Window graphics London: retail window displays, printed window posters and shopfront graphics, plus frosted window film, one-way vision and manifestation. We print, plotter-cut and install window displays with our own London fitters, so the job never falls between two suppliers. Since 1985.
Walk into either studio with a photo of the glass, handle the film samples on the counter, or call straight through.
City Images, time after time, produces high-quality, immaculate products. Big shout out to Heather who is incredibly efficient, professional and executes to perfection. Thank you, City Images!
This is an excellent printing service. They clearly do big things too, but even for smaller projects like mine they're quick, efficient, accurate, and produce high quality output. The advice and support I received from Heather was exceptional.
I worked with James on a branding installation project at MM Ilford. He managed all the client side interactions, community was quick and clear and the quality of materials were excellent. would highly recommend working with City Images
Excellent service, great quality print. I highly recommend them for business and professional usage. Sherif was very thorough and provided a smooth experience. They indeed do provide same day print and delivery service in London.
A centrally located and professional print store, with huge and great quality printers regardless of the small storefront, fun and reliable staff, and an impeccable and fast service. They punch way above their weight - highly recommended!
Perfect print on large sheet of antique mirror. We are so delighted with the final image - exceeded our expectations. Francisco (Chico) was super patient and knowledgeable and the price was good vale. Would definitely recommend.
Was attended to professionally at City Images by Heather with attention to detail all within 24 hours. Highly impressed with the way she handled the assignment and the personal touch given to the job. Will highly recommend City Images anytime.
Professional and Reliable "From start to finish, the team was professional, friendly, and efficient. They kept me updated throughout the process, and the final product was delivered ahead of schedule. Exceptional service and reliability"
Fast, reliable and great quality. Been working with this company for a number of years now, the team is very responsive and helpful. Signage is always good quality and delivered in time. Wholeheartedly recommended!
Always incredible service and quality from the team including Sherif, Francisco, and Heather. Highly recommended.
City Images, time after time, produces high-quality, immaculate products. Big shout out to Heather who is incredibly efficient, professional and executes to perfection. Thank you, City Images!
This is an excellent printing service. They clearly do big things too, but even for smaller projects like mine they're quick, efficient, accurate, and produce high quality output. The advice and support I received from Heather was exceptional.
I worked with James on a branding installation project at MM Ilford. He managed all the client side interactions, community was quick and clear and the quality of materials were excellent. would highly recommend working with City Images
Excellent service, great quality print. I highly recommend them for business and professional usage. Sherif was very thorough and provided a smooth experience. They indeed do provide same day print and delivery service in London.
A centrally located and professional print store, with huge and great quality printers regardless of the small storefront, fun and reliable staff, and an impeccable and fast service. They punch way above their weight - highly recommended!
Perfect print on large sheet of antique mirror. We are so delighted with the final image - exceeded our expectations. Francisco (Chico) was super patient and knowledgeable and the price was good vale. Would definitely recommend.
Was attended to professionally at City Images by Heather with attention to detail all within 24 hours. Highly impressed with the way she handled the assignment and the personal touch given to the job. Will highly recommend City Images anytime.
Professional and Reliable "From start to finish, the team was professional, friendly, and efficient. They kept me updated throughout the process, and the final product was delivered ahead of schedule. Exceptional service and reliability"
Fast, reliable and great quality. Been working with this company for a number of years now, the team is very responsive and helpful. Signage is always good quality and delivered in time. Wholeheartedly recommended!
Always incredible service and quality from the team including Sherif, Francisco, and Heather. Highly recommended.
Five families of window work, every one printed, cut and installed by the same in-house team. Pick by privacy, light and campaign length: frost for privacy that keeps the daylight, printed vinyl for the campaign, one-way vision where the view out matters, manifestation where the regulation applies.
The campaign workhorse. Full-colour window vinyl printing at Camden, ICC-managed and Pantone-matched against a signed-off proof, laminated where the install is street-facing. First-surface for speed, second-surface (printed on the inside face, viewed through the glass) for retail campaigns that have to hold colour for the run. For paper posters displayed behind the glass rather than printed onto it, we run those too.
Standard frost, gradient frost, coloured frost and etched-effect film for the sandblasted look, cut to any geometry on the plotter. A frosted window sticker with logo cut clean against the frost is the highest-impact identity move a clinic entrance or office floor can make for the money. Removable grades peel with no residue.
One way vision window film is perforated vinyl: the graphic prints on the solid sections, light passes through the holes. The street sees a full-colour image, the team inside still sees the pavement. The spec for full-coverage retail fronts that cannot black the shop out.
Two-band contrast markings at 850 to 1000mm and 1400 to 1600mm above finished floor level, satisfying the Equality Act 2010, Approved Document M and BS 8300. Plain frosted dots, or your brand pattern doing the same legal job. Detail in the compliance section below.
Occupier names, opening hours, contact strips and regulatory notices, plotter-cut from coloured or printed film in removable or permanent adhesive to suit the lease. Where the brief is standalone signage lettering rather than a window job, the same plotter runs our full range of cut vinyl lettering and decals.
