Large vinyl banners are a creative way to artistically display important information, but often production costs can be high. When OneSource Center staff learned a high quality 5’ x 30” vinyl banner could be produced for under $12 at the Cincinnati Public Library’s MakerSpace lab, this knowledge was too good to ignore! COVID-inspired cost savings research led the OneSource Center team to plan a field trip and investigate the vinyl printer/cutter option.
MakerSpace, an artistic treasure-trove of creativity tools located conveniently at the library’s downtown Cincinnati location, has a large number of free-to-use options including 3D printers, software, laser cutters, vinyl banner printers and more. Library card holders can truly create almost anything they can imagine. (Small fees assessed for materials used in production of items.)
“We wanted to create a large banner for our office that highlighted the corporate sponsors supporting our work,” said Alyson Best, OneSource Center Marketing Manager. “Creating the banner through commercial vendors was costly, but we heard we could make the same banner at the library at minimal cost just by creating the PDF and doing the printing ourselves. We would much rather use those extra funds to support our mission of strengthening nonprofits in our region!” (more…)