Printing Round Table Covers

Printing on your round tablecloth can be a bit of a challenge. To keep your message in the viewable area you may need make some adjustments. Round table throws (drape style) are very popular because they can fit a variety of tables. However, unless you want to print on the table top, printing your logo on the side of a round table throw doesn’t work well as you can see below . The logo gets lost in the folds of the sides.

The best style of round tablecloth for branding is the “barrel style”. Barrel style table covers do not pleat so you can keep your message seen clearly as viewer walks around the table.

If you need to have your message seen in the front of the tablecloth try manipulating your logo or maybe trying a step and repeat pattern so your full logo will be seen from all sides of the tablecloth.

MVP Visuals offers a variety of table cover styles and print methods. Fabrics such as basic polyester ; flame retardant fabric, recycled fabric, water repellent; can be printed and made to fit almost any size table cover so just give us your dimensions and logo and we’ll do a free layout. http://www.mvpvisuals.com/. (800) 980-6871

The best style of round tablecloth for branding is the “barrel style”. Barrel style table covers do not pleat so you can keep your message seen clearly as viewer walks around the table.

Is Your Art Good to Print?

In the large format print business we have the same issue every day. Customers come to us with a low res jpg or gif file, often something they took from their website, and ask us to blow it up and print it on a tablecloth or banner. Generally they have already been to a few printers already that told them, “Sorry, we need vector art!”

MVP Visuals can help with most issues so you don’t have to miss out on having your favorite image printed on your trade show table cover, carpet, banner or any other large format display.

Low res jpgs and gifs are called “raster or bitmap” files. These files are made of little pixels. Pixels are little dots (more like squares) like you see below. The quality of the image depends on the number of these pixels per inch (dpi – dots per inch) When a low res file is kept small it looks just fine. But when they are enlarged, each pixel gets blown up and gives the image a fuzzy (pixelating) look.

Vector files are made of paths (lines and anchor points) that are more like an engineering CAD Drawing. When this type of file is enlarged, each line is mathematically enlarged in exact proportion so there is no pixelating or distorting. This makes vector files ideal for printers.

Unless you have a high resolution a file (this is where there are many more dots per inch in the image file so each pixel doesn’t blow up to distort the image), we would need to recreate your image into vector format. If your image is a photograph then generally it will not recreate well into vector so we would need a hi res file. You can send us your photo and we can tell you.

Vector files are most frequently .ai, .eps or even .pdf. YOU CANNOT JUST SAVE A LOW RES JPG WITH AN .AI OR .EPS EXTENSION TO MAKE IT VECTOR. MVP Visuals offers vector recreation services and most files can be converted in 24 hours!

by Mary Dykas. MVP Visuals is a supplier of custom imprinted tablecloths, banners, tents, carpets and trade show displays.