Trade Show Table Covers

Table throws, table runners and table skirts can jazz up your trade show booth
By Jenni Simcoe, Writer Trade show table covers can turn an ordinary eight by ten foot trade show booth into an extraordinary selling space. Custom imprinted table covers, including table runners, table throws and table skirts that don't blend in with all of the other drab table covers can give you and your booth a competitive edge. With custom trade show table covers, you can let people know exactly who you are, even from across a crowded convention center. Your logo will communicate your brand or message to invite people into your booth.
 

Before you go out and buy trade show table covers, consider these factors:
1. Choose a fabric for trade show table covers that won't wrinkle or stain.
2. Determine what size table cover will be used at most shows, or buy a table cover in several standard sizes.
3. Decide the quantity of table covers you'll need. You'll get a price break from most companies if you buy in quantity at one time.
4. Think about the message that you want to display. If you have several trademarked phrases, you might want table covers that reflect each or you may just want your business logo.
5. Figure out what style will work best for your needs. Some trade show table covers allow you to quickly cover a table, while others require pinning and tucking.

Use table throws for your trade shows

Table throws are an easy option for quick set-up. You simply put the throw over the table and drape it like a tablecloth. That's all there is to it.
Try: Displayit offers a variety of table throws in six and eight-foot lengths, either unimprinted, screenprinted or dye sublimation printed. Displays and Exhibits offers a variety of printing options and discounts for quantity orders.

Try trade show table covers that fit to a tee

Trade show table covers usually come in pleated or draped throws, but now there's a new type on the market that fits like your favorite T-shirt.
Try: CamelBack Displays makes a contour table cover that eliminates wrinkles by fitting snugly over the table with no need for pins or clips. Siegel Display Products calls their version it a "Table T-shirt Tablecloth."

Put your logo on table runners

Table runners are a good solution when you want to customize a table that is already set up or if you are traveling and want to save space. You simply place table runners over the middle of the table and your logo is displayed front and center.
Try: Crestline offers imprinted table runners in 15 fabric colors. Discount Displays has 33 fabric colors available and volume discounts.

Table skirts can add pizazz to your booth

You can cover your table or put a t-shirt on it, but you can also dress it in traditional garb-table skirts.
Try: Carrot-Top Industries makes unimprinted table skirts for rectangle and round tables. LetterBank makes table skirts that allow your logo to be imprinted in the center.

• Make sure your logo will be legible on your trade show table covers before you imprint them. If it isn't, consider using your trademark phrase, product logo or company name.
• If your table covers will be transported frequently, ask your table cover supplier for custom travel cases that protect the table cover.
• Table covers that have a high blend of polyester will wrinkle less and won't require ironing.
• Though their main purpose is to draw people to your booth, trade show table covers also provide a hidden storage space for your products underneath the table.