Paper weight decides how your poster holds up

Twenty-three materials are available. Among them are 90 g/m² offset, 150 g/m² matt coated, 100 g/m² offset, 120 g/m² blue back and 135 g/m² gloss coated. The higher the weight, the thicker and stiffer the sheet. A light poster rolls up, travels and pastes without effort. A heavier poster stays straight when you slide it into a frame or stand it against a shop window. If your previous posters cockled after a few days, this is the setting to change first, before touching the artwork.

Gloss or matt coated: a question of lighting

Gloss coated paper reflects light and makes saturated colours stand out: it is at its best in diffuse light. Matt coated paper absorbs reflections and stays legible under a spotlight or a directed fluorescent tube, where gloss would throw the light fitting back into the reader's eye. Look first at where the poster will hang, then choose the finish. It is this setting, even more than the weight, that decides whether your message can be read from a distance or only up close.

A3, A2, or the size you enter yourself

Twenty-seven formats are preset: small format and poster, A3 29.7 x 42, 30 x 42, 33 x 49, A2 42 x 59.4 cm, among others. You choose portrait or landscape orientation. And if no format in the list fits exactly, height and width can be entered freely: the poster fits the frame, the window or the space you already have, rather than the other way round. No improvised cropping, no white margin to hide once the order has been delivered.

Lamination and encapsulation: two protections, two uses

Lamination adds a gloss or matt film, on the front only or on both sides. A poster that is handled, pinned up, taken down and put up somewhere else copes far better with fingerprints and dog-eared corners. Encapsulation goes further: gloss or matt, it seals both sides instead of one. Tell us where the poster will go and how long it needs to last: that is what decides between simple lamination, encapsulation, or moving to another material.

Four-colour, greyscale and straight from the workshop in Manciet

Printing is in four-colour process or in black, greyscale included. When your artwork is text, a map or a photo that works in monochrome, the black version is enough: compare the two in the configurator before confirming. Single or double-sided, quantity of your choice, standard, express or urgent turnaround depending on the date you are working to. Everything comes off our machines in Manciet, in the Gers: 100% Made In Occitanie. Torn between two paper weights? We print one copy of each before running the series.