Printing posters

         Why printing posters with PBD helps you

• Printing posters with pbd allows for the greatest amount of choices when you require top quality at a low price when printing posters. You can benefit by our large press sizes, affording you the greatest choice in finished size when you are printing posters for your event or show. When printing posters in the smaller sizes, up to 19 x 25", you can benefit from our gang run process, of running two or more jobs on press at the same time. With the gang run press run, each customer shares in the reduced cost of running the jobs. When you require the larger sized pieces for printing posters, such as twenty by twenty eight inches, twenty three by thirty five inches, or twenty four by thirty six inches, or larger, we can accommodate you on our largest presses for printing posters.

  What are my choices of paper stocks?

• When printing posters that have images and you seek a clean and crisp reproduction of those images, than you would do best with your poster printing project utilizing a coated stock. When printing posters, as with anything you run on press, if the stock is coated, then the ink will sit on top of the paper, rather than sink into it to some degree, when using uncoated paper stocks. When the ink sinks into the paper, the dots spread and their is a loss in crispness due to this. However sometimes when printing posters, you might be looking for a special effect and can take advantage of printing posters on uncoated stocks. An example of this would be if you wanted to have a look of an older printed piece, you could use an uncoated stock, even a felt or other rougher finish and while printing posters, pull back on the inks a bit for a more washed out look. We did this on several occasions for UCLA, who were advertising for an event in Italy at an old castle.  

  Can coatings protect my poster printing?

• Absolutely and we recommend it. When you are spending your hard earned money on  printing posters, you want to make sure you get the best product possible and that it will also wear reasonably well. The first thing you want to make sure of when printing posters, is that the stock is reasonably heavy so that it wears well and will not easily tear when handled. We recommend 100# coated text as the minimum thickness for poster printing.
• You can further protect your work when printing posters by coating the stock or even film lamination. The later is expensive by comparison and you might find it less costly to up your press run during poster printing than to try and protect the sheets with film lamination. Should you definitely require film lamination, then remember, that paper is less costly than film laminate, so increase the size of the stock thickness rather than the laminate thickness. This will save you more money in the long run on when printing posters.
• There are three types of liquid coatings that you can use when printing posters. The first and most common, when printing posters, is Aqueous varnish. Aqueous is the same as the older varnish coat, other than that it is a water based product. In either case, the only way you can tell these coatings are used when printing posters, is to add a few drops of water on the paper and if beads it is coated. These types of coatings protect the paper surface when printing posters but add nothing to the look of the image. When printing posters you can also use a UV coating and this is not only the strongest of the three coatings, but also is a super gloss finish and very difficult to tell apart from film lamination when printing posters.

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