Fan / Hand-Held Team Flag

Fan / Hand-Held Team Flag — made to your size in a choice of 3 fabrics, from 115gsm.

Sports graphics live outdoors, get handled by crowds, and have to read at genuine distance — from the far side of a pitch, from the back of a stand, or through a television camera.

This product is offered across more than one fabric because the right answer depends on where the panel is going and how long it needs to last. The table below sets every option side by side on the specifications that actually decide the choice — weight, opacity, finish and weather behaviour — so you can compare them directly rather than opening a page for each one.

About this format

Hand-held flags are made light on purpose. Weight that is barely noticeable in a product photograph becomes very noticeable in someone's hand after twenty minutes, so these are cut small and finished on a light staff or sleeve that a spectator or participant can hold comfortably through an entire event.

Best for

• Stadium perimeter and sponsor boards
• Championship and honours banners
• Team and locker-room banners
• Hand-held fan flags
• Match-day and hi-vis marshalling flags

Fabric options compared

Which fabric should you choose?

• 115gsm Knit — The all-rounder of the range — light enough to move, dense enough to hold a photographic print.
• 115gsm Fluor Orange — A knit built on a fluorescent ground, so the colour reads hot from a long way off.
• 115gsm Fluor Yellow — A knit built on a fluorescent ground, so the colour reads hot from a long way off.

Key advantages

• One product, 3 fabric specifications — compare and choose without leaving the page
• Dye is absorbed into the fibre, so the printed image cannot crack, flake or peel away from the surface
• Folds down small and shakes out with very few creases — practical for teams who ship and re-hang often
• Open knit structure lets air pass through, so the panel moves in a breeze instead of fighting it
• Soft matte surface diffuses light and photographs cleanly under flash and continuous lighting

Choosing the right specification

Design for the viewing distance before you design for the brand guidelines. A logo that works on a letterhead disappears at fifty metres. Increase stroke weight, drop the detail, and raise the contrast — then check it by viewing the artwork at the same relative distance on screen. For perimeter runs, vented mesh handles wind far better than a solid banner.

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

Closely related products in this range include Locker Room / Team Banner, Stadium Perimeter Banner, Championship Wall Banner. They share this fabric and finish, so the choice comes down to format and size.

Technical detail

How dye-sublimation colour behaves. Disperse dyes are driven into a gas phase at roughly 190-205 °C and diffuse into the polyester filament, where they are trapped as the polymer cools. Because there is no layer sitting on the surface, the printed image cannot crack, flake or peel. Colour is also wash-stable: disperse dyes on polyester routinely rate 4-5 on the ISO 105-C06 wash-fastness scale. Indoors and away from sustained ultraviolet, printed polyester holds its appearance for five years or more.

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

Indoor and sheltered outdoor work where you want a light panel that moves with the air — flags, backdrops, promotional banners and anything that ships folded and re-hangs quickly.

Also in this range

For fully exposed permanent installations, our Oxford and coated ranges carry the weather; for a completely opaque back, see our blockout range.

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.