Window manifestations are the contrast markings the law requires on large areas of clear glass in commercial buildings, so the glazing reads as a barrier. The Equality Act 2010 and Approved Document M set the requirement; BS 8300 details the accessibility spec. Two horizontal bands: 850 to 1000mm and 1400 to 1600mm above finished floor level, visible against the background in all lighting. Full-height partitions, frameless shopfronts, meeting-room walls and public entrances all fall inside it.
Office fit-outs with full-height glass partitions, frameless shopfronts, schools, clinics and public buildings. This is where most window graphics printing suppliers get caught short: a frosted dot pattern fitted at eyeballed height off the skirting fails its first access audit. The band heights are measured from finished floor level, and the difference between FFL and screed is exactly the difference between a passed audit and a re-fit.
The manifestation does not have to look like an apology. Logos at the regulation height, brand pattern at the regulation contrast, decorative banding that satisfies BS 8300 and reinforces the identity in the same pass. Most of the glass manifestations for windows london fit-out teams brief us for ship as branded patterns, not plain dots.
A fitter measures every pane and confirms the band positions where compliance applies, or we work from your dimensions on file. Print and plotter-cut at Camden, install on site, out-of-hours for occupied buildings. Artwork stays on record, so the next floor or the next tenant runs from file without a re-survey.
One person owns your job here. The account manager who prices the work follows it through print, finishing and installation, so nothing gets lost between departments. Email post@cityimages.co.uk with the pane sizes or a photo of the glass.
Get a quoteFrosted window film does the work of acid-etched glass at a fraction of the cost, applied as a removable self-adhesive film. It blocks the view but passes the light. That is the spec a clinic wants for its consulting rooms, or a corporate floor for the meeting rooms the corridor should not see into. Full sheets for blanket privacy, plotter-cut patterns for banding, logos cut clear against the frost.
Full-sheet privacy for partitions, entrances and street-facing glass. Bright room, softened view.
Solid at seated height, fading to clear above. Sightline open, screens private, daylight kept.
A frosted window sticker with logo cut clean against the frost, or the effect reversed into the brand mark on a clear pane.
Coloured frost, printed frost and repeating pattern film for retail banding and decorative screens.
Brushed and sandblasted-look films where the brief wants the acid-etched read without touching the glazing.
Peels clean with no residue and no damage. The dilapidations file stays clean at end of tenancy.
Walk in to Mayfair (8 Avery Row) or Camden (23-27 King’s Terrace) and handle the film grades on the counter before you brief the job.
A shopfront on Bond Street, Carnaby or Oxford Street is out-of-home media at reading distance. Retail window display printing turns a dead pane into the highest-dwell-time surface a brand owns. That can be a short-run window poster behind the pane, or a full vinyl takeover across it.
The detail is what shows: a bubble at eye level or a band 30mm off line tells every passer-by the brand cuts corners. We print and install window displays the way the outdoor trade specs a billboard, and fit every one with our own London crew.
No adhesive, reusable. Short promos, sale weekends, press days. Up and down by hand.
Seasonal campaigns and shop window decals. Strips clean at campaign end, glass left as found.
Typical colour life on central London street-facing glass, longer on sheltered aspect.
Unprinted frost and cut film are the permanent identity layer that holds for years under the campaigns.
Briefing a retail campaign? Phone Camden on 020 7874 1900 and talk directly to the floor that prints it.
Three briefs cover most of the printed window graphics that leave Camden: the office fit-out, the retail campaign, and the gallery or restaurant front. Scale runs from a single glass-door logo to multi-site rollouts, and the window graphics design can start from your brand assets or from a sketch on the counter.
Office window graphics london briefs usually land as three jobs in one survey: manifestation banding on the corridor glazing, frosted privacy on the meeting rooms, identity work on the reception screens. We quote the floor, install over an evening or weekend around occupied tenancy, and hand back a floor of glazing that does compliance, privacy and brand in one pass. Files for serviced offices and co-working floors stay on record, so the next fit-out phase reorders without a re-survey. Installs run through our own installation team.
Mayfair, Carnaby and Soho retailers run their windows campaign by campaign, and the window graphics printing runs to the launch date, not the other way round. Seasonal menus, sale weekends, product launches, pop-ups swapping brands month to month. Static cling for the short promo, removable window vinyls for the season, one-way vision where the whole pane works as an image. For backlit panels behind the glass, see our lightbox printing.
Single panels for a gallery street front, full wraps for a touring exhibition, function-room glazing dressed without losing the view. Removable adhesives keep the venue intact for the next show. And a window brief rarely lands alone: standalone signage lettering runs as vinyl graphics and decals, surfaces bigger than a shopfront go to large-format printing, and the same crew fits all of it. One point of contact, one building.
A fitter measures every pane and confirms manifestation bands where compliance applies. Or email pane dimensions and a photo of the glass to post@cityimages.co.uk.
In-house design works from your brand assets, returns a mockup on photos of the actual glazing. Pantone matched against a signed-off proof before anything prints.
Wide-format print, plotter cut, lamination where the install is street-facing. The artwork stays on record for the next reorder.
