Vinyl printing in Las Vegas

Printed, finished and installed under one roof

Every vinyl job here runs through the same few steps in the same building. We print it on our UV printer, laminate it if it needs protecting, cut it on the print-and-cut — to a rectangle, to the shape of your artwork, or into lettering — and pack it for pickup, delivery or our install crew. The vinyl isn't sent out to another shop, so the people checking your file are the people printing it and putting it up.

UV printing cures the ink with light the moment it's laid down, so a print comes off the printer dry and goes straight to the laminator or the cutter. The cured ink resists scratching and fading on its own for most indoor work, which is why plenty of indoor wall graphics don't need a laminate at all.

The same printer prints white ink. That's what makes colour work on clear and frosted film: a layer of white behind the artwork keeps colours solid on glass instead of see-through, and white can print as a colour of its own.

What we print on vinyl

• Walls — wall graphics, wall wraps and murals on removable, low-tack, textured-wall and permanent vinyl, printed in panels for any wall.
• Windows — window graphics on one-way, clear and blockout vinyl and static cling, plus frosted privacy film and perforated one-way film for storefronts.
• Floors — floor graphics for sealed floors, carpet and sidewalks, with an anti-slip laminate on every hard-floor and sidewalk graphic.
• Lettering — cut vinyl lettering with no background for doors, glass and walls: names, hours, suite numbers and logos.
• Decals and stickers — custom decals and stickers, printed and cut to shape, from logo stickers to equipment labels.
• Banners and backdrops — vinyl banners and step-and-repeat backdrops, finished with hems, grommets or pole pockets.
• Lit graphics — backlit graphics for lightboxes and menu boards, including the LVCC's 60 × 60 inch lightboxes.
• Shows and events — the vinyl pieces of a booth or an event, printed to the venue's rules: trade show graphics and event graphics.
• Signs on board — prints mounted to rigid signs for easels, counters and wayfinding.

Choosing the film

The film decides where a graphic can go, how long it lasts and how it comes off. You don't need to learn a catalog: our quotes ask what you're covering and what the graphic has to do, then recommend the film and say why. The short version:

• Has to come off clean — removable wall vinyl for painted walls; low-tack vinyl for delicate or freshly painted walls and short events; one-way, frosted and blockout window film; floor graphic vinyl and carpet film.
• Stays put — permanent vinyl for doors, metal, counters and smooth surfaces that won't change, and clear lettering film on glass.
• Rough or textured — a conformable high-tack film, worked into knockdown texture, block, brick and raw wood with heat.
• No adhesive at all — static cling, which holds to the inside of the glass and can come down and go back up.
• Lit from behind — backlit display film, which spreads the light so the whole print glows.
• Underfoot — floor graphic vinyl for sealed floors and a conformable film for outdoor concrete, both finished with an anti-slip laminate.

Laminates, cutting and white ink

Laminate is a clear layer over the print. Matte takes the glare off under show lighting and big windows; gloss makes colour punchier and wipes clean; dry-erase turns a wall into a write-on board; anti-graffiti lets paint and marker wipe off exterior and high-traffic walls; an optically clear laminate seals one-way window film against dust and rain; and every hard-floor graphic carries an anti-slip laminate.

Cutting happens on the same machine that prints, so the cut lands where the print is. A graphic can be trimmed to a rectangle, cut to the shape of your artwork along your file's cut line or one we trace, or cut and weeded into lettering — the vinyl between the letters picked away by hand and the letters masked on application tape, so they go up with their spacing intact.

White ink goes behind colours on clear and frosted film so they stay solid. For a graphic on the inside of a window that has to read from the street, we print it reversed, with the white layer behind the colours, so it reads the right way through the glass.

Big graphics print in panels

Vinyl comes on rolls of a fixed width, so a graphic too big to fit across the roll prints in panels. Walls hang in vertical drops that overlap by half an inch, with an extra inch at the outer edges for trimming into corners. Window pieces overlap by a quarter inch. Floor pieces butt edge to edge, because an overlap underfoot is a trip edge.

You don't split the file yourself. Upload the whole wall, window or floor at its size or to scale, and the quote draws every panel and seam on it, warns you if a seam crosses lettering, and lets you drag a seam into open space. Panels come labelled in hanging order, whether our crew installs them or yours does.

Files, proofs and the Artwork check

Send PDF, AI, EPS or SVG for logos and type, and PDF, TIFF, PSD, PNG, JPG or WebP for photos. When you upload to a quote, the Artwork check reads the file at the size you're ordering: it grades every image for sharpness at the distance people will stand, flags missing fonts, screen (RGB) colour and missing bleed, and pins each problem to the spot on the drawing where it happens.

Big graphics are usually designed at scale. Put the scale in the file name — “lobby_10pct.pdf” or “1:10” — and the quote sizes the artwork up for you, visibly and with an undo. The large-format file setup guide covers scale, resolution, bleed and seams in detail.

Nothing prints until you've approved a proof.

Instant quotes and quotes on request

Three products price instantly from your file, any time of day: wall graphics, window graphics and floor graphics. Upload, enter the size, answer a question or two about the surface, and you'll see the price and the panel layout in seconds. Lettering for walls and glass prices in the same wall and window quotes — choose cut lettering.

Stickers, banners, step-and-repeats, backlit prints and signs are quoted on request. Send us the job with the sizes, quantities, where it's going and the date you need it, and attach your artwork if it's ready. We reply with a quote and a proof.

We don't publish a rate card. The price comes from the area, the film, any laminate, cutting or weeding, white ink, panels, installation and turnaround — the vinyl graphics cost guide explains each one.

Pickup, delivery or installed

Pick it up at the shop on W Reno Ave in the southwest valley, have it delivered across Las Vegas, or have our crew install it. Installation is priced with the print: the surface, the height, after-hours or weekend work, and taking it down later if you want us back.

At convention halls, the venue's and the show's rules decide who applies graphics. We print to the venue's spec, label every panel, deliver for move-in and coordinate the install with your show's contractor. The LVCC graphics rules are a good place to start.

Need the panel or the letters themselves cut? Our sister shop The Job Shop cuts panels, shapes and dimensional letters on CNC routers and lasers, and we print the vinyl that goes on them.