Tension Fabric Displays in Los Angeles

Where a step and repeat tiles a logo for photographs, a tension fabric display is one seamless image across the back of your booth. The graphic zips over an aluminium tube frame like a pillowcase, which is what removes the seams and the hardware from the sightline. Configure yours below and price it as you build.

Tension Fabric Displays in Los Angeles — configure and buy

About Tension Fabric Displays

A tension fabric display is a booth back wall as one uninterrupted image. The printed fabric zips over an aluminium tube frame and pulls taut from both sides, which removes the two things that make a display look temporary: the seam down the middle and the hardware around the edge. For exhibitions and trade shows that matters because the back wall is the only surface a visitor sees from down the aisle, before they can read anything else. It is also the cheapest way to change what a booth says — the graphic unzips and a new one goes on the same frame.

Comparing models? The Backdrops category page puts every option we print side by side.

One image, no seams, no visible hardware

A pillowcase graphic pulls tight over the frame from both sides, so there is no join down the middle and no visible frame at the edges. Against the printed-panel backdrops still common on LA show floors, that reads as a considerably more finished booth for the same footprint — which is the whole reason to specify fabric over a hard panel.

It flies as luggage

The frame is aluminium tube and the graphic is fabric, so the entire back wall packs into a case a person checks on a flight. For teams travelling into Los Angeles for a single show, that is the difference between checked baggage and a freight booking with a delivery window.

Washable, which matters over a season

The graphic comes off the frame and can be washed, so a wall that has been packed, unpacked and handled across a run of West Coast shows does not carry the marks of it. Reprint when the message changes rather than when the fabric gets tired.

Shipping a booth wall to Los Angeles

Frame and graphic ship together in a single carry bag, and the whole wall is light enough that getting it to Los Angeles is rarely the expensive part of the order. It can go to a business address and travel to the venue in a car rather than being committed to show freight weeks ahead. Printed to order: use the production time on the product page above as your planning figure and add transit to it.

Frequently asked questions

What sizes does the tension fabric display come in?

Straight walls run 8, 10 and 20 ft wide at roughly 8 ft tall, which maps onto the standard 10x10 and 10x20 booth footprints used at Los Angeles shows.

Tension fabric or step and repeat for my booth?

Choose tension fabric when the wall is the back of your booth and you want one seamless image. Choose step and repeat when the wall exists to be photographed, because the tiled logo is what survives a cropped shot.

Can I print both sides?

Double sided is available and is worth specifying when the back of the wall faces another aisle rather than a solid divider — otherwise you are printing a face nobody sees.

Is this what people mean by a custom trade show backdrop?

Usually, yes. A custom trade show backdrop is most often a tension fabric wall like this one — a single printed graphic over a tube frame — rather than a rigid panel system. Backdrop printing on fabric is dye sublimated, which is why the image has no seam and the wall packs into a case instead of travelling as freight.

Can you ship a tension fabric display to Los Angeles?

Yes. Frame and fabric travel together in a single carry bag to any Los Angeles address. Production runs to the schedule on the product page and transit is added on top of it.

Can I upload artwork for both sides?

Yes, when you order the double-sided graphic - one file per face. PDF or JPEG at the ordered size, CMYK at 150dpi, fonts outlined. A free proof is sent before print.

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