For print vendors
Add design
as a service.
Surface gives large-format printers a white-label design portal: clients design wraps in 3D under your brand, prepress reviews in the same canvas, and exports are panel-ready by construction. New service line, same press.
Built for the print floor
The three things capping your wrap revenue
Pain 01
Client files arrive mis-sized, missing bleed, with the logo on a hidden layer — and your prepress team eats the time.
With Surface
Clients design in Surface inside a panel-aware canvas. The export is panel-ready by construction. Prepress stops being a cleanup department.
Pain 02
Wraps and large-format jobs walk in design-ready or not at all — there's no in-between offer to capture.
With Surface
Add a design portal to your service menu. Clients self-serve a draft, you review it, you bill for design alongside production.
Pain 03
You don't have an in-house designer, so jobs that need creative get turned away or referred to an agency.
With Surface
Surface is the design capability you didn't want to hire for. White-label it as your design service. Keep the relationship and the margin.
What you get
Three features that turn print into design + print
Client-facing design portal
Invite a client into a project. They design directly on the 3D vehicle inside an environment branded as yours. You see drafts in real time.
Panel-ready output
Every export comes panel-aware: bleed, overlap, registration marks, and the right cuts for the install. The file you receive is the file you print.
White-label workflow
Your logo, your domain on shareable previews, your brand on the client experience. Surface runs the engine. The relationship is yours.
The workflow
From client invite to invoice in five steps
01
Invite the client
Send a branded invite to your client's project. They land in a workspace that looks like yours, not Surface's.
02
Client designs in Surface
They pick a vehicle template, drop in their assets, and iterate on the 3D model. Live, in-context — no more guess-and-check.
03
Vendor reviews
Your prepress lead checks the design against print constraints in the same canvas. Flag issues, request changes, or push the file forward.
04
Print and install
Export panel-ready production files straight to your RIP. The install team gets the files cut and labeled for the panels.
05
Invoice design + production
Bill for the design service alongside print and install. New line item, same client, higher attach rate.
Working principle
Most print shops lose the design margin to whoever the client hires first. The shops that capture it offer design as a self-serve product — clean templates, branded portal, fast turnaround — not as a custom-quoted service their existing clients don’t know about.
From the Surface team
Open your design service
on Surface.
Free trial. No credit card. Invite a real client into your portal and ship a panel-ready file in your first session.
Reading list
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For the print floor
Blog
Adding design as a service: the print vendor’s playbook
How large-format shops are turning client design into a billable line item without hiring a creative team.
Coming soon
Use case
Box truck wraps
Panel layouts, common sizes, and the file formats that go straight to RIP without a fight.
Coming soon
Case study
Print vendors on Surface
How shops are launching design services and lifting their wrap-job attach rate.
Coming soon