Print bed

98 × 51 in

2,500 × 1,300 mm · full 4 × 8 sheets

Stock thickness

up to 2 in

50 mm on the flatbed

Resolution

to 1,200 dpi

CMYK + white flood coat · varnish on production runs

Quantity

1 to 1,000+

$200 minimum order · no plate or screen charges

A printed, shaped acrylic part has two coordinate systems that have to agree: where the ink lands and where the cut runs. When a print shop prints the sheet and a plastics shop cuts it, you become the integrator. You carry one vendor’s bleed, the other’s kerf, both lead times, and the courier between them. The mismatch shows up as a white sliver on one edge of a display that was supposed to bleed to the cut — or a hole that lands a sixteenth off the printed border.

Under one roof, one vector file drives both machines. The cut path and the artwork share an origin. That is the whole difference, and it is why this is one job, not two.

Two vendors

Print → ship → cut → ship → you check registration → you assemble. Two quotes, two lead times, one of them always waiting on the other.

One shop

Your file → proof with the cut path overlaid → print → cut → packed flat. One quote. One lead time. One box.

Retail & POP displays

Countertop displays, risers, header cards, shelf talkers, standees, menu boards, sign holders, fixture components. Printed on the face or behind clear acrylic, contour-cut, scored or slotted to assemble, shipped flat in short runs of ten to several hundred.

For agencies, display houses, CPG, beverage, cannabis and cosmetics brands.

Nameplates, panel graphics & equipment signage

Machine placards, dead-front panels, faceplates, equipment ID plates, operator instruction panels, ANSI-layout safety signs — on rigid acrylic or polycarbonate, printed second-surface so the sheet protects the ink, with holes and cutouts routed to your DXF. Quantity one is fine.

For machine builders, integrators, labs, facilities and EHS.

Signage, backlit & large-format

Printed and edge-lit acrylic panels, lobby and event pieces, dimensional letters, oversized presentation checks, trade-show hero pieces. Anything that needs a full sheet and a router — the work a desktop printer cannot touch.

For exhibit builders, event agencies, designers, in-house marketing teams.

Trade & wholesale

Sign shops, print shops and display companies without a flatbed or a CNC: send production-ready files, we print and cut, we blind-ship to your customer under your paperwork. Resale pricing on account.

Ask for a trade account when you request your first quote.

Path A

Cut first, print in a jig

The router cuts your blanks and a registration jig from the same DXF. Blanks drop into the jig on the flatbed; the print file shares the origin. Registration error is the jig’s clearance, not a guess. This is the path for graphics that bleed to a cut edge, printed borders, printed edges on thick stock, and all second-surface work.

Path B

Print first, cut to fiducials

The flatbed prints your nested artwork plus registration marks on a full sheet. The router or laser locates the marks and cuts every outline. This is the fast path for short runs of simple shapes — shelf talkers, tags, standees — where dozens of parts come off one sheet.

The durable version

Second-surface printing

On clear acrylic or polycarbonate we print the artwork mirrored on the back, then flood white behind it. You look at the graphic through the sheet. The material is the protective layer, the color sits under a polished face, and the part reads with depth that a surface print never has. This is what we run for anything that lives on a retail floor or a machine.

1  Send

Artwork, cut path, material, thickness, quantity, and where it ships. Use the quote form or email the files.

2  Quote

One number for the finished part, within a business day. If the file needs work before it will cut cleanly, we say so up front.

3  Proof

A PDF proof with the cut path drawn over the artwork. You approve it before a sheet is loaded. This is where registration gets checked for free.

4  Ship

Printed, cut, finished, masked and packed flat. Tracking sent the day it leaves. Blind-shipped for trade accounts.

Artwork

Vector PDF, AI or EPS at 1:1 scale. Fonts outlined. Raster images embedded at 150–300 ppi at final size. CMYK; tell us any brand colors by Pantone and we match on the proof.

Cut path

A separate layer named CutContour, or a DXF at 1:1 in inches or millimeters — say which. Include holes, slots and score lines on their own layers.

Bleed and margins

Extend artwork 0.125 in (3 mm) past every cut edge. Keep text and fine detail 0.125 in inside the cut edge and 0.25 in from any hole.

White and clear ink

Put white on a spot-color layer named White and spot varnish on Clear. For second-surface work, send the art as you want it seen; we mirror it.

Don’t have a file?

Send a sketch with dimensions and your logo. We do the CAD and print prep and put it on the quote as a line item, so you see exactly what it costs before we start.

Will the print scratch?

Surface-printed UV ink on acrylic will mark under abrasion, the same as any printed surface. For parts that get handled or live on a machine we print second-surface behind clear stock, so the sheet is the wear layer. A clear-ink flood is the option when the graphic has to be on the face. Tell us how the part lives and we will spec the right one.

Is there a minimum order?

$200 minimum order. No plate, screen or tooling charge. Setup is a line on the quote, so a one-off costs what a one-off costs and a run of 300 gets the per-piece number.

Can you print on my material?

Usually. Rigid, flat, under 2 inches thick and under the bed’s weight limit. Send a sample if it is something we have not listed; adhesion on some surfaces needs a primer pass and we test before quoting.

Do you do coasters, keychains, small promotional items?

That is desktop-printer work and there are a thousand shops for it. We take the promotional jobs that need a full sheet and a router: oversized checks, event pieces, custom-shape standees, dimensional recognition walls.

Outdoor, UL, chemical resistance?

We state what we have tested and nothing else. Second-surface acrylic and polycarbonate parts hold up well indoors and in light-duty industrial environments. If your application needs a rated overlay or an outdoor-weathering spec, tell us and we will either test to it or tell you who to call.

Do you install?

No. Everything ships flat or as a pre-assembled unit with mounting hardware and a drawing. Your installer or your customer’s facilities team puts it up.