The graphics are ready and the store opens on Thursday. Someone still has to be on site with the right access, the right adhesive and a survey that was done properly.
We print the work and fit it with our own installation team: retail display installation, wall, window and floor graphics, exhibition and event builds. One company from the file to the wall. Small central London installs can run next day.
Send a floor plan, a photograph of the wall or the stand drawings, and we will tell you what the install actually needs before anyone talks about price.
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.
Four families cover almost everything we are asked to fit, listed here in the order people actually ask for them. The common thread is that the same company produced the graphics, so the person measuring the wall and the person printing to that measurement are on the same job sheet. Our own graphic installers work across London and the EU, with carpenters and electricians on the team for anything that is a build rather than a graphic. We install across the UK too.
The bulk of the work: store windows, in-store display, light boxes, hanging panels, plinths and printed floor graphics going into a trading shop, usually to a fixed opening date. We install the display elements we produce, which means the fixings, the tolerances and the substrate are decided while the job is still artwork rather than discovered on site. For a multi-site rollout the first store is the template: we install it, note what actually happened, then repeat it across the estate.
Full-height wall graphics installation, printed wallpaper, mounted panels, applied vinyl lettering, murals and suspended pieces. Working at height is normal on this work, so powered access is part of the plan rather than an afterthought. Some walls take a graphic and some do not, which is a survey question and not a guess: freshly painted plaster, heavy texture and certain paint finishes all change what will hold. See printed wallpaper for the material side.
Applied vinyl, frosted manifestation, full window wraps, backing boards and the display elements that sit behind the glass. Windows are the fastest thing on the list to fit and the easiest to get wrong, because glass shows every bubble and every millimetre of misalignment. Fitted from inside or outside depending on the shopfront and the weather. The material and print detail lives on our printed window graphics page.
Stand graphics, showroom sets, event branding, hoardings and pop-up spaces, including the carpentry, the lighting and the electrics where the piece needs them. Venue work carries its own rules: our team has installed at ExCeL, Olympia, the Business Design Centre and the QEII Centre, so the risk assessments, the fire ratings and the build and breakdown windows are familiar ground rather than a first attempt.
A small install in central London, on a surface we have seen and with the graphics already produced, can go in the next day. Most jobs are booked to a date you choose, because the constraint is almost never our diary: it is the store’s trading hours, the venue’s build window or the day the scaffold comes down. Anything large, high or complex is surveyed first and then scheduled, and we will say at that point whether your date is realistic. Tell us the date the space has to be finished and we will work backwards to when the artwork has to be signed off.
Window vinyl, wall panels, floor graphics, display units and anything that fits through the door in one piece and goes onto a surface we have already seen. If it is a repeat of a site we have installed before, the survey is already done and the file is already on record, which is the whole reason repeat sites are quick.
Anything at height, anything needing powered access, anything with carpentry, lighting or electrics in it, and anything on a site with permit, lift or loading-bay restrictions. None of that is slow work. It is work with a queue in front of it, usually the building’s rather than ours, and the survey exists to find that queue before it finds you.
Tell us the store’s trading hours, the venue’s access window or the times the office is empty, and the install is planned around them. Shops that cannot lose a trading hour and venues with a fixed build slot are the normal case here, not the exception, and the schedule is written to fit them.
Email post@cityimages.co.uk with the site, the graphics and the date the space has to be finished, and we quote straight back. For print on a deadline, see our same-day printing in London hub.
Get a quoteThe left column is the kind of site we are usually fitting in. The right column is what decides whether the day runs smoothly, and it is almost entirely settled before anyone arrives. Open any row for the plain-English detail.
Trading stores, concessions inside a department store, and shopfronts on the street. The two constraints that shape every retail install are trading hours and the handover date, so the work is planned around when the shop can actually give us the floor. Concessions add a third: the host store’s own rules on access, contractors and out-of-hours working, which we deal with directly rather than passing back to you.
Reception walls, wayfinding, manifestation on glass partitions, meeting-room graphics and workplace branding. Occupied offices usually mean early mornings, evenings or a weekend, and glass partitions mean manifestation that has to meet the building’s own standard for visibility. Both are survey questions, both are cheap to answer in advance.
Exhibition graphics, full-wall images, vinyl lettering, panel systems and hanging work, often at height and often to a fixed opening night. Cultural venues are precise about what can touch a wall and what has to come off cleanly afterwards, and the removal is as much part of the brief as the install.
Stand graphics, event branding, stage sets and hospitality spaces at venues including ExCeL, Olympia, the Business Design Centre and the QEII Centre. Every hall runs its own build and breakdown windows, its own contractor accreditation and its own rules on rigging and fire performance. We work to them routinely.
Site hoardings, vacant unit dressing, marketing suites and lettings graphics. This work sits outside, so the substrate, the fixing and the print all have to survive weather and time rather than a six-week campaign, and that is decided at spec stage.
Interior graphics, printed panels, wall coverings and window work for hotels, bars and restaurants, usually fitted between service or overnight so the room is back in use for the next opening.
