Print Design in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
Print design for businesses in Ivano-Frankivsk and the Ivano-Frankivsk region — packaging for Hutsul Hutsul Hutsul craft producers (bryndza cheese, honey, Kosiv ceramics), menus for restaurants and cafés around Rynok Square, catalogues for furniture factories, branded POS materials for Old Town hotels and Ivano-Frankivsk retail. Print-ready PDF/X with correct colour management, trapping and settings tuned to your specific print house.
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Types of Print Design
I design printed materials of any format and complexity
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Business card design
Stylish business cards considering printing method: offset, digital, embossing, foil stamping.
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Brochure design
Brochures, leaflets and flyers for advertising campaigns, events and promotions.
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Catalog design
Multi-page product catalogs, corporate magazines and annual reports.
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Packaging design
Product packaging: boxes, labels, stickers, bags considering manufacturing requirements.
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Banner & stand design
Large-format materials: roll-up banners, press walls, signage, promotional stands.
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Merchandise design
Mugs, t-shirts, caps, notebooks, pens and other branded merchandise.
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Vehicle branding
Car wrap design — passenger, cargo, corporate fleet. Eye-catching advertising that works around the clock.
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Sticker design
Creative sticker packs for your brand — product labels, merch, promo materials and messenger stickers.
Work Process
1
Brief & Analysis
I clarify objectives, target audience, format, print run, and printing house technical requirements.
2
Concept & Layout
I develop the visual concept and create a layout aligned with the brand's corporate identity.
3
Refinement
I make revisions, polish details, check text content, and information hierarchy.
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Prepress Preparation
I prepare files in CMYK format with bleeds, crop marks, and printing house technical specs.
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Print Supervision
If needed, I oversee the printing process, check color proofs, and final product quality.
Pricing
Choose the optimal package for your project
Basic
Business Cards / Flyer
1 print layout
$30$50What's included:
- Design of 1 layout
- 2 variants to choose
- Print files (AI, PDF, CMYK)
- Preview in JPG/PNG
- 1 revision round
Ready in 1-2 days
Standard
Brochure / Catalog
Up to 12 pages
$150$200What's included:
- Design up to 12 pages
- Cover + inner pages
- Text and image layout
- Print files (AI, PDF, CMYK)
- 2 revision rounds
- Print-ready with bleeds
Ready in 5-7 days
Business
Packaging / Complex
Comprehensive design
$300$400What's included:
- Packaging or print set design
- 3D visualization (for packaging)
- Print and digital files
- 3 revision rounds
- Print supervision
- Material consultation
Ready in 1-2 weeks
Creative
Sticker Pack
20 stickers
$200$280What's included:
- Set of 20 unique stickers
- Vector graphics (scales without quality loss)
- Adapted for Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp
- Print-ready stickers for products & merch
- Various themes tailored to your brand
- Source files SVG, PNG, AI
- Animated versions (optional)+$100
For brand & messengers
Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to the most popular questions
I cover the full print cycle: tourist guides of the historic centre, menus and wine lists for Bukovel HoReCa, primary and back labels for family wineries and meaderies of the Carpathian foothills, brand catalogues for oil and gas companies. I also design business cards, corporate folders, in-room inserts for hotels, annual reports and tender documentation. Every format is built around a real client task, not a template. The full method is described on the print design service page.
My core stack is Adobe Illustrator for vector logos, labels and complex infographics, Adobe InDesign for catalogues, guides and annual reports, and Adobe Photoshop for retouching and composite work. I use Figma for prototypes and previews when clients want to see the design before approving print. Files are organised in named layers with CMYK and Pantone swatches, so any printer in Ivano-Frankivsk can open them without guessing.
PDF/X is the international file exchange standard between designer and printer. I usually deliver PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4: they lock the colour profile, transparencies, fonts, bleed and trim. The printer then reproduces exactly what we approved on the digital proof, instead of reinterpreting the file. For serious runs, like oil and gas catalogues or wine label series, this is the difference between a controlled outcome and a lottery.
First I identify where brand colours are critical: logo, catalogue cover, label accent. I lock these as Pantone spot colours so they print with one ink and stay consistent run after run. The rest of the graphics goes into CMYK with the right ICC profile, usually Fogra39 or Fogra51 depending on paper. Before the run I order a digital or analogue proof and check it against a Pantone fan to avoid surprises.
