How a banner gets made.
- 01
Your File Gets Opened by a Person
Someone opens the artwork and looks at it at full size before anything prints. Logos pulled from a website are the usual problem. They look fine on a laptop and go soft the moment they are two metres wide. We tell you then, not after.
- 02
The Roll Goes on the Machine
The material is loaded and the heads pass across it. Ink goes down wet and dries almost at once under the lamps. You can watch a two metre banner appear in a couple of minutes, top edge first, which is why proofreading happens before this point and not during it.
- 03
It Comes Off and Gets Cut
The printed length is trimmed down with a bit of spare material left on every edge. That spare is not waste. It becomes the hem, and a banner without one tears at the first eyelet it gets hung from.
- 04
The Edges Are Finished
Hems get welded, eyelets go in at measured spacing, and pole pockets are sewn if the banner is going on a frame. Spacing matters more outdoors. Too few eyelets and the wind finds the gap between them.
- 05
It Gets Rolled, Not Folded
Finished banners leave rolled around a tube. Folding puts a crease in that never comes out, and a crease catches light across a printed surface from a surprising distance.
We will be blunt about one thing. A cheap banner and a good banner look identical on day one. The difference shows up in week six, when one is still flat and the other has started to curl at the corners.
Go deeper into roll-up and portable banners, outdoor and hoarding banners, fabric banners, or the finishing options.
