A print plant with a web shop, not a marketplace poster stall
Most photo-wall products sold online are routed through a nameless print partner. myposter GmbH, launched in 2011 by René and Marc Ruhland near Munich, still manufactures in Germany. The company says everything it ships is made at Bergkirchen in Bavaria, Olching, or Bitterfeld in Saxony-Anhalt. Bergkirchen’s Breitenau 7 site, often called BR7, is the largest plant and also houses service, purchasing, and IT. Framed pictures, Alu-Dibond, Forex, acrylic, glass, and Hahnemühle posters are associated with that Bavarian floor. The point for a buyer is control: custom millimetre sizes, in-house stretcher frames, and a quality check that is not outsourced to a random EU print broker.
The catalogue is wider than a single canvas. Wall products include posters on standard and Hahnemühle artist paper, canvas on the firm’s Perfect Frame stretcher, direct-print and fine-art Alu-Dibond, Gallery Bond (acrylic plus aluminium), Forex PVC foam, real glass, photo wallpaper, adhesive film, and framed variants of several of those materials. Photo books, calendars, cards, and classic photo prints sit beside the wall range. An iOS and Android app, plus the browser designer, let you start on a phone camera roll and finish on a laptop. Projects can sync across devices. Guest checkout is possible; you do not have to create an account before you design.
Materials, sharpness, and when aluminium beats paper
Paper posters remain the cheapest way to fill a wall and the easiest to swap. myposter can laminate matte or gloss and will cut unusual aspect ratios so a panoramic phone still is not forced into a 30-by-40 centimetre cliché. Hahnemühle is the fine-art paper option for portraits and black-and-white work that looks cheap on poster stock. Canvas is the family-photo default: the Perfect Frame workshop stretches the print, which matters more than the marketing name. Direct-print Alu-Dibond is the outdoor-capable, UV-stable choice the company recommends for house numbers and façade signs. Fine-art paper mounted on aluminium, brushed aluminium, and Gallery Bond are indoor presentation grades. Forex is light and cheap for offices. Glass and acrylic add depth and weight — and more careful hanging.
Print resolution is advertised up to 1,440 dpi on relevant products, with six-colour UV or twelve-colour fine-art processes depending on material. Those numbers only help if the file has enough pixels. The designer flags weak resolution instead of silently upscaling a blurry Instagram export to 120 centimetres. That warning is the most useful feature on the site. Phone photos taken in good light can still fail at true XXL. If the traffic light or warning icon complains, shrink the physical size or pick a different crop. Colour shifts versus a glowing phone screen are normal in all photo printing; they are not, by themselves, a defect. CNC cutting is used to hit custom dimensions after print.
- In-house production in Bergkirchen, Olching, and Bitterfeld rather than a nameless contract printer
- Posters, Hahnemühle, canvas on Perfect Frame, Alu-Dibond, Gallery Bond, Forex, glass, and acrylic
- Photo books, calendars, cards, and classic photo prints in the same account
- Browser and app designer with resolution warnings and an AR wall preview
- Custom sizes to the millimetre within each material’s maximum, not only preset frames
- Express production on eligible items if you order by the stated morning cutoff
Designer, AR preview, and photo-book workflow
For a single wall print, the path is: pick material, enter size, upload, crop, check the quality warning, then order. The app’s augmented-reality view projects a frame, canvas, or poster onto a wall so you can judge scale before you buy a 90-centimetre panel that overwhelms a hallway. Collage tools exist when one photo is not enough. For photo books, myposter offers more than a hundred templates, drag-and-drop pages, automatic layout, text, clip art, and even QR codes. A book assistant can dump a camera roll into pages; you still must inspect every crop because templates hide faces at the edges. Save early. Large uploads depend on your connection. Finishing a book on a phone is possible; proofing page-to-page is easier on a computer.
Business users can order firmenschilder, door plates, and wayfinding in the same material set. Outdoor façade plates are steered toward weather-capable Alu-Dibond direct print. Acrylic and Gallery Bond are better indoors or in sheltered spots. Maximum formats on aluminium listings go up to 120 by 240 centimetres on the product tables we checked, always as a material limit rather than a promise that your JPEG will look sharp at that size. Wood used in frames is described as coming from responsible forestry / FSC-related sourcing in company materials. If sustainability is a purchase criterion, read the current product page rather than assuming every SKU shares the same certificate.
Upload one high-resolution file, read the quality warning, and compare paper, canvas, and Alu-Dibond before you lock a millimetre size.
