DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO · SACRAMENTO AREA
Menus
in Downtown Sacramento.
Capitol offices, conventions, courthouses and event weekends. Downtown work is deadline work, and the deadline is usually somebody else’s.
Where can I get menus in Downtown Sacramento? Ace Printing & Same Day Signs, at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825 (about 6 miles from Downtown Sacramento), prints dine-in, takeout and laminated menus, plus seasonal inserts and table tents. Order by 10:00 AM Monday to Friday and most standard work is ready the same afternoon. Free proof before you pay. Call (916) 944-7195.
The reason Downtown Sacramento businesses call us about menus is usually a date. Somebody needs it by Thursday, or by the weekend, and the shop they normally use has quoted next week. We’re about 6 miles away and about 95% of what we sell is made in this building, which is what makes same-day a clock rather than a slogan.
Downtown Sacramento, and who buys menus there.
The businesses ordering menus in Downtown Sacramento cluster into a few recognizable groups. Churches, nonprofits and neighborhood groups, restaurants, cafes and food business, professional and government offices chief among them.
Retractable-style event graphics, foam-board presentation boards, conference and booth signage, table banners, name badges and program booklets, plus the steady background hum of business cards and letterhead for offices that still hand people paper.
The Capitol calendar, the convention center calendar, the arena calendar, a court date, a conference that was booked eleven months ago and finalised its booth graphics eleven days ago.
Fundraiser dinner menus, event programs and community meal signage.
Dine-in, takeout, seasonal inserts, table tents and price boards, and once the layout is on file, a seasonal update is a phone call rather than a design job.
Cafe and canteen menus and internal service listings.
What it costs.
Menus are quoted on size, stock, quantity and finishing. Single-sheet takeout menus follow the flyer rates. 500 for $165, 1,000 for $215.
Table tents, counter cards and inserts are small, cheap pieces, which is exactly why they’re the right place to test a dish before it earns a spot on the main menu.
Those are single-order rates. A genuine run (a crew, a campaign, a season, a roster) prices better per piece, so ask for the run rate instead of doing the multiplication yourself. The calculator handles the standard sizes.
The part worth knowing.
Design it so reprinting is cheap: keep prices and seasonal items in a section or on a separate insert, leave white space so a new dish doesn’t force a redesign, and keep the file with us. Then an update is “change these four prices, drop the salmon”: a proof back and printing the same afternoon.
Leave white space. A menu with none can’t absorb a new dish without a redesign, which turns every small change into a project and is why so many menus end up with a taped-on insert.
Getting menus from Downtown Sacramento.
About six miles from the shop: Capital City Freeway south, then into the grid on one of the numbered-street exits. Downtown parking is its own sport, which is exactly why so many downtown customers have us hold the order at the counter on Fulton and swing by on the way in. Front and rear parking, no garage ticket.
Standard printed menus and inserts are same-day when in by 10:00 AM. Laminated menus are not. Lamination is an extra process. Plan lead time. If the drive is the awkward part rather than the deadline, ask about delivery when you place the order. It’s available on many jobs, though for a genuinely same-day deadline collecting at the counter is still fastest.
Questions we get from Downtown Sacramento.
How often should I reprint?
Full menus once or twice a year to keep prices current; inserts and specials whenever you like; takeout menus whenever they run out. And immediately if the phone number, hours or address change: an old menu with a dead number is worse than none.
Can you print table tents and counter cards to match?
Yes, and they’re the cheapest way to sell the dish you actually want to sell. Small, quick, and easy to change weekly without touching the main menu.
How far is the shop from Downtown Sacramento?
About 6 miles. We’re at 1835 Fulton Ave, Sacramento, CA 95825, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with parking in front and more in the rear.
Is it worth coming to Fulton Avenue from Downtown Sacramento?
Customers do it, and the reasons show up in their reviews: the prices are posted, the work is made on site, and same-day means today rather than the middle of next week. If a given order doesn’t justify the drive, ask about delivery.