Using mesh banners for your business advertising or event promotion can do wonders to gain traffic, interest, and earnings in your pocket. They can be produced small to very large, and are the ideal type of banners to be used outdoors. How about we get into:
- Their durability
- How to customize your text and graphics
- The many other benefits custom banners will deliver for you.
Benefits of Using Mesh Banners:
Let’s not waste any time in introducing you to the benefits of these babies. Durability is probably the number one reason business owners and event planners are attracted to this type of fabric banner.
The durability factor of a mesh banner is directly tied to the banner material. Unlike a standard vinyl banner, it’s perforated throughout its entire surface area. What that means is that it is comprised of tiny holes. The result is that it takes on the characteristic of a screen door, allowing wind to pass through easily. In our industry, mesh banner material is often talked about being 70/30. That ratio simply lets one know that the makeup of a vinyl mesh banner is 30% tiny holes, allowing for wind to get through 30% of it.
A standard vinyl banner one could rip, flap loudly in gusty conditions, or even get detached from where it hangs. To help avoid these issues, this type of banner would require wind slits to be applied. That won’t happen with a mesh banner unless windy conditions are extreme.
Additionally, rain or light-to-medium snowfalls have no effect on their ability to be used outside. They’re also scratch and fade resistant, so unless the sun is brutally pounding down on them, they’re durability remains intact. They are also fire retardant, meeting standard NFPA 701 guidelines, which lets you know that the National Fire Protection Association tests them against flammability. Because they’re tenacious against all these elements, mesh banners are the ideal signage for outside usage. You can leave a mesh banner displayed outdoors continuously, and it will still give you 1-2 years of messaging.
Mesh Banner Printing:
We print your mesh banner digitally using a high-end Mimaki UJV 55-320 machine. A liner is attached to the back before printing to prevent ink from falling through the perforations. Once printed, the liner is removed, leaving you with a high-quality banner.
We use only the highest quality OEM produced Mimaki UV ink for printing. Just so you know, OEM inks last longer than others do.
Customizing Mesh Banners:
You’re starting to understand what a promotional banner can do for your business or big event. But you hesitate for a moment and ask yourself, “Will the banner be generic, or can I tailor it to my needs?” Have no worries. Of course you can customize it.
There are a few different ways to go about customizing your banner to deliver the exact message you want and attract as many customers as possible. It’s important to know that the message and imagery need to be on point to accomplish your goals. Here are four avenues you can think about in determining how you want to design your new mesh advertisement:
1. Work with our design team
2. Use our design templates
3. Create from scratch with our design tool
4. Customize with your own software
Work with Our Design Team:
Our design team is extremely talented and dedicated at listening to what you say and turn it into precisely what you’re looking to achieve. They will take your artwork and enhance it if that’s you want. They can easily get a couple of design notes from you and deliver a product that will dazzle you. You can reach our team of professional designers by calling (800) 614-8040. You’ll be happy you did.
Use Our Design Templates:
If you have an idea as to what you want your new mesh banner to look like, but aren’t sure exactly how to create it, head to our website. Go to the mesh banner product page, then click on the design tool. Once you’re there, you’ll have the option to click on “Templates.” Pick one out, or play around with as many as you want, and edit to your heart’s content. When you finish, simply “Add to Cart.” When you do that, your template artwork will be in our system as part of your order. The templates are very user-friendly and kind of fun to create the design for your new custom banner.
Create from Scratch with Our Design Tool:
There’s another route you can take on our website. If you want to create your design “from scratch,” navigate our website like you would when using our design templates. But instead of going to where the templates are, stay on where the design tool portion lives. Here, we don’t lay out template choices for you. This is where you become the sole architect for your artwork. Using our design tool ramps up your choice to be ultra-creative.
Customize with Your Own Software:
If you have the option to design on your computer, that will work just as well. If you can edit on your own, and you decide you want to create your artwork, simply upload a high-resolution version of your custom text and graphics when placing your order and “Add to Cart.”
At that time, we’ll email you a proof to approve so we ensure everything is just the way you want it. Then, in just a single business day, we’ll have your banner printed and ready for you to pick up or us to ship to you.
Sizes of Mesh Banners:
Banner signage can range from very small to extremely large, depending on your message and where you desire to place it. Ours start as small as 2’H x 4’W. How big can we go? We can customize one for you that’s as long as half an entire football field.
Let’s put that into perspective. New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is pro football’s all-time leader with over 80,000 career passing yards. But, he can’t heave a football more than about 45 yards. That means the future hall-of-famer can’t throw a football from one end of our huge banner to the other!
A banner that can get as big as 10’ x 150’ would seem impossible to lug around, much less hang from your store’s roof, right? We have some good news for you. A banner with those dimensions only weighs about 95 pounds.
How to Display a Mesh Banner:
For the display of your mesh message, we provide grommets, free of charge, so you can effectively hang it in several places. In the simplest of explanations, a grommet is a sturdy aluminum ring that we will punch into your custom banner.
