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Product Options Explained
What Material Should I Choose?
When choosing your banner material, consider the final size, where it will be used (indoors or outdoors), how long it needs to last, and whether it will be traveling often.
For smaller, short-term use banners, 10 ounce vinyl should work well. For larger, outdoor situations where permanence and durability are factors, the 13 ounce is a better choice, although it is a bit heavier and therefore slightly more expensive to ship if you’re sending it around.
Do I need finishing?
The determining factors on banner finishing again boil down to use, location (indoor/outdoor), how it will be hung, and how long it needs to last (is it one off or does it need to still look great in 6 months?).
Grommets are the most common form of banner finishing. Grommets are the little round metal rings that are used to latch your banner to poles, a fence, your car or anything else that doesn’t move (sorry about your car!). Grommets are usually spaced every two feet along the edges and corners of a larger banner, but depending upon your hanging logistics that can vary as in with a very small banner that only needs grommets placed in each corner.
Tape Hems are recommended for bigger, heavier banners and certainly for outdoor usage because it doubles the amount of material that grommets go thorough, reinforcing them and making your banner more durable. Hems also give banners a more clean and finished appearance than raw edges.
Pole-pockets are used when you need to insert (you guessed it!) a pole at the bottom of your banner. Poles are typically wooden dowels that you can get at the hardware store or Home Depot, Dowels ‘R’ Us, etc., and they slide into the pockets to serve as weights, which keep your banner hanging flat and smooth.

Do I need wind slits?
For outdoor banners the answer is YES. Unequivocally, absolutely and most assuredly yes. You definitely need them. Wind slits are little crescent shaped cuts through your banner (approximately every 4 square feet) that allow wind to pass harmlessly through your giant, heavy, and potentially dangerous when airborne banner. In other words, they prevent your giant outdoor banner from becoming a very big and colorful, but out of control, kite! Safety first.
h4. Proof Options
Although banners are arguably the least color critical large-format product, proofing can be very important because of their elephantine size. You need to make sure that any bitmapped scans, photos, or images have enough resolution to look clear when blown up to a big size. Because of their great potential exposure, it is important to ensure that everything is crisp and clean on the final output.
A 25% swatch section of the full size banner is a great option that provides a real preview of your text, images, and/or logos at full-size prior to ordering the finished product.
A Full-size raw proof is your best bet if you’re producing multiple sets of the same image.
PDF soft proofs should only be used for content and FPO (for position only) placement of images, to guarantee that everything you thought was in your files is in fact present in our preview of your image.
h4. File Preparation Tips
Banners are an Inkjet medium and best color results come when keeping everything in CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow & Black) color mode. If you’re using a digital camera as an image source, remember that digital cameras work in a native RGB (Red, Green & Blue) color mode and should be converted to CMYK in your image processing software (e.g. Photoshop) and color-corrected prior to submitting your files for printing.
To guarantee that your original or scanned images look crisp and possess the desired clarity at your print’s final size, ensure that all bitmap images (scans, digital photos) are created at a resolution of at least 150 dpi at final size. For example, if your documents is set-up at 8” x 10” and your desired final print size is 16” x 20”, your images need to be approximately 600 dpi (CMYK) so that they will yield a 150 dpi image at 400% scale (4” x 8” x 10” = 16” x 20”).
Still have questions? Call and ask for Dan our large format expert.