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Standard door hangers, commonly sized around 4.25 by 11 inches, give enough room for a full message. A headline offer, contact details, a short list of services and sometimes a tear-off coupon or business card slot along one edge. That extra size over the small format makes them a better fit when a campaign needs to explain more than one thing at a doorstep: a real estate listing with property details, a home service company outlining what it offers, or a restaurant menu insert. The doorknob slot and hanging mechanics stay the same as any door hanger; the difference is purely the surface available for your message.
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A standard door hanger sits at roughly 4.25 by 11 inches, which is enough room for a headline offer, a short description, contact information and sometimes a secondary element like a tear-off coupon or a slot for a business card. A step up from a small door hanger's single-message format. That extra surface makes it the more versatile size for anything that needs to explain rather than just announce.
Real estate agents use the format for listing sheets that go on doors near an open house, giving room for property details, photos and contact information in one piece. Home service companies use the same size to outline what they offer rather than just a phone number, and restaurants sometimes use it as a lightweight menu insert for a nearby neighborhood. Community organizations and HOAs also reach for this size when a notice needs more than a sentence or two.
Construction includes the same doorknob slot as any door hanger, along with single- or double-sided printing depending on whether the piece needs to carry information on both faces (useful for glass doors or when the back holds terms, a map, or additional detail). A perforated tear-off section (a coupon, a business card, or a small removable insert) is a common addition at this size since there's enough real estate to spare a strip without crowding the main message.
Because there's more room to work with than a small door hanger, it's worth resisting the urge to fill every inch. A clear headline followed by supporting detail reads better at a glance than a dense block of text. Deciding whether a tear-off element is needed should happen before the design is finalized, since it affects layout and die-cutting. As with any door hanger campaign, plan the print quantity around the actual distribution route rather than rounding up arbitrarily.
A door hanger is left outdoors on a handle, often for hours and sometimes overnight, so stock choice is about surviving weather rather than about feel. Card below about 250gsm goes limp in damp air and slides off the handle. Cover weights from 300gsm upward hold their shape, and for anything left in genuinely wet conditions a synthetic stock stops being an upgrade and becomes the only option.
Will it survive rain? Coated card handles damp air for a day. Sustained rain needs lamination or a synthetic stock. Plain card turns to pulp.
A door hanger is read by someone standing at their own front door with their keys in their hand, deciding in about two seconds whether it is worth keeping. That is a harsher filter than almost any other printed format faces. The offer and who it is from have to be legible at arm's length without being picked up, and everything else is secondary.
What has to be readable without picking it up? Who it is from and what the offer is. If those two are not clear at arm's length, it goes in the bin at the door.
Coating on a door hanger is weather protection first and appearance second. Gloss sheds light rain and wipes clean; matte reads calmer but absorbs more. Full lamination is the real step up. It makes the piece genuinely water resistant rather than merely water tolerant, which matters for anything distributed in a season where rain is likely.
Is lamination worth the cost? If distribution is weather-dependent, it is cheaper than reprinting a run that turned to pulp on people's doors.
The hanger works through a punched hole with a slot cut from it to the top edge, so it slides over a handle rather than needing to be lifted over it. The slot width and the hole diameter both matter: too tight and it will not go on modern lever handles, too loose and it blows off in wind. Rounded corners around the hole stop the card tearing where the load sits.
Why do mine keep falling off? Usually a hole too large for the handle, or a slot cut too wide. Both let wind lift the hanger free.
The common full size, which gives enough room for a headline offer, supporting detail, contact information and a call to action without any of them crowding. It is the right choice where the message needs to do real selling rather than just announce something, and where the extra cost per piece is justified by a higher-value response.
Is the extra size worth it? If the offer needs explaining, yes. If it is one line and a phone number, the small format does the same job for less.
Tell us the season and the weather before choosing stock. A door hanger is left outside, and that decides this list more than appearance does.
A bonded film that makes the hanger genuinely water resistant rather than merely water tolerant. On weather-dependent distribution it is cheaper than reprinting a run that turned to pulp on people's doors.
The hole punched and the slot cut through to the top edge so the hanger slides over a handle. Both dimensions are set against modern lever handles rather than to an old standard.