As you can see, a grommet allows for various things like rope to hang your product without putting any strain on the mesh material. You can also use other items that the grommets are suited for. Among them:
- Ropes
- Bungee cords
- Wires
- Hooks
- Nails
Ropes, bungee cords, wires, and hooks can be threaded through the grommet ideally for outdoor hanging. These items can affix to things like poles, trees, and railings.
As for hooks, they can be doubly effective. They can be used to secure your banner through the grommets. What you also utilize hooks for is to act as anchors for ropes. What makes this great is if you want to display your mesh banner from locations that are impractical to tie a rope to.
Nails can be hammered through the middle of your grommet for indoor hanging or for short periods of time to other things like trees and such. The same goes for nails as it does with hooks. They can also be an anchor points for ropes and wires.
Command Strips are another way to display a mesh vinyl banner without the need for grommets. Command Strips are made up of Velcro on one side (the side that will attach to the back of your banner), and a synthetic rubber resin on the other. Command Strips will be useful if you want to put your banner on a wall, either indoors or outdoors. Because this material is pretty strong, it can go on painted, stained, or varnished wood, as well as on glass, tile, painted cinder block, plaster, metal, and painted wallboard.
Where to use a mesh banner:
So, where should I use my brand new mesh banner…or where could I? That’s a pretty standard and necessary thought process you will want to have.
The destinations for your new message are plentiful. You’ve probably seen more of these mesh banners than you realize. They typically reside in many places, such as:
- Chain link fences
- Construction sites
- Against office walls and windows
- Parks
- Churches
- Retail stores
- Sports stadiums
- Birthday parties
Chain link fences are good because of the ability a banner’s perforations can deal with wind that will inevitably come at it.
Construction sites generally erect large banners to let passersby know what the finished product will be, and large mesh banners can be had.
Building walls work well because a large mesh banner can truly spread its brand to drivers even far away. As far as them on them on windows, mesh is a terrific alternative to window perf. Mesh is less permanent and doesn’t block the exterior light from coming through windows.
Parks are great to display messaging like little league registration and other upcoming events. Also, with the many trees a park usually possesses, finding a place to hang an outdoor mesh banner will be no problem.
Church locations are quintessential to promote bake sales or clothing donations. What it could lead to is not just results for those events, but more members of the congregation.
Retail stores can flourish with banner signage that promotes sales events and the like. A pretty common size of mesh banner for this location costs only $65. That cost can easily be made up in sales in a couple hours.
Sports stadiums will often display mammoth-sized banners of their star players against an outside wall. They’re so large, it gives off a feel that the player is bigger than life, and a Pavlov’s dog effect unfolds as fans begin to get extra pumped up before they even get in their seats.
Birthday parties are fantastic places to employ a banner, inside or outside.
There are so many venues to hold a birthday party, that a mesh banner can be the perfect scene setter or backdrop. It also shows the birthday boy or girl that you went and did something extra for them.
Where to avoid displaying a mesh banner:
This is a bit tricky. Unless you live in a place that has constantly intense winds or blizzards, we can sit here and hypothesize for a while. Examples could range from things like: Don’t buy a 2×4 banner and nail it to a wall that’s so far out of range that your customers couldn’t see it. Don’t hang it on the exterior of your store where it can’t be seen by passersby because it’s behind profusely thick shrubbery. Don’t place it in a park pavilion in a direction party guests can’t see it. And so on. You get the point.
The better question here would be, “When should I avoid displaying a mesh banner?” The answer to that is if you really need finely printed and detailed graphics. Because, as mentioned earlier about the 70/30 ratio, text and imagery are a little “muted” on mesh material. Graphics on mesh aren’t quite as crisp and bold as they are on a vinyl banner that doesn’t have tiny holes on 30% of its surface area.
Ordering Your Custom Mesh Banner:
Ready to place your order? It’s simple! Use our design templates and tools on the website, add your banner to the cart, and proceed to our secure payment page. Prefer a personal touch? Call us at 800-614-8040 or (813) 447-4770, and our team will guide you through the process, making it smooth and efficient. Just provide your text, graphics, or design notes, and we’ll handle the rest!
Mesh Banner Completion Time: Our custom mesh banners are produced as quickly as anyone in the industry. Orders under a total of 200 square feet are guaranteed to be produced within 1 day. For example, 3 banners, that are each, say, 4’ x 8’ would give you this equation. 4 x 8 x 3 = 96 square feet. If you place your order on a Monday before the designated cut-off time (typically 3pm EST), they will ship for free via UPS Ground Service on Tuesday. Simple, fast, and free on orders over $59.
Our print shop is located in Tampa, so if you want to pick it up, it will be ready and waiting for you a day after you order. If you’re not local to us, and your order needs to be shipped, it will go out that next day, as well.
In Closing:
Well, there it is. That’s the skinny on mesh banners. Made to handle the wind, you can promote your biz in a breeze with our mesh banner printing. If you need a big, bold custom banner that can withstand harsh outdoor elements or can be made much larger and weigh less than others, then mesh is the way to go. Any questions that you still may have, reach out to us. Our friendly and fantastic customer service team is ready for you at the word go.
