blockgear

Hello all, I get all my answers here, I am currently looking to design a vinyl banner for my t shirt company. I will have to outsource, It will most likely be a 6 ft. vinyl banner. I have the adobe Master Collection to use, I am just curious if my canvas size needs to be the size of the actual banner I want to use. Or if you could recommend a size and dpi. I just wanted to know before I design it and if they have to enlarge it will there be any distortion. Any and all recommendations will be helpful, thank you in advance I love this forum.

 

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Sports4Less

I generally design my banners half the size that they will be printed on. It keeps it from being too large and it is very easy to just double the number when you print.

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texasmoma

if your artwork is SPOT COLOR, do it in illustrator, actual size, dpi does not matter (assuming that the letters/images will be cut vinyl or direct-print)


if your artwork is full colour/photo/has halftones, do it photoshop....and...
if you design it at actual size (100%)...dpi = 150..or
if you design it at half the actual size (50%)....dpi = 300..or
if you design it at quarter the actual size (25%)....dpi = 600
(assuming that the banner will be direct printed on a wide format printer (ink))

if you are going to choose 100% canvass... then there will be no distortion issue.
but if you decide to choose 50% canvass or 25% canvass, just watch out how you are going to proportionally reduce your dimensions (50% height x 50% width..........25% height x 25% width) so that when the the printer loads it back to actual dimension, there'll be no distortion.

 

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jtannerc

Thank you for posting some accurate info. I work at sign and banner place and was gonna explain as well, but that is great.
Just remember that the smaller you design the banner, the more it has to be enlarged and the more of a chance you run on pixellation of the print. But if the peoples eyes are 5-6 feet away then it almost doesnt matter.

 

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sonambulo

just make your designs vector images to save yourself any scaling issue.

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