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Joining printed banner
Hi all,
I had a customer ask me today for some 2m x 2m digitally printed banners. I can only print up to 1.37m wide. He’s happy to have a join it as it’s to used as a back drop to a ball game for kids.
Can I join two parts together with double sided tape, will it be strong enough, or do I have to get it stitched or welded?
Can any suggest a d/s tape that I can use to do the job, what about the d/s tape that can be used for hemming banners? Will that be OK to use.
Hope it will work, as he said there will be lots of these banners to do :o)
From Mark
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7 Replies
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dont use tape, it dosent work tends to peal after a short while. Welding it is your best bet. Stitching could be a bit challenging
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i still suggest 1 peice, sometimes a printer will print one bit longer then the other bit. When this happens the prints wont line up. Can happen if you print on a near end roll and then print the second bit on a new roll, the weight will make the printer feed a touch slower.
Or design the banner where it is easy to join, we used tape in the past.
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for your info. Did the tape work when you used it? Its only for light work, its not outside. What if I used tape, and put eyelets on the edges so it had a more mechanical fixing as well.
From Mark
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Tape will work fine indoors, just don’t use it outdoors for large prints.
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If you guys get the ‘power tape’ range over there, they have a specially formulated d/s tape especially made for banners called ‘banner bond’ Its about 50mm wide and supper thin.
I’d get it welded myself, but ‘banner bond’ works well, but I only use it for temp signs or for the odd quickie 😉
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quote Dave Rowland:i still suggest 1 peice, sometimes a printer will print one bit longer then the other bit. When this happens the prints wont line up. Can happen if you print on a near end roll and then print the second bit on a new roll, the weight will make the printer feed a touch slower.Or design the banner where it is easy to join, we used tape in the past.
Did a banner once. About 10 metres long. It was 10mm off the whole distance. Lucky from a distance you couldn’t really tell. Up close you could.
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We just finished some oversized banners and we used what we call here as "mighty bond" glue (or other similar glue products). We might order a "seaming machine" soon and our new 3.2meter solvent printer will also be delivered next month.
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