Custom Door Hangers
Market Directly to Your Audience's Door
When you need to guarantee that your marketing message reaches a homeowner, you bypass the mailbox entirely. Custom printed door hangers are the ultimate hyper-local, direct-impact advertising tool. They cannot be ignored, filtered by a spam folder, or lost in a stack of junk mail. Your potential customer must physically interact with your message to enter their home.
Ideal for Local Services and Outreach
Door hangers are the secret weapon for businesses and organizations that operate on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis:
- Home Services: Landscapers, roofers, HVAC technicians, and painters can canvas the exact streets they are currently working on, leveraging "social proof" (e.g., "We just serviced your neighbor's house!").
- Real Estate Agents: Announce newly listed properties, recently sold homes, or invite neighbors to an upcoming open house.
- Restaurants & Delivery: Distribute local menus, exclusive neighborhood delivery coupons, and grand opening announcements directly to hungry residents.
- Political Campaigns & Churches: Drive local voter turnout, distribute candidate platforms, or invite the community to special holiday church services.
Durable 14pt Gloss Paper Stock
We print our door hangers exclusively on a heavy 14 pt. Gloss paper stock. This is not flimsy copy paper that will wrap around a doorknob and blow away in the slightest breeze. The 14 pt. cardstock provides a rigid, professional feel that hangs straight down, ensuring your message is easily readable from the sidewalk. Furthermore, the gloss coating enhances the vibrancy of your full-color photographs and logos while providing a mild layer of resistance against morning dew and light humidity.
Maximizing Your Real Estate
We offer double-sided printing so you can utilize every square inch of the hanger. We highly recommend using the front side for a bold, eye-catching headline and a vibrant photograph, while utilizing the back side for detailed service lists, bullet points, customer testimonials, or tear-off coupon codes.
Designing for the Die-Cut: File Preparation
Designing a door hanger is unique because a physical section of your artwork will be punched out by our die-cutting machines. To ensure your final product looks professional and no critical information is lost, please follow these strict file preparation guidelines.
The Die-Cut Safe Zone (Crucial)
Every door hanger includes a 1.25" circular hole and a diagonal slit cut into the top so it can slide over a doorknob. You must design your artwork around this missing space.
- The Top 2 Inches: Do not place any important text, logos, contact information, or faces within the top 2 inches of your design file. This area is entirely reserved for the die-cut hole and slit.
- If you place your company logo or a phone number at the top center of the hanger, our machines will punch a massive hole directly through it, rendering it unreadable.
Bleeds and Edge Margins
To achieve a professional, edge-to-edge print (full bleed), your digital canvas must be slightly larger than the final cut size.
- The Bleed: Add a 0.125-inch bleed margin to all four sides of your document canvas. If you are ordering a 4" x 9" door hanger, your file size must be exactly 4.25" x 9.25". Extend your background color or imagery into this space.
- The Safe Zone: Keep all critical text and graphics at least 0.25 inches away from the outer edges of the document to ensure they are not accidentally clipped during the final trimming process.
Resolution and Formatting
Because potential customers will hold this marketing piece in their hands, the print quality must be pristine.
- Ensure your document and all embedded photographs are set to a minimum of 300 DPI at the actual print size.
- Design your file in the CMYK color space to guarantee accurate physical ink reproduction.
- Export your final artwork as a flattened, high-quality PDF with all fonts converted to outlines/curves.
Turnaround & Delivery Logistics
The Production Schedule
Custom door hangers require a specialized finishing process. After the heavy 14 pt. cardstock is printed on our flat-bed presses, the ink must cure before the sheets are moved to the bindery. There, they are trimmed to size, and a specialized die-cutting machine punches the doorknob hole and slit into every single piece. Because of this multi-step process, standard production time is 1 to 3 business days following the approval of your print-ready artwork.
Local DFW Pickup for Immediate Distribution
For Dallas/Fort Worth businesses preparing for a weekend canvassing campaign, we highly recommend utilizing our Local Pickup service to bypass shipping transit times. Once your door hangers are printed, die-cut, shrink-wrapped, and boxed, you will receive an immediate automated notification. You can collect your boxes directly from the Xpress Shipping and Printing center located at 909 W Spring Creek Pkwy, Ste 210, Plano, TX 75023.
Secure Bulk Shipping
If you require delivery, we ensure your marketing materials arrive in perfect condition. Batches of door hangers are tightly shrink-wrapped in small bricks to lock out moisture and prevent the die-cut edges from snagging and tearing on each other during transit. These bricks are then nested inside heavy-duty corrugated boxes. We ship via authorized national carriers (UPS, FedEx, DHL, USPS) to provide reliable tracking straight to your corporate office or business location.
Emergency Rush Processing
Did a massive storm just roll through your area, and your roofing company needs door hangers immediately to canvas the affected neighborhoods? We understand the urgency of timely marketing. If you have an impending deadline, please call our service hotline directly at 214-440-2130 before placing your order online. Depending on our daily die-cutting capacity, we can frequently accommodate same-day or next-day rush processing to get your boots on the ground faster.