Trade Show Backwall from Banner Stands

Posted on May 18, 2012 by
trade show back wall of banner stands

Instant Backwall

When faced with the expense of buying a trade show booth, you can get creative and save real money. Here’s what one of our customers did- six retractable banner stands to make a backwall for a 20 foot booth. They rented a table and a few chairs, and they had a very nice looking setup.

Even better, they could carry the banner stands into the show hall, instead of paying several hundred dollars to have a booth moved from the loading dock to the booth space. The total cost of the six banner stands was about $2700, which is less than you pay for a typical 10 foot booth.

These are 36″ retractable banner stands, so the six of them are 18 feet wide. We also have 48″ banner stands, which would allow you to get to a full 20 feet by using 5 banner stands.

Economy Retractable Banner Stands

Three Economy Rectractables

If you are really on a tight budget, we have a 31″ wide economy retractable banner stand for $249. We have strung 3 of them together many times to yield a 93″ wide graphic for a 10 foot booth. We charge $224 each if you buy three economy banner stands, so you can do a pretty snappy show booth for $672. How can you beat that?

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Big Check at Graduation

Posted on May 14, 2012 by
big presentation check

Big check at WPI Graduation

My daughter graduation from Worcester Poly Tech this past weekend. I am so proud of her! What I was also proud of was that a big check that we made was used in the graduation ceremony. It represented the senior class gift to WPI.

We do a lot of big checks for presentations, and what makes us special is that we do them fast, affordably, and right!

What WPI did was create a big check with gloss laminate on the face, so that a dry erase marker can be used to write the big check, and it can be erased and re-used. That makes each use of the big check less expensive!

Hooray for WPI! Hooray for the class of 2012! Hooray for the end of tuition checks!

 

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Printing Direct to Board

Posted on May 11, 2012 by
flatbed printing on gatorboard

4×8 Sheet Flatbed Printed

More and more, we find ourselves printing to flat sheets of gatorboard, sintra, coroplast and foamcore. It used to be that we printed on paper and then mounted the paper to the board. Not any more.

Our flatbed printers give the same 720 dpi high resolution output to board that we were doing on paper. It’s a single step process, so it’s less expensive and those savings are passed on to you.

The other advantage is that the UV curable inks are tougher and therefore more durable than prints on paper. We find that we often do not need to laminate over gatorboard when it’s UV printed, which is another savings. These prints are great for trade shows, museum displays, and for photo enlargement for display in your office.

Especially for large pieces like the one pictured, it’s easier to print on the board itself instead of trying to line up a huge piece of paper and get it all on straight. We love our new flatbed printers, and are finding more great ways to use them every day!

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Rush Vinyl Banner Printing

Posted on May 4, 2012 by
Theater Backdrop vinyl banner

Theater Banner

When you need a vinyl banner in a hurry, call us! Our customer needed us to ship their theater backdrop banner today. They sent us the file late last night. It will be done!

Our digital banner printing process allows us to react very quickly to your needs. It seems that in today’s world, everything gets done at the last minute. That’s our specialty – doing it fast, beautifully, and right. No wonder we are Fedex’s largest customer in the North Country of NH!

When you need your vinyl banner in a rush, think of us!

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Vinyl Banner on a Brick Wall

Posted on April 25, 2012 by
hang a banner on a brick wall

Banner on Brick Wall

I tell people all the time- “Printing your vinyl banner is easy. Figuring out how to put it up is the tough part.” It’s so true.

One of the tough questions is how to put a banner on a brick wall, and I wanted to show this idea for how to do that. What the customer did was to put metal rings in lead anchors in the mortar between large pieces of stone, and then put bungee cords that hold the banner taut between the metal rings.

Since the metal rings are a ways apart, this setup can accept vinyl banners of different sizes. If a liquor vendor gives him a different size banner, it still can be displayed here.

Bungee cords are great in this application. If the customer had used rope, it eventually would have stretched and slackened, and the banner would droop. This does a really nice job of keeping it looking good.

We’re big fans of bungee cords, they also allow a vinyl banner to lift out of the way to shed the wind. Not such a big deal here, but important when the vinyl banner is across the street!

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Topo Map Wallpaper

Posted on April 20, 2012 by
USGS Topo Map wallpaper

Topo Map File

Want to put up custom wallpaper that your hiker friends adore? How about a topo map of your favorite hiking area? Or, perhaps, the area you live in, or have a vacation house near? This can be done, and beautifully.

The USGS publishes digital files of their topo maps that you can download for free. They are pretty nice, hi-rez files, and we can take them up to pretty good size. We can also put a few of them together for you if need be.

So, if you are looking for something unusual to put on that wall, think about a piece of topo map wallpaper!

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Rush Wallpaper – We can do it!

Posted on April 19, 2012 by
Vinyl to stick on walls

Wallboard Vinyl Collage

Our new flatbed printer gives us the ability to react to rush jobs. Not only does it give us another machine, but it’s twice as fast as our original machine.

When this customer came to us on Tuesday asking if we could have wallpaper to them for Friday, we said sure. Of course, then we didn’t get the files until noon on Thursday. But it was still not a problem!

We printed an 8 x 16 set of wallboard vinyl, and had it in a box by 3:30. Which I’ll tell you is closer than I like to cut it, but we got it done! Our customer needs to have the wallpaper  installed over the weekend for a product launch on Monday. They’ll have the wallpaper on time, the rest is up to them!

This is how we like to do business. No waiting around. No long lead times. Send us the files and keep your eyes peeled for Fedex!

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