A.  Posters can be made with standard shells, or custom shells.  Try out some of our standard shells.  You will see that you simply make choices for certain variable information (e.g., choice of logos and text).  The standard shells might be adequate for your needs.  More likely, you will want to send us information for your custom shells.

Q.  Will other customers also be able to use my custom shells?

A.  No.  We develop them just for your use.  That said, however, there are some poster designs which are fairly generic.  Unless your posters are quite unusual, it is possible that someone else may request a design which is similar to yours.  If you have unusual intellectual property needs, please discuss them with us.

Q.  I want to have my designer design a poster, and simply upload the images.  Can you print posters that way also?

A.  Yes.  However, consider this:  For text and line art to look their best, posters should be prepared and printed at 300 PPI.  For a 22 x 28 poster, that's 166 Megabytes uncompressed, and typically 10-50 megabytes compressed.  That will take a while to upload.  Using our standard and custom shells, the total amount of information to be exchanged, from start to finish, for a given poster may be less than 50K bytes.  The upload and download times are miniscule by comparison.  Once you are familiar with our shells, you can probably prepare a 22 x 28 poster in a few minutes.  Your time is valuable.  We can save you both time and money.

Q.  Is all shell setup free?

A.  For most customers it is.  However, if your poster is unusually complex, and/or if you plan on ordering only a few of a given poster type, then there may be a setup charge.

Q.  How do we pay you?

A. You can choose to pay for posters by credit card, or by invoice.  Most customers prefer to be sent an invoice.