For anything complex, someone comes and measures. A survey records the true finished sizes, the surface, the access, the power, the fixings and the obstructions nobody mentions on the phone, such as the radiator, the sprinkler head or the beam that crosses the wall 200mm below the ceiling. It is the single step that separates an install that takes a morning from one that takes two days, and it is why the graphic is printed to the wall rather than the wall being asked to match the graphic.
How we reach the work and how the work reaches the site. Powered access for anything high, and a plan for the loading bay, the lift dimensions, the stair turn and the doorway before a 3-metre panel is produced as one piece. Panel sizes are set by what can physically get into the room, which is a production decision made at survey stage.
Adhesive is chemistry, not optimism. Freshly painted walls need curing time before anything is applied, heavy texture reduces contact area, and some paint and powder-coat finishes release rather than bond. We check the surface and specify the material to it, which occasionally means saying that a wall needs sealing or that the graphic should be a mounted panel instead.
Most installs are scheduled around when the space is free rather than when we are. Give us the trading hours, the access window or the date the site is handed over and the work is planned to it, including early mornings, evenings and weekends where that is what the site needs.
Venues and managed buildings ask for method statements and risk assessments, and many ask for fire-rated materials for anything applied to a wall or freestanding in a public space. B1 fire-rated boards and substrates are a standard option here. Tell us the venue and we will supply the paperwork it expects.
Site measurements, material specs and artwork stay on record after the job. When the same window changes for a new season, or the same stand goes up at the next show, the reprint runs from a known spec rather than a fresh survey. On multi-site work that is the difference between one careful install and thirty predictable ones.
Most of this work is retail, cultural and events, booked either by the brand directly or by the agency, the shopfitter or the exhibition contractor running the project. Installs have included gallery-scale wall images, retail windows for Chloé at Harrods, a Habitat showroom build, and cut-and-applied wall pieces made from hundreds of individually finished parts. The brief changes every time. What does not change is that the measuring, the printing and the fitting sit with one company, so there is nobody to blame at the point where a job usually goes wrong.
Stores, concessions, seasonal campaigns, rollouts
Exhibitions, private views, permanent displays
ExCeL, Olympia, Business Design Centre, QEII
Reception, wayfinding, glass manifestation
Hoardings, vacant units, marketing suites
Briefing on behalf of the end client
Walk in to Mayfair (8 Avery Row) or Camden (23-27 King’s Terrace). Bring the site photographs and the dates and we will tell you what the install involves.
Installs fail in three predictable places, and none of them are the fitting. They are the measurement, the surface and the access. All three are cheap to settle a week before and expensive to discover with a van outside and a store opening in the morning.
Architects’ drawings describe the building as designed. Sites describe the building as built, and the two differ more often than anyone expects. A wall that is 4,000mm on the plan can be 3,960mm in the room, and a graphic printed to the drawing is then 40mm too wide with nowhere to hide it. Add the things drawings leave out, such as the sprinkler head, the socket, the radiator, the fire alarm or the beam crossing the wall just below the ceiling, and you have the commonest reason a graphic gets trimmed on site with a blade. We survey and print to what is there.
Newly decorated walls are the classic. Emulsion continues to cure and off-gas for days after it looks dry, so a vinyl applied too early lifts at the edges within a week, and it looks like a material failure when it was a timing failure. Textured surfaces cut the actual contact area to a fraction of the visible area. Some paints and powder-coated finishes are deliberately low-energy so nothing sticks to them. Each of these has an answer, whether that is waiting, sealing, changing the material or mounting the graphic on a panel instead. All of them need to be known before the material is ordered, not after it is on the wall.
The graphics can be perfect and the day can still fail on logistics. Loading bays get booked out, lifts have a smaller opening than the panel, venues run strict build windows, managed buildings want method statements and risk assessments in advance, and a retail landlord may not allow contractors during trading hours at all. On the street, a hoarding or a shopfront at height can need a permit and a pavement licence. We ask these questions at survey stage because they set the panel sizes, the equipment and the hour we arrive.
For anything complex we come and measure: sizes, surfaces, access, power and the obstructions nobody mentions. Small or repeat jobs can skip it if you send photographs and dimensions. Email post@cityimages.co.uk or call Camden on 020 7874 1900.
The survey sets the material, the panel sizes and the fixings, and the quote covers production and installation as one price. Method statements and risk assessments are prepared here for venues and managed buildings that ask for them.
Graphics are produced to the surveyed sizes and delivered to site for the install date, as one delivery rather than several. Carpentry, lighting and electrics are built into the same schedule where the job needs them.
Fitted by our own team in your access window, cleared down and left ready to trade. Measurements, specs and artwork stay on record, so a reinstall or the next site runs from a known spec instead of a fresh survey.
An installed graphic is produced once and fitted once, so most of the waste is decided by the measuring rather than the printing. A surveyed job is cut to the size it needs, which is the difference between one panel and one panel plus the one that was 40mm too wide.
