Custom Capabilities
Our commercial customs team is dedicated to working together with you to create unique options for your customer’s needs.
One great source for unique custom work is the revered YORK ARCHIVES. With tens of thousands of design documents, from classic to contemporary, the archives are an inexhaustible source of design reference and inspiration.
What types of custom possibilities does York offer?
Commercial Vinyl
- color changes
- scale
- substrate
- embossing
- mockup material
- value engineering
- discontinued items
Digital printing
- borders
- murals
- sidewalls
Specialty Embellishment
- glass beads
- sand
- glitter
- metallics
What are the minimum run requirements for customs?
We are committed to working with you on customs even if your yardage does not meet the minimum run requirement. Please use this chart as a general reference point. We have included overage tolerances as well.
| Print Type | Opportunity Type | Minimum Order Quantity | Overage Tolerance |
| Commercial Gravure | Mock Up | 100 yards | 20% |
| Discontinued Reprint | 300 yards | ||
| Other Custom | 500 yards | ||
| Digital | Mock Up | 15 yards | 10% |
| Custom Color | |||
| Other Custom | 120 yards | ||
| Residential | All Opportunities | 300 SR | TBD |
Please note that any opportunity that involves design time or file manipulation will count as a “True” or other custom even if it is based off an existing pattern. Design fees may apply depending on the amount of manipulation required to reach the desired effect.
Backing and Substrate Options
- Non-woven Type II 20 oz Vinyl
- Osnaburg Type II 20 oz Vinyl
- Mylar for select digital opportunities
- Variety of residential paper options from managed forests, low VOC, and water based inks
Custom Process and Timelines
Getting started with hand screen strike offs or CADs can take up to two weeks from date of confirmed submission requests. PDF manipulations of existing designs may be provided sooner! Once a strike off has been approved and a purchase order is received, lead times are generally four weeks. If a new print cylinder is needed, please add an additional two weeks.