Cable Display System: Comprehensive Guide
Comprehensive guide for selecting and installing your cable display system.
What are cable displays used for?
Cable displays are ideal for wall and window displays; you may well have seen them used as estate agent displays, in travel agents' windows, and in shops as retail displays. They offer a cost-effective and versatile way to display posters and literature in offices, retail spaces, opticians, dentists, and doctors' surgeries.
Cable Display System Components
The main component of a cable display is the wire kit itself. This comprises 1.5mm thick stainless steel cable, 4m long for floor-to-wall and floor-to-ceiling, and 2m long for wall-to-wall, that can be cut to suit your shop window or office wall. Cables can support up to 120kg. The cable has a bottom fitting with a tensioning spring and a top fitting. The type of top and bottom cable display fitting depends on whether you want to fit the cables from the floor to ceiling (the most common), the floor to a wall, or wall to wall. Click here to see images of these fittings.
How to Install Cable Displays
Cable displays are easy to install with some basic DIY skills and tools. Installation varies slightly depending on what type of cable display system you are installing, but the principle remains the same.
Cable Spacing
How far you space the cables apart depends on a couple of factors. Firstly, you need to decide if you want a continuous wall of posters or if you want to have gaps between them. In the picture below, the left and right-hand units are single columns where the centre unit comprises a single column with an add-on unit.
How to Fit Poster Holders and Literature Holders
Once you have fixed your window display wire cables, you are ready to fit your poster holders and literature dispensers. These are attached using cable clamps which can be attached anywhere along the wire length, giving you the flexibility to position poster holders where you want.
Cable clamps only take a couple of seconds to fit using an Allen key. Cable clamps are available to take single or double poster holders in small or large sizes. Larger sized clamps take panels up to 8mm thick. They cost more, are slightly easier to fix, and look more imposing.
Small cable display clamps are the most popular and are supplied as
standard with our kits. They are cheaper, hold panels up to 4mm thick,
but require more accuracy when fitting them.
