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What makes a good banner?
I have quite a lot of banner orders going on at the moment for various events.
I outsource the printing of these but find it hard to compare all the variables and prices seem to vary so much.I have very good partner who gives me a great product at a good price and have never really questioned the alternatives until a customer was adamant they wanted all their banners with stitched hems and their double sided banners printed on a single sheet of material.
My current printer makes double sided by printing on one side of material and then putting the two banners back to back and welding the outside edge as a hem before adding eyelets.
They say this is stronger than stitching and far easier to print so making it cheaper.Bolscan will print both sides of one piece of material and stitch the hems but they are more than twice the price.
Is this neccessarily a better banner than two pieces welded?Another company will print on two pieces and then stitch.
I presume the two piece method is on lighter material while the double print on both sides of the same piece will be a heavier weight PVC.Each manufacturer says theirs is the best method.
So what are peoples opinions of the different finishes?
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Pretty sure the single piece double sided material has a blockout layer so if you have lights on the banners there is no image transfer visually from side to side. Which I think is important.
I prefer the single piece method hemmed. Is this an indoor or outdoor banner?
Single piece banner might be lighter as well.
440gsm single piece versus
even ligther 300gsm pvc x 2 is 600gsm.
You’d want the two piece method glued together so they dont sag apart from each other.
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Hi Stuart,
I’ve used both methods but I prefer the single layer method on a larger banner.
I use a 600gsm product with a blockout core as jason says, but the two layer method does work well on smaller banners too using 440gsm singleside banners.
The blockoout banner is a lot more expensive than the lightweight single sided banner, so that would explain the expense.
Hope that helps anyway.
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