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whats the best way to produce giant posters?
I’ve been asked to produce 10 foot x 8 foot mounted posters for the gym that I belong to. I need to do 4 different ones that will be mounted on concrete walls.
Can any one recommend what material would be best to mount onto and if lamination would be neccessary. The customer will accept separate panels to make up each poster.
The other option would be printing it on a banner but I don’t know if that would look appropriate.
Thanks,
Bryan
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Anyone?
The customer was going to have these produced by another company but they never produced so of course he now is in a rush.
Thank you.
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What sort of life span are you looking for?
Also where are they going to be fixed?……….a bit more info may get some ideas thrown back at you…. -
They will be permanent indoor signage so as long as possible.
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Personally I think the banner idea is a good one.
Just hemed and suitable fixing with washers maybe spraying the washers white and using a screw with a white polytop coated head so they don’t stick out like sore thumbs. -
Bryan,
Are you getting prints, or cut vinyl?
I assumed prints, when i first read the post.. if so, then maybe prints laminated to 1/4″ foam core…. or komatex…
I have a sample of that, from beacon, but I’ve never done it -
Tim,
I will present the banner idea, but I think they rather go with mounted prints.
Steve,
I was considering getting vinyl and apply myself but I am awaiting a quote on prints mounted on foamcore. If I can have it printed, laminated and mounted and still make some $$$ all the better. I don’t want to chance messing up a large print since I have to rely on someone else to print it. Hopefully we can get a digital printer soon so we can tackle the jobs ourselves.Thank you
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take lengths of tile batons, (wood straps) .75 x 1.5 inch x 8ft long. cheap and cheerful wood from any timber yard. run these straps a along the bottom of the wall and the top of the wall only. tight to top and bottom that is. use screws and wall plugs as you would anything into stone. doesn’t have to be perfect or attractive, it wont be seen.
get “banner” prints 10ft high by 4ft wide. 2 will make up the width of course. lay them flat out on the floor once they have been printed and had 24hrs to dry… were the join will be, run a strip of double sided tape.
now over lap the two by that 1inch strip as the overlap. start from middle and rub out to each end.
you now have 8ft x 10ft prints in one go onto banner.now, get help here as you don’t want to create kinks in the banner while lifting into position. with some steps in place either side of the area you will be positioning the banner have two lads to take the banner each side holding up tight to the ceiling, letting the banner hang with its own weight.
its now being held in position. standing on something, and using a staple gun, starting from middle again. staple thru banner into the wood straps out towards your helpers, making sure they are keeping it pulled taught but not tight.
once you have stapled all the way along. get both helps to now hold both bottom corners. they “must” pull gently down and outwards towards themselves. at this point, “you” starting from middle start stapling out towards them. you will now have a very nice flat print.
here you have the option, but not needed to be honest. run a strip of flat plastic or dressed wood along face of banner top and bottom to hide the little shiny staples.i did this with banner 2 years ago in a large shopping centre in Scotland. the wall was 12 ft high, was on a gradual curve and stretched 60ft. when complete it looked brilliant. hid a huge horrible area in the shopping centre while building work went on behind it.
i have since installed about 5 more but small scale.
you wont need it laminated as its indoors and banner is pretty hard waring.
hope this helps mate.
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Thanks Robert,
By any chance do you have any pics of this?
I am pretty sure I can have the banner printed as one piece so I wouldn’t need to overlap.
I have used banner tape a couple of times in the past but always seems to pull apart especially where the hems meet. Any tips on this, maybe I am applying wrong. Is the tape supposed to fold onto itself?
Bryan
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tape? for interior use mate it is perfect, but if you can get the banner in one go, then great!tape works fine for banners but welded or stiched is better of course. no dont fold tape in on itself. just fold hem onto it press down with rubber roller and gentle heat helps too…
sorry no pictures of the jobs mate, large one was done long before i had a camera always at my side. 😀 the others were not anything special as far as ide take pictures, sorry. 😕
this sorta thing does work well though, its easy to do and inexpensive.
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I would avoid the banner just from tension point ofview always ending up with afurl / bulgey bit.
If you have access to a flat bet ge it printed drirect pvc or to get a nice effet print on acrylic and back up with vinyls this can give you a 3d type image especially if you use silver an white vinyl to highlight points inyour image.
Substrate can go straight on wall.
No flat bed print on vinyl 4ft wide and apply to pvc.
Guaranteed to keep your image flat.
cheers
jc
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My humble opinion
The Best way to do this would be to get the image printed onto art canvas, make up suitable frame using say 2 by 2 due to the size. Stretch art canvas over the frame you have made and staple round the sides. Make up a frame that would fit exactly inside the frame that you have made for the print, fix this to the wall the place your frame with the print on it over the over the frame you have put on the wall and then screw secure from the sides to join the two frames together, perfect picture, no joins no fixings at the front
regards Adrian
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the one im talking about was in braehead john. you may have seen it in the foodcourt area, next to ice rink. was up at least 6 months, not one problem. the lot was in banner… though not joined every 4ft.
the image was of the glasgow clyde side before the shopping centre arrived. -
was doing a job while watching a team of guys in GLA shopping centre covering hording with banner material
they did it Rob’s way >>>>>>>>>> quickly
Cheers
Andrew
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Thanks for all of the replys. I am going to present a couple of options to the client. I will let you know how I make out.
Bryan
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