banner help

[noack214]

hello im new to printing so any advice is good advice. the owner of my company took a job 4 a banner and im not sure i can do it. the banner will be 12x12 and my jf1631 is only 5x10 any idea how i can do this?

 

[MikePro]

print 6- 4x6's, with overlaps and weld/stitch the banner together.
or outsource

otherwise, get a 12x12 banner and print 6- 4x6 tiles on vinyl to be applied to it.

 

[noack214]

that was my first guess but not sure if we have the means to stitch them together. also im not sure what the material is called but it seems to be a heavy duty mesh so air can pass through. it is for our local baseball team and they will be hung along the outfield wall for advertising i do believe there will be 10 of these.

 

[Jack Knight1979]

I'll do 'em. heh.

 

[Craig Sjoquist]

Welcome to a outstanding forum and people

Nice challenge once you learn how on the 1st all the rest will be a zip
show us some pictures when done

 

[noack214]

does the material i mentioned sound familiar to any1 would love to know its real name.

 

[Sticky Signs]

outsource it to a company that can print it in one piece. Or, have your boss talk the client into changing the size to something you can do inhouse.

 

[noack214]

i think the boss will have to talk to the client because i have 1 of last years banners in front of me and it is 1 piece . what is the biggest flatbed printer out there that is capable of printing something this big?

 

[J Hill Designs]

mesh banner - outsource to merritt graphics

 

[Bradster941]

mesh banner - outsource to merritt graphics

+2

 

[Letterbox Mike]

You don't print a mesh banner on a flatbed printer (well, you could, wouldn't make much sense though). Outsource the job to someone who can do it the right way. You don't want to do this in 4 panels with mesh, it'll look terrible.

+3 for Merritt Graphics.

 

[sjm]

You don't print a mesh banner on a flatbed printer (well, you could, wouldn't make much sense though). Outsource the job to someone who can do it the right way. You don't want to do this in 4 panels with mesh, it'll look terrible.

+3 for Merritt Graphics.

Sure you can. Do it all the time.

To the original poster, print it in 3 equal sections and have it RF welded. I could recommend someone that does an awesome job. Though it's impractical to ship across borders.

 

[CheapVehicleWrap]

SJM, so RF welding mesh is no problem? How's the strength. I dropped off samples locally but I guess they never got to testing it. Any idea the costs?

 

[StopSignGraphics]

I used to RF weld banner all the time at my old job, very rarely did we ever have a problem.

I'm not sure of the exact name of the product but we always called it seaming tape. You will have to use something like that to get a solid weld between your mesh pieces. Mesh to mesh by itself will either not weld or have a very weak weld.

Even the best welds will still be somewhat visible.

Cost vary shop to shop... I think at the old job they charged about around a $1.00 per linear foot to weld.

~Chris

 

[sjm]

SJM, so RF welding mesh is no problem? How's the strength. I dropped off samples locally but I guess they never got to testing it. Any idea the costs?

No problems whatsoever. As for costs I always used to request seat-belt reinforced hems to go along with welding a mesh banner, so a 20' x 10' welded and hemmed was just little over $100.

I say used to only because we have invested in superwide machines.

 

[National Sign Co. - Print]

If a shop needs to outsource to do a RF weld. Why on earth would they not outsource the whole job???

 

[vinylbarry]

Outsource it to someone who can print full I dont think in a mesh banner that a welded one would look as good as a full print.

+++for outsource

 

[sjm]

Out sourcing may not always be an option. I know in our case there was none one capable locally.

Though as we grew the business we added superwide technology.

 

[Salmoneye]

SJM there is no reason to outsource locally. You don't have the equipment to do the job properly or enough demand to justify larger equipment purchase. Many wholesalers are lightning fast and UPS doesn't sit on their thumbs either. I am in TX and I order from each coast.

 

[Salmoneye]

Several people in my town here have purchased very large printers and now the city has limited banners to 60 sq ft period.