Econo Feather Flag Cost: How the 16 Ft Kit Differs

How Is the Econo Kit Different From a Standard Feather Kit?

The econo kit differs from a standard feather kit in three documented ways: it comes in one 16 ft size, its only mount is the ground spike, and it prints on one side only. The listed kit is the printed flag, a 4 piece pole set and a ground spike, at $213.99.

The standard convex feather flag kit opens at $224.69 for the Large 14 ft, and that kit comes in four heights, has a base menu, and can be ordered double sided. The econo kit is not that kit at a discount. Three things the standard kit offers are absent here.

There is no second height. You cannot step down to 9 ft or up to 18 ft on this order. The flag is 16 ft, and the graphic is 30 x 137.75 inches, every time.

There is no base menu. The ground spike is for grass and soft ground. A cross base, a square base, and a water bag are not on this page. A flag that must stand on concrete, tile, or a hall floor needs a kit with a base menu.

There is no double sided graphic. People who will read both faces need a kit with a double sided option. Print thru on this flag puts a mirror on the back, the same way a single sided feather does, and the mirror is the only back you can buy.

Buy the econo when you want this one tall flag, on a spike, in grass, with one readable face. Buy a standard kit when you need another height, a hard-floor base, or a second face.

What Is the 16 Ft Flag For?

The 16 ft econo feather flag is for grass and soft ground, where its ground spike can be pushed in and hold. The spike in the photos is the hardware in the $213.99. One photo is the flag in a sidewalk planting strip. One is the flag in grass at a market. Both are the ground spike, not a plate and not a water bag. If the ground under your spot is concrete all the way to the wall, this kit will not stand there.

Sixteen feet is a tall flag. The cloth is 30 inches wide, so the reader sees a narrow column from a distance. A short name, set large and turned vertical, is what reads from the street. A list of services, a paragraph, or a line of small type at the bottom of the curve does not. The curved pole section is what gives the feather its arc. The three straight sections make up the rest of the 16 ft.

The printed graphic is 30 by 137.75 inches, just under 11.5 ft of cloth. The assembled height is 16 ft, the flag standing on the spike. A document set to 16 feet, which is 192 inches, is taller than the cloth, so type at the top and the bottom of that page misses the print. Set the file to 30 by 137.75 inches. One vertical name in the middle of that graphic is the layout that reads from the street. A paragraph in the bottom curve is the layout the proof sends back. The pole is four pieces, three straight and one curved, and the curve is part of the shape the art has to follow.

Flag only at $117.69 is the right reorder when the pole set and the spike are already in the closet and the art has changed. It is the wrong first order. A new flag with no pole and no spike is a printed sleeve in a box.

A shop that parks the flag in the same grass patch every morning, and that only needs the street side to be readable, is the order this page is built for. A shop that packs the flag into a trunk, flies with it, or moves it from grass to a lobby floor will feel the missing base on the first trip, because the ground spike is the only mount in the listed kit.

What Do We Catch on Econo Feather Flag Proofs?

The sleeve is the usual miss. On a standard single sided print, a black pole sleeve runs down the left of the graphic. The print starts after that sleeve. Letters that sit on the sleeve are hidden once the pole is in it. Reverse moves the sleeve to the opposite edge and costs the same $213.99. Pick reverse when the name has to sit on the other side of the pole. Do not pick it hoping for a second readable face. It is still one face.

The second miss is a double sided file. Two artboards, one for each face, cannot be printed on this flag. If the proof notes say the back must be readable, this is the wrong product. The mirror from print thru will show the color and the shape. It will not show a phone number the right way around.

The third is a file built for a different feather height. A layout for another feather flag is a different width and a different length. This flag is 30 x 137.75 inches. Art that was sized for another height crops or floats. Build to 30 inches by 137.75 inches, keep type out of the sleeve and out of the bottom curve, and use the height for one big message.

We also see orders that add a note asking for a cross base in the comments. Those notes do not create a product this page does not sell. The proof can fix artwork. It cannot add hardware the kit does not include.

How Fast Does a 16 Ft Econo Feather Flag Ship?

Production is the next business day after you approve the proof. Shipping is a flat $10 to any US address, on the order, not inside the $213.99. The production day is the day the flag is printed. It is not the day it reaches the grass, so leave carrier time when a market morning is the deadline.

Send your image through AI image to print and, once you order, we prep size, bleed, resolution and color for $14.99 once per item. The proof is free. Design it for me is $29.99 if you want the layout built from a logo and a name, with two revisions. That design charge is free when this item is $499 or more. This kit, at $213.99, is under that line, so the design charge applies if you ask for it.

Approve the graphic direction on the proof: standard sleeve edge, or reverse. After the flag is printed, the sleeve does not switch sides. A mirror you only notice in the field is a new flag only order, at $117.69, and only if you still have the pole and the spike.