Backlit Media Wall Panel (150gsm FR)

Backlit Media Wall Panel (150gsm FR) — Built to be lit from behind — a translucent cloth that spreads light evenly instead of showing the lamps, specified for media walls.

Backlit fabric is engineered around light diffusion. The construction is deliberately open and even so that light entering the back emerges across the whole face without hotspots over the LED strips. Print density is calibrated for transmitted rather than reflected light, which is why a backlit graphic printed on standard fabric looks washed out and one printed on this does not.

A media wall exists to put a logo behind a face in a photograph. That single purpose dictates everything: a dead-flat surface, no reflection, no light bleed, and a repeat pattern scaled so a readable logo lands in frame however the subject stands.

About this format

Fabric wall art hangs from a rod pocket or a concealed batten, which puts a very large image on a wall with a fraction of the weight and none of the glass a framed print would need. Check your source resolution before scaling up.

Best for

• Press walls and step-and-repeats
• Interview and broadcast backdrops
• Award-show backdrops
• Sponsor and partner walls
• Curved and shaped media walls

Key advantages

• Even light diffusion across the panel with no visible hotspots over the light bars
• Print density calibrated for transmitted light, so colour holds up when the box is switched on
• Reads well both lit and unlit, which matters for daytime and after-hours display
• Silicone edge finishing pulls it drum-tight into standard lightbox extrusions
• Lightweight and rollable — ships and stores flat between campaigns

Specifications

Choosing the right specification

Scale the repeat to the crop, not to the wall. A logo grid that looks balanced across the full panel often produces a photograph with two half-logos and nothing legible. Work out the tightest crop the photographers will actually shoot — usually head and shoulders — and make sure at least one complete logo falls inside it. And use a blockout: flash will find any light passing through.

How ordering works

• Send your artwork — Upload print-ready artwork at any stage — we check scale, resolution and bleed before anything goes to press and come back to you if something needs adjusting.
• Made to your size — Every panel is cut and finished to your dimensions. Tell us the finished size you need and how it is being fixed, and we will allow for hems and fixings correctly.
• Printed by dye-sublimation — Colour is transferred into the polyester fibre under heat, so the image becomes part of the cloth rather than a layer sitting on top of it.
• Finished and shipped — Hems, eyelets, pole pockets, silicone edge and other finishing are applied before your order is folded, boxed and dispatched worldwide.

Related specifications

This is the 150gsm version. Other sizes and weights in the same fabric are made to order — tell us the finished dimensions you need and we will quote them.

Technical detail

Printing for transmitted light. A backlit graphic is read with light passing through it rather than bouncing off it, so ink density is set higher and the cloth is engineered to diffuse evenly across the face. That is why a standard opaque fabric placed in a lightbox looks washed out, and why backlit stock reads correctly both switched on and switched off.

What to expect from service life. Indoors and out of direct sun, printed polyester holds its appearance for five years or more. Outdoors, published ranges for dye-sublimated polyester run from roughly six to twenty-four months depending on how exposed the position is, with the shorter end applying in high-ultraviolet regions such as the Southwest, Florida and the Gulf Coast, and in coastal or high-wind locations. Sheltered and north-facing installations reach the longer end. Coated and tarpaulin-grade constructions extend beyond that band because the coating carries the UV load.

Best suited to

Illuminated display — lightboxes, SEG light walls, retail window boxes and point-of-sale illuminated headers.

Also in this range

For conventional front-lit display, our tension knit and blockout ranges give denser reflected colour.

Not sure which fabric is right? Order a free swatch pack and see the weight, texture and finish in your own hands before you commit to a full run.