Billboard printing
Before you start billboard printing, make sure that everything is properly dimensioned and check the fonts and colours. We recommend that you make a sample before printing a billboard. A technical or design error in large-format printing may cost you dearly! That is, to see the graphic design and prepress preparation in, real size.
Advertising visions in large-format printing are mainly on vinyl or paper.
When is vinyl printing performed?
When advertising on a pisa-type billboard or megaboard, vinil printing is applied. There is coated and laminated vinyl. The choice of vinyl to print depends on the season and on the period of the advertising campaign. In case of short-term advertising campaign, printing on laminated vinyl saves costs. We recommend printing on coated vinyl in the following cases: In case of longer-term advertising, when using the same vinyl repeatedly (e.g. several advertising campaigns during the year) or when advertising on billboards or megaboards on highways and roads outside the city, where weather conditions are severe.
When is paper printing performed?
When advertising on a scroller- or city light-type billboard (rockets, stops, cassettes). For these advertising formats, printing on special paper is used, according to the specific requirements for each outdoor advertising. In the scroller-type billboard, the paper canvases are connected to each other and rotate without interruption 24 hours, 7 days a week. Due to these technical features, printing on paper for outdoor advertising is our commitment.
What dimensions are required in pisa-type billboard printing?
Generally, we say that a pisa-type billboard is a billboard with dimensions 4 x 3 meters. But in fact, when it comes to advertising printing and designing the visions in the printing house, the individual dimensions of each facility should be taken into account. Advertising vinyls have the following dimensions: 4,05Х3,05 m; 4,02х3,07 m; 4,10х3,10 m, etc. When designing vinyl, you should take into account that there should be no important text or logo less than 25 cm from the edge of the image. Take this requirement into account when choosing a billboard or megaboard for rent..
How to prepare a file for large format printing
Files in *.tif or *.eps formats and colour according to CMYK colour model (RGB is a colour standard for screens, not for printing) are suitable for printing. If you provide us with a different file format, it is possible to lose or change colour settings, file elements, vector half-shades, fonts and many other parameters.
We can design and prepress your advertising vision for large format printing. .
What is a file ready for print in a large format printing house and what do you need to know?
☑ Before sending us a vector file, ALWAYS convert fonts to curves.
☑; If you send us a raster file, do not forget to flatten it (so as to have no layers).
☑ You may send us a file in .cdr format ONLY if you are unable to send files in .tif or .eps formats.
☑ For low resolution printing, suitable for applications with a size exceeding 2 sq. m. - prepare a raster file with a resolution within the range 30 dpi - 50 dpi to a scale 1:1.
☑ For high resolution printing, suitable for applications with a size of up to 2 sq. m.- prepare a raster file with a resolution within the range 120 dpi - 150 dpi to a scale 1:1.
☑ Resolutions higher than those specified above only make the files unnecessarily heavy without improving the print quality.
What finishing work is performed?
Finishing work makes it possible to hang the advertising vinyl.. At the four ends of the panel, pockets are sewn or flaps are made and eyelets are placed, and in case of scroll paper, zippers are placed. These small details turn your advertising vinyl into a finished advertising product. The finished files should be sent at least 5 working days before the beginning of the campaign, so as to ensure smooth start of your advertising campaign.
