Tayda UV Printing and Drilling: How to Order a Custom Pedal Enclosure

Stuart · 5 November 2026

Tayda will drill an enclosure to your layout and UV print your artwork on it, so it turns up ready to build. I’ve just had one back, a pedal I’m calling the 404, and this is how I got from a layout on screen to the enclosure in the photo.

The 404, drilled and printed by Tayda, then built.

It’s really two jobs: Tayda drill the holes from a drill template and print from a print file. The trick is making both from the same layout, so the artwork lines up with the holes. On the 404 every scale sits evenly round its knob and the LED window lands right in the middle of the “0”.

What you need

A layout in Stompbox Layout on an enclosure Tayda print: the 125B, 1590A, 1590B, 1590BB, 1590BB2, 1590XX or 1590DD.
A Tayda account, for their Manufacturing Center, which used to be called the Box Tool.
The Tayda print file from the app, a one-off $9 that covers every project. The artwork itself is free, so you can design the whole thing first and only pay when you’re ready to order.

Step 1: Lay it out and add the artwork

Place your parts as usual, then select a hole and open the Artwork tab to give it a label or a scale round its knob. The look of everything (ink, typeface, label size, scale style) is set once under Whole face. For a logo, import it as an SVG and switch on Print as artwork. The “404” is just that.

The LED shines through a square window in the “0” rather than a round hole. That’s a rectangle with Cutout switched on, and Tayda cut it like any other hole. Make it a bit smaller than the gap it sits in, so it leaves an even black edge.

Step 2: Make the drill template

Tools > Tayda drill instructions lists every hole in the format Tayda ask for.

The Tayda drill instructions in Stompbox Layout for the 404: a table of every hole with its side, diameter and X and Y position, and the square LED window listed separately as a rectangle shape. — The 404’s holes in the app, ready to copy across.

In the Manufacturing Center, start a new drill template, pick your enclosure and copy the holes in. The square window goes on the Shapes tab. The diagram fills in as you type, which is a handy check that nothing has ended up on the wrong face.

The 404 drill template in Tayda's Manufacturing Center: the Holes tab with each hole's side, diameter and X and Y position, beside a diagram of the 125B showing three holes on the top side and the knob, switch, LED and footswitch holes on the face. — The 404’s drill template in Tayda’s tool.

Step 3: Download the print file

Open Export and choose Tayda Print. You get a preview and two downloads: the print file, which is what Tayda need, and a design file. The tab also warns you about anything odd, like two labels touching, so give it a quick read.

The Tayda Print tab of the Export dialog in Stompbox Layout: a preview of the 404 artwork in white on the 125B face, with Download design file and Download print file buttons. — The Tayda Print tab, with the 404’s artwork.

The design file has your holes on a guide layer, in case you want to add anything in a design app first. If you do, delete the guide layer before ordering.

The 404 design file open in Affinity, with its holes and knob outlines in pink on a layer named GUIDES - delete before ordering, above the RDG_GLOSS and RDG_WHITE layers. — The design file in Affinity, with its guide layer on top.

Step 4: Check it in Tayda’s PDF Analyzer

Before you order, run the print file through Tayda’s PDF Analyzer. It tells you whether their printer will accept it, and it can lay your holes over the artwork so you can see everything lines up.

For the holes, go back to Tayda’s Drill Templates page and press the download button beside your template.

Tayda's Drill Templates page with the 404 template for a 125B, sides A and B, and an arrow pointing to the download button beside it. — Downloading the 404’s drill template from Tayda.

Load that file into the Analyzer along with the print file, and check each hole sits where it should before you pay for anything.

The 404 print file in Tayda's PDF Artwork Analyzer with the drill template loaded: red circles for every hole and a red square for the LED window, each sitting inside its scale or the 0 of the 404, with the RDG_WHITE and RDG_GLOSS spot colours both marked Found. — The 404’s holes laid over its artwork in the Analyzer.

Step 5: Order it

Back in the Manufacturing Center, upload the print file as a UV template and tick the layers it has. If you added a gloss coat in the app, tick that too and choose varnish.

The 404 UV template in Tayda's Manufacturing Center: side A of a 125B, with the white layer and the gloss layer ticked and Varnish chosen as the gloss print type. — The UV template, with gloss varnish chosen.

Then make a box job, which is Tayda’s name for the enclosure plus your two templates. Create Order adds the enclosure and all the services to your Tayda cart, and you check out as normal. After that, keep an eye on the Manufacturing Center dashboard: if Tayda have a question about your files they post it there rather than emailing.

The 404 box job in Tayda's Manufacturing Center: a 125B matte black enclosure with four products, the enclosure, the custom drill service, the face UV printing service and the gloss layer add-on. — The 404 box job.

When I ordered, a matte black 125B was $5.99, drilling $4.50 and printing the face $4.00: $14.49 before postage, plus $2 for the gloss. I paid for postage with the import charges included, so there was nothing to pay when it reached me in the UK, eight days later.

What came back

As it arrived, before any hardware went in.

It came out well. The white is crisp and solid, and even the smallest text, the RAT, 308 and JAM by the switch, is easy to read.

A close-up of the built 404: the toggle switch with RAT, 308 and JAM printed beside it, between the Tone and Level knobs and their white scales. — The smallest text on the pedal.

I also had a colour test printed to see how colours come out. They print well, but don’t expect an exact match with your screen: red came out more of a dark orange, while blue and yellow were close. If a colour really matters, test it first.

A colour test chart printed on a matte black enclosure lid: ten colour swatches over white, each with thin lines at three weights, and blue and yellow lettering at two sizes. — The colour test.

The one thing I’d change is the gloss. It looks great on the big bold “404”, but on the fine lines of the scales and the border it looks a bit uneven when the light catches it. I wouldn’t bother next time unless the artwork is bold.

The gloss on the bold “404”, and the square LED window.

If you’re trying it

Order one first. A print can’t be undone.
Run the print file through the PDF Analyzer before you pay.
Make the drill template and the print file from the same layout.
Treat colours as close, not exact.
Skip the gloss unless your artwork is bold.

Open Stompbox Layout to start your own, and the user guide has every step in more detail.