Shop by Trade Printing

Why shop by trade printing exists

A heating engineer's week looks nothing like a café owner's. One needs service stickers for the boiler cupboard and cards to leave on the customer's worktop; the other needs signs for the kitchen and the front of house. Browsing a print site by product type means clicking through safety signs, stickers, stationery and vehicle graphics to build one order. Shop by trade printing flips that round: start with what you do, and the relevant bits come to you.

Shop by trade printing: pick your trade

• On the tools: Electricians, Gas Engineers, Plumbers and Heating Engineers and Air Con and Refrigeration.
• On site: Builders and Construction, the biggest of the lot, and Lifting and Inspection.
• Keeping buildings safe: Fire Safety Engineers.
• Behind a counter or a kitchen door: Food and Hospitality.
• Under a car on a ramp: Mechanics and Garages.
• Looking after rentals: Landlords and Letting Agents.

A product that suits several trades shows up on each of their pages. A van magnet or a business card is just as handy for a plumber as for an electrician, so you'll find it in both places.

Starter packs for new businesses

Just gone self-employed? Shop by trade printing includes starter packs that bundle the basics for a trade in one order: the Electrician Starter Pack, the Gas Engineer Starter Pack, the Plumbing and Heating Starter Pack and the Fire Safety Engineer Starter Pack. Open one to see exactly what's inside.

What you'll find across the shop by trade printing pages

Broadly four kinds of thing. Labels for the kit you test, service or install, which carry your company name and number. Stationery like cards and paperwork for the customer's kitchen table. Branding for the van, so the neighbours know who to ring next. And signs for the site, the plant room, the kitchen or the rental property. Everything is personalised with your details. On labels, the price per label falls as the pack gets bigger, and the price you see is the price you pay at checkout.

No logo yet? No problem

Plenty of sole traders start with a name and a phone number and nothing else. The Artwork and Design Service is the paid route: it includes 1 design and 2 rounds of changes. You can also upload a print-ready file or use the free online designer. A real person checks every uploaded file for free. The artwork guidelines explain how to set files up. Registration numbers go on as plain text; we don't print the logos of registration or certification schemes.

Timing and delivery

Shop by trade printing mixes labels, paper, boards and magnets, so each product page shows its own production days. All of it is made to order and dispatched from the UK. UK mainland delivery is £7.95, free on orders of £100 or more after discounts (artwork fees excluded), which is easy to hit when you're kitting out a van and an office at once. Mainland Highlands add £10. Northern Ireland, the Scottish islands, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight are quoted. See the delivery page, or get a quote if your trade isn't listed yet and you want shop by trade printing for it.