IFINKFORGEPRINT · DESIGN · BUILD

Leicester studio — taking on work this month

We forge brands worth looking at.

Websites, print and branding from one Leicester studio — and now AI systems that answer your customers, draft your quotes and chase your admin while you're on the tools.

DTF apparelStickers & cardsBrandingWebsitesSEOSocialVideo

Everything starts as dots.

Zoom into any printed thing and it's a grid of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Getting those four to line up — on cotton, on vinyl, on a screen — is the whole job. Run your cursor over this one.

One team, not five suppliers

Your printer, designer, web person and video editor are the same people. Nothing gets lost between them, and nothing arrives in the wrong shade of orange.

Made here, not drop-shipped

Presses and cutters are in the building. If a print comes out wrong we run it again the same day instead of raising a ticket with a warehouse.

Priced up front

You get a written quote with the artwork, the quantity and the turnaround on it. No setup fees appearing at the end.

No mystery, no waiting on hold.

Every job runs the same five steps, whether it's fifty stickers or a rebrand across a van, a shopfront and a website.

  1. 01

    Tell us the job

    In plain English. You don't need to know what DTF or 300dpi means — that's our end of it.

  2. 02

    We quote it in writing

    Artwork, quantity, materials and turnaround, all on one page. Nothing appears later that wasn't there at the start.

  3. 03

    You approve a proof

    A mock-up or a PDF proof with the trim marked. Nothing gets made until you've said yes to it.

  4. 04

    We make it here

    On our own presses, lasers and printers. A problem found at two o'clock gets fixed by three.

  5. 05

    You get it, and it lasts

    Collected or posted tracked. If something's wrong, we put it right — that's the whole point of being local.

10 sites we built. All live right now.

Not mock-ups — real, public websites you can open in a new tab this second. Hover to stop the reel, click any of them to go and have a look.

Made here, not farmed out.

That's the whole reason a job which would normally bounce between four suppliers over three weeks tends to go out of our door in days.

  • Printed here

    Apparel, stickers, cards and signage are produced in our own unit. Nothing is passed to a trade printer and waited on.

  • Fixed the same day

    A colour that's off or a print that's out by a few millimetres gets rerun that afternoon, not raised as a ticket with a warehouse.

  • Colour checked once

    Artwork, proofing and printing all happen on calibrated screens in one place, so your orange is one orange across everything.

  • Short runs welcome

    One shirt, fifty stickers, a single replacement part. No minimum order and no setup fee to spread across a big run.

Local? You're welcome to come and watch your job come off the press. It's a better pitch than anything we could write here.

Arrange a visit

Stop emailing files that bounce.

Create an account and send us artwork or camera footage straight from your browser. No transfer links that expire before we open them, no twelve-message thread trying to work out which version is final.

  • Upload artwork, footage and 3D files up to 512MB each
  • One project per job, with the brief and files kept together
  • Private by default — files are only ever served back to you

Summer festival hoodies

Apparel & DTF printing · Waiting on us

Drop files here

Artwork, PDFs, video, 3D files

  • front-logo-final.ai2.4 MB
  • back-print-300dpi.png18.6 MB
  • size-breakdown.pdf94 KB