For a 24 to 48 page catalogue I plan 3 to 5 weeks. Week one covers content, photography if needed, structure and skeleton. Weeks two and three are spreads, typography, infographics and illustrations. Week four is corrections, copy editing and PDF/X preflight. Week five is digital proofing and going to press. Smaller items like a leaflet or brochure fit into 5 to 10 working days without compromising colour control.
Yes, this is part of my work. Paper and finishing carry half of the impression. For Bukovel restaurant menus I often suggest design board with matte lamination, since it survives wet hands. For wine labels, self adhesive stock with foil stamping and spot UV. For corporate oil and gas reports, Munken or Arctic Volume with sewn binding. I align options with the printer and explain the price and perception trade-offs to the client.
Of course. Many clients have trusted printing partners and need only the design side. In that case I deliver final files in AI, INDD, packaged PDF/X plus an archive with fonts and images, and a tech spec listing paper, run length and finishing. If needed I align directly with your printer over phone or email. This works well for clients who print in Lviv, Kyiv or abroad.
I build a system: a brand book locks the palette in CMYK, Pantone, RGB and HEX, the typographic scale, the grid and the photo style. Then this system flows into catalogues, labels, menus and leaflets so everything sounds like one brand. If the client already has an identity I audit it and only suggest changes where print really suffers. The standalone identity service is described on the branding page.
Yes, this is one of my favourite formats. A tourist guide for a hotel or travel agency on Nezalezhnosti is not just a map. I plan a route from Rynok Square via the Town Hall to Potocki Palace, add short stories, recommendations of local coffee places and QR codes to walking routes. The format is A5 or pocket DL flyer on uncoated offset paper with a matte cover, so the guest can write notes on it.
Family wineries and meaderies of the Carpathian foothills compete on impression and taste, and the label has to convey both from the shelf. I draw illustrations that reference local landscapes and traditions, design 3 to 7 SKU series with shared typography but different accent colours. Technically it is self adhesive stock with gold or copper foil stamping, sometimes structural paper with a handcrafted feel. For social and video support I also recommend ad creatives in Ivano-Frankivsk.
Menus for Bukovel hotels and restaurants live with humidity, temperature swings and intense guest flow. I plan strong board of 300 to 350 g/m, double lamination or soft touch finish, rounded corners and sometimes metal corners. The structure assumes guests come in tired after skiing, so hot dishes and mulled wine are easy to find. For multilingual venues I keep Ukrainian and English on the same spread.
Yes. Oil, gas, timber and construction companies of the foothills often join tenders and international fairs. I prepare corporate equipment catalogues, technical brochures, annual reports and presentation folders with inserts. The design stays restrained, focused on facts, infographics and production photography. Files go out as PDF/X-4 ready for digital and offset printing, with a separate version for email distribution.
Why choose me?
Comparison with other options
| Me | Other agencies | |
|---|---|---|
| File preflight | PDF/X-1a or X-4 tuned to the printer | RGB PDFs with no bleed or profile |
| Colour management | CMYK plus Pantone, digital proof control | "Whatever press gives us" |
| Author supervision | I personally see the run through approval | They hand over the file and disappear |
| Industry insight | Hotels, wineries and oil and gas of the foothills | Generic templates |
| System thinking | Brand book, grid, typographic scale | Disconnected one-off layouts |
Print Design in Ivano-Frankivsk — Alex Filiuk
Print Design in Ivano-Frankivsk — from business card to packaging and signage
Print is the class of design where mistakes cost the most. If you find an inaccuracy in a website mockup, you fix it in 5 minutes and redeploy. If the mistake shows up in a 5,000-card run or a 1,000-box packaging order — that's wasted money, lost time and missed deadlines. That's why I treat print design in Ivano-Frankivsk with production-grade discipline: I think about the printer at the same time as composition, about the paper at the same time as colour, about bleed margins at the same time as typography.
I'm Alex Filiuk, Senior UI/UX and graphic designer with 15 years of experience. In that time more than 300 print items have shipped to production — business cards, letterheads, folders, newsletters, brochures, catalogues, packaging, labels, leaflets, restaurant menus, outdoor advertising. Clients include companies from Ivano-Frankivsk and the Ivano-Frankivsk region, from Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, the USA and Europe. On this page I've gathered everything a business owner or marketing lead should know before commissioning print design in Ivano-Frankivsk: what the process looks like, what pre-press is, how to avoid typical mistakes when working with printers, how much it costs, which medium suits which task.
