Guide To Vinyl Banners

You may also hear of PVC banners referred to as Vinyl banners, advertising banners, customized banners, printed banners. The advent of large format digital banner printing has transformed the humble advertising banner. Vinyl banners have always been a popular form of advertising because they are big, cheap, robust and use nil cost space to get your advertising message across. The low cost of set up afforded by large format digital printing means that far more eye-catching designs can now be used. Full colour printing is affordable? In the past banners would either have been sign written or more recently have self adhesive vinyl applied. Sign written banners could take a long time and complex designs cost more where as vinyl lettering had a tendency to peel away from the banner. Now solvent based inks used in large format digital printing give vibrant durable colour with the most complex design you like. The process is simple your design is made using a design software package then more of 'less sent to print' in the background advanced RIP software is used to process the file for printing and control colours. Unlike desktop publishing output to your desktop printed files used to print banners need to be much larger to get the necessary image quality. As a rough guide you need to allow 30mb / m. Print quality is getting better all the time the gap between PVC banner quality and exhibition graphic quality is much narrower. Since vinyl advertising banners are viewed from a greater distance the and the text and images are much bigger the quality does not need to be of 'exhibition' . The most popular material by far for banners is PVC or vinyl. This PVC banner material more often than not has a nylon weave inside it to give it added strength for outdoor banner applications. Vinyl banners are usually finished with a turned edge. This double thickness again gives more strength and a good anchor point eyelets which are the preferred method of fixing banner. Cross street vinyl banners will often have a wire or bolt rope through pockets on the banner to allow easy hanging. When a banner is to viewed from both sides the standard vinyl allows 'show through' to avoid this 'blackout' material can be specified. Any size banner can be made. Depending on the depth of the banner the material my well be needed to be welded down the middle but from normal viewing distance it can be seen. Design Dispends on whether you are using the banner as a Backdrop or and advertisement. When designing a banner for advertising bear in mind you often only have a few seconds to attract passes by so don't' cram you banner with two much information. Keep it simple. Hanging you banner Various ways to hang a banner depending on where you are using it. For example Rope, Cable ties or our preferred method adjustable elastic bunjees. For further information on PVC or vinyl banners see our resource centre at www.discountdisplays.co.uk