Custom Gifts / Promotional Products
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How to Design Corporate Photo ID Badges: Part two – pictures
With photo ID badges, pictures of employees are an important element that shouldn’t be overlooked. If your customer wants their…
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Trending Promotional Products Decorated with UV Printing
The use of promotional products as an advertising medium proves to increase interest and generate favorable attitudes toward any brand. With…
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Try This: Sublimated Natural Wood Picture Frames
Natural wood picture frames are not only great sellers and easy to sublimate, they are a great opportunity to experiment…
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Rapid Fire – Best Tool for Photo Products
Industry experts Liz Haas, Rayzist; Lisa Ellston, JDS Industries; David Gross, Condé; and Kris Tennyson, Trotec Laser, weigh in on…
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What are the best laser settings to make quality custom stamps?
Laser engraving stamp materials takes a lot of power and a slower-than-usual raster speed. Almost all laser operators set their power…
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Your Laser at Work: Custom Appliqués and Inserts
Note: This article appears in the May 2018 issue of A&E magazine. If you are looking for upgrade options to personalize…
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How to Design Corporate Photo ID Badges: Part one – informational content
ID badges offer a unique opportunity to apply any of your shop’s personalization techniques: sublimation, engraving, and beyond. The first…
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Which is more popular: embossers or seals?
Seals have always been more popular than embossers (note: seals are round; embossers are rectangular). The historical popularity of the…
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Engraving Efficiently: Pre-engrave products
Customization is extremely popular, and thus a great business opportunity, but one-off jobs can be inefficient. Loading up the same…
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Picking Products the Ladies Will Love
The buying demographic is heavily young and female, and often spontaneous; so, things that have patterns or monograms, are colorful,…
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Custom Jigging: Solving the Problem with Stainless-Steel Tumblers
Editor’s note: The following tip is specifically used on a Universal Laser Systems rotary. The problem with engraving stainless-steel tumblers…
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Try This: Laser-Cut Acrylic Pendants
Using scrap acrylