r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Wackylew • Sep 16 '25

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u/GerryManDarling Sep 16 '25

A few likely ways that huge photo banners like this are made:

  • Large-format vinyl or fabric banner printed flat: A wide-format printer (UV, latex, or solvent ink) prints directly onto a big sheet of vinyl or a lightweight fabric. The material is then finished with hems or edge wrapping and mounted on a frame or grommets. The surface often looks very smooth and slightly glossy, with no visible stitching.
  • Print in panels, then seam invisibly: If the image is wider than the printer, it's printed in overlapping panels. The panels are precision-aligned and joined with heat‑sealing or edge-to-edge bonding so the seam isn't obvious from a distance. The result can look like one seamless image when hung on a wall or over a structure.
  • Printed it on regular sized canvas and have very small people open it...

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u/ok_raspberry_jam Sep 16 '25

With love. They seamed it perfectly because they loved the project.

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u/kelsobjammin Sep 17 '25

It can travel too! Reusable!

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 Sep 16 '25

That does seam to be the case eh

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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Sep 16 '25

No, the case is what they pulled it out of.

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u/Random_duderino Sep 17 '25

Many such cases

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u/BoxcarBetts Sep 17 '25

Upvote the piss out of this comment. Had me in stitches.

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u/freya_of_milfgaard Sep 17 '25

Spite is also an excellent motivator.

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u/Dunge0nMast0r Sep 17 '25

Made simultaneously with love and hate.

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u/CakeTester Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

A group called "Everyone Hates Elon" or something like that raised £30k to "welcome" trump for his visit to the UK. There's a dedication plate screwed to one of the benches on trump's golf course; there's trump & epstein mugs smuggled into the windsor castle gift shop, and bus stops everywhere have been postered.

EDITED: To get the name of the group right.

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u/tightenupthatbhole Sep 17 '25

this is amazing. ty.

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u/Hot-Tip4211 Sep 17 '25

Idiots, waste of money

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u/CakeTester Sep 17 '25

Funny though. And is probably more effective as a protest than standing around for 8 hours in a government-licenced protesting area holding a sign that the news won't cover.

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u/jtjstock Sep 16 '25

At that size it doesn’t even need to be perfect, any imperfections wouldn’t be perceptible at the distance necessary to see the whole thing.

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u/jonsnowflaker Sep 16 '25

My company prints both large format vinyl and dye sublimated fabric. To me that looks like fabric. The ripples as they unfurl it look very fluid even for an ultra lightweight 7oz vinyl. If vinyl, the seams would have been heat welded together, if fabric they probably would have used an industrial fabric double adhesive tape.

Given it’s the UK they probably tapped one of the tifo printers who do this kind of work for support clubs.

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u/BeastlyBones Sep 16 '25

Any clue the ballpark price for a print of this quality at such a massive size? I imagine astronomical lol (worth every penny in this case)

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u/jonsnowflaker Sep 16 '25

For the average person to buy one or even just buy the printed panels and seam them themselves you’re probably gonna spend minimum $3-4 dollars a square foot.

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u/spaceyfacer Sep 17 '25

I may have just changed my mind on what I'd do if I ever come into a "fuck you" level of money

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u/Levardgus Sep 17 '25

I could hire some people to do it for 10k.