Banner Printing London
020 3375 6674 info@silverimagelondon.com Open 24 hours, 7 days a week — call or email and we will tell you what is possible today.
Heavy-duty PVC banners up to 30 metres long, fully hemmed with rust-proof eyelets, produced same-day at our 24/7 London facility. Same-day and overnight courier delivery is available across London, with frequent deliveries to the City, West End, Canary Wharf and Central London.
Every job is quoted on its specification. Send us yours and we will come back with a firm figure.
| Width | How it is made | Turnaround |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 150 cm | Printed as one drop off a 30 m roll, hemmed with eyelets every 50 cm | Same day |
| Over 150 cm | Welded from two or more drops — no maximum size | Next day minimum |
Artwork specifications
Bleed, safe margins, colour, resolution, file format
Big files forgive, small files do not at banner scale — check the effective DPI of your artwork before you send it.
| Requirement | What we need | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Bleed | 5–10 mm on every edge | |
| Colour mode | CMYK, not RGB | Bright RGB blues and greens sit outside the CMYK gamut and print duller than they look on screen. Send Pantone references for brand colours. |
| Resolution at final size | 30 dpi at the finished size is enough | Measured on the printed piece, not in the file. A file built at 1:10 and 300 dpi gives exactly that, and it is genuinely fine on something read from five metres. Vector and live type carry no resolution at all and scale without loss. |
| File format | PDF preferred — but send what you have | We accept virtually any artwork format and check every file in-house before production. If anything needs adjusting we will tell you immediately, before we print. |
| Fonts | Outlined | Outlined removes any font substitution risk on an overnight job. |
| Images | Embedded in the PDF | Linked images that did not travel with the file are a common cause of a job stalling. |
| Transparency | Supported — no need to flatten | Flattening by hand often causes the white boxes and colour shifts it was meant to avoid. |
| Safe margin | Important detail 50 mm from the edges and any eyelets | The hem folds back on itself and the eyelets punch through it. Anything inside that band is either folded away or has a hole in it. |
Before you upload
- Export a print-ready PDF, vector wherever possible
- Convert fonts to outlines
- Extend backgrounds into the bleed
- Keep important content inside the safe margin
- Check the resolution at the finished size, not in the file
- Check the page size matches the finished size, or state the scale you built at
Send the file even where there is doubt about it. We check bleed, resolution, embedded fonts and page size before anything goes on press, and where a fix is small it is usually just done. A two-minute reply at 9pm is faster than a re-export at 7am.
What turns a same-day job into a next-day one is almost never the printing. It is a question that has to go back to you and sit unanswered — artwork built at the wrong finished size, a logo supplied at screen resolution, or type running off the trim with no bleed behind it. Getting the six points above right removes nearly every one of those.
Hems, eyelets and what keeps a banner on the fence
Our Heavy Duty PVC Banners are built to withstand London’s weather. Printed on 440gsm reinforced vinyl using Latex inks, these banners are waterproof, scratch-resistant, and UV stable. They are the standard for Construction Site Hoardings, Scaffolding Advertising, and Outdoor Events.
Every banner comes fully hemmed (for extra strength) with rust-proof eyelets spaced every 50cm, making them easy to attach to fences or railings. A single drop runs up to 30 metres long and 150cm wide, printed and finished the same day. Because a banner rolls, it travels by bike where a rigid board needs a van — which is why hoarding runs out to Stratford and Wembley Park, and event banners for The O2, still land inside the hour. Anything wider than 150cm is welded from two or more drops, which has no maximum size but is a next-day job rather than same day. We service construction sites in Wembley, Stratford, and Nine Elms with urgent same-day delivery.
Q&A
How fast can I get a banner for my construction site?
We print vinyl banners same-day. We can courier them directly to sites in Stratford, Wembley, or Central London within hours.
Are your banners windproof?
For high-wind areas (like scaffolding), we recommend "Mesh Banners" which let air flow through. Standard PVC is fine for fences and walls.
What is the maximum size?
We can print banners of almost any length. Common sizes are 2m x 1m or 3m x 1m, but we can seam sections together for giant displays.
How far apart are the eyelets?
Standard spacing is every 50cm, but we can place them closer (e.g., every 30cm) upon request for extra security in windy locations.
Colour matching across an order
Send us your Pantone or CMYK references and we will hold them across every item in the order, so a banner, a foam board and a roller banner produced together read as one set rather than three separate jobs. If you are matching to something already printed, send a physical sample with the artwork and we will match to that instead.
On the record: a roller banner whose “print-ready” file turned out to be a mock-up was rebuilt, printed and still delivered a day early — the file check that made it possible runs on every banner order.
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Key facts: ordering tonight
- Open 24 hours, 7 days a week, including Saturdays, Sundays and bank holidays.
- Print production runs 24/7; the walk-in counter serves the day and evening, and the status bar at the top of the page shows live whether it is open right now.
- Files and payment received by 21:00 → overnight production for delivery before 9am the next morning, subject to that night’s capacity; we confirm at quotation whether the run fits.
- No fixed overnight cap: tell us the quantity and we say at quotation whether it can be done in time.
- Overnight jobs are normally couriered to arrive before your office opens; collection is arranged around your arrival time — call before you set off after 8pm so the job is bagged and waiting at the counter.
- No minimum for walk-in jobs during the day — one copy is a normal job. Out-of-hours collection or delivery carries a £95 minimum plus courier if required.
- Same-day and overnight courier delivery across London, most often EC1–EC4, W1, WC1–WC2, E14 and SW1.
- Exhibition delivery to ExCeL, Olympia, the Business Design Centre and other venues: send us the hall, your stand number, the named person on the stand and their mobile, and the build-day or opening time you need it by; we deliver to the stand.
- Send what you have: we check the artwork before anything goes on press and tell you what to fix; a print-ready PDF (CMYK, 3 mm bleed) is the fastest route.
- Quotes come with a secure payment link — Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Apple Pay, Google Pay, PayPal and Klarna; production starts once payment is in.
- Courier delivery within London is usually in the region of £35–45, depending on the postcode and which courier is free; the exact figure is on your quote and is added to the job price.
- A proof is available on request; when we design the artwork you always get a final proof to approve. Print-ready files are printed on site and our operator checks the run against a printed proof sample before it leaves.
- Before we accept an urgent job we look at what could go wrong with the file, the stock and the finishing, and plan so that a reprint would still fit inside your deadline.
- Every order has a dedicated member of staff and an agreed completion deadline; we do not run an e-commerce queue, so the time we give you is for your job.
- Bank transfer is accepted alongside the payment link: tell us when you have sent it — the job goes to production once accounts confirm it has arrived.
- Outside London and towards the M25 courier costs more: we check with the couriers and confirm the price with you before booking.
- PVC banners are printed on 440 gsm or 510 gsm material depending on the job.
- The minimum banner dimensions are 40 × 40 cm, giving a minimum area of 0.16 m² per banner.
- PVC banner pricing: £50 per m² + VAT for the first 5 m² and £40 per m² for every m² above that, plus £25 setup per job (one setup fee however many banners are in the job); minimum size 40 × 40 cm.
- Examples: 1 × 2 m = £125 + VAT; 2 × 3 m = £315 + VAT; a 7 × 2 m scaffold banner (14 m²) = £635 + VAT, welded from two panels because the roll is 150 cm wide.
- The 5 m² price threshold is worked out on the combined area of all banners in the job, not per banner.
Send us the job
Tell us the size, the quantity and when you need it. We come back with a firm price, and we check the artwork before anything goes on press.
Open 24 hours, 7 days a week. Same-day and overnight delivery across London.
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Part of our Same Day Signs London range — browse the full category for rigid boards, vinyl, exhibition graphics and outdoor signage, or see Print & Documents for booklets, business cards and document printing.
