prolongs the life of your banner program. The banner bracket may be left in place year-round while the arms may easily be removed. allows you to place your clients'' logos or other graphics on grass. Environmentally safe paint won''t harm the turf, yet remains vibrant and resilient to the elements. Painted turf attracts attention and yields a BIG bang for the buck. mechanically tension pole banners on any pole or flat wall surface, creating professional drum-tight displays. mechanically tensions a single banner into a two-sided A-frame display that looks like a rigid sign and can be placed just about anywhere. We can create awesome backdrops, murals, swags, flags, and banners to fit your client''s theme, transforming any venue into a truly exciting and special event. All fabrics are NOT the same but trying to predict how long your banner will last is tricky. It all depends on what you want to use the banner for (indoors? outdoors? windy conditions? rainy conditions?) and how you store it (throw it in a pile in the garage or roll it up and place it in a tube). Check the Samples Chart for specific information about different types of banner fabric, Ask the Banner Expert, or e-mail any of our Sales Staff who will

banner has changed the visual landscape. "What is different?" asks the population, and it''s the banner. Bigger is better. Big banners can''t miss unless they are hung in the woods, inside, or in the unexposed alley between buildings. Big banners are simple. In fact, they work because they are simple. Single messages, simple words, and direct appeals keep the big banner accessible to the most causal passer-by. In a car, a driver or a passenger may zip by and still catch the new sale, the grand opening, or the brand-of-the-month. Exclamation point addicts can have a field day with big banners. Big banners are colorful. They offer a wonderful chance to jazz up a dull brick building or an aging structure. Colors rule in banners. They are king in big banners. The goal is to attract attention. They even generate excitement. Color is the key. Use a big banner''s color to contrast with the businesses usual color schemes. Use colors to show change as well as having the banner announce change in its lettering. Big banners are promotional. As a new addition to the visual landscape, they are by their very nature a demonstration of something new. The bigger the new banner the bigger the sense of promotion. Bigger is louder.

so, do you have the image on a disk? A photograph? Let''s say that it is Great Aunt Edna''s 90th birthday. What better way to show you care than to give her a life-size printout of herself! To ensure that every wrinkle prints out clean and crisp, we need the full-size image resolution to be 50 buyandsellhome dpi (Dots Per Inch). That means that when we blow up Aunt Edna''s best mug shot from a 3"w x 5"h photo to a 36"w x 60"h banner the scan has to be done at 600 dpi. The nifty little equation we use for figuring this out requires some algebra skills on your part but works wonders when trying to determine the scan resolution of your image. Photographic Prints and Negatives: How photographs and negatives scan depends on the quality of the original. If the image is blurry there is little that can be done to improve the sharpness. If the photograph is too dark or too light, or the color is not great, the scan can be manipulated to some extent and improvements can be made. A negative will always contain more detail in the shadow and highlight areas than a photograph produced from it. Whenever possible, please provide the negative along with a photographic print that appears less than perfect. Transparencies: buyandsellhome 35mm slides, 2 1/4", 4" x 5" and