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Printed by people, not machines
Tickets have one detail that ruins the whole run if it is wrong: the perforation line. Artwork that ignores it ends up with the event name on the stub and the date on the part you tear off, or a number that lands across the tear and becomes unreadable on both halves. A dedicated Print Concierge checks your layout against the actual perforation position before printing, along with whether the numbering sits on both sides of the tear where it needs to. Nobody discovers a perforation mistake until the door opens, and by then it is far too late.
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Perforated or plain
This is the only real decision, and it comes down to whether anyone needs to keep a record.
- Perforated: tears into two parts. The holder keeps the ticket, you keep the stub. Essential for raffles, where the stub is the draw entry, and for door counts where you need a physical tally.
- Non-perforated: a single piece. Right for admission passes, drink tokens, comp tickets and anything where the ticket is simply surrendered or shown.
If you are running a raffle, you need perforated and you need numbering. The stub is worthless as a draw entry without a number matching the half the buyer holds.
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Numbering, and why it matters more than it looks
Sequential numbering is the difference between a ticket and a piece of card. It lets you reconcile takings against tickets sold, spot duplicates, run a raffle draw that is actually verifiable, and know how many people came through the door. On a perforated ticket the number must appear on both the ticket and the stub, so the two halves can be matched later. Tell us in the notes what range to start from and where the number should sit, and we will lay it out so it survives the tear.
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Getting your artwork print-ready
Ask for the perforation template before you design.
- Send a print-ready PDF at 300 DPI in CMYK with 0.125 inch bleed on every edge.
- Nothing important within 0.25 inch of the perforation line on either side.
- Put the essentials on the main ticket: event, date, time, venue, price.
- Put the reconciliation details on the stub: number, name line, seat or table if relevant.
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Need tickets designed?
Choose Design it for me and our professional design team will build your ticket for $75, laid out correctly around the perforation with the numbering on both halves, and hand back a print-ready file you own outright. Event organisers usually order tickets alongside flyers and postcards to promote the same event.
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Printing and delivery
Our press runs seven days a week and we ship nationwide from Florida. Runs start at 50, so a small event is not a minimum-order problem. Order by 3PM ET and production starts the same day, with the arrival estimate at the top of this page updating live as you configure. If you have a fixed event date, tell us in the notes and we will confirm before taking the order rather than after.
