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INSPIRED BY DIFFERENCE.
At SHIFT Design, located in Buffalo, Minnesota, and serving the surrounding areas, we offer a comprehensive range of printing and design services to meet all your needs. From wide format printing, including posters, banners, outdoor signage, vehicle graphics, and wall murals, we ensure your materials make a lasting impression.
Our bindery services provide expert solutions for creating company handbooks, booklets, and more, with options such as stapled, spiral bind, and custom die cutting. For your mailing needs, we streamline the process with services like mail merge, folding, and inserting to turn complex campaigns into efficient operations.
Elevate your brand with our top-quality literature and stationery, including brochures, catalogs, letterheads, and greeting cards. We also offer graphic design services to help you start your project with a stunning design, from logos and artboard layouts to vehicle graphics and event materials.
Whether you’re looking to enhance your promotional materials, streamline your mail campaigns, or create professional print and design solutions, SHIFT Design is here to deliver excellence.
Wide Format Printing
Whatever your wide format needs, SHIFT Design has the answer. We develop all manner of wide format products from posters to banners to outdoor signage, and more. For your next event, presentation, or program, make sure you have the best.
Wide Format Products:
Posters
Photo Prints
Banners
Mounted Prints | Plastic, Foam, Gator Board, PVC, Brushed Aluminum
Business Cards
Impress potential clients with cutting-edge, unique business cards. At SHIFT Design, we offer a wide variety of designs, shapes, styles, materials, and colors to make your business cards catch eyes and demand attention.
Business Card Options:
Classic Uncoated
UV Coated
Magnetic
Plastic
Bindery Services
If you need to make a company handbook or class study guide, SHIFT Design is the one-stop shop for you. We have the expertise to print, collate, cut, trim, stitch, and bind a wide range of printed materials.
Binding Options:
Stapled
Spiral Bind
Wire Bind
Custom Die Cutting
Mailing Services
Transform your massive mail campaign from a hand-cramping day’s work to a simple print job with our mail-merge experts. At SHIFT Design, we can simplify and speed up your mailing process while making your mailers look outstanding.
Mailing Services:
Postcards
Direct Mail
Mail Merge
Folding & Inserting
Literature & Stationery
Elevate your brand and make great first impressions with high-quality literature and branded stationery. From brochures and catalogs to letterheads and greeting cards, we provide top-of-the-line printed materials to enhance your business uniformity and client relations.
Literature & Stationery:
Booklets, Brochures, Newsletters, Pocket Folders
Rack Cards, Handouts, Catalogs
Letterhead, Envelopes, Notepads
Thank You Cards, Greeting Cards
Graphic Design
Start your printing project with a great design. Our team of designers is talented, experienced, and precise, ensuring a beautiful final product that captures and holds your audience’s attention.
Design Services:
Logos & Artboard Layouts
Business Cards, Mailers, Stationary, Brochures
Banners & Posters
Vehicle Wraps & Graphics
FAQS
Serving the surrounding areas including:
- Albertville, Minnesota
- Hanover, Minnesota
- Monticello, Minnesota
- Rogers, Minnesota
- Otsego, Minnesota
- St. Michael, Minnesota
- Dayton, Minnesota
- Maple Lake, Minnesota
- Montrose, Minnesota
- Rockford, Minnesota
- St. Cloud, Minnesota
- Sartell, Minnesota
- Sauk Rapids, Minnesota
- Waite Park, Minnesota
- Clearwater, Minnesota
- Plymouth, Minnesota
- Maple Grove, Minnesota
- and more!
We are a full service shop and offer a wide range of products and services right in-house. And if we can’t do your project here, we have many vendors we deal with so we truly are a “one-stop” shop!
In short, printing presses and monitors produce colors in different ways.
Monitors use the RGB (red, green, blue) color model, which supports a wider spectrum of colors. Presses use the CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) color model for full-color printing, which can reproduce most—but not all—of the colors in the RGB color model. When printing just one, two or three colors we use spot colors based on the Pantone Matching System. When proofing these colors on your screen, oftentimes the colors will not match.
When a color is selected from the RGB model that is out of the range of the CMYK model, the application chooses what it thinks is the closest color that will match. Programs like Adobe Photoshop will allow you to choose which color will be replaced. Others may not.
Resolution for photos should be set to 300 dpi at actual size being printed. Bitmap graphics should be 1200 dpi at actual size.
Pictures and graphics pulled from the internet are often low resolution, typically 72 dpi or 96 dpi. Avoid these graphics, as they will appear pixilated when printed.
In printing terms, a proof is a virtual copy (or hard copy) of your job after it has been worked on in our art dept. It is your opportunity to ensure that your job looks exactly the way you want. By carefully inspecting the proof, you can help us assure an accurate, flawless delivery of your print job on the first run.
The Pantone Matching System (PMS) is a color reproduction standard in which colors all across the spectrum are each identified by a unique, independent number. The use of PMS allows us to precisely match colors and maintain color consistency throughout the printing process.
We accept files in both Mac and PC formats. Vector files (such as Adobe Illustrator) are needed for cut-vinyl applications. Vinyl graphics cannot be cut from jpeg, gif or other rasterized files (such as tiff, Photoshop or eps). Both vector and raster files may be used for large-format output.
Raster files for large-format output should be created at 300dpi at final output size for best quality.Please DO NOT save large-format files higher than 300dpi – doing so will not increase the quality of the final product. All fonts should be converted to curves or outlines to avoid output issues.
If you are unsure about your files, please don’t hesitate to call us at 320-979-0347. Files created in programs such as The Print Shop, Microsoft Publisher, Excel, PowerPoint or Word are NOT acceptable formats for output. Files created in these programs will need to be re-created for output, and will incur additional design/setup fees.
Raster images are made up of individual pixels, and the size of the image is constrained by the number of pixels present in the file. For example, think of a digital photograph. You can usually enlarge a photo from your personal digital camera to about 8×10 without any distortion or blurring of the image, but if you try to make a large poster with the photo, it may start to look blurry and effect the quality of the image.
Vector images are made up of a series of points connected by straight or curved lines. These points and lines are associated to each other both geometrically and mathematically allowing the image to be resized over and over again with no change in image quality.
It depends on the application. For cut vinyl, your pdf must be in vector format. For large-format printing, your pdf file must be either vector based, or 100dpi at final output size. If you are unsure about your file, please send it to us, and we will take a look at it for you.
Yes! We accept VISA, MasterCard, Discover and AMEX credit or debit cards.
Most of the jobs we produce are custom or made-to-order, however, we do have some standard prices for common items. Please contact us and we would be happy to provide you with an estimate for your project.
Regulations vary from city to city. In general, you do not need a permit to hang a banner, put graphics on a storefront window or set up a sandwich board, but there may be regulations to follow. Please check with your city’s planning department for more information.