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Please Ring for Attention Sign printed on a rigid sign board (please ring for attention sign printing)

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Outline of an adult standing 1.75 m high

The figure stands 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m). Choose a different size and the drawing redraws to match.

Included as standard

A Please Ring for Attention sign tells visitors at an unstaffed desk, hatch or gate what to do next, which is why Manchester receptions and storage sites use it. It is printed in the blue instruction style from A4 to A1 on self-adhesive vinyl, 3mm Foamex or 3mm Dibond, with 5 working days in production.

  • Full-colour UK printing, produced only once you order
  • Uploaded artwork gets a free check by one of our team (size, bleed, resolution)
  • Send a print-ready PDF, or have us prepare the artwork
  • Sent by courier, or collect from our Manchester office (M8)
Safety Signs

Please Ring for Attention Sign in Manchester

from £26.82 ISO 7010 M001

An empty reception desk makes visitors wander off or walk into the back. A clear sign by the bell keeps them where you want them and tells them someone is coming. It turns a quiet front desk into a working one.

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…Working out your price

The price shown is the price you pay at checkout. UK delivery £7.95, free over £100. Highlands +£10. Islands and Northern Ireland: ask for a price.

Artwork

Design fees are a fixed amount with their own line in the basket, covering every copy of this item. Not ready yet? Order now and upload later: we email you a link.

Running a charity, school, club or place of worship? up to 10% off each orderBusiness? up to 5% off the first order

Delivery £7.95Nothing to pay above £100. Goes by tracked courier, which normally takes 1 to 3 working days once it leaves us (production can be as quick as 2 working days).
Collection from M8Collecting from our Manchester office costs nothing. We email you when the order is waiting.

About this product

Plenty of businesses do not have someone on the front desk all day. Self-storage sites, workshops with a small office, builders' merchants at quiet times, dental practices over lunch. The bell is there, but visitors do not always spot it, or are not sure they are meant to use it.

A Greater Manchester self-storage desk

Picture the reception at a self-storage site in Eccles. Staff are often out on the floor helping a customer with a trolley, and the desk sits empty. Visitors arrive, look around, then head through the door marked private to find somebody. A sign directly beside the bell, at the height of the counter, solves it: people see the instruction and the button together.

The usual error is putting the sign on the wall behind the desk or on the front door. Out of reach of the bell, it reads as general information rather than an action. Keep the two within a hand's width of each other.

Sizes and boards

A4 is the right size for almost every desk and reads from about 8 m. A3 suits a gatehouse window seen from a car. Vinyl sticks flat to a counter front or glass screen; Foamex works on a wall or as a free-standing panel; Dibond copes with an outdoor gate or hatch exposed to Greater Manchester weather. Prices start at £26.82.

You can add a line such as "Staff are on site" through typesetting for £15, checked by a person before print. We make it in 5 working days; the courier then typically needs 1 to 3 more. Delivery is £7.95, or free once your goods reach £100. More options in safety signs. Order your size here.

Manchester Printed is a Manchester business serving the whole UK. Orders go by tracked courier to Manchester, its suburbs and every mainland postcode, or you can collect locally from our office in M8 when the order is ready.

Price by size

Listed from the smallest up. Choosing a price sets that size in the buy box for you.

Size3mm Foamex3mm Dibond aluminium compositeself-adhesive vinyl
A4 · 210 × 297 mm
A3 · 297 × 420 mm
A2 · 420 × 594 mm
A1 · 594 × 841 mm

Final prices per item with the lowest-priced options. UK delivery £7.95, free over £100. Choose a price to load it into the price calculator.

Specification

What it is made from, the sizes on offer and how it is finished.

ISO 7010 referenceM001 (General mandatory action sign)
MessagePlease Ring for Attention
Sign typeMandatory
Materials3mm Foamex, 3mm Dibond aluminium composite and self-adhesive vinyl
SizesA4 (210 × 297 mm), A3 (297 × 420 mm), A2 (420 × 594 mm), A1 (594 × 841 mm)
Viewing distanceA4: 8 m, A3: 12 m, A2: 17 m, A1: 24 m
PrintFull colour, single sided
Made byMade to order by Manchester Printed, Manchester, in our workshop or by our UK production partner, depending on the option
SKUMP-SAF-241
PriceThe configurator shows the final price, and checkout matches it.
DeliveryUK mainland £7.95 per order, free over £100. Highlands +£10. Islands and Northern Ireland: ask for a price.
Artwork checkEvery uploaded file is checked by a person for resolution, size and bleed.

What size should I order?

Pick a size people can read from where they will stand. As a cautious rule, using the distance-factor method in ISO 3864-1, allow roughly 1 metre of reading distance per 25 mm of sign height (measured on the shorter side). Check it against your own risk assessment.

SizeCan be read from about
A4 (210 × 297 mm)8 m
A3 (297 × 420 mm)12 m
A2 (420 × 594 mm)17 m
A1 (594 × 841 mm)24 m

Good lighting stretches the reading distance; in dim spots, go a size up.

Your design

Three routes to print-ready artwork. Pick whichever suits you.

Send your own file

Make the PDF at the ordered size plus 3 mm bleed on each edge. Someone on our team looks over every upload, free of charge, before printing starts.

Use the designer

This one needs a ready-made file rather than the designer. Stuck? We can prepare the artwork for you.

Let us do it

Choose typesetting, or a design worked up from your brief, when you reach the artwork step. File set-up advice.

FAQs

Short answers on ordering please ring for attention sign in manchester.

Can I collect from your Manchester office?

Yes. We email when the order is ready, then you collect from Unit 3, 116 Bury New Road, M8 8EB.

Can you add an arrow to point at the bell?

Yes, as a typesetting change for £15. Tell us which side the bell sits.

What if the desk has no bell?

Add a phone number instead, through typesetting.

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