Real jobs, with the dates

A building group in Victoria ordered 10 corflute signs, 600 × 900mm, 5mm, printed one side with eyelets in all four corners. They had no artwork, only an image, and an image on its own is not print-ready artwork. We recreated it as print-ready artwork at no charge and proofed it. It was ordered, proofed and paid on the Wednesday, dispatched on the Thursday, and delivered to their door on the Monday: three working days after the order.

An Indian restaurant in Queensland ordered three things at once: 3,000 A5 flyers, as three different designs of 1,000 each, printed both sides on 150gsm gloss; 500 A4 takeaway menus folded to DL on 150gsm gloss; and 15 premium laminated dine-in menus, A3 printed both sides and folded to A4. They needed all of it at the door by the Monday, and it was there. The order was placed, proofed and paid on the Tuesday.

Three different products in one order, and three different flyer designs in one run at no extra charge: the customer dealt with a single desk rather than chasing three suppliers. The photos below show it on their doorstep. We have blurred the delivery labels and cropped out the address, and the restaurant is not named.

A window-film business in Victoria ordered 1,000 A5 flyers on 150gsm gloss, printed both sides. The artwork had been made with an AI image generator, which is the usual reason a file cannot go to press as it is. We fixed it for them, at no charge. The order was received, proofed and paid on the Monday, and the flyers were dispatched on the Friday and delivered to their door.

The customer left a Google review afterwards and shared photos of the finished flyers, front and back, which are below. They are the customer’s own photos of their own flyers, shared by them.

A customer in New South Wales ordered an extra small feather flag with a design they had made with AI. We fixed and enhanced the artwork at no charge and sent the proof the next day. They approved it online and paid on the Wednesday, and the flag was printed, dispatched and delivered on the Friday, two days after payment.

Smart Electrical, an electrical contractor in New South Wales, ordered 25 corflute signs at 600 × 900mm, printed one side, with eyelets in all four corners — the standard build for signs that get cable-tied to a fence and moved between sites. $445.50 including GST and freight, at the rate that applied then. Corflute has been priced delivered since 23 September, and the same order today is $17.60 a sign with the delivery inside it.

Everything happened on the Friday: the order arrived, the artwork was set and corrected, the proof was approved and it was paid for, all the same day. It went to press from there, was dispatched on the Tuesday and delivered on Wednesday 16 September — two days before it was due. They did not have to wait on an email from us to find out where it was: the tracker link showed them, ticking over to dispatched and then delivered on its own.

A cleaning business on the Gold Coast asked for a price on 1,000 A5 flyers, full colour, one side, on 150gsm gloss. They asked for two things most enquiries do not: the price with GST included rather than added at the end, and a pickup price as well as a delivered one. They also said the artwork was ready.

It was not. That is not a criticism of them — almost nobody can tell by looking, because a file that is perfectly sharp on a phone can be well under the resolution it needs at print size, and nothing on screen warns you. We ran it through the same resolution check that sits on this site as a free tool. Then we told them — by email and on the phone — what was wrong, that we would fix it, and that there was no charge for it. Only then did we fix the file and put it in front of them as a proof.

The enquiry arrived on a Sunday afternoon. It was quoted at $143 including GST that same afternoon, the proof went out and came back approved, and the job was paid for — all four steps, on the Sunday. The flyers were at their gate on Thursday 10 September.

A customer in New South Wales wanted a pool-hall themed banner for his shed. He had made the picture himself with an AI image generator on a Saturday night, which meant the artwork existed but was nowhere near the right shape for a 2000 × 700mm banner — the usual outcome with a generated image, and the usual reason a file gets bounced back somewhere else.

We resized and reset it rather than asking him for a better file, sent the proof, and quoted $158.40 including GST and delivery — $130.90 for the banner and $27.50 freight. He approved the proof the same evening. Payment landed Monday morning. The banner arrived at his door at 11am on Wednesday.

250 flyers on 350gsm matt — a heavier, uncoated stock than a flyer usually runs on, which is the right call when the flyer is going to be handed over rather than dropped in a letterbox. About $105 including GST, at the rate that applied then.

This one is here for an awkward reason as much as a flattering one. It arrived in late August, before we had production arranged in Victoria at all, and it took from the Friday it landed to the following Thursday to get through proofing and payment — slower at the front end than the banner or the Gold Coast flyers. Victoria opened properly on 9 September. A job like this one today would not wait on the same thing twice.