Hanging Outdoor Banners

Posted on July 2, 2015 by Jay Buckley
using pole pockets to hold banners

Outdoor Pole Pockets

I tell people 10 times a day that printing an outdoor banner is the easy part, figuring out how to hang it is what’s hard. In the photo is a hanging system for outdoor banners that I saw on a recent trip to San Diego.

First of all, the banners are hung close to the building so the wind can’t get behind it very well. That reduces the wind load substantially, and that’s important because these are 5×15′ size. If they were able to catch the wind, you would need huge supports.

The banner is made with pole pockets top and bottom. The poles are a good 2″ diameter and suspended from solidly anchored eye bolts. The trick here is to cut a window in the banner for the eye bolt. Then the pole isn’t sticking out the side, which in my opinion would be pretty ugly.

This allows you to put tension on the banner and adjust the eye bolts to give even tension across the banner. These hung beautifully with no waves in them at all. Thanks to the Timken Museum in Balboa Park for showing a great banner hanging method!

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Trade Show Backdrop Banner

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Jay Buckley
trade show backdrop

Backdrop Banner

Here’s a trade show backdrop banner we did recently for the Hunger Project. It’s a pretty typical backdrop banner, 9′ wide and 4-1/2′ high and made of our Tri-poplin fabric.

They used S hooks we provided to hang the banner from the pole that comes at the back of the booth. We put grommets every two feet across the top.

They used it at their conference in the US, and then it heads off to Ghana and Ethiopia. Tri-poplin is a great material for world travel, since it doesn’t crease and comes out of your suitcase bright and shiny. You can even wash it if you need to.

 

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Our Poster at Carnegie Hall

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Jay Buckley
theater poster printing

Carnegie Hall Poster

Here’s a poster we printed on display for an upcoming concert at Carnegie Hall! It is gloss laminated and 40×80 inches in size.

Our process does a great job for things like this. Our new printers use UV inks that give you a poster that won’t fade in the sun. The colors are vibrant and accurate.

Best of all, we ship the next business day, so a file coming in on Monday ships on Tuesday. If you are in a jam, let us know because we can usually ship your poster the same day if we have your file by noon.

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Logo Wallpaper

Posted on June 19, 2015 by Jay Buckley
logo printed on wallpaper

Wallpaper of Logos

Here’s a great way to brand your office space- wallpaper of your corporate logo. Our production software makes it easy to do a step-and-repeat pattern for you.

We print our custom wallpaper using UV cured inks which are brilliant and accurate, as well as durable. We did this job for whynotleaseit.com, a NH company in Manchester that’s growing fast and moving into fancy new digs.

We’re happy to be a part of their success!

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Sidewalk Signs

Posted on June 17, 2015 by Jay Buckley
sign inserts

Sidewalk Sign

We can make sign inserts for all the common sidewalk and sandwich signs. We can do the design for you, or print your artwork. Either way, you get an attractive and durable sign in a few days.

This sign was made for Bad Boys Bail Bonds in California. They had the sign and needed new inserts.

Whatever your business, if you need to attract customers at the street level, this is a great way to do it.

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Word Cloud Wallpaper

Posted on June 16, 2015 by Jay Buckley
custom wallpaper in company offices

Word Cloud in a Conference Room

Word clouds give you the sense of a business, and they are pretty cool for decorating a company’s offices. Here, we printed wallpaper of a word cloud generated by our customer to decorate their conference room.

Do a search online and you’ll find sites that give you a word cloud based on your website, or just about any other document. A pretty nice one is Jason Davies.

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Printing that Looks 3D

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Jay Buckley
3D effects in printing

3D Menu

When I saw this large format menu in the shop, I had to touch it to be sure there wasn’t a roll of material at the top. That’s how realistic this menu is! It is actually printed on a flat piece of 3mm Sintra.

It’s absolutely amazing the effects you can create these days. In the right hands, Photoshop makes you an illusionist.

While the trend is to digital signs, a menu like this is durable, waterproof, and about $60. As long as your prices don’t change a lot, you can do signs like this for a lot of years before you eat up the $1500 or more that a digital sign costs. They don’t use any power, either!

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Cutouts not of People

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Jay Buckley
non traditional cutouts

Cutouts of Gas Pumps

We have made cutouts of lots of things over the years, we do lots of people and have also done things like cars, company logos, and cartoon characters.

For this job, we did cutouts of gas pumps, Lord knows what that was all about. But, we made one, and they asked for three more! They were very realistic and life size.

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City Skyline Wallpaper

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Jay Buckley
city skyline wallpaper

Vegas Skyline Wall Mural

We do a lot of custom wallpaper of city skylines, especially night skylines. This one is particularly stunning, it’s 30 feet wide of Las Vegas at night. We made it from a good photo purchased from Dreamstime for about $25.

We printed this on our wallboard vinyl, it would look the same on smooth wallpaper. A smooth material works better when you have a lot of black in the photo.

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Computer Cut Signs

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Jay Buckley
signs printed digitally

Digitally Printed and Cut Sign

This is a digitally printed and cut sign made for Growing Brilliant. We printed it on 1/4″ sintra, and then let our computer driven router do the special shape.

This allows you to make one-off shapes and signs that are professionally done and very attractive. When compared to what you spend at a traditional sign shop, it’s very affordable too.

Sintra is a foamed PVC sheet that we stock in 1, 3, and 6 mm thicknesses. That allows us to give you a thickness that meets your needs without getting something that’s too heavy or too light.

 

 

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