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Creating Keda-Edged Vinyl Banner
When to Complete: At the proofing stage of keda-edged vinyl banners. Why It Needs To Be Completed: This procedure must be completed to remove an allowance for the Sail Track, Keda Edging, and Stretch to ensure a tight finish on the installation surface.
When to Complete: At the proofing stage of keda-edged vinyl banners. Why It Needs To Be Completed: This procedure must be completed to remove an allowance for the Sail Track, Keda Edging, and Stretch to ensure a tight finish on the installation surface.
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<p><strong>Determine if the job is measured by Sitemax, the Customer or Signage Connection.</strong></p><ol>
<li>If measured by Sitemax or Customer, continue with Step 2</li>
<li>If measured by Signage Connection, use their sizes for the artwork and type up the sizes in an Excel sheet, noting any angles against the corresponding panels.</li>
</ol>

Determine if the job is measured by Sitemax, the Customer or Signage Connection.

  1. If measured by Sitemax or Customer, continue with Step 2
  2. If measured by Signage Connection, use their sizes for the artwork and type up the sizes in an Excel sheet, noting any angles against the corresponding panels.
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Open the relevant calculator based on where the finished banner will be installed.

  1. Hoardings
  2. Jumpforms
  3. Containers
  4. Billboards / General

Keda Edged Calculator

The email chain from the customer will often hint at where the banner will be installed.

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Open the calculator in the Excel Desktop App

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Open a new Excel document and set the columns and rows to below

  • Rows - 31
  • Columns - 16
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Copy from cell B5 to G7 to the new Excel document

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If there are multiple banners in the request copy out a calculator per banner and label to match the measure

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Input the sizes from the measure up or artwork request into the "Original (mm)" column

These must be inputted as millimetres

Complete this step per banner in the measure up

Note any panel-specifics against the corresponding panels

  • Angles
  • Areas to be chopped out onsite
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If the job has over 5 panels, save the Excel to the customer folder with the file named as below. 

"(Artwork Code) (Customer Name) Banner Sizes"

Send the Excel in the Front internal comms to the Customer Service team.

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<p>Create the artwork to match the sizes in the &quot;Finished Banner Sizes&quot; column.</p>
<p>Procedures for the main scenarios</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="https://knowby.show/35002e30-a4f6-458d-9e7b-77df9d4b4948">Customer Supplied Artwork</a></li>
<li><a href="https://knowby.show/86716804-5668-4511-97c3-96e9dd7eb194">Creating Artwork From Scratch</a></li>
</ol>

Create the artwork to match the sizes in the "Finished Banner Sizes" column.

Procedures for the main scenarios

  1. Customer Supplied Artwork
  2. Creating Artwork From Scratch
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Once the designs are pasted and properly aligned on the Proof template fill out the details on the proof template

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Update the sizes in the description to match the sizes in the "Finished Banner Sizes" column

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Save the Proof with our standard naming Convention

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Create the code in NetSuite using the new description created in Step 11.