Saturday, September 1, 2012

Dealing with Posters: Important Tips

By Bella Swan


A poster is a piece of paper that is usually made to be put on vertical surfaces or walls. Posters are generally entailed of graphics or textual contents. In some cases, posters may mainly include graphical or textual contents only. For quite a long time, posters have primarily been used to advertise different events, in political campaigns and in business advertising. Depending on their uses, there are many sorts of posters. Examples of types of posters include; propaganda and political posters, motion picture posters, event posters, blacklist posters, travel posters and numerous others.

Ways of Storing Posters in Good Condition

Posters need to be kept in favorable environments to preserve them in good condition. A cool, dry atmosphere is best to keep posters. The very best way of ensuring that posters attain a cool and dry environment is by leasing a climate controlled unit. With a climate controlled unit temperature and humidity of a particular environment will always remain the same thus protecting posters from degeneration. Using a controlled unit is very costly but it is clearly worth the cost.

Yet another method to store your posters is by packing them appropriately in the most suitable packages. The most common way of packaging posters is by rolling them up and putting them in tubes. Depending on the size of the paper, there are numerous sizes of tubes that can be used. The majority of tubes are acid free and waterproof, therefore, they ultimate protection to your poster.

One more method that can be used to keep posters is by placing them in containers that have acid free sleeves. These sleeves normally ensure that posters are in proper conditions. The sleeves always keep posters flat and spread out.

Best Ways To Hang Posters

Apart from proper storage, posters are additionally supposed to be hanged properly in order for them to meet their objectives. The following are some of the very best methods to hang a poster successfully.

Using of Poster Putty

Using poster putty enables one to hang a poster without any type of tacks or tape appearing on its front. Before using poster putty, one should always ensure that he/she gets the poster laminated first. Putty is fairly sticky; therefore it allows posters to hang for a long period of time on the strategic places where they had been hanged.

Get a Frame

Use of poster frames is also another technique that someone who wants does not want to use poster putty may apply. Hanging a picture using a frame is rather easy because all one has to do is hit a nail on a vertical surface and hang the poster.

Other methods of hanging posters may consist of using:

* Poster hangers

* Mounting tabs

* Regular double sided tape




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