Why Ivano-Frankivsk's print market is its own story
Ivano-Frankivsk has it all: offset printers with strong equipment, digital boutique shops for short runs, wide-format manufacturers for outdoor advertising, packaging plants. The market is dense, prices are competitive (especially compared with Kyiv). That's why clients from Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Khmelnytskyi and Ternopil come to Ivano-Frankivsk for print — savings can reach 20-40% at the same quality.
But there's a catch: design and production are different professions. Most Ivano-Frankivsk printers have an "in-house designer" who can quickly typeset your business card from a template for $5-15. It looks like "design" too. In practice, it's a recycled stock template already used by dozens of businesses in town, with no understanding of your audience, no branding logic, no legibility check. If you're a local café on Nezalezhnosti street or a medical centre on Shevchenka, and a customer sees your card next to 5-7 others — there's no chance to stand out.
I work not as a "designer attached to a printer" but as an independent specialist with the full cycle: design, pre-press, coordination with the manufacturer, run control. It costs more than a template at the printer, but the result pays back within months through stronger recognition and lead conversion. If you're planning a serious market entry — consider the comprehensive route: branding, logo, print collateral in unified logic.
What media I design
Print is a broad category, so I split it by sub-category. Each one has its own approach.
Corporate print
- Business cards. Standard (90×50 mm or 85×55 mm), shaped, with embossing, foil, lamination, soft-touch finish. Single- and double-sided. Special attention to bleeds — mistakes here are visible to the naked eye.
- Letterheads. A4 with logo, contacts, requisites, background and a text area. I work on legibility — so the letterhead is convenient to fill out by hand and print on an office printer.
- Envelopes. Euro (DL), C5, C4. With logo, with stamp, with a clear window for the addressee.
- Corporate folders. For documents, presentations, commercial proposals. With flaps, business-card slots, embossing.
- Presentation templates. PowerPoint or Keynote with slide templates — cover, content, charts, quotes, contacts. For businesses that often run tenders or consulting sessions.
Marketing print
- Leaflets and flyers. A6, A5, DL, custom formats. For direct marketing, events, store openings.
- Brochures. Tri-fold, z-fold, gate-fold, leporello. For service or menu presentations, event programmes.
- Newsletters. Periodic printed updates for the customer base — especially relevant for medical centres, schools and B2B services in Ivano-Frankivsk.
- Product catalogues. 16, 24, 32, 48, 64+ pages. The hardest print format in terms of layout — needs a logical structure, navigation, a unified typographic grid, product photography.
- Posters and placards. A3, A2, A1, A0 — for events, exhibitions, promotions.
Packaging and labels
- Cardboard packaging. Product boxes, with a dieline from the manufacturer, in various formats: tea, perfumery, confectionery, technical.
- Flexible packaging. Doypacks, vacuum bags, films for FMCG.
- Labels. For bottles (wine, oil, honey, cosmetics), for jars, for blister packs, shrink sleeves.
- Shopper bags and paper bags. Branded, with logo, for retail and HoReCa.
- Coffee bags, cups, napkins. For F&B venues with full branding.
Outdoor advertising
- Signs. 3D letters, lightboxes, façade panels. I work hand-in-hand with the manufacturer — agreeing the dieline, colours, mounting.
- Banners. Street banners, façade banners, billboards, citilights — designed for viewing distance.
- Wayfinding. Indoor wayfinding for shopping centres, medical institutions, restaurants, hotels.
- Vehicle branding. Service vehicles, delivery, corporate transport — artwork designed for the 3D form of the car.
HoReCa print
- Restaurant and café menus. Standard folders, laminated sheets, leporello, QR menus, wine lists, kids' menus.
- Tent cards and tabletop pieces. For tables — additional offers, specials, promotions.
- Coasters, napkins with logo.
Stages of work on print collateral
I work via a transparent process where each stage has a fixed deliverable you can see. No "trust me and wait" — you know what's happening every week.
- Brief. You fill in a questionnaire or we meet in Ivano-Frankivsk (60-90 minutes). We discuss: which medium, which run size, for which audience, which printer you plan to use, which materials (paper, foil, varnish, embossing) you want to consider.
- Technical brief and dieline. I align technical parameters with your printer: format, bleeds, ICC profile, minimum coverage, export format. If it's packaging, we get the dieline.
- Concept. 1-2 fundamentally different visual directions, with reasoning. You choose one and we proceed.
- Detailing. I bring the chosen direction to its final form — precise typography, colours, photography, graphic elements.
