whats the best way of making banners & using fixings?

[Gavin MacMillan]

You could send the banner of to be finished with hems and eyelets, lots of places offer this as a service including Beta Banners in Edinburgh who you will find in the suppliers page.

Hold-ups are an option but not all that tidy looking and I wouldn’t use them for a long term exterior banner. Hemming is a matter of opinion but I would always hem banners, it makes them tidier and far stronger.

G

[Peter Normington]

You dont need a press to do a few eylets you can buy a cheap punch to do the job with the aid of a hammer,
Atwells do them

http://www.eyelets.co.uk/settingmachines.php
Peter

[Jon Marshall]

There is a new type of plastic eyelet available now where you just give it a whack with a mallet and it locks together. If you look at the banners Tesco put up you’ll see them on those as they want everything to be recyclable so won’t accept brass ones anymore.

[Graeme Harrold]

quote JonM01:

There is a new type of plastic eyelet available now where you just give it a whack with a mallet and it locks together. If you look at the banners Tesco put up you’ll see them on those as they want everything to be recyclable so won’t accept brass ones anymore.

CR@P…..brass not recyclable!!!! When did that happen, and I practically work with it on a daily basis. The reason Tesco go for plastic is that they are cheap!!!! Tesco make their money by being tight ar$es and screw ALL of their suppliers for lower costs.

[Peter Normington]

quote JonM01:

There is a new type of plastic eyelet available now where you just give it a whack with a mallet and it locks together. If you look at the banners Tesco put up you’ll see them on those as they want everything to be recyclable so won’t accept brass ones anymore.

How do they recycle the banner especially when its coated in print?

BTW the whack it with a mallet, plastic eyelets have been around for years Hardly something you would use on mass production, like Tesco’s stuff

Peter

[Jon Marshall]

quote Peter Normington:

quote JonM01:

There is a new type of plastic eyelet available now where you just give it a whack with a mallet and it locks together. If you look at the banners Tesco put up you’ll see them on those as they want everything to be recyclable so won’t accept brass ones anymore.

How do they recycle the banner especially when its coated in print?

Peter

No idea but they all have the recycle logo on them I noticed.

[Graeme Harrold]

Probably cut them into rectangles and weld them up………….then sell them on as "bags for life" :lol1: :lol1:

[Nick Dowell]

I know there are a few options around to use vegetable oil, or wheat based inks to add to the "eco-ness" of the banners. Obviously not to be used in your everyday digital printer but can be used in specially adapted grand format printers

[Peter Mindham]

quote Graeme Harrold:

quote JonM01:

There is a new type of plastic eyelet available now where you just give it a whack with a mallet and it locks together. If you look at the banners Tesco put up you’ll see them on those as they want everything to be recyclable so won’t accept brass ones anymore.

CR@P…..brass not recyclable!!!! When did that happen, and I practically work with it on a daily basis. The reason Tesco go for plastic is that they are cheap!!!! Tesco make their money by being tight ar$es and screw ALL of their suppliers for lower costs.

I take it you shop at Sainsburys then Grahame? 😀

Peter

[Graeme Harrold]

nah, not that fortunate (lucky in a way), we stick to whats in the garden, local farm shops and Spar. We do get a delivery from Tesco(35 miles away) about every 6 week for the basics…..bog roll, washing powder etc……. :lol1: Pretty much live on stuff that has travelled less than 50 miles and not sat in the back of an artic travelling half way round the country/globe :lol1:

Back on track the phrase "recycling" is wide open. I give my vinyl off cuts to local schools. "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" For Tesco to say their banners are recyclable all they have to do is ship them to a 3rd word country for them to be used as water resistant linings for the roofs of houses!!!

[Darrell Wootton]

Hi All,

Thanks for the responses.

I think I will probably invest in an eyeletting machine.

Thanks again

Darrell……….

[Carl Maguire]

We have used the Mini hold on clips as we don’t have any eyelet kit either
have used them on banners up to 3.0m x 700mm wide but i would say only really suitable for short term use as i find in very windy conditions the banner tends to pull out of the hold on.
Have never hemmed one as i don’t think it would fit into the mini hold on
but we usually use a fairly thick ferrarri stamoid banner so we seem to get away with it, I think for the future though to make them look more proffesional we might have to invest in some form of eyeletting kit and may be some double sided banner adhesive tape to hem them