Free design proof on every custom order: no templates, no stock SKUs
Custom banners are made to whatever size, shape and finish your space actually calls for. A narrow strip for a storefront awning, an oversized backdrop for a trade-show booth, or a banner cut to fit a specific fence line or stage. Each one is printed in full color on heavy-duty vinyl and finished with hemmed edges, so the size on the order matches the size you get rather than a rounded-up stock dimension. Choose grommet spacing, pole pockets or wind slits based on how and where it will actually be hung.
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A custom banner starts from a blank canvas rather than a fixed template. The finished size, orientation and shape are set by whatever space it needs to fill, not by a handful of pre-set options. Most are printed on 13oz scrim vinyl, a middle-weight material that handles both short outdoor runs and long-term indoor use without adding unnecessary cost. For a banner that will stay up through a full season of wind and weather, or one hung somewhere it will take a beating from handling and foot traffic, an 18oz heavy-duty vinyl holds up longer and resists tearing at the grommet holes.
Finishing is where a banner goes from a printed sheet to something that actually hangs the way you need it to. Hemmed edges keep the material from fraying at the cut line and give grommets something solid to sit in. Grommet spacing should follow how the banner will be mounted. Roughly every two feet along the top edge for a fence or wall, or grommets on all four sides if it needs to be pulled taut in multiple directions. A pole pocket, a folded-over sleeve at the top and sometimes the bottom, works better for a banner that slides onto a stand or hangs between two posts, since it spreads tension across the full width instead of concentrating it at a handful of grommet points. Wind slits, small cut vents through the material, relieve pressure on a banner that will be exposed to open air for an extended stretch.
Because a custom banner can be built to any size, it shows up almost everywhere a business needs a temporary or semi-permanent message: a grand-opening or sale announcement stretched across a storefront, a backdrop behind a trade-show booth, a sponsor banner along a sports field fence, a banner for a real estate open house, or directional and safety signage on a construction site. The common thread across all of them is a message that needs to be read from a distance and needs to go up and come down without a permanent installation.
A few decisions are worth settling before ordering: how far away the banner will typically be viewed from, since that determines how large the text and key visual need to be to stay legible; whether it is going up outdoors for weeks at a time or just for a single indoor event, which affects the material weight worth choosing; and how it will actually be mounted, so the right combination of grommets, pockets or hardware gets built into the finishing rather than added after the fact.
Banner material is chosen against wind and location before anything else. Scrim vinyl is a heavy PVC with a woven polyester grid laminated inside it. The grid is what stops a tear spreading across the whole banner once one starts. Mesh perforates that material so air passes through. Adhesive-backed material has no hanging hardware at all and mounts flat to a surface.
Why does scrim matter? The internal grid stops a small tear becoming a long one. It is the difference between a banner that survives a gust and one that splits end to end.
Banners are read from further away than any other printed piece, and that governs the design far more than resolution does. Type sized for a poster disappears at thirty feet. The useful discipline is to decide the reading distance first, size the largest element to be legible at it, and accept that everything else is secondary. A banner carrying three lines of small text is a banner nobody reads.
How much text can a banner carry? One message and one identifier, in practice. Anything more is being read by people already standing still, and they are not who a banner is for.
Every edge is finished, because a raw cut edge on a hanging banner is where failure begins. A hem folds the material back on itself and welds it, doubling the thickness where the stress concentrates. Reinforcement webbing adds a woven strip inside the hem for large or exposed banners. Adhesive and indoor banners often need no hem at all, since nothing is pulling on them.
Do I need hemmed edges? Outdoors, always. The hem is what stops wind working into an edge and progressively tearing the banner apart.
How it attaches decides how long it survives. Grommets (metal rings punched through the hem) are the standard, spaced closer on larger banners so load is shared rather than concentrated. Pole pockets are sewn channels for a rod at top and bottom, which suits hanging banners that must stay flat. Adhesive backing removes hardware entirely for flat surfaces.
How far apart should grommets be? Closer than most people assume on anything large or exposed. Too few grommets concentrates the whole wind load onto two or three points.
For spaces that do not match a catalogue size. A narrow strip along a storefront awning, an oversized run across a building face, a shape that has to work around windows or fittings. Material, hem, grommet spacing and mounting are all specified against the actual location rather than assumed, which matters more on banners than almost anywhere else because the failure mode is physical.
What do you need to know? The dimensions, what it fixes to, and whether it is exposed to wind. Those three answers determine material, hem and grommet spacing.
Tell us where it hangs before choosing a material. Wind exposure decides this list far more than appearance does.
The edge folded back and heat-welded, doubling material thickness where stress concentrates. On any outdoor banner this is structural rather than cosmetic. An unhemmed edge is where wind starts working the banner apart.
Metal rings punched through the hem for rope or ties. Spacing matters more than count: on large or exposed banners they go closer together so load is shared rather than concentrated on a few points.
Sewn or welded channels along the top and bottom for a rod or pole. They keep a hanging banner flat and are the usual choice where it hangs free rather than being tied to a fence.
Webbing sewn inside the hem for large banners, and an opaque blockout core where both sides are printed and neither should show through the other.
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| Banner | From | Material | Order it when |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl Banners | $75 | Solid scrim, hemmed and grommeted | The standard outdoor banner |
| Mesh Banners | $135 | Perforated, wind passes through | Fences, scaffolding and exposed sites |
| Sticky Banners | $150 | Adhesive backed, no hardware | Glass, walls and stage fronts |
| Custom Banners | $150 | Your size, material and mounting | The space does not fit a standard |
The finished dimensions, what it fixes to, and whether it is exposed to wind. Those three answers determine material, hem type and grommet spacing, which between them determine both the price and whether the banner survives.
Yes. Awning strips, fence runs and building-face banners are common custom sizes. Very large banners are panelled with a deliberate overlap rather than printed as one piece, and the joins are planned against the mounting points.
Yes, with a cut-out or a panelled layout. Send photographs and measurements of the actual site. This is one job where a site photo is worth considerably more than a description.
Pole pockets if it hangs free and must stay flat and taut. Grommets if it ties to a fence, a frame or a wall. Tell us how it is being hung and we will finish it accordingly.
Pricing for custom banners starts at $150 and moves with quantity, size, material and finish rather than sitting on a fixed list. Setup is shared across the run, so the per-unit price drops steeply as the quantity rises: the gap between a few hundred and a few thousand is usually the significant one. Send the size, quantity and what it has to do and you get a firm figure back, not a range.
There is a practical minimum rather than a hard one. Every run carries artwork checks, a proof and a press setup, so a very small quantity of custom banners prices poorly per unit even though we will still make it. If you are ordering a small batch, ask for pricing at two or three quantities at once: the curve usually shows that a modest increase costs very little more in total.
The clock starts when you approve the proof, not when the order is placed, which is the part most people are surprised by. You get a proof first: a digital proof with the hem allowance and grommet positions marked, so you can see how much artwork sits inside the hem fold. Content placed too close to the edge disappears into the hem, and this is where that is caught. Turnaround after approval depends on the finish: anything laminated, foiled or die-cut adds a stage that cannot be compressed without causing problems later. Tell us the date you actually need them and we will work backwards from it rather than quoting a generic lead time.
Print-ready artwork with bleed and a safe margin, supplied as a PDF, AI or EPS. Photographic elements should be supplied at the resolution the finished size needs, not the resolution that looks sharp on screen. If your file is not print-ready, say so when you order. We would rather fix it before the proof than after the run.
Yes. Your dimensions and finish is the standard build, and the dimensions around it are yours to set. A size that sits efficiently on the press sheet often costs no more than a standard one, while an awkward proportion that wastes half the sheet does. Ask before you commit and we will tell you whether a small change to the dimensions saves a disproportionate amount.
In most cases they are the same product under a different name: the trade uses several terms for it depending on the region and the supplier. What actually defines this one is the build: your size, material and mounting. Order it when the space does not fit a standard. If you have seen it called custom banners printing elsewhere, describe what it has to do rather than which name you found, and we will match the specification.
Yes. We provide free samples, and on custom banners it is worth asking for one, because the difference between 13oz scrim vinyl and 18oz scrim vinyl is obvious in the hand and invisible on a screen. Most orders run on 13oz scrim vinyl, but ask for whichever you are weighing up. You also get a free design proof before anything goes to press, so nothing is printed that you have not seen.
The usual choices are welded hems, grommets, pole pockets. Finish is not decoration on this product so much as a decision about how long it survives and how it reads in the hand, so it is worth choosing against the job rather than the budget. Tell us where the finished piece ends up and we will say which finish is doing real work and which is only adding cost.
Yes, and that is what almost every order here is. Nothing in this catalogue is a stock item: custom banners are manufactured to the specification you give us, with your artwork on them. Send your logo as vector artwork where you have it, since that scales to any size without softening. If all you have is a low-resolution file, tell us and we will say what it needs before it reaches the press.
Yes, and a repeat run is simpler than the first one. We keep your approved specification on file, so a reorder skips the setup decisions and goes straight to production. If nothing about the artwork or the specification has changed, there is nothing to re-approve. Tell us the previous order and we will match it rather than starting the specification again.
Yes. Regalo Print has been producing custom commercial print for businesses across the USA and Canada since 2008, and every order ships tracked. The tracking number reaches you the day the job leaves, not the day it arrives. If you are working to a fixed date, say so when you order so the production schedule is built around the delivery date rather than the other way round.
