1st large banner - input needed.

hi there

I have to do my first large banner, which is not big deal for most of you but I'm used to do stuff no more than twice the size of my 30" Rolands , cut or printed.

Now I have to come up with a banner that's roughly 6ft tall and 16ft long, it's supposed to cover the balcony of a business which is kinda messy.

I have a couple of questions, and not sure this is the right sub-forum, so move it if necessary

1 - Design-wise, how to approach this ? I'm outsourcing the printing, if I were printing it I'd design at 10-25% and scale it up on the RIP, but not sure what printer and rip are they using, need to find out. If I send an EPS 25% of the size ANY rip can scale it up right ?

2 - Material - Considering I'd be installing it, I was thinking using a banner mesh, it goes in a 2nd story and it's windy here this time of the year, or should I use a solid banner and cut some wind slits (sp?) ?

thanks !

 

Yep, forgot about DPI but I was going to guess 72 for what I've been reading here.
I did a store front with perf the other day and I was mad at some of the seams I was seeing while installing, then you go a few steps back and it looks awesome, like a one piece graphic. Need to remember that all the time, DPI is related to viewing distance