Once the wording is settled, the three finishes compares paper, canvas and framed canvas, and quote prints shows what fits when the words run long. The gift itself has the whole range. Not sure how many years it is? The years-of-service calculator works it out exactly from the two dates.
The name print takes four typed lines
On the name print you fill in four boxes and watch the layout change as you type. Their name is the only one you have to complete, and it takes up to 37 characters on a print or canvas. Their profession and their years of service share one line of up to 41 characters, and where they worked takes up to 50. The last three are marked optional and the design still holds together if you leave any of them blank.
The words "Happy Retirement" sit above the name in small spaced capitals. They are part of the design and cannot be changed. Below them the name is set large in a serif, exactly as you type it. A thin rule with a small diamond in the middle separates the name from the profession and years, which print together in capitals. Where they worked runs underneath on a line of its own.
There is no date field, no message field and no box for a quotation. Four lines is the whole of it, and the reason to say so plainly is that a lot of retirement-gift copy implies otherwise. If the words you want are a saying, not a set of facts, read what to do about the quote before you order anything.
The portrait starts from a photograph instead
The other route is the retirement portrait. You upload a photograph of the retiree, or of the ward, the yard, the classroom, the boat or the garden the career happened in, then pick one of five styles: oil, watercolour, charcoal, pop art or impressionist. Up to three successful previews per day are free after email verification, so you can compare your saved results before deciding whether to buy one of them. There are no typed lines on a portrait. The picture is the personalisation.
The Personalised Name Print From £15.99 Poster
Their name, their profession, their years of service and where they worked, set in type beneath a fixed Happy Retirement line.
What each one costs
The name print is cheapest as a digital file, then as an A4 poster, and it goes up through A3 and 50x70cm to canvas and framed sizes, with a mug alongside. The name print page lists every size with its price.
The portrait is priced above the name print because the artwork is generated for your photograph alone. It starts as a digital file, then an A4 poster, and goes up through canvas to a framed canvas. Every price includes free UK delivery.
Which one you can use is decided by what you have
If you have their name, their job and a rough number of years, the name print is available to you this afternoon and nobody's got to find a photograph. If you have a good photograph and no confident grip on the facts, the portrait is the one that works. If you have both, the difference is what the gift says: the print states a career, the portrait shows a place.
Buying for a particular person, not a particular format? Who is retiring takes the other route through the same products, and the twenty profession guides go further into what a specific job is worth saying about.
How it is made and when it turns up
Nothing here is held in stock. The file is rendered from what you typed or uploaded, printed, and sent out. Making it takes two to four working days; the post takes another two to five. Order at least nine working days before the leaving do. A digital file skips both halves of that and arrives by email.
Because each piece is made to your specification, check the spelling before you pay. We typeset exactly what is entered, and a misspelled name isn't something a reprint can be free about.
