Shutter Graphics — Designed, Printed and Fitted to Your Existing Shutter

A shutter graphic is your artwork printed onto heavy-duty self-adhesive vinyl, laminated, then applied to the face of an existing roller shutter. Nothing is replaced and the shutter keeps operating exactly as before — the curtain rolls up into the box with the print on it.

Because the print sits on the outside face, the graphic is only visible when the shutter is down. That is the point: the frontage advertises the business through the hours it is closed, which for most retailers is more hours than it is open.

Every job starts with a survey. We measure the curtain width and drop, count the slats, note the lath and locks, and photograph the frontage so artwork lines up with the profile rather than being stretched over it.

Print is solvent onto vandal-resistant media, finished with a UV and anti-graffiti laminate as standard on exterior work. Panels are fitted out of hours so the shop never closes for us.

A roller shutter is not a flat board. The curtain is a run of horizontal slats, each with a corrugation, and it has to roll into a box every morning. That governs how graphics are made: printed vinyl worked into the slat profile rather than stretched across it, panelled vertically, and trimmed clear of the guide rails and bottom lath.

Solid single-skin and insulated curtains reproduce photographic artwork cleanly. Perforated and punched curtains carry graphics well when the design is bold, because roughly a third of the face is open mesh. Lath-and-link grilles suit colour blocks, lettering or a respray rather than detailed imagery.

Exterior shutter work is printed on polymeric self-adhesive vinyl with UV-stable inks, then laminated. The laminate does the protecting: it filters UV so colour holds, resists abrasion where the curtain meets the rails, and gives an anti-graffiti surface so tags wipe off with a solvent instead of soaking into the print.

Specified that way, printed shutter vinyl typically holds colour for five to seven years in UK conditions and can be washed down. Individual panels can be lifted and reprinted if a section is damaged, without redoing the whole curtain.

Independent retail, takeaways, barbers, off-licences, pharmacies and phone shops are the everyday jobs. We also run multi-site roll-outs for national chains where every store gets the same specification and a scheduled install window, each frontage surveyed so artwork is sized to its own curtain.

Councils, BIDs and landlords use the same product differently — a street of blank grey shutters is a recognised problem, and printed artwork or murals is the usual remedy alongside shutter resprays and anti-graffiti coatings on the surrounding public realm.

The order of work is the same on a single shop or a fifty-store roll-out: survey and measured drawing, artwork proof for your approval, print and laminate in our own unit on Teesside, then installation by our own fitters, normally out of hours so trading is not interrupted.

We install across the UK and Ireland. Shutter operation is checked before the team leaves site.