Printed Gazebo and Flag Packages

The Three Print Levels

The single biggest thing separating a £685 package from a £1,038 one is how much of the gazebo carries your branding. All three use the same Pro 40 frame and the same flags, so this is purely a question of print coverage.

• Printed front section. Your logo and name across the front valance, the strip that runs along the eaves. It is the part a customer reads while they are queuing, and it is the cheapest way to stop looking like an unbranded stall.
• Logo on canopy. The front valance plus your logo printed onto the roof panels themselves. Worth it where people look down on you, so grandstands, multi-storey venues, drone and aerial photography, and any event where press shots get taken from height.
• Dye-sublimation. Full-colour print across the entire canopy, edge to edge. The ink is bonded into the fabric rather than sitting on top, so it will not crack or peel, and there is no limit on colours, gradients or photographic imagery. This is what you buy when the gazebo is the stand rather than shelter for the stand.

Choosing Your Flags

Two decisions, and they change the price more than most people expect.

Height. 2m or 3m. A 2m flag clears the gazebo eaves and reads from across a car park. A 3m flag is visible over a crowd and over other stands, which is what you want at a busy show where everyone has a gazebo. If your pitch is in a field on its own, 2m is plenty. If you are in a row of thirty stands, go 3m.

Sides. Single or double. A single-sided flag prints on one face and shows a mirrored, faded version through the back. It is fine when traffic only approaches from one direction, or when the flag sits against a wall or hedge. A double-sided flag is two printed panels with a blockout layer between them, so it reads correctly from both directions. If people walk past you in both directions, which is most aisles at most events, double-sided is the one.

Every package includes two freestanding flag stands with water weights, so the flags stand up on tarmac, concrete, sports hall floors and anywhere else you cannot drive a spike into the ground. Fill them on site and empty them before you travel.

Packages with 2m Single-Sided Flags

The starting point. A 3m x 3m Pro 40 gazebo with two 2m sail flags printed on one face. Suits club stalls, school fetes, farmers' markets and any pitch where people approach from one direction.

Packages with 3m Single-Sided Flags

The same three print levels with the taller flag. Forty pounds buys you another metre of height, which is the difference between being seen from the next aisle and not.

Packages with 2m Double-Sided Flags

Double-sided flags read correctly whichever way people walk past, because each face is printed separately with a blockout layer between them. This is the configuration most exhibition and trade show stands end up wanting.

Packages with 3m Double-Sided Flags

The full specification: maximum height, readable from both directions, on whichever print level suits the job. If you exhibit regularly and the stand has to work in a hall full of competitors, this is the one that gets specified.

Buying the Flags or the Gazebo on Their Own

The packages exist because most people buying one need the other, and the pair costs less bought together. If you only need one half of it, buy the half you need.

Already own a gazebo and just want flags to stand beside it? Our printed flags range covers sail, teardrop and rectangle shapes in every size, single or double sided, with a choice of ground spike, cross base or water-weighted stand.

Want the gazebo printed but no flags? See printed gazebos for every print level across every gazebo size we make, from 3m x 3m up to 4m x 10m.

Need the walls printed too? Sidewalls are the largest flat surface on a gazebo and take print beautifully. Start with gazebos with sides to work out which wall set you need, then add printing.

Who Buys These Packages

Exhibitions and trade shows. An exhibition gazebo has to do the job of a stand: be found, be photographed, and hold a conversation. Dye-sublimation with 3m double-sided flags is the specification that does it. See also exhibition stands.

Sports teams and clubs. A team gazebo doubles as shelter, kit store and the thing parents look for across three pitches. Club colours on the canopy and the club crest on the flags is the usual brief. See sports club shelters.

Motorsport and paddocks. Branding is read from the grandstand and from above, which is why paddock setups almost always want the logo on the canopy rather than just the valance. See motorsport awnings.

Cadets, armed forces and emergency services. Recruitment stands, open days and community events, usually in unit colours with crest and unit name. We supply military and government bodies across the UK and can work to a supplied brand specification.

Councils, charities and community groups. High visibility at a low unit cost, particularly the printed front section level where the budget has to cover several events a year. See charity and fundraising.

Artwork, Proofs and Lead Times

Send whatever you have. Vector artwork such as AI, EPS or PDF gives the cleanest result, but our studio can work from a decent JPG or PNG, and will rebuild a logo if what you have is too small to print. There is no separate origination charge on these packages.

You will get a visual proof showing your artwork applied to the gazebo and the flags before anything is printed. Nothing goes to production until you have approved it in writing, so if the colour is not quite your brand blue, that is the point to say so.

Printed items are made to order, so they do not ship next day the way an unprinted gazebo does. Allow around three weeks for a printed canopy, and build a buffer on top of that for your event date, particularly between April and September when the print queue is longest. If you have a fixed deadline, tell us the date when you order and we will confirm whether it is achievable before taking payment.