Distinctive Media / Print Shop
Your brand,
in their hands.
A website lives in a pocket. A menu, a card, a sticker on a package: those live on tables, fridges and dashboards. We design and print them in the same building as your shoot, so what's in their hands matches what's on their screen.
Preflight · menu reprint · 100# matte
01 What runs through the shop
Small batches.
No minimums.
No thousand-unit minimums, no catalog templates. Everything is designed to your brand before it touches a press, and the design is included in the price.
Business cards and postcards
The handshake that stays in a wallet. Heavy stock, proper finishes, laid out around a photo we took of your actual work.
Menus and rack cards
Built from your own food photography, not the supplier's. A menu is the single piece of print your customers read cover to cover.
Flyers and mailers
Designed to be kept rather than thrown out. If a piece has 3 seconds to earn its place on a fridge, it should use them.
Stickers, labels, signage
Packaging touches, truck lettering, banners and A-frames. Cut and finished to spec, color-matched to everything else you own.
02 Before it runs
We check the press
so you don't have to.
Print is the one place a mistake costs money twice. Every job gets a preflight: bleed, trim, resolution, color profile, fonts outlined. You approve a proof, not a hope.
Sending files to a web printer
You find out after it's printed.
- A web-sized JPEG uploaded at 72 DPI, stretched to menu size
- RGB artwork converted by a machine, so the brand color shifts
- Text sitting 2mm from the trim, cut off on half the run
- The reprint costs the same as the original, and you pay twice
Printing where the photos were shot
The file is right before it leaves.
- Artwork comes from a shoot we ran, so it's already full resolution
- Converted to CMYK by hand and checked against your brand swatches
- Bleed and safe margins set at layout, not patched at the end
- If a photo won't hold up, we reshoot it. The camera is in the next room.
03 Every surface
One brand,
every surface.
The quiet advantage of one shop: your cards, your menus, your site and your feed all come from the same shoot and the same design pass.
Customers notice consistency without knowing why. It reads as "these people have it together," and that's worth more than any single piece of print in the stack.
Reorders stay on file. Call and say "same again" and it runs, at the same price, with the same color.
Need something printed?
Tell us the piece, the quantity and the deadline. If you don't have the design or the photos yet, even better. That's the whole point of the shop.
Got it. Expect an answer fast.
If it's urgent, skip the queue: (978) 891-7296.