Custom Printed Wallpaper

We recommend overlapped joints. Overlaps make it much easier to align images and paper around corners. You can turn this off to create butt joints, but this option is only recommended for experienced installers. Unlike with normal wallpaper, it's very difficult to mix overlapped and butt joints

HP PVC free wallpaper:Indoor use only. This media is ideal if you want to create unique wall decorations from your own designs. Prints have the look and feel of professional wall paper, but they don't have the PVC. This media is matched with genuine HP Latex inks to give you odourless prints that are perfect for home, office or even restaurant decoration. The wall paper is GREENGUARD Children & Schools Certified SM4 and meet AgBB criteria for health-related evaluation of VOC emissions of indoor building products as well as incorporating mould and mildew resistance. Installation is straightforward and as the wall paper is pre-pasted there's no need to use seperate wall paper paste. If you can hang normal wallpaper, you can hang this wallpaper. The only real difference is that we recommend that you slightly overlap the strips, rather than "butt jointing" them. We automatically provide a small overlap area to allow this and it makes it easier to line up images and compensate for small inconsistencies in the underlying wall. There's nothing special to worry about when the time comes to remove the wallpaper, just soak and strip. Display permanence rating guide of 3+ years indoor in or near windows without lamination and 20+ years away from direct sunlight.*

* Display permanence ratings are a general guide only and actual durability will be affected by many other factors. For example, where a product is subject to mechanical abrasion the useful life will be reduced significantly, but a print that is kept out of direct sunlight and without large variations in temperature and humidity may last for far longer than the guide.

If your project is a mural, you can give the exact height here. If you are papering the entire height of your wall, it's vital to give yourself some extra as walls and floors are not always plumb and at right angles! We suggest an extra 50mm (2 inches) top and bottom and even more for exceptionally long runs.

This product is manufactured using millimeters as a measurement. You can enter the measurement in inches if that's easier and the calculator will convert that to mm for you.

If your project is a mural, you can give the exact height here. Otherwise, it's vital to give yourself some extra as walls and floors are not always plumb and at right angles! We suggest at least an extra 100mm (4 inches) overall, i.e. 50mm (2 inches) each end.

Your wallpaper is supplied as drops. Typically a drop will be the full height of the project and 600mm wide. This makes it far, far easier to install than wider sections. If you are an experienced installer and want wider drops, please just have a chat with the helpdesk.

It's worth remembering that you are basically charged per drop, no matter how wide the last drop is. So, if you are designing a mural, design it in multiples of the drop width (600mm) to get the most value for your money.

This product is manufactured using millimeters as a measurement. You can enter the measurement in inches if that's easier and the calculator will convert that to mm for you.

This option is really here for if you want to order multiple copies of a mural, all the same.

As a bare minimum, you will need to have something big enough to hold sufficient clean cold water to soak the wallpaper. A large clean planting trough (minimum 620mm wide) is fine, otherwise you can pick up wallpaper troughs (also known as wallpaper trays) at DIY stores. To make things easier for you, we can supply a wallpaper trough as part of your order.

We can also supply a complete starter kit that will give you all the basics that you need to hang your wallpaper:

• Wallpaper trough
• Smoothing tool
• Knife with spare blades
• Sponge
• Drop cloth

Please remember: you will also need a spirit level and a good pair of step ladders. Some people also find a seam roller and paperhanging brush are useful, but these are not essential. Please read the installation guide for more help and tips.

We recommend overlapped joints. Overlaps make it much easier to align images and paper around corners. You can turn this off to create butt joints, but this option is only recommended for experienced installers. Unlike with normal wallpaper, it's very difficult to mix overlapped and butt joints.

These are working days to print and you pay a slight premium if you want your order faster. Please remember to add transit (delivery) time to this and remember that these are working days to print and do not include weekends or bank holidays.

We cannot schedule your order until it is has been paid for.

Delivery is normally the next working day AFTER the job is printed. If you want a Saturday delivery, call the helpdesk to get that cost added to your order. We classify Monday-Friday as working days, Bank Holidays are not working days.

Fill in the full postcode of where this is being sent to so that we can work out a price and whether we deliver to this area. You'll fill in the full delivery address later once you've placed your order.

Important note: if you are sending a PDF, you MUST make sure that your fonts are embedded.

These are the different formats you can send us your artwork in.

It doesn't matter if we have to enlarge or reduce your artwork to fit, we'll do that automatically for you if it's not the right size on a "best fit" basis. If you are sending us artwork that you want blown up to size, it's a good idea to send us something with the same "aspect ratio" as the area you want, otherwise you'll end up with some parts cropped off. For example, 450mm high x 450mm wide can be enlarged to 1800mm wide x 1800mm wide with no cropping, but enlarging 400mm high x 450mm wide to 1800mm wide x 1800mm wide means that some of the width will have to be cropped off to make it fit. If in doubt, have a chat with the helpdesk. Be realistic with your image quality. If you are blowing up a low resolution photograph to a very large size, don't expect a perfectly clear image close up!

