Banner Sales Volume

[Fred Weiss]

How many banners of all types and sizes do you sell on average in one week?

[Salmoneye]

A lot less now that my city of 200,000 has banned them. They are only allowed hard mounted on the side of a building and require a $60 permit.

[kraigsnowden]

We dropped off BIG time in the last year. But, I'm not printing them for free either....

[Circleville Signs]

A decent amount of that is wholesale though :)

Gary

[Techman]

Locally I sell none.. The local printers are using them as printer cleaner jobs just to keep their heads from drying out.

Out of area I am selling a few.

[signgal]

in our area banners require a temporary permit and then you can only have them up for 30days out of the year and in some places you can't have them at all. They're getting harder to sell and we're just not the kind of people who will sell 'em and let the customer deal with the consequences. We have a construction company who hangs them on their job site and they're good for at least one a month but we're averaging 2/wk

[Merritt Graphics]

Feb. is always a banner month for us (no pun intended). The job attached requires 24 rolls a day to be printed to meet the deadline. Started Jan 15th job is due Feb 25.

[Steve C.]

I don't know what we are doing wrong. The guy who sews my banners also
makes them for the shop up the street from me. While we are doing less than
5 a week they are doing 15 to 20. I'm fairly sure it's not price.

[Gino]

Looks like a weekend's worth of work there, Mike......... :Big Laugh

We're all over with banners. We might go a week with only two or three, then have a week where we'll do 125 or so.

Silk screened, vinyl die-cut and digitally printed really adds up after a while. I put in 11-25 a week for an average count.

[Replicator]

Lucky to have 5 a month right now, but in the summer it's many . . . !

[Farmboy]

We do more for ourselves than anyone else right now. We have 3 hanging on the shop at all times. We change them out at least once every two weeks so they don't get stale.

[BROWNDOG]

down to less than 5, mostly for quick events, races, etc. lost alot to liquor companies a while back, and then the county started cracking down on them,
Just curious Fred why do you ask, is it the regulations, or are you just comparing your own numbers?
why do you think that municipalities are getting strict on banners while we are all on harder times?

[HaroldDesign]

Lots and lots of the pop-up banners lately. Nice margins on these things!

[CL Graphics]

dont do many here as the party store up the road will do 30" x 10' banners for $45. Thats right 10 FOOT for $45

[Fred Weiss]

down to less than 5, mostly for quick events, races, etc. lost alot to liquor companies a while back, and then the county started cracking down on them,
Just curious Fred why do you ask, is it the regulations, or are you just comparing your own numbers?
why do you think that municipalities are getting strict on banners while we are all on harder times?

It was a suggested topic for a poll by a shy member and seemed like a good one to me. As to governing authorities cracking down ... that happened a long time ago here. Mostly because people were abusing the laxer regulations and using banners in place of permanent signs that would require permits. Falls right in with a separate thread going right now regarding vehicle graphics. End users will often look for loopholes in the law to advertise on the cheap.

I think the majority of "crack downs" is a result of government catching up with practices they don't like. I'd put it in the same category as coroplast signs in the medians.

[SE SignSupply]

Feb. is always a banner month for us (no pun intended). The job attached requires 24 rolls a day to be printed to meet the deadline. Started Jan 15th job is due Feb 25.

I need to buy my banner stock from you! Are those 300' rolls?

[Merritt Graphics]

I need to buy my banner stock from you! Are those 300' rolls?

Actually they are 368 foot rolls. Starflex in Korea made these rolls for us . This particular Job is 540 rolls and required a non PVC banner that only Starflex could produce.

Starflex is the biggest banner MFG. in the world. They pretty much private label everyones banner stock (Ultraflex,Grimco, Arlon etc etc...)

[SE SignSupply]

Actually they are 368 foot rolls. Starflex in Korea made these rolls for us . This particular Job is 540 rolls and required a non PVC banner that only Starflex could produce.

Starflex is the biggest banner MFG. in the world. They pretty much private label everyones banner stock (Ultraflex,Grimco, Arlon etc etc...)

I will check them out, if it's not PVC what is it? Fabric?

[Merritt Graphics]

I will check them out, if it's not PVC what is it? Fabric?

Smooth PE. Just like scrim banner with NO pvc, phatletes, cadmium or any other heavy metals. True toxic free banner....

[kstompaint]

dont do many here as the party store up the road will do 30" x 10' banners for $45. Thats right 10 FOOT for $45
This is basically why our qty of banners is low. Nobody wants to pay for 'em and I won't do 'em for free.

[insignia]

Actually they are 368 foot rolls. Starflex in Korea made these rolls for us . This particular Job is 540 rolls and required a non PVC banner that only Starflex could produce.

Starflex is the biggest banner MFG. in the world. They pretty much private label everyones banner stock (Ultraflex,Grimco, Arlon etc etc...)

So am I doing my math right (assuming those are 48" rolls) that that's a 795k sq. ft. job? If so then well done sir!

[ova]

We're to a grinding halt here in Wheeling, WV. Seems like the whole Ohio Valley is at a stand still. We got blasted with 20 some inches of snow last week and we're getting 8 to 10 more today/tomorrow.

We do mostly for ball fields and other sporting events. A couple of years ago we did about 2200 of all sizes. Mostly cut vinyl layered. We only hae a 30" printer so it was easier and kept the employees busy.

If it wasn't for the awards side, we'd be in trouble right now.

[Merritt Graphics]

So am I doing my math right (assuming those are 48" rolls) that that's a 795k sq. ft. job? If so then well done sir!

Actually it is only 755k s/f. this is the 4th year we are doing this for this client.
Only curve ball is that in the past years we had 3 months to do this job. This year we have only 6 weeks.

Print, Trim and bulk pack for a shipping container. 16 skids of 1250 flat units each skid.

[insignia]

I'd reckon the salesperson who sold that job is having a good month this month...

[SE SignSupply]

Actually it is only 755k s/f. this is the 4th year we are doing this for this client.
Only curve ball is that in the past years we had 3 months to do this job. This year we have only 6 weeks.

Print, Trim and bulk pack for a shipping container. 16 skids of 1250 flat units each skid.

Thats some production there.

Is that a QS3200r? I know those are around 1000dpi but what is the drop size? How many sqft/hour?

[Merritt Graphics]

Thats some production there.

Is that a QS3200r? I know those are around 1000dpi but what is the drop size? How many sqft/hour?

We are running the QS3200r at 540dpi. 4 color fast= 1950 s/f hour.

The machine will run in either 540 or 1080 dpi. 4 color or 8 color.

This is the second year we have run on this machine. Past years we have done on our HP/Scitex Xljets.

[kraigsnowden]

I don't think we'd know rather to poop, or go blind if we walked into Mike's shop.

[gnatt66]

i'm pretty new but i only print like 1-4 a month so far. i'd love to do more and think that i will in my first summer with a storefront.

[CheapVehicleWrap]

What about grommets? LOL