Our printed band banners, backdrop banners, stage scrims and stage backdrops are custom-made and printed to any size to suit your requirements. Whether you are performing in a small pub or a big theatre, we have the solution. Our standard custom backdrops for bands are made from a tough, tight-weave knitted flame retardant polyester fabric and are printed in vibrant full colour.
Premium Fabric Backdrops
Premium fabric Band Banners, Backdrop Banners, Stage Scrims, Custom Banners for Bands and Stage Backdrops are made from our 210gsm Polyester. Our backdrops are printed using Dye Sublimation print technology. This means they won’t run or fade. Our custom backdrops are easily foldable and can be machine washed at low temperatures if required.
We produce our backdrop banners and stage scrims using the latest printing technology. Once printed each backdrop is then carefully stitched and finished to the highest standards. Standard finishing includes hem and eyelets. We only use specialist quality plastic eyelets in our backdrops which won’t rust and damage the backdrop.
We can also finish your custom backdrops for bands with pole pockets or a combination of pockets and eyelets.
GUIDE TO BUYING BAND BANNERS
Fit For Purpose Band Backdrops
Whilst cheaper Event Banners or PVC Banners can ruck and crease with constant use, our fabric band banners, backdrop banners, custom made backdrops and scrims roll up and fold crease free to be used again and again, always looking fantastic. Perfect for touring or gigging bands, or touring performances and theatre plays. Any creases or fold marks from extended storage can easily be ironed out on a low heat.
Band Backdrop Specification
- Tough 210gsm lightweight polyester fabric
- Flame retardant to B1 specification, certificate available for download
- Ideal for indoor or outdoor use
- Dye sublimation print for stunning reproduction
- Anti-glare and non-reflective finish
- Machine washable at 30 degrees
Any Design in Full Colour
We print from your artwork – this can be your band logo or other design including photographic or illustrated backgrounds. Thousands of high resolution backdrop themes and ideas are available from image banks such as the Adobe Stock Library for very little cost.
If you are unable to produce print-ready artwork, don’t worry – just email us with a design brief and we will lay out your custom backdrops for you.
Ideal for band banners, band scrims, stage backdrops, exhibition displays, theatre backdrops, podium backdrops and point of sale displays. We print these using dye-sublimation technology to provide eye-popping vibrant colours and photo-quality images. We print fabrics on rolls up to 3.2m wide to provide huge seamless panels. Larger banners on fabric are made from stitching panels together. Larger seamless banners can be printed on our UV machines at up to 5m wide on various materials.
High Quality Materials
Our standard 210gsm knitted polyester fabric has a tight weave, allowing us to print to an exceptionally high resolution. Even the smallest details will look superb.
Finishing Included
The banner is finished to your specification – included in the price – choose eyelets and/or pole pockets to suit. Many Band Banners and Stage Backdrops will have eyelets at the top for hanging, with a pole pocket at the bottom through which a weight would be slid in (broom handles, chain or metal pipe). Some are sized to fit across lighting rigs, with eyelets in each corner for easy fixing with bungee clips or cable ties. We also provide a Backdrop Stand.
Why Choose a Fabric Band Backdrop?
- Lightweight and easily transportable, just roll them and/or fold them up.
- Washable by hand – just wipe clean. Machine washable at 30 degrees.
- Flame-retardant (with Fire Certificate supplied) and non-reflective – so no glare from spotlights.
- Ideal for indoor or outdoor use.
- Recyclable and more environmentally friendly than vinyl PVC.
Backdrop Options
We can also make even cheaper band banners and stage scrims from standard PVC or Mesh banner material. Although these do save on initial cost, larger cheap band banners are more difficult to pack without creasing, take up more storage room and will not look as good for as long.
Need a Backdrop Banner Stand? Check out our new product here.
SPECIAL LINKS FOR BANDS
Design Guide for Band Backdrops
Set your dimensions correctly
Please set your artwork to the correct dimensions of your final printed band banner. We do not require any bleed on the artwork for a printed backdrop. If necessary, you can set your artwork to scale.
Set the correct CMYK colour settings
Please make sure that you set your colour settings to CMYK. Our backdrop banner printers use a full colour dye-sublimation printing process which works using cyan, magenta, yellow and black inks. Files that are sent to use using an RGB setup will be changed automatically. Sometimes this can make the colours on your printed backdrop seem weak & washed out. We will check for this before printing and contact you if required.
Position of eyelets on your Printed Band Banners
Please leave a clear area of approx 50mm inside the edge of the banner. Background colour / images are fine, just no important text elements, small print or logos as these can be obscured by the eyelets. Around our band banners we will add hem and eyelets unless otherwise stated. It is not advised to have just eyelets (without the hem) as this can cause the material to rip.
We space our eyelets approx every 500mm apart unless otherwise stated. Eyelets will be evenly spaced so eyelet spacing might vary slightly on different sizes of banners.
