Flags

[Robert Lambie]

i’m sure Europoint Display now do flag material because i think they mentioned this to me recently when telling me they now do canvas.
also, i’m sure grafytyp do flag material…

i have never printed onto flag material… so very little advice from me on that.
one thing i have noticed though is that flags have a short life. i remember in the past we did "something like" flags for a company but we used banner material. obviously this "wont" blow much in the wind due to weight but this was for hanging straight down bunting and flags. they worked very well and the flags were far more distinctive on banner than the polyester type flag material.

[Roy Roffey]

I’m with rob on this one,

i done a bit of research regarding this material and i found that its only sold on a 1300mm ish size roll and would need to be slit 😕

also the cost per mtr is a bit steep – hexis – and print quality is really dull

overall i think if you can stick to pvc

roffs

[George Kern]

I know Avery makes a new solvent flag material but I havent tried it out yet.

[Lee Attewell]

I’ve got the Avery sample swatch, and if I were going to use it, I’d maybe look at double printing it to give it good depth.

[Russ]

I have the same question as Gary, I have a versacamm as well and need to print on to some flag type material. The flags only need a very short life as they are for a fund raiser, in this case banner will not do. Is it possible for the versacamm to print on this kind of material.

Russ

[Peter Normington]

Hi Gary\Russ, spandex do a flag material (image perfect), 3months durable, and it has a liner so as not to let the ink pass through white satin. 1300 mm x 30m list price = £338 or a cheaper grade 30.5m x1370mm @ 292
or 30.5m x 1060mm £227.

haven’t tried it but sound expensive

Peter

[Gary Birch]

I know Hexis do one 5m for about £60 and they were meant to be sending me a sample of it so I could try printing on it but that was 2 weeks ago and i`m still waiting. Being a typical Yorkshireman I wanna try before I buy … have since found out Metamark do one too but not sure of price.

I ended up subbing job out as I needed it it be right and didn`t have time to do any tests.

Cheers

Gary

[Russ]

thanks for the price guide on spandex Peter I don’t know of a supplier here but we do have a metamark supplier here I will give them a call.

Russ.

[Lee Attewell]

I it’s for short term flagging, have you thought of Tyveck?

I’m just about to do some 3m x 10 m banners in this material in the next week or so.