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Awards & Customization

Ideas and how-to for awards, recognition and personalization businesses: laser engraving, sandcarving, routing, UV printing and sublimation on gifts and promotional products. Learn new techniques, find equipment and grow your customization business.

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  • Business and Marketing

    Strategies to Sell Wholesale Items to Organizations for Fundraising

    Think of all the organizations that need to raise money: schools, sports, clubs, churches, and charities. Make the fundraising pitch.
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  • Awards

    Keeping Up Business Volume During the Summer Months

    School has ended, organized sports have finished their season, people are on vacation, and the world winds down. What is there left to do?
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  • rayzist
    Sandcarving

    Additional Tools for Sandcarving Stone or Wood

    Add these to your toolbox for best results.
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  • custom jig
    Custom Gifts / Promotional Products

    Custom Jig for Engraving a Baseball Bat on the Rotary Indexer

    This example offers a solution that can be applied to any unusually shaped item.
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  • corelDRAW brushes
    Graphic Design/Software

    Intro to CorelDRAW Brushes

    Brushes allow you to make more complex vector graphics quicker than is possible using just the Bezier tool. Let's have at those brushes…
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  • Solid colors vs. textured (Image courtesy Great Dane Graphics)
    Direct-to-Substrate Printing

    Digital Printing: How to Camouflage Banding in a Design

    Here's a word on banding and full-color art. 
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  • engraved dessert
    Custom Gifts / Promotional Products

    Dessert and Decoration? The laser engraved créme brûlée experiment

    Lasers are so sweet! But what does this treat have to do with your custom engraving shop? Get a taste here. 
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  • Custom Gifts / Promotional Products

    Help Clients Integrate Promotional Products into Their Marketing Plan

    Promotional products are proven effective – do your clients know that?
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  • sublimation mistake
    Heat Transfer/Sublimation

    Create a Sublimation Wall of Shame

    Never make the same mistake twice
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  • ikonics imaging
    Sandcarving

    Inspecting and Replacing Sandcarving Nozzles

    Find out when sandcarving nozzles need to be replaced, why it's important, and how to do it
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  • ink
    Direct-to-Substrate Printing

    Think Ink: UV-Cure Inks – The Good the Bad and the Ugly

    Where UV-curable inkjet inks have excelled and where they have fallen short
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    Awards

    A Minimal Approach to Taping: Assembling and mounting products

    Most plaques and signs require a lot less than you think…
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