Four to six weeks is comfortable for a San Francisco date, and two weeks is usually workable. The presses drive up the I-5 from La Habra and roll in the day before, so art and blanks set the pace more often than the truck does.
What sets the clock
- Art and blanks: final art about a week out, and the blank order locks at the same time. A headcount that keeps changing slows a job down more than anything on our side.
- The drive: the gear loads in La Habra and heads north the day before, and the crew stays over. A date change is usually workable. Tell us early and it's simple.
- Big show weeks: when Moscone Center has a major convention in, hotel rooms across the city get scarce and pricey. Lodging sits on our travel line, so booking early for those weeks keeps that line down.
For a Moscone booth, aim for the early end of the window. The show has its own exhibitor deadlines, and we work inside the venue's rules; send us the exhibitor manual so we can plan against them. A launch in a SOMA office or a dinner at Fort Mason has fewer moving parts. Either way, send your date and headcount and we'll confirm availability within 24 hours.
Inside two weeks? Ask anyway. Simple art and standard blanks are what make a short San Francisco turnaround possible. The one thing we can't shorten is the drive, so the truck still leaves La Habra the day before.