Event Marketing Materials: Start With a 6 x 3 ft Banner

What Does the 6 by 3 Banner Include?

13 ounce vinyl, the standard material the page opens on. It is the outdoor weight: weather-resistant and UV-safe, in the material's own words. 15 ounce and 18 ounce are thicker choices on the same page. Double-sided printing is available on the 18 ounce material, not on the 13 ounce banner the $133.00 price describes. If both faces have to read, change the material. Do not assume the back of a single-sided 13 ounce banner is a second design.

Hems default to on. Grommets default to on. Both are included in the price you see when the page loads. Pole pockets are a separate finishing choice, and they require the grommets to come off. Leave pockets off unless a pole is actually how the banner will hang.

AI image to print makes your own image print ready for $14.99 once per item. A free digital proof with every order is part of the price. "Design it for me" is $29.99 and includes two revisions. It is free only when the item is $499 or more. A $133.00 banner does not clear that line, so design help is $29.99.

The finished banner ships to you. Installation is not included, so plan the hanging surface and hardware before approving the proof.

Where Do the Hems and Grommets Sit?

They occupy the edge. The hem is a fold of the vinyl with stitching. The grommets are metal rings in that hem, which is how you hang the banner: on a wall, on a railing, on a fence. The rings and the fold are not a blank margin you can cover with type. A word that runs into the hem is a word the fold interrupts.

Keep the name and the offer in the field inside that edge. How wide the hem reads on your file is something you see on the proof. Look at the proof and see whether the name still sits clear of the rings. If it touches a grommet, move it in and ask for another proof. That check is the whole rule.

A banner hung by the top grommets still has a bottom hem. Do not park the only phone number on that bottom fold. The same is true of the sides. The offer lives in the middle of the cloth.

Wind slits are an optional cut on the same page. They are off unless you turn them on. They are not a reason to move the type, and they are not included in the $133.00 price. If you add them, read the price the configurator adds before you check out.

What Should Harbor and Rye Print?

In this example, Harbor & Rye Catering is a sample company. They work weddings and corporate dinners, and twice a year they take a tasting table to a public fair. The banner they reorder is the 6 by 3 foot 13 ounce at $133.00. It says the name and one next step: "Tasting table" plus a short direction, or the name of the dinner and the hour. It does not say the menu. The menu is a card in a guest's hand.

They hang it with the grommets, on the front of the table riser or on a nearby rail. The hem stays the hem. The name sits in the clear field. They do not order pole pockets, because they are not sliding the banner onto a crossbar.

At the fair they add a feather flag so the row can be found from farther off, and they add a 6 foot 3-sided throw so the table is covered. The banner carries the message, the flag adds height, and the throw brands the table. They do not print the menu on all three.

Their art is a logo and one line. Design help is the $29.99, or $14.99 once per item if they send a finished file through AI image to print. Either way, nothing prints until they approve that proof. A flyer layout with tiny menu copy will be hard to read on a flag, so simplify it before approving the proof.

What Else Is Worth Adding?

Add a second product only for a job the banner cannot do.

• Height, for a reader who is still far from the table: a feather flag kit, flag, pole and ground stake, from $203.29 at 9 feet to $267.49 at 18 feet. The page opens on the 14 foot kit at $224.69. The stake is for grass. A hard floor needs a different base on that page.
• A stand-up banner indoors, where you cannot grommet to a wall: a standard retractable, 33 by 81 inches, at $213.99.
• A covered table: a 6 foot 3-sided throw at $213.99, finished 126 by 62.25 inches. The 4 foot is $181.89 and the 8 foot is $246.09.
• An arrow on an indoor floor: a 24 by 36 inch floor graphic at $64.19.
• A fence that should let air through the cloth: a mesh banner, 6 by 3 feet, at $154.00, also 3 business days.

A 10 by 10 tent is the right first order only when the event assigns a 10 by 10 footprint and the booth needs its own canopy. That kit is $973.69 and it is a different checklist. Do not buy a tent because a banner felt too simple.

Name tags, lanyards and a stack of paper are fine at a registration table. They are not the banner, and this shop's banner page is not where those paper sizes are priced. Do not copy a paper size from another country onto a vinyl order. The banner sizes are feet, from 2 by 4 to 10 by 20.

What Should Stay Off the Banner?

• A full sponsor grid. One name, one next step. Sponsors belong on a program or on a step and repeat if the job is a photo.
• The price list. A 6 by 3 foot banner is wide enough for a sentence. It is a bad menu.
• Type in the hem. The fold and the rings occupy that edge.
• A second banner that repeats the first one ten feet away, before you have a reason. One banner, placed where the reader makes the turn.
• An installed sign. This order ships. You hang it through the grommets or you don't.
• A promise about the weather. 13 ounce vinyl is sold as weather-resistant. The page does not publish a wind speed. How you hang it is your call. Mesh is the other cloth if the spot is a fence and you want perforation.

A screenshot or a logo that is too small for the banner can ride along on the print order. The shop makes that file print ready for $14.99 per item, with a proof after you order. The service is not sold alone, and it does not hand back a vector file. The $14.99 covers artwork conversion once for the item. The $133.00 is still the banner.

How Fast Does the Banner Ship?

3 business days of production start after the proof is approved. The flat $10 shipping charge is per order, after that. Uploading a file does not start the 3 business days. Approving the proof does. If the event date cannot move, put it in the order notes when you place the order.

Order the 6 by 3, or the size that actually fits the rail, on the vinyl banner page. Keep the sentence short. Hang it by the grommets. Let the hem be the hem.