Open the myposter designer →Shipping speed, packaging, and the personalised-goods catch
Standard orders are produced and handed to insured parcel partners with tracking. Large formats get custom cartons. Express is a paid option on eligible products: order by 11:00 and myposter says next-working-day delivery is possible, including Saturday, via the express shop / basket toggle. Direct-print Alu-Dibond is commonly listed as 24-hour express capable; some Hahnemühle-on-aluminium combinations are listed as excluded. Always check the product table, not a banner. Because prints are made to your file and size, they behave like personalised goods under German distance-selling practice: a change-of-mind return is often unavailable even when a manufacturing defect is covered. Read the current AGB before you order a one-off size you have not measured on the wall.
myposter’s advantage is German in-house production and a designer that will tell you the file is too weak. The disadvantage is the same as any custom print: a bad measurement or a soft JPEG still arrives, only very well packed.
— Jordan Blake
Who should order, and who should use a local lab
Order here if you want a specific centimetre size, a material beyond cheap poster paper, and production that stays in Germany. It is a strong fit for a measured alcove, a gallery wall of mixed ratios, or a photo book you will actually proof. Skip it if you only need a 10-by-15 centimetre stack from a supermarket kiosk tomorrow morning and you have no interest in wall materials. Skip huge prints from social-media downloads. Skip outdoor signage on paper or Gallery Bond. A local camera lab still wins for colour-critical art editions when you can do a physical proof; myposter wins for convenience, custom geometry, and the AR size check. Team size is now in the hundreds, with historical throughput measured in thousands of orders per day — scale that helps express, and scale that means you are not a one-to-one atelier client.
- Measure the wall with a tape, including sockets and picture-rail height, before entering millimetres
- Use the original camera file, not a messenger-compressed image
- Stop and reduce size if the designer warns about resolution
- Match material to location: direct-print aluminium outside, paper and canvas inside
- Proof every photo-book page for cropped faces before paying
- Only pay for express if the specific SKU is listed as express-eligible
FAQ: sizes, express, and personalised returns
Is myposter only a poster site?
No. Posters are the namesake, but the live catalogue includes canvas, metal, acrylic, foam board, glass, wallpaper, photo books, calendars, cards, and signage. The app is titled for photo books and photo printing together, which is a clue that wall paper is only one SKU family. If you arrived from a poster ad, still open the material list; the right product for a steamy bathroom is not the same as the right product for a living-room portrait, and outdoor signs need weather-capable aluminium rather than paper.
Can I order a size that is not on the dropdown?
Yes, within each material’s maximum. The configurator is built for millimetre-specific formats, which is the main reason to use myposter instead of a high-street frame shop that only stocks A2. The constraint is physics and machines, not marketing. A 3 millimetre Alu-Dibond sheet still has a listed maximum around the 120 by 240 centimetre class on current tables. Custom size does not improve a 1-megapixel file. If the preview crops more than you like, change the format rather than stretching the image.
How fast is express, really?
For eligible products, myposter describes next-working-day arrival when you order by 11:00, including Saturday, as a paid extra selected in the basket or express shop. Not every material qualifies; some fine-art aluminium combinations are excluded on the product tables. Standard jobs take longer and still ship tracked in custom cartons. Production load around holidays can stretch both tracks. If a print is for an event tomorrow, only trust express after the basket confirms the option on that exact SKU, not after a banner on the homepage.
What if I hate the colour on my wall?
Custom photo products are typically excluded from ordinary withdrawal because they were made to your specification, which is normal under German rules for personalised goods. Manufacturing defects and shipping damage are a different path and should be documented with photos immediately. Colour differences versus a backlit phone are expected. Use AR for size, not for colour grading. If you are colour-critical, order a small test print of the same file and material before you commit to an XXL wall piece.
Do I need the app?
No. The browser designer is enough, and it is better for photo-book proofing because you can see spreads without pinching a small screen. The app is useful when the photos live on the phone and when you want AR scale on the actual wall. Projects can move between phone and computer once you are logged in. If you start as a guest, export or save according to the current site prompts so you do not lose a 40-page book to a cleared cookie.
Pick a material that matches the room, upload a full-resolution original, and only proceed if the designer’s quality check stays green.
Start a myposter print →Verdict for German-language print buyers
myposter.de is a serious custom-print manufacturer with German plants, millimetre sizing, and a designer that will warn you about soft files. It is not a poster souvenir stall, and it is not a gallery that holds your hand through colour management. If you can measure a wall and supply a proper photograph, canvas, aluminium, or Hahnemühle from this shop is a rational way to get a made-to-fit piece without visiting a framers. If you cannot measure, or you only have a screenshot, no express option will save the result.
