You can design your balloon online using various fonts and a wide selection of clipart using our printed balloon designer.

Or we can print your own design or logo onto the balloons. If wish to provide your own artwork to us, please follow the guidelines below. An excellent quality print needs excellent quality artwork to begin with - we can sometimes tidy up bad quality artwork but this takes time and will cost you extra.

ARTWORK REQUIRED: Good quality, black on white. Regardless of what colour ink we will print your balloons. The artwork should be in black in order to produce screen printing film. If we have to enlarge your artwork or convert it from another colour into black then some quality may be lost.

HARD COPY: Good quality, dense black print on a white background. Printed as large as possible on an A4 sheet, definitely no smaller than the printable area as shown below for balloons.

FILE TYPES Diskette, CD, or email attachment. Files must be formatted for a PC or Mac, in a file type of EPS, PDF, JPG or TIF. Some other file types are supported – if in doubt, ask. Image resolution to be a minimum of 300 dpi. Please also supply the TTF files for any fonts you have used or ideally convert text to curves. Word documents are not a good way to send artwork as we will not necessarily have the same fonts and alignment can be affected.

EMAIL ADDRESS The email address for sending artwork to is cs@balloons.co.uk

NEED ARTWORK? Our in-house design team is used to creating suitable artwork from letterheads, etc but this involves extra cost which we can quote for on sight of the logo - minimum charge £12. Simple text and clipart can be created using our online balloon designer FREE - no need to pay for artwork when using our online printed balloon designer.

PHOTOGRAPHS / SHADING These can be printed on balloons as a series of dots. Photos are best printed onto a light coloured balloon using a dark colour ink. We can work from either a black & white or colour photo but the printing will be in one colour.

MULTICOLOUR PRINTING On latex balloons we can print up to 8 spot (ie, individual) colours, on foil balloons up to 6 spot colours (can do more, but the cost makes it prohibitive for less than 5,000). Please provide colour separated artwork (ie, one piece of artwork for each colour to be printed – ideally all in black) and a colour composite for reference. We request at least 2mm separation between colours as semi-inflated balloons are not exactly a solid printing surface and there can be fine movement of the balloons between printing screens meaning that the alignment of colours will not necessarily be exactly the same from one balloon to the next. Close registration printing is possible but may involve additional cost; please ask. 4-colour process print is available but the minimum order is 10,000 latex or 5,000 foils with a lengthy lead time.

PANTONE COLOURS We try to match Pantone colours as close as possible to the U (uncoated) reference but cannot guarantee an exact match. The base colour printed upon can affect the finished print colour, with transparency also a factor on latex balloons.

If you want a custom printed banner why not visit our Printed Banner Shop