Craig Keller
New Member
Can you buy already sewn and grommet banners blank to add vinyl lettering to? Also on printed banners after you print them how and what do you sew then with?
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Banner questions
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Boudica
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Sure! Why not. Just order a banner with a white box as your artwork.
We don't have a sewing set up. So when we finish our inhouse printed banners, we use banner tape to hem. And we have a grommet setter for the grommets.
Yes, have made odd blank "signs and banners" before. Printed or not, it costs the same.
We don't have a sewing set up. So when we finish our inhouse printed banners, we use banner tape to hem. And we have a grommet setter for the grommets.
Yes, have made odd blank "signs and banners" before. Printed or not, it costs the same.
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I am kind of surprised. You have a flatbed printer, but not a sewing mschine?
I always assume everyone has the different finishing options for banners.
SignMeUpGraphics
Super Active Member
We have a flatbed and no sewing machine. We do have a hem welder though. I'd hate to know how poorly I'd finish a banner with a sewing machine 
pjfmeister
New Member
Sewing Specialties sells great prefinished to spec banners - 314.781.7570
Or prefinished rolls of banner material
Or prefinished rolls of banner material
Boudica
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Nope, just banner tape
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
why would someone necessarily have a flat bed and not necessarily a sewing machine? there are so many things to print on a flatbed that have nothing to do with banners.
Salmonboy97
New Member
When I was first starting out, I used to buy a roll of banner material that was already finished top and bottom with sewn hemms and grommets. You simply cut it to length, hemmed the ends with hemm tape and punched grommets in the corners, and it was finished!
I dont remember where I bought that roll from, but if you ask your banner supplier company they should be able to send you in the right direction!
I dont remember where I bought that roll from, but if you ask your banner supplier company they should be able to send you in the right direction!
Gino
Premium Subscriber
I kinda thought the same thing. I can't remember the last banner we did on the flatbed. Even being a hybrid, we still do 90% of our banners on our roll to roll printer. The rest are vinyl applique. If we need sewn and nylon webbing, we send it out. Banners are temporary, so we make them that way.
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
Seriously, banners are the EASIEST things to make and the EASIEST things to make money at. I actually have a google page just for banners. I buy 13 oz banner material, throw it in my printer and print away. I get them out, tape them on top and bottom with banner tape and punch grommets in them. The key is in the setup. (hence set up fees).
if you can't fold a banner and tape it, ya got problems.
if you can't fold a banner and tape it, ya got problems.
Boudica
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You don't hem all sides?
Geneva Olson
Expert Storyteller
not even on purpose.
kcollinsdesign
Old member
The vinyl graphics will cost more than just getting a finished banner from a wholesale printer, and that is before you add the cost of the banner material and finishing costs. Plus, you can drop ship the banner and save the customer the cost of driving across town and picking it up!
Stacey K
I like making signs
I've ordered several banners from here and applied graphics...not much the last couple years but sometimes someone insists on a sewn banner. You would need a heavy duty sewing machine which is a bit pricey, not a cheapie from Walmart. I have a real nice one at home that can sew through several layers of blue jean fabric but I never tried it on a banner but I always wanted to. Just buy a blank, it's much easier.
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