We print digitally, so there are no plates and no make-ready sheets thrown away getting colour up to standard. Paper and board are 90 percent FSC certified across the business, offcuts and substrate trim go back through FirstMile recycling, and we are working to carbon neutral by 2029.
Keeping the site files on record matters environmentally as well as commercially: a reprint for a known window is one panel, not a re-measure and a second attempt. If the brief is a low-impact install, ask about recyclable substrates and removable materials at survey stage, while the spec is still open.
Read our sustainability pageEverything worth knowing before you book an installation. Coverage, surveys, access, venues, compliance and rollouts. Cannot find your answer? We pick up the phone.
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Call us directlyYes. That is the point of this page. We survey the site, produce the graphics and install them with our own fitters, so one company measures, prints and fits. There is no hand-off between a printer and a separate installer, which is where most of the problems on this kind of job come from. Carpenters and electricians are on the same team for work that is a build rather than a graphic.
London and the EU with our own installation team, and we install across the UK. Central London is the everyday work, which is why a small install here can go in the next day. For anything outside London, tell us the postcode and the date with the enquiry and we will confirm the schedule and any travel with the quote.
It is quoted per job, because the price is set by the site rather than the square metre: access, height, the hour we are allowed to work, how many pieces there are and whether a survey is needed. What we can say is that production and installation are quoted together as one price rather than as two invoices from two companies. Send photographs, rough sizes and the date and you will get a number back.
For anything large, high, complex or unfamiliar, yes, and it is the step that protects the date. A survey records the true finished sizes, the surface, the access and the obstructions, and it feeds straight into the print specification. For small, simple or repeat work, clear photographs and accurate dimensions are often enough. We will tell you honestly which one your job needs.
Yes. Retail installs are routinely fitted around trading, and office work is usually early mornings, evenings or weekends when the floor is empty. Give us the access window and the install is planned to it. Venue work runs to the hall’s own build and breakdown times, which we are used to working within.
Retail display and point of sale, window graphics and manifestation, cut vinyl and fret-cut lettering, wall graphics and printed wallpaper, floor graphics, lightbox and backlit panels, exhibition stand graphics, event sets, hoardings and freestanding displays. Where the piece needs carpentry, lighting or electrics, that is part of the same install rather than a separate trade you have to book.
Yes. Our team has installed at ExCeL, Olympia, the Business Design Centre and the QEII Centre, so venue accreditation, method statements, risk assessments and fixed build windows are familiar. Tell us the venue and the hall and we will work to its rules and its timings.
Yes. Managed buildings and venues usually ask for RAMS before contractors are allowed on site, and many require fire performance for anything applied to a wall or standing in a public space. B1 fire-rated boards and substrates are a standard option. Tell us what the building or venue asks for and the paperwork and the specification are prepared to match.
Yes. Working at height is normal on wall, ceiling and shopfront work, and powered access is planned into the job rather than improvised on the day. The survey establishes the height, the floor loading, the access route for the equipment and whether the work can be done from inside or has to be reached from outside.
Yes, and the sensible way to run one is to treat the first site as the template. We install it, record what actually happened, then repeat it across the estate with the measurements and specifications already on file. That is what turns thirty separate installs into thirty predictable ones, and it is why we keep site records after the job rather than closing the file.
It depends on the material and the surface, and it is a question worth asking before the install rather than after. Removable materials exist for exactly this, and galleries and short-run retail campaigns usually specify them. Permanent materials on a painted wall can take paint with them, so if the site has to be returned to its original state, say so at survey stage and the specification is written for removal as well as for the install.
Usually yes, and it is worth a conversation first. If the material and the sizes are right for the surface and the access, we can fit them. If they are not, we will say so before the day rather than discover it on site, because a graphic produced to a drawing rather than a survey is the most common thing we are asked to rescue.
Two walk-in locations in Central London. Both open Monday to Friday. No appointment needed. Bring the site photographs and the dates, and talk the install through with the people who will fit it.
Email us8 Avery Row, London W1K 4AL
Walk-in welcome. No appointment needed. Nearest stations: Bond Street, Oxford Circus, Green Park.
The walk-in counter and the briefing desk. Bring the site photographs, the floor plan or the stand drawings, talk the access and the surfaces through in person, and see the material options in the hand before the spec is agreed. Our Mayfair location is a short walk from Bond Street and serves clients across Soho, Fitzrovia, Marylebone, Belgravia, St James's, Westminster, and Covent Garden.
23-27 King's Terrace, London NW1 0JP
Walk-in welcome. No appointment needed. Nearest stations: Camden Town, Mornington Crescent.
Walk-in collection and briefing. Agencies, shopfitters, galleries and event organisers bring plans and artwork in and talk the install through face-to-face, and finished graphics can be collected here or delivered to site. Serves Camden Town, Kentish Town, Primrose Hill, Regent's Park, King's Cross, Bloomsbury, Islington, and Holloway.
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