A coupon, voucher or reply stub that detaches. It is the cheapest way to make door-to-door distribution measurable, since a returned stub proves the route worked.
An outline that follows a product or logo rather than a rectangle. On a door full of rectangular flyers, a shaped hanger is the one that gets looked at rather than swept up.
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| Door hanger | From | Size | Order it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Door Hangers | $190 | 4.25″ × 11″ | The offer needs explaining |
| Small Door Hangers | $180 | 3.5″ × 8.5″ | Volume distribution, cost per piece |
| Custom Door Hangers | $170 | Your size, shape or coupon | A shape, a tear-off or a special handle |
If the offer needs explaining (a service, a price comparison, several options) then yes. If it is one line and a phone number, the small format achieves the same thing for a lower unit cost across the same number of doors.
Yes, as a perforated tear-off. At this size there is room for the coupon without squeezing the main message, which is harder on the smaller format.
Who it is from and what the offer is. A door hanger is judged in about two seconds by someone holding their keys, and anything not legible without picking it up is effectively not there.
On coated 300gsm card in dry or damp air, yes. In sustained rain it will not, that needs lamination or a synthetic stock, and it is worth deciding by season rather than by budget.
Pricing for standard door hangers starts at $190 and moves with quantity, size, material and finish rather than sitting on a fixed list. Setup is shared across the run, so the per-unit price drops steeply as the quantity rises: the gap between a few hundred and a few thousand is usually the significant one. Send the size, quantity and what it has to do and you get a firm figure back, not a range.
There is a practical minimum rather than a hard one. Every run carries artwork checks, a proof and a press setup, so a very small quantity of standard door hangers prices poorly per unit even though we will still make it. If you are ordering a small batch, ask for pricing at two or three quantities at once: the curve usually shows that a modest increase costs very little more in total.
The clock starts when you approve the proof, not when the order is placed, which is the part most people are surprised by. You get a proof first: a digital proof with the outline, hole and slot marked, plus any perforation line. You see exactly where the die removes material before anything is printed. Turnaround after approval depends on the finish: anything laminated, foiled or die-cut adds a stage that cannot be compressed without causing problems later. Tell us the date you actually need them and we will work backwards from it rather than quoting a generic lead time.
Yes. 4.25″ × 11″, room for a full message is the standard build, and the dimensions around it are yours to set. A size that sits efficiently on the press sheet often costs no more than a standard one, while an awkward proportion that wastes half the sheet does. Ask before you commit and we will tell you whether a small change to the dimensions saves a disproportionate amount.
In most cases they are the same product under a different name: the trade uses several terms for it depending on the region and the supplier. What actually defines this one is the build: 4.25″ × 11″. Order it when the offer needs explaining. If you have seen it called standard door hangers printing elsewhere, describe what it has to do rather than which name you found, and we will match the specification.
Yes. We provide free samples, and on standard door hangers it is worth asking for one, because the difference between card and cover weight is obvious in the hand and invisible on a screen. Most orders run on cover weight, but ask for whichever you are weighing up. You also get a free design proof before anything goes to press, so nothing is printed that you have not seen.
The usual choices are lamination, die-cut hole and slot, perforated tear-off. Finish is not decoration on this product so much as a decision about how long it survives and how it reads in the hand, so it is worth choosing against the job rather than the budget. Tell us where the finished piece ends up and we will say which finish is doing real work and which is only adding cost.
Yes, and that is what almost every order here is. Nothing in this catalogue is a stock item: standard door hangers are manufactured to the specification you give us, with your artwork on them. Send your logo as vector artwork where you have it, since that scales to any size without softening. If all you have is a low-resolution file, tell us and we will say what it needs before it reaches the press.
Yes, and a repeat run is simpler than the first one. We keep your approved specification on file, so a reorder skips the setup decisions and goes straight to production. If nothing about the artwork or the specification has changed, there is nothing to re-approve. Tell us the previous order and we will match it rather than starting the specification again.
Yes. Regalo Print has been producing custom commercial print for businesses across the USA and Canada since 2008, and every order ships tracked. The tracking number reaches you the day the job leaves, not the day it arrives. If you are working to a fixed date, say so when you order so the production schedule is built around the delivery date rather than the other way round.