Wet application for large panels, dry for smaller, out-of-hours for occupied buildings. Campaign-end strip-down is part of the service, glass left as found.
Sustainable glass print, plainly stated: 90% of our paper output ships on FSC-approved stock, and City Images is committed to carbon-neutral operations by 2029. Every offcut, release liner and end-of-campaign strip-down recycles through FirstMile, and our digital printing leaves virtually no setup waste: no plates, no chemicals, no make-ready sheets. Removable-grade adhesives keep the glass clean at end of life, so the next tenant inherits a clean pane.
Everything you need to know before briefing the glass. Film choice, compliance, install, lifespan, colour. Cannot find your answer? We pick up the phone.
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Call us directlyWindow manifestations are contrast markings the Equality Act 2010 and Approved Document M require on large areas of clear glass in commercial buildings, with BS 8300 detailing the accessibility spec. Two horizontal bands: 850 to 1000mm above finished floor level, and 1400 to 1600mm. Any London office, shop, school, clinic or public building with clear-glass partitions or a frameless shopfront needs them. Plain frosted dots or branded patterns both satisfy the regulation.
Often, yes. Printed vinyl and plotter-cut film run same-day from clean artwork when the schedule allows, and installation is booked around site access. Phone either studio with the deadline and you get a straight yes or no, no fixed cutoffs. For the wider urgent service, see our same-day printing in London hub.
Standard frosted film blocks the view both ways while passing diffused daylight, the spec for clinics, meeting rooms and any privacy-led application. For see-out-not-in privacy we use one-way vision perforated film or mirrored film, advised at survey based on aspect and light conditions.
Removable-grade adhesive lifts cleanly with no residue and no damage to the glazing, the grade we default to on leased premises and seasonal campaigns. Permanent-grade is available where the install is long-term. Strip-down is handled as part of the service at campaign end.
One-way vision film, also called contravision, is perforated vinyl. The graphic prints on the solid sections and light passes through the holes, so the street reads a full-colour image while you look out through the perforations and see the pavement clearly. Daylight overwhelming the interior light is what makes it work, so the effect is strongest during shopping hours.
We install what we produce. Our own fitters cover London as standard and EU project work, with UK-wide installs arranged on the same job ticket. The account manager who priced the job follows it through print, finishing and installation, so a spec question on the glass gets answered by someone who has seen the file.
Laminated printed vinyl on a central London street face typically runs 12 to 18 months before colour drifts, longer on sheltered aspect, shorter on south-facing sun. Unprinted frosted film holds for years. One-way vision film runs 12 to 18 months. Artwork stays on record so a reprint ships without a second design round.
Campaign-by-campaign cycles are how most Bond Street, Carnaby, Mayfair and Soho retailers run their windows. We produce, install, strip at campaign end and fit the next, all off the same set of measurements. Static-cling film with no adhesive covers short promos; removable self-adhesive vinyl covers weeks-to-months campaigns.
ICC colour management runs on every wide-format job at Camden, with Pantone and RAL matched against a signed-off proof. Cut vinyl is stocked or sourced in specified solid colours. Where colour is critical we proof on the actual film before full production.
No. The film bonds to the glass face only, not the frame or the seal. Wet application uses a soap-and-water solution that evaporates as the film cures, with nothing aggressive near silicone or gaskets. Removable-grade adhesive lifts cleanly at end of life and the glass is left as found.
Yes: single panels for a gallery street front, full wraps for a touring exhibition, multi-site retail and cultural rollouts on one programme. Removable adhesives keep the venue intact for the next show. We have produced window work for luxury retail, restaurant launches and gallery exhibitions across Mayfair, Soho and the West End.
Window graphics London coverage is genuinely London-wide, from two studios: walk in to Mayfair W1 to handle samples, brief into Camden NW1 for production. Fitters cover Westminster, the City of London, Camden, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, and the wider central London boroughs as standard. For larger installs a fitter surveys the glass before we quote: every pane measured, every reveal photographed, manifestation bands confirmed where compliance applies. Smaller jobs work from your dimensions on file.
Two walk-in locations in Central London. Both open Monday to Friday. No appointment needed. Walk in with a photo of the glass and discuss the job face-to-face with the people producing it.
Email us8 Avery Row, Mayfair, London W1K 4AL
Walk-in welcome. No appointment needed. Nearest stations: Bond Street, Oxford Circus, Green Park.
Walk in with a photo of the glass, handle frosted, one-way vision and printed film samples on the counter, and brief the job face-to-face. Serves retail, gallery, office and hospitality briefs across Mayfair, Soho, Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Belgravia, St James’s, Westminster and Covent Garden.
23-27 King's Terrace, Camden, London NW1 0JP
Walk-in welcome. No appointment needed. Nearest stations: Camden Town, Mornington Crescent.
Wide-format print, plotter cutting and lamination under one roof, and the install crew briefs out from here. All printing for our window graphics London clients runs from this building. Serves Camden Town, Kentish Town, Primrose Hill, Regent’s Park, King’s Cross, Bloomsbury, Islington and Holloway.
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