If you don't have any artwork to send, don't despair. Have a chat with the helpdesk and we'll work you out a price for our graphic designer to create it for you.

Just click on the "i" (information) icon right next to the question.

During normal business hours call 01452 751900 and then select 1 for the help desk or email the helpdesk at helpdesk@inkylittlefingers.co.uk

This wallpaper is printed using HP Latex printing technology, which is especially suitable for indoor use as it exhibits none of the unpleasant outgassing that occurs with print manufactured using solvent based equipment. This wallpaper is odour free and safe from day one. The print quality is very high and the colours are vibrant, making it especially suitable for wallpaper.

This product is expected be lightfast for up to 3 years in direct sunlight and significantly longer outside of direct sunlight.

Inky uses genuine HP Latex inks.

Anyone can order printed wallpaper from here.

Installation is pretty straightforward but preparing the artwork does require some fairly basic computer skills. If you're not comfortable using a computer, this is probably not for you.

It's really pretty straightforward. If you are a competent DIYer, can follow instructions and can hang normal wallpaper, this should be no problem for you. We do provide installation instructions that you can read before ordering.

Yes we do, although this is primarily for commercial installations. Please contact the helpdesk if you'd like to chat more about this.

Not yet! We're looking into potential solutions that allow you to visualise your wallpaper mural in place, with the correct dimensions, windows, doors etc., but that's unlikely to arrive before late 2012.

Sorry, not through this service! This service is for printing your own design, or designs and images that you have the appropriate license for (for instance from a stock photography web site). We do not currently offer any licensed images through this service and will never knowingly print any copyrighted images.

PDF, TIFF or JPEG. A PDF is recommended and it's important to embed your fonts when creating your PDF.

Image resolution

Please be realistic about what to expect from your file!

For example:

A Samsung Galaxy S3 phone has an 8 megapixel camera. At the 3264 x 2448 resolution setting, you can print a picture of:

• 27.7cm x 20.7cm at high resolution (118 pixels per cm)
• 41.3cm x 31.0cm at medium resolution (79 pixels per cm)
• 83.7cm x 62.8cm at low resolution (39 pixels per cm)
• 163.2 x 122.4cm at ultra low resolution (20 pixels per cm)

You may have a much higher resolution camera, in which case you need to do a bit of math (you can use the pixels per cm above as a rough guide) to work out what size print you can achieve.

Does this mean that wallpaper printed at 20 pixels per cm or below will look terrible? Not at all, but you should know what to expect. We've blown images up to wall size as low as 12 pixels per cm and they look fantastic when viewed from a short distance. Up close the image looks pixelated and blurred of course!

Beware of cropping

It doesn't matter if we have to enlarge or reduce your artwork to fit. We'll do that automatically for you if it's not the right size on a "best fit" basis. If you are sending us artwork that you want blown up to size, it's a good idea to send us something with the same "aspect ratio" as the area you want, otherwise you'll end up with some parts cropped off. For example, 450mm high x 450mm wide can be enlarged to 1800mm wide x 1800mm wide with no cropping, but enlarging 400mm high x 450mm wide to 1800mm wide x 1800mm wide means that some of the width will have to be cropped off to make it fit. If in doubt, have a chat with the helpdesk.

Don't forget to add a bit extra

This only applies for wall to ceiling wallpaper, not for murals.

Because walls are rarely plumb and straight, it's best to have a little bit of extra printed wallpaper to play with top and bottom and a little extra on each side. How much is up to you, but in an ideal world, 50cm all round will help fix a multitide of sins. If you've got straight walls and are confident in your paper hanging accuracy, then you can reduce this down, but in our opinion anything less than 25mm is asking for trouble.

Of course, that's no problem. Have a chat with the helpdesk so that we can discuss the best way of laying out your artwork.

For an overview of the order process, click on the big blue question mark button above.

Once you've placed your order and we've received your artwork, we'll give it a basic check over. If there's a major problem, for example it's in the wrong format, or we need to crop it to make it fit, then we'll contact you and discuss how we can fix the problem. Otherwise your order will be scheduled to print as soon as it's paid for.

These prices are just for the printing, but we can do the complete artwork for you as well. You'll need to have a chat with the helpdesk to work out a price and we'll add that to your order.

Check out Help - Is There Anything Inky Won't Print?

Take a look at the menu on the left hand side (or the home page for a list) and that will tell you what our "standard" products are. If what you want isn't there, just give the helpdesk a ring. We'll let you know if we can do it, and give you a quote.

Just call or email the helpdesk. The number is as above and the email address is helpdesk@inkylittlefingers.co.uk