- Revisions. 2-3 rounds of comments. Each round is structured feedback, after which I implement all changes at once.
- Pre-press. CMYK, profiles, bleeds, outlines, export in the required format.
- Coordination with the printer. We hand over files, get a digital proof, sign off the colour. If needed, I coordinate the print run with you remotely.
- Delivery. Working files (AI/INDD/PSD), final PDFs (print and web), project archive.
How much does print design in Ivano-Frankivsk cost
The price comes from the scope of work, not from geography. Reference points (exact figures are in the "Pricing" block):
- Basic items — business card, letterhead, envelope. Flat rate "per unit".
- Standard package — corporate kit (card + letterhead + envelope + folder) or a series of leaflets/flyers.
- Premium package — catalogue, packaging, POS series, full HoReCa kit (menu + tent cards + checklists + lamination).
- Branding + print — the most cost-effective format if you're launching a new brand or doing a rebrand. Logo, colours, typography and all media in unified logic.
If you order print together with branding, a website or ad creatives — the combined package costs less than the sum of individual services. It's business logic: one context, one typographic logic, shared market research.
Pre-press: why it's a separate stage and what you're paying for
Pre-press is the preparation of the layout for a specific printer. It isn't a "technical formality" — it's a separate craft that distinguishes good design from "design that doesn't print". Here are the key aspects I work with.
- CMYK and ICC profiles. Each paper has its own profile: coated glossy, coated matte, uncoated newsprint, design paper, board. The same colour looks different on different papers. I convert colours from RGB to CMYK tied to a specific profile — the one your Ivano-Frankivsk printer uses.
- Total Ink Limit. The total ink coverage (C+M+Y+K) shouldn't exceed 280-320% depending on the printing method. Otherwise the paper doesn't dry in time, ink "spreads", and defects appear. I check TIL across all dark areas of the layout.
- Bleed and safe zone. Bleed of 2-5 mm beyond the trim — so there are no white slivers after cutting. A safe zone of 3-5 mm inside — so important text or objects aren't cropped at trim.
- Fonts to outlines. All fonts converted to curves (vector forms) — guaranteeing the printer outputs your typeface, not a default Arial substitute.
- Overprints and trapping. When two colours overlap, their interaction has to be configured correctly — otherwise white seams appear at the joints.
- Resolution. 300 dpi for offset and digital, 150-200 dpi for wide format. Anything less means artefacts, pixelation, blur.
- PDF export. Standard PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 — that's not "a PDF like in MS Word", it's a separate print standard that the printer can open without conversions.
If a "designer" hands you a JPG or PNG "for print" — that's a guarantee of problems on the run. JPG is unsuitable for print in principle: no vector objects, no fonts, no bleeds, no CMYK. It's a marker that the person doesn't understand the production process.
Ivano-Frankivsk printers: how to pick a partner
In Ivano-Frankivsk I've worked with various manufacturers — from large offset houses to small digital boutique shops. Tips for choosing:
- Run size and method. Up to 500 — digital print (fast, no plate setup). 500-5,000 — borderline, compare prices. Above 5,000 — offset, cheaper per unit.
- Material quality. Ask for paper samples — different printers have different inventories. Don't work with anyone who says "we have one paper, 200 g, no others".
- Willingness to do a proof. A good printer always produces a digital colour proof before the run. If not — that's a red flag.
- Technical specs. A printer with pre-press culture will give you a clear brief: ICC profile, export format, bleeds. If the answer is just "send a PDF" — ask which PDF, for which paper.
- Finishing options. Varnish, embossing, die-cutting, foil, spot UV — not every printer has its own equipment, some outsource. That affects timelines.
If you haven't picked a Ivano-Frankivsk printer yet — I'll recommend trusted ones for your task. It's free, part of the work.
Typical client mistakes — and how to avoid them
- A Word or PowerPoint file "for print". Neither Word, PowerPoint nor Canva is meant for offset printing. They're screen tools. Offset needs Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop or CorelDRAW with PDF/X output.
- RGB instead of CMYK. You see bright green on screen — and on the run it turns dull olive. That's not a "printer's mistake", it's basic print physics: the RGB space is wider than CMYK, some colours are simply physically unavailable on offset.
- Internet pictures in the layout. 90% of Google images are 72 dpi and copyrighted. Neither works for print. I work with licensed stocks (Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Unsplash) or with custom/commissioned photography.
