Waiting for a Made to Order Rickey Print

Made to order means a production window before the courier ever appears. Here is how the timeline breaks down, what can stretch it, and how to plan around a date.

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The short answer

A made to order print typically takes two to five business days in production, then three to seven business days in transit, so plan on roughly one to two weeks door to door. Framed pieces and canvases run longer than unframed posters. Note that Auvrique does not currently offer George Rickey editions, so these figures describe the general made to order process rather than a Rickey order you can place today.

The Timeline in Plain Numbers

Made to order is not a euphemism for slow. It means the print does not exist until you order it, which saves warehouse space and keeps prices down. The trade is time. Production for a canvas or framed print usually runs two to five business days, covering printing, drying or curing, and the framing work itself. Unframed posters move faster because there is less to do.

Shipping follows production, and the two should not be confused. Once a piece leaves the facility, domestic transit typically takes three to seven business days, longer internationally. Add the stages together and a realistic door to door window is one to two weeks for most orders. If a specific date matters, order at least two weeks ahead and treat anything faster as luck rather than a plan.

What Can Stretch the Wait

Larger formats take longer on both ends. A big canvas needs more curing time before it can be safely packed, and oversized parcels move slower through carrier networks. Framing adds a step that unframed prints skip entirely. If you are weighing formats, the difference between a canvas edition and a framed poster is mostly this production step, a distinction covered in more detail elsewhere on the site.

Holidays and peak seasons are the other variable. Carriers back up in December, and production queues lengthen when order volume spikes. A print ordered in mid November may arrive comfortably before a deadline that the same order placed in mid December would miss. The honest planning rule is simple. When the date is fixed, buy early and let the timeline work for you rather than against you. If you are choosing between formats for a deadline, how to choose between canvas and framed prints is worth a read.

Planning Around a Date

Work backwards from the day you need the piece on the wall. Allow two weeks for a standard canvas or framed print, three if the date is non negotiable or the order is large. That buffer absorbs a slow production day and a carrier delay without turning a gift or an event into an apology. Anxious planning is not overcautious here. It is the correct amount of caution.

One thing worth stating plainly. Auvrique does not currently carry George Rickey editions, so no Rickey order can be placed today and no Rickey specific timeline exists to quote. The figures above describe how made to order prints generally move. If a Rickey reproduction is the goal, the practical route is to check back or contact the team directly, and in the meantime the canvas edition on offer shows what the finished product looks like. For gift timing specifically, buying a print as a gift covers presentation and lead times in more depth.

A fixed delivery date is a logistics problem, not a hope. Order two weeks out and the anxiety mostly evaporates.

Stage	Typical duration	Notes
Production	2 to 5 business days	Printing, curing, framing
Domestic transit	3 to 7 business days	Longer for oversized parcels
Total door to door	1 to 2 weeks	Add buffer for fixed dates

Typical made to order timeline

Key takeaways

Production for a made to order print usually takes two to five business days before shipping begins.
Domestic transit adds three to seven business days, making one to two weeks the realistic total.
Large formats, framing, and holiday peaks all extend the timeline.
Auvrique does not currently offer George Rickey editions, so no Rickey specific delivery window can be quoted.

Related questions

How fast can I get a Rickey canvas?

There is no Rickey canvas to order at present, since Auvrique does not carry editions of his work. As a general benchmark, a made to order canvas takes two to five business days to produce and three to seven to ship, so roughly one to two weeks door to door. Treat any faster estimate as optimistic.

Does framing add much time to an order?

Usually a little. A framed print includes a production step that an unframed poster skips, so it tends to sit at the longer end of the two to five day production window. The difference is rarely more than a day or two, but it matters when a deadline is close.

Can I expedite a made to order print for an event?

Production is sequential, not queued by urgency, so there is little to expedite on the printing side. Shipping speed is the variable you can sometimes influence. The more reliable strategy is ordering two weeks ahead of the event and building in a buffer for carrier delays during busy seasons.

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