Print Help Centre
The FatPrint print help centre: how to order, set up artwork, pick a material, measure up, hang or fix what arrives, and what delivery costs. Search below or pick a topic.
Getting started 5
How ordering, prices, turnaround and file checks work.
- Print quote request: write it like a job sheet and get a price first time
- Ordering printing online: five minutes of prep, eight quick steps, no snags
- How print pricing works: the five dials on the product page and the lines in your basket
- Working days to dispatch: count back from your deadline and pick the right speed
- Print order stages: what we do, what you do, and what pauses the clock
Choosing a product 15
Which banner, sign, label or print suits the job.
- Which display to buy: four questions that settle banner, roller banner or flag
- Personalised birthday banner: pick the spot first, then the words and the photo
- Types of business cards: choose by what happens after you hand one over
- GHS hazard pictograms: red diamonds on the bottle, yellow triangles on the door
- Fire extinguisher types: read the band, then the label
- The difference between flyers and leaflets, and when a fold earns its keep
- The best sign material starts with one question: where is it going?
- Do you need waterproof labels, or will paper do the job?
- Safety sign regulations: do you actually have to put that sign up?
- Exhibition stand checklist: work back from doors-open day
- Fire exit signs: which way the arrow points, and where each sign goes
- Fire door signs: keep shut, keep locked shut, or keep clear?
- No smoking signs and the law: what you must display, and where
- CCTV signs: what the ICO expects them to say, and where they go
- Fire assembly point: choosing the spot, then marking it
Sizes and measuring 9
Paper sizes, banner sizes and how to measure the space.
- A series paper sizes: halve it, keep the shape, and pick the right one
- Heras panel dimensions: tape measure first, banner second
- Measuring up for a banner: fixing points first, then the tape
- Sign text size: how big your letters must be to be read
- What size poster do you need? Start from the wall, not the list
- Measuring for a van magnet: find the flat steel first, then pick the size
- Business card size in the UK: 85 x 55 mm, and how to set up the file
- Flyer sizes in the UK: choose by where the flyer ends up
- A-board sizes: A1 or A2, and what to check before it goes on the pavement
Artwork and file setup 7
Bleed, resolution, colour and file types that print well.
- 1:10 scale artwork for big banners: the sums that keep it sharp
- Print bleed and safe zones: no white slivers, no clipped words
- RGB to CMYK: why your bright green prints a little duller
- Image resolution for print: will your photo come out sharp?
- Saving a PDF for printing: the six settings that actually matter
- Artwork file too large to upload? Shrink it, group it or ask us
- Roller banner design: build it for the person walking past
Using the online designer 3
Design, check and finish your print online.
Materials guide 7
Correx, Dibond, Foamex, PVC, mesh, NCR and paper weights.
- The best banner material for your job: answer four questions first
- Vinyl stickers outside: what makes them last, and what makes them peel
- Which gsm paper? Pick by the job, not by the number
- Correx signs: what they’re good for, and where they fail
- Dibond signs: when aluminium composite is worth paying more for
- Foamex board: where it shines indoors, and where it lets you down
- Carbonless paper (NCR): why the copies work, why they fail, and which format to buy
Fitting and hanging 7
Hang banners, fix signs and set up displays properly.
- Magnetic car signs: fitting them so they grip, and caring for them so your paint survives
- Applying vinyl stickers without bubbles, creases or peeling corners
- Heras fence banners: fitting them without turning the fence into a sail
- Mounting a sign on a wall: match the fixing to the board and the brickwork
- Hanging a banner without it flapping, sagging or tearing
- Feather flag base first: putting up a flag that stays standing
- Putting up a roller banner in a minute (and packing it away without wrecking it)
Delivery and orders 3
Delivery charges, remote areas, oversize items and problems.
Care, reuse and recycling 4
Clean, store, reuse and recycle banners and signs.
By trade 9
What each trade usually needs, with the right products.
- Cafe signs for the 5 seconds, the 50 minutes and the kitchen nobody sees
- Building site signs for three audiences: the public, visitors and the crew
- Outdoor event signs: work back from set-up day, then walk the site
- Gym signs that stop you repeating the house rules all day
- Electrician labels and signs, in the order you use them on a job
- Signage for schools and nurseries: a plan that follows the school year
- Signs for a small shop: what to buy first when the budget is tight
- Plumbing and heating labels that bring the customer back to you
- Rental property signs: boiler cupboard, stairwell, car park and front garden
Glossary 1
Print and sign terms explained in plain English.
Buying guides 5
Longer guides to choosing banners, boards, roller banners and safety signs.
- Banners for windy sites: when mesh beats solid PVC, and when it does not
- Standard banner sizes: work back from where people will read it
- Safety sign meanings: read any sign by its colour, shape and ISO 7010 code
- Choosing a sign board: three questions that pick Foamex, Dibond or Correx for you
- Roller banner width: measure your space, then pick one of five
- All buying guides
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What the print help centre covers
This print help centre is where we answer the things people ask us over and over: which board survives outside, how big a banner needs to be, why a logo came out fuzzy, how to hang the thing once it arrives. The sizes, materials and turnaround days in each article match what you can actually order here.
Pick a starting point
- First order? Read how ordering works and how the prices are built.
- Stuck between products? Compare banners, roller banners and flags, then the sign board and label guides.
- Making the file? Get bleed and safe areas and resolution right before you export.
- Parcel just landed? The fitting guides cover hanging a banner, putting up a roller banner and fixing a sign to a wall.
Print help for your trade
Electricians, plumbers, builders, landlords, cafés, schools, gyms, shops and event organisers each get a guide listing the labels, signs, banners and stationery that trade tends to need. Trade ranges such as electrician labels and plumbing and heating labels put the lot on one page.
Kept current
Every article shows when it was last updated. Where one mentions the law, for example the Health and Safety (Safety Signs and Signals) Regulations 1996, it links to the official text so you can read it yourself.
Still stuck?
Product pages carry their own answered questions too. If this print help centre does not have your answer, send the details through the quote form; the delivery page and artwork guidelines cover the rules in full.