Pole Pockets on Band Banners
We can finish your band banners with pole pockets if required. Please make sure when ordering / setting of your artwork that your artwork / finished file size is set to the finished overall size of the banner including the pole pockets. Standard scaffold tubes require a 150mm flat pocket size to fit comfortably with plenty of space as to not cause to much tension on the pocket seam. Please ensure that you leave a clear area at the top and the bottom of the banners to allow for the pockets. To explain – if your banner is 2m height please set to 2m height and then make sure that no text, logos and important info enters the top 150mm or bottom 150mm of the design area. Solid colour/ background images or patterns are fine just not text or vital information. Check here for more information on
pole pockets and how to design for them.
Band Banner Design Principles
For band banner design it is always important to consider viewing distances. Always create your artwork to give the highest possible impact. Contrasting colours will give your banner much more clout than washed out subtle colours.
Also think about text sizes. The larger the text the more it will be viewed from a distance. Use upper and lower fonts. Look at road signs as they are all in upper and lower type rather than all capitals. Subconsciously your eyes will read upper and lower (sentence case). Font type…. Normally clearer fonts work better than stripy unreadable fonts. Look at the backdrops for the big performers – they often just display the band name.
Less is more, cramming every little bit of information onto your band backdrop banner probably isn’t a good idea. Remember to use clear areas of space and give your design space to breathe. The best backdrops are always simple and straight to the point. Remember your average viewer needs to read your message in 3 seconds or less.
DOWNLOAD:
artwork-guidelines.pdf
FILE FORMATS WE ACCEPT
PDF, Jpeg, PSD, eps (CS 6 or earlier) Ai, (CS 6 or earlier)
COLOURS
We only accept files converted to CMYK.
SCALE
We accept files at
Actual size or
1:2 scale (50% actual size)
1:5 scale (20% actual Size)
1:10 scale (10% actual size)
1:20 scale (5% actual size)
DPI
The ideal DPI is 125dpi if possible. At 125dpi this can make very large graphics huge in memory size, so on larger graphics i.e. 5m x 2.5m you can go down as low as 50dpi. As a rule the larger the graphic the greater the viewing distance hence the lower the dpi can be.
Small / medium sized graphics 125 PPI (DPI)
Large sized graphics 50-100PPI (DPI)
FONTS / TYPE
Please make sure that all text is created to outlines / curves before uploading. Even on PDF files make sure you create outlines before saving.
BLEED
No Thanks, No bleed is required on your artwork.
CLEAR AREA
Please leave a clear area of 50mm to allow for eyelets. (Please ensure that all text / logos / critical information is more than 50mm from the edge of your artwork) Background colours and images are fine going into the clear areas.
POLE POCKETS
When ordering make sure you select the finished overall size of your banner including the pockets. So if you select a 1m wide x 2m height, then we will manufacture the banner to a total the height of 2m including the pockets.
(clear areas on pole pockets)
Please make sure that you leave a clear area for your pockets. The term ‘clear area’ means no items of text or logos to run into these areas. Background colours or hackgrtoudn images are fine, just no readable text or logos. So if you are ordering a 1m wide x2m height banner with pole pockets top and bottom, then please keep the bottom 150mm free and the top 150mm free from text and logos. This will make the overall visual area 1m wide x 1.7m height.
Double sided banners
We have special software which flips certain parts of your banners so as to create a seamless pocket on the opposite side. When ordering a double sided banner please just follow the above steps, as the file(s) will need to be set up in the same way. If you require a different image on each side of your double sided banner not a problem, just upload x2 files stating that you require a different image on each side.
COLOUR MATCHING
We can match pantones if required at an additional charge (please contact us before proceeding) as this is costed per job. We cannot guarantee an exact match on colours due to limitations of the CMYK print process but will try to achieve as close as physically possible.
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DURAN (verified owner) –
Great Customer service, assisted us with the order process and banner delivered quickly, really happy with the quality of material, finishing and printing, will definitely use again.
Lindsay Newman-Wood (verified owner) –
Ordered a banner for my son’s band. Great experience. John made us aware that our image was not good enough quality so we had a chance to re-do it. It was delivered today and the boys are made up! Great quality and image.
Lindsey Newman-Wood (verified owner) –
Made Up
Ordered a banner for my son’s band. Great experience. John made us aware that our image was not good enough quality so we had a chance to re-do it. It was delivered today and the boys are made up! Great quality and image.
Nancy Doll (verified owner) –
Thanks so much. An amazing backdrop at an unbelievable price! Really added to the atmosphere of our last gig.
The Novatones (verified owner) –
The Novatones new stage backdrop is awesome, a brilliant job and the fans were all talking about it after our first gig with it at Talking Heads Southampton.
CGain Marketing (verified owner) –
Superb Product
These are the best made and the best finished band banners available. Really professional looking.