- "Free internet" fonts. A free font may have a poor Cyrillic version (uneven serifs, missing glyphs). For a brand it's worth investing in a licensed professional font or custom lettering.
- "Do it fast, the run is tomorrow." Good design takes a minimum of 5-10 working days, even for a business card. If you arrive with "oh, it has to be done by tomorrow" — you'll get a template, not design.
- "I'll just check it at the printer myself." If you don't have pre-press experience — you won't see issues in the proof. It's better for the designer to attend sign-off with you or instead of you.
Cases: print design for businesses in Ivano-Frankivsk and across Ukraine
My portfolio includes 130+ projects, a substantial portion of which involves print — either as the main deliverable or as part of full branding. Clients include retail, HoReCa, medical centres, manufacturers and IT startups from Ivano-Frankivsk, Kyiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, the USA and Europe.
If you'd like concrete examples — visit the Projects section or get in touch via the contact form: I'll pick 5-10 most relevant cases for your niche — for instance, if you're opening a café in Ivano-Frankivsk, I'll show menus and HoReCa kits; if you're launching a product in retail, I'll show packaging projects.
Specifics of the local Ivano-Frankivsk market
Print collateral for Ivano-Frankivsk businesses has specifics I factor in:
- HoReCa segment. Ivano-Frankivsk has a saturated market of cafés, restaurants, bistros, burger joints and delivery services. Competition for the guest is at the level of branding, atmosphere and visual detail. Menus, tent cards and delivery packaging are critical media.
- Retail. Shops on Nezalezhnosti street, Shevchenka, in shopping centres and on Volodymyrska compete for passing attention. Logo shoppers, branded packaging, unified price tags — an inexpensive way to stand out.
- Medical centres and dental clinics. Print here carries trust: letterheads, info leaflets, procedure brochures, doctors' business cards. Quality material signals the clinic's professionalism.
- Manufacturing. Furniture factories, food producers and packaging plants in the Ivano-Frankivsk region — that's a B2B market where product catalogues and corporate folders for tenders are mandatory sales tools.
- Local vs national brands. A Ivano-Frankivsk business entering the Kyiv market or going for export needs print collateral on par with capital-grade standards. It's a question of perception, not function.
My other services for businesses in Ivano-Frankivsk
Print is part of an ecosystem. If you're planning a serious launch or rebrand, a comprehensive approach is worth considering:
- Branding — print as part of a complete visual system: logo, colours, typography, graphics, templates, brand-book.
- Logo design — the foundation of all print. Without a vector logo, anything bigger than A4 in print becomes a problem.
- UI/UX design — website interface in unified style with print media.
- Web development — landing or corporate site synchronised with print collateral.
- Ad creatives — banners for social, Google Ads, Facebook Ads — in unified style with print.
- SEO — so your brand is found in search across Ivano-Frankivsk and the region.
- Business consulting — positioning strategy before investing in design.
Print design in other Ukrainian cities
I work not only with Ivano-Frankivsk. If you have offices in several cities or are planning regional expansion — we'll build a system that scales:
- Kyiv — national brands, IT companies, chains
- Ivano-Frankivsk — creative business, gastronomy, IT
- Odesa — retail, tourism, e-commerce
- Dnipro — manufacturing, B2B, technology companies
- Kharkiv — IT, education, engineering
The full list of locations is on the Service Areas page.
What you receive after project completion
- Working files: Adobe Illustrator (AI), InDesign (INDD), Photoshop (PSD) — for single items, multi-page editions and raster materials.
- Print PDFs: PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4 with bleeds, in CMYK, with fonts converted to outlines.
- Web PDFs: for presentations, sending to clients, social media.
- Image archive: all photos in working quality, with licences.
- Technical specs: a brief for the printer with all settings (profile, format, bleeds, run size).
- Exclusive proprietary rights to the design — fixed in the contract.
- Post-delivery support: 30 days free — questions, minor revisions, coordination with the printer.
Ready to discuss print design for your business in Ivano-Frankivsk?
If you have a specific request — fill in the contact form or write to email/Telegram (contacts in the website footer). The first consultation is free, up to 60 minutes. We'll discuss your business, which media you need, an approximate budget, the printers you plan to use, and timelines. After that I'll send a detailed proposal with a fixed price — no surprises, no hidden fees.
I'm ready to design print collateral for your business in Ivano-Frankivsk that doesn't need rework on the run and works for the brand for years. Not "another business card", but a marketing tool with production-grade precision.