X-Banners in Dubai: The Lightest Thing That Still Stands Up
An X-banner is two crossed poles and a printed sheet hooked onto them at the corners. That is the entire product. X-banners in Dubai exist because sometimes you need twenty signs for a one day event and nobody wants to carry twenty roll-up cassettes across a hotel car park.
Quantity: 1 stand · Stand size: 85 × 200 cm · Graphic material: PVC banner film · Printed sides: Single sided
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.
The Poles Cross and Click
Two fibreglass or aluminium rods slot together and cross at a central hub. The assembled frame weighs almost nothing and takes about thirty seconds. There are no moving parts to wear out.
Four Corners Take the Tension
The graphic has an eyelet or a sewn tab at each corner, and these hook over the pole ends. Tension across the diagonal is what holds the sheet flat, so all four have to be on before anything looks right.
The Foot Is a Small Problem
An X-banner stands on a narrow base and it is light. Indoors on carpet it is stable. On a polished lobby floor near a door it will travel, and the usual fix is a sandbag or a weight tucked behind the foot.
It Folds Flat in Seconds
Unhook, collapse, roll. Several X-banners fit in one bag, which is the whole reason they get chosen for roadshows and multi venue work.
Where They Earn Their Place
Corridors, registration desks, seminar rooms and anywhere a sign is needed for a day and gone by evening. For a permanent position by a reception desk, a roll-up looks more substantial.
The Sheet Needs Some Body
Because tension comes only from four corners, the print material has to be stiff enough to stay flat between them. A thin film pulls into shallow diagonal creases running corner to corner, which catch the light badly. We print these on a heavier stock than a hanging banner for that reason alone.
A limit we would rather name now. X-banners are not an outdoor product. Any real breeze will take one over, and no base option changes that. For outside, use a blade flag or a weighted A-board.
See also portable banners, pop-out banners, and outdoor flags for outside.
What you get.
- Stand size
- 85 × 200 cm · 100 × 200 cm · 120 × 200 cm · Custom size
- Graphic material
- PVC banner film · Polyester fabric
- Printed sides
- Single sided · Double sided
- Quantities
- 1 · 2 · 5 · 10 stands, or any other number
- Turnaround
- Usually ready in 1–2 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.
Sixty by one sixty and eighty by one eighty are standard.
Yes. New graphics hook onto the same poles.
No. Use a flag or A-board outside.