Help Printing Pop Up Banner Panels

[David Rogers]

TBH I usually find buying them in pre-printed for £70 a pair works for me…

ZERO hassle.

[Alan Drury]

Same here, I buy them from Print United, they are only up the road from me so I pick them up.
I just make a rectangle 2000mm X 850mm (standard size) populate it with the graphics and then publish to pdf from Corel or print to CutePDF with crop marks. Cute produces smaller file sizes but publish is better if design has transparencies or drop shadows over vector objects.
Alan D

[David Hammond]

I’m ok doing the Roll Up banners @ 850×2000 mm

This is one of the big exhibition pop up displays, 3×3 size.

Not sure how to tile the image to get perfect alignment?

[Andrew Blackett]

Hi David,

Set your page size as quarter size the whole stand (i.e. the total width of the five drops)

Design as normal, publish with a 5mm bleed all round, no crops or file info.

In versaworks start by expanding it to 400%. Now under clip and tile you will create the drops. If its a 5 drop stand (3 middle and 2 ends) you’ll need;
7 horizontal tiles
3 vertical

2 of the horizontal will be the bleed left and right and 2 of the vertical will be bleed top and bottom. The "bleed" tiles will be 20mm width/height (400% at 5mm original size)

I find it easier to tell versaworks how many tiles I want then use the "manual tiling" setting. Start top left and key the width and drop of the first panel;

location 1 – column 1 – 20mm wide x 20mm high (bleed size)
location 2 – column 1 – 20mm wide x "pop up height"
location 3 – column 1 – 20mm wide x 20mm high (bleed size)

then;
location 1 – column 2 – "pop up panel width" x 20mm high
location 2 – column 2 – "pop up panel width" x "pop up height"
location 3 – column 2 – "pop up panel width" x 20mm high

Column 3,4,5,6 will be the same as column 2
Column 7 will be the same as column 1 (maybe give or take a fraction of a millimeter)

Once you’ve keyed all these, right click on all the bleed areas to disable the printing of them (you dont want a load of 20mm strips!) You need to set an overlap on all corners of say 3mm (this will be your actual trimming bleed)

If I remember rightly it will automatically add the crop marks, if not just select trim marks. Centre the "tiles" on your media and away you go!

Dont know if you’ve already sorted it but I’d recommend the solvent pop up media from paper graphics. Prints beautifully and dries quickly, I just use our standard vinyl profile and temperatures as normal.

Hope this helps, shout if I can help further though David – best of luck.

NB. Dont delete the job until you’ve successfully printed, laminated and trimmed (and fitted to the stands) just in case you need to print one drop again!

Andy

[David Hammond]

Awesome. Thanks for that.

I’ve not VW infront of me, but will take a look next week and play with it on a smaller scale first.

I’m hoping I get the job now!

[Andrew Blackett]

No problem – if you do a smaller one keep in mind that the smallest width tile that versaworks will create is 9.75mm ish – that annoyed me for ages!!

Why not just publish a blank page at the right size and familiarise yourself with it that way?

Andy

[David Hammond]

Yeah I’ll try a full size blank one, but want to see how the tiling works.

I did a big sign the other week I tiled and wasn’t 100% on what I was doing.

[David Rowland]

think we print 800×2000, not 850×2000

[David Hammond]

I stock the 850 wide banner stands rather than the 800.

Just a personal preference.