Free template
Sign Shop Work Order Template
A shop-floor work order (job traveler) built the way sign production actually runs: a spec block the floor can trust, and a task checklist — the job is done when every box is checked.
Free, no signup. The HTML opens in any browser or editor — put your shop's name and details in, print, done.
The work order is where 'that's not what I quoted' remakes are born or prevented. The quote speaks customer; the floor needs the same job translated into substrate, thickness, sides, laminate, finishing and due date — on one sheet that travels with the work. Every spec that lives in someone's head instead of on the ticket eventually costs a remake.
This template uses a checklist model rather than a status column, because sign work is parallel tasks — print, laminate, cut, weed, finish — not an assembly line. Each task has an initials-and-date slot, so who did what is on the record. (This sheet is also, not coincidentally, what PrinterFlo generates automatically from a quote.)
What's in the template
- → Big job number and rush flag readable across a room
- → Specification table: product, size/qty/sides, substrate + thickness, vinyl, laminate, finishing, install
- → Production checklist with initials/date per task — done when all checked
- → Artwork reference panel and notes block
Goes deeper
Sign Shop Work Order Template — FAQ
What goes on a sign shop work order?
Everything production needs without asking: exact size, quantity, sides, substrate and thickness, print and laminate spec, finishing, install details, due date, and an artwork reference. Plus a task checklist with initials — accountability lives on the sheet, not in memory.
Checklist or status column — which is better on a work order?
Checklist, for sign work. A job isn't 'in printing' as one state — it's printed but not laminated, cut but not weeded. Parallel tasks with checkboxes match the floor; a single status column always lies a little.
Why does each task need initials and a date?
Because 'who laminated this' is a question you only ask when something went wrong, and by then nobody remembers. One initial per task turns the traveler into the job's history.
Or never fill one of these in again
In PrinterFlo the quote writes the work order, the customer approves the proof from a no-login link, and the invoice knows about the deposit — every document on this page, generated from one record.