video Editing 05Search & AI Visibility
SEO helps customers find your business. AEO helps your brand become part of the answer. We build for both, because discovery no longer happens in one place.
Explore Search & AI Visibility 06Performance Marketing
Paid media is the fastest way to buy attention and the fastest way to waste money. We run it against qualified demand, revenue and acquisition cost.
Explore Performance Marketing 07Content & Social
Content is how a brand earns attention between purchases. We plan it against real demand and the questions buyers ask, then produce it consistently.
Explore Content & Social 08Web & Ecommerce
A website is not a design project with a business attached. It's the place every other channel sends people — and where the money is made or lost.
Explore Web & Ecommerce 09AI Systems & Apps
Not AI for its own sake. We build the internal tools, apps and automations that remove the repetitive work a growing business quietly drowns in.
Explore AI Systems & AppsOne next step
Let's build something worth finding.
One call, your business, and a straight answer about what we would and wouldn't do.
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