Custom placemats questions, answered.
Everything buyers ask before they order — minimums, timings, artwork and print options.
What is the minimum order?
Just 12 mats, with tiers that fall steeply for restaurant groups, hotel chains and contract caterers. Programme orders get the template and specification held on file from the first run.
How fast will my placemats arrive?
Your free mockup lands within 24 hours and orders ship in about 2 weeks, express available. Seasonal rollouts across a group are planned backwards from the date the new artwork has to be on every table.
Paper, laminate, vinyl or textile?
Four different products sharing one word, and buying the wrong one is the expensive mistake here. Paper for single service at volume; laminate for a year of wiping in lighter use; vinyl where mats face hot plates and daily washing for years; textile and leather-look where the mat is part of the room. Tell us the service and we will tell you which.
Why do laminated mats peel?
Because a cut laminate edge is a raw sandwich and moisture gets between the layers there first. Sealed or radiused edges with a bonded margin beyond the print remove the entry point — and that single detail is the difference between a mat that lasts a year and one that lasts a month.
Can hot plates go straight onto a placemat?
Onto vinyl or a textile setting, yes. Onto a laminated mat, no — it marks and bubbles, and no supplier should sell you a wipe-clean mat as a heat mat. We ask about hot service ware before quoting for exactly this reason.
How many do we need?
Count covers, not tables. Covers per service multiplied by the days of stock you want to hold, plus a margin for the busy week. Ordering against table count is the usual way a group runs short mid-week and reorders in a panic.
Why print the kids’ activity side so lightly?
So crayon and pencil show on top of it. A dark, heavily-inked mat proofs beautifully and fails on the table, because the child colours over black and nothing appears. Light coverage on the activity side is a functional decision, not a design preference.
Do you make tablecloths, runners, napkins or food wrap?
No — each is its own craft with its own specialists, and a placemat is a different object with a different failure mode. We make placemats and settings, and we point every other brief honestly at the right door.
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Send your artwork, your covers per service and whether hot plates land on the mat — you’ll get a free mockup within 24 hours with the material, the edge spec and the orientation all stated, and a quote in one business day.
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