Velcro Fabric Banners in Dubai: Changing the Graphic in Four Minutes
Some banners change more often than the frames they hang on. Reception walls, seasonal promotions, a stand that runs three campaigns a year off the same structure. Velcro fabric banners in Dubai are built for that: the frame stays up and the printed face comes off like a sticker.
Fabric: Polyester knit · Edge finish: Hemmed
An estimator replies with a firm, VAT-inclusive price and a production date.From your file to the finished job.
Six steps happen between the brief and the finished job. Here they are, in the order they happen on our floor in Dubai South.
Loop Tape Is Sewn to the Banner
A continuous strip of soft loop tape is stitched along every edge on the back face. It is sewn, not glued, because adhesive tape lifts off fabric in heat and these often hang near a window.
Hook Tape Goes On the Frame
The matching hook side is fixed to the frame or the wall batten once and stays there. That permanent half is the thing that makes every future changeover quick.
It Presses On From One Corner
Start at a top corner and work along, keeping light tension. Pressing the middle first traps slack that shows as a sag you cannot get out without starting again.
It Comes Off Without Tools
Peel from one corner. Four minutes for a two metre banner, no ladder work beyond reaching the edges, no fixings to lose.
Storing the Old Graphic
Fold it loosely with the loop tape facing inward so it does not catch on the printed face of anything stored with it. They stack in a cupboard and come back out for the same season next year.
What the Hook Side Sticks To
Self adhesive hook tape holds well on painted timber, powder coated aluminium and most laminates. It does not hold on bare plaster or textured wallpaper, and in a hot room the adhesive creeps. Where the wall is unhelpful we fix a thin painted batten first and put the tape on that, which also gives a dead flat line to hang against.
One drawback to weigh up. Velcro adds a shallow ridge around the perimeter, and in strong side lighting you can sometimes see that line through the fabric. On a mid tone graphic it vanishes. On a flat pale one, look at a sample first.
Related: fabric banners, banner finishing, and indoor backdrops.
What you get.
- Fabric
- Polyester knit · Blockout fabric · Backlit fabric
- Edge finish
- Hemmed · Silicone edge graphic · Velcro strips · Pole pockets
- Size
- Made to your width and height
- Turnaround
- Usually 3–4 working days
- Proof
- A digital proof before anything prints
- Delivery
- All seven emirates, or collect from Dubai South
What every order includes
- A free prepress check on your file
- A digital proof before anything prints
- One VAT-inclusive quote with a production date
- Delivery to all seven emirates, or collection from Dubai South
Setting up your file.
- 01Work at full size or to scaleBuild the file at full size, or at a stated scale such as 1:10 when the canvas gets too big, and tell us the scale.
- 02Match resolution to distanceSomething read from a few metres away needs far less resolution than a business card. Around 100 dpi at full size is usually plenty.
- 03Tell us how it will be fixedHems, eyelets, pole pockets and frames take up material around the edge. Tell us the fixing and prepress allows for it.
- 04Send logos as vectorsAI, EPS, SVG or PDF keeps edges sharp at large sizes. Embed or outline the fonts.
Quick answers.
Only as a faint edge ridge on very pale graphics.
Many. The tape outlasts the printed graphic.
Yes, with the hook side already fitted.