Custom Banners

Custom-printed banners from SpeedPro will stretch the possibilities of your event or business.

Our high-visibility, versatile graphics go beyond conventional signs. Bright and bold banners scale-up display logos, information, images, advertising and more. Businesses can use banners in many ways to advertise their business and display important information. Banners elevate and engage at trade shows, help corporate events stay on-brand and enliven public or private gatherings — all through top-quality, made-to-order banner prints.

Create your custom banner with the experts at SpeedPro. We fabricate and print our vinyl banner displays to your exact specifications, customizing our work to fit your display needs.

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Why Buy Custom Banners for My Business?

Types of Banners

How Do You Create Custom Banners?

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What Are Vinyl Custom Banners?

Vinyl is a synthetic material commonly used as the base substrate for various print jobs. When businesses and event coordinators need eye-catching displays, they choose banners — and, therefore, vinyl — as their medium. Vinyl supports a range of customizable print detailing that can bring your vision to life yet is strong enough to last where other signs don’t.

Why Buy Custom Banners?

Level up your displays — literally and figuratively — with hanging, standing, or mounted banners. Here are some reasons to employ these handy and versatile tools.

1. Banners Increase Visibility

Custom banners are some of the first things people notice when they stroll down a street, step foot in your business, walk up to your trade show booth or enter a conference hall. By creating custom banner displays, you maximize exposure through strategically placed presentations that put your stamp on your space. Greater visual exposure reaps greater business rewards.

• Banners hung or placed in memorable vantage points help establish brand recall or the likelihood that your name stays at the top of the mind in marketing campaigns and advertisements.
• Higher brand recall means a higher chance of lead conversion. Targeted prospects see your custom banners and more intuitively associate your name with the products and services they need in your industry.
• At industry trade shows or other public events, custom banners are square one in curating a branded environment that draws foot traffic. At private functions, few other displays set the tone of the space to make it as memorable.
• Custom banners for your company enhance the professionalism and aesthetics of your business or event. Banners from SpeedPro will set your function apart.

2. A Wide Variety

Vinyl banners are inherently customizable. You can change and modify nearly every design feature to your specifications, making the simple stand out and the stand-out sublime. The available customizable banner features include:

• Shape: Select from rectangular, square, cylinder, and shield shapes for standing and hanging banners.
• Size: SpeedPro routinely prints banners in various impressive sizes. We can often alter dimensions based on your specified display type.
• Colors: SpeedPro can use the full-color spectrum, achieving mild and true solvent inks depending on your base substrate and a few other design details. Banner colors are bright, bold, and professionally hued, never appearing over or undersaturated.
• Laminate: Banner laminates protect the banner, adding a unique visual finish. Laminates can range from matte to high-gloss sheens specified for indoor or outdoor environments.
• Stand: Banners traditionally come in three forms — grommet hanging, pole mounted or inserted into a custom banner stand. You pick the display mode, and we fabricate the necessary design features to achieve it.
• Design: Many SpeedPro studios have in-house designers who can assist you in the initial customization process. Likewise, our online banner order process makes uploading a pre-existing design file straight to your local studio effortless.

3. Color-Matching Technology For On-Brand Aesthetics

SpeedPro prints banner orders using only fade-resistant, full-color inks. Depending on your substrate base and personal preference, you can select from eco-solvent, traditional solvent, or UV ink formulas. Each option creates high-resolution images in customizable shades and hues.

SpeedPro also employs color-matching technology with all its orders. Color perception differs from person to person and device to device, so the design process must carefully consider coloring. At SpeedPro, we color-match all our custom banners to ensure the colors you want appear on the final product. Our clients can be confident that their custom banners will match their pre-existing color schemes or brand tones to the last ink drop. We make it easy for you to customize your banner.

Using this technology, our clients can rest assured that their custom banners will match their pre-existing color schemes or brand tones down to the last ink drop. This strategy removes the anxiety and guesswork from designing a business banner “from scratch” that must match pre-existing color aesthetics. With our color-matching technology, we make customizing your banner to your business as simple as possible.

4. For Adaptability

Custom banners are a canvas suited for dozens of public and private environments. Creating custom banners is appropriate and ideal wherever eye-catching, energizing displays are needed. SpeedPro regularly designs and prints custom banners for:

• Events
• Trade show displays
• Indoor and outdoor advertisements
• Store or venue grand openings
• Product or service launches
• Special promotions
• Seasonal sales
• Welcome signs
• Awards
• Celebrations and parties
• Holidays gatherings

5. Durable Banners

Custom banners provide a strong and long-lasting way to display key business messages and make big announcements. Their base vinyl creates an incredibly durable product—plus, it can come with a laminate finish for added wearability, fade resistance, and waterproofing. When displayed properly, both indoor and outdoor banners can last for years.

SpeedPro offers other features for sustainability:

• Reinforced grommet rings: Ensuring hanging banners’ grommet holes stay intact
• Reinforced corners: For keeping canvas custom banners’ seams and most-stretched areas tear-resistant
• Pole pockets: To neatly tuck aluminum poles into without rips or tears

6. Aesthetics

In addition to functional and marketing purposes, our custom banners can add aesthetic elements to your business. Beautiful banners can enhance your company’s overall design goals, producing your desired aura. Aesthetic uses of custom banners include:

• Museums and galleries may display banners showcasing some of the beautiful artwork.
• Restaurants can highlight their menu with artfully plated banners of their best dishes.
• Paint stores can use a high-quality, colorful custom banner to showcase their vibrant colors.
• Any business can use banners to showcase murals and artwork that enhance their company image and provide appealing decor.

The possibilities for custom banners reach as far as your imagination. Whether you want a functional banner to advertise or inform, or you’d like to use banners in your space to display photographs and artwork, SpeedPro has the customizing capacities to make your ideas a reality.

Types of Banners

In addition to their design flexibility, businesses can display their large-scale custom banners in several ways.

1. Hung Vinyl Banners

Hanging banners are a classic high-impact way to draw eyes and garner attention to your unique display.

Banners are hung by grommets or incremental holes cut into the vinyl that allow rope, string, or similar materials to thread through, hold and hoist the banner into its final aerial position.

For an even more secure hanging method, use ball bungees. Ball bungees loop through and tighten around reinforced grommet holes, fully securing a banner to signs, poles, frames, and more.

2. Banner Stands and Pole Pocket Banners

Another popular custom business banner type is the standing banner.

Standing banners are mainstays at conferences, trade show kiosks, and special event displays. They have informational and aesthetic potential and can accentuate the area they’re placed in. They can act as welcome signs posted at doorways, relay directions, advertise products or service deals, and still highlight a logo—a true display home run.

You can hang pocket banners or leave them in standalone form. This banner type is categorized by aluminum, steel, or similar metal “arms” inserted into specially designed folds around the banner’s edge. Once inserted, the banner has the structure and ideal amount of stretch it needs to stand vertically.

3. Boulevard Street Banners

Boulevard or street banners are custom displays on streetlamps and posts outfitted with pole pockets. They add elegance and professionalism and are a unique display many cities and neighborhoods adopt to curate a more charming atmosphere.

Mounted street banners are a great way to hang logos, display a corporate mission statement, or showcase high-resolution pictures representing your institution.

4. Mesh/Perforated Film Banner

SpeedPro prints mesh banners on specific, perforated substrates that allow for translucency. Unlike the other vinyl bases, perforated mesh banners let light pass through. They can also offer two-way visibility, not obstructing lines of sight for passersby on either side of the banner. This design makes custom mesh banners ideal for window and fence visual displays.

5. Custom Step and Repeat Signs

Step and repeat banners go in areas where people can take photographs in front of a fixed banner backdrop. People “step up” to have their picture snapped in front of the printed banner, which is large-format and adorned with specialty graphics, images, and other visual prints.

The branding and engagement opportunities of step and repeat banners are vast:

• Businesses looking to spread their brand may order a step-and-repeat banner sprinkled with their logo for guests to snap a picture in front of, then invite them to share those photos on social media with a matching hashtag.
• Businesses hosting or attending corporate events and industry functions might order a step and repeat banner as a creative publicity tactic.
• Private parties or gatherings may have a step-and-repeat banner to offer a fun event experience, similar to photo booths.

These examples are just a handful of the custom banner options that SpeedPro studios produce.

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Step-by-Step Order Process

SpeedPro employs an easy step-by-step ordering process for you to design, review, and finalize your custom banners online

Whether for a business gathering, a party, a public event, or a private, invite-only celebration, custom banners and signs set the stage in a way few graphics can. We make our ordering process quick and convenient with these three phases:

1. Image Selection

Next, review your newly created image to ensure it meets our guiding file criteria:

Like most large-format prints, the higher the resolution of your base images and text, the better the final printed banner.

If you need assistance with your banner design, some SpeedPro studios offer complete graphic design services to help you create a compelling and memorable banner. A team of visual communication professionals with experience on all types of projects can help you create a design from scratch or update an existing one to be more effective.

2. Image File Preparation

Next, review your newly created image to ensure it meets our guiding file criteria:

• Submit files in .tif or .eps form: Files in these formats are the easiest for our digital-print system to convert. While we do accept .ai, .psd., .pdf and .jpg along with .tif and .eps, these images are harder for our system to “read,” meaning it’s harder to produce top-quality images. Also, note that we cannot edit .pdf and .jpg files.
• Submit images in CMYK (Cyan, Yellow, Magenta and Black) mode if possible: These modes are the easiest for our system as well.
• Submit images in vector art mode, then raster art mode if possible: Vector images and text can be scaled to nearly any size on their own since they aren’t made up of the thousands of micro-dots that raster art is. However, image-centric banners are more commonly made from raster input since raster allows for more coloration and resolution detailing.
• Create images to scale if possible: Otherwise, designate your file as a 1/2 or 1/4 scale of output size image.
• Provide Windows-compatible files: Again, this makes digital-to-printer outputs smoother and easier, resulting in a better final banner.

3. Order Review

Once you have prepared your images, you can review your print request. Ensure your file is the right size, is Windows compatible, and all guidelines are followed.

• Is your image file large enough? In general, the larger the original image you include in your online order form, the more SpeedPro can play with sizes and scales without sacrificing image clarity. You can purchase royalty-free images from various websites, but be sure to check with your SpeedPro professionals before purchasing to ensure they can enlarge the image.
• Is your image Windows-compatible? Double-check for a quicker order turnaround.
• Did I follow the official SpeedPro guidelines under “File and Image Preparation” outlined in our resource center? This section explains in greater detail how to prepare your files for printing.

Don’t hesitate to reach out with questions during your image and file preparation process. Not everyone is a graphic designer or digital artist — and you don’t have to be. Your local SpeedPro studio is glad to work with you to make your vinyl banner design process as smooth and seamless as possible so that you ultimately receive the best possible product.

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It’s your business. Your party. Your event. Your celebration. Create custom banners that highlight these moments.

SpeedPro is a national network of full-service, large-format print experts specializing in impact visual communications. That means we print the highest-quality, highest-resolution, longest-lasting vinyl custom banners sourced from the industry’s best materials. That’s our promise to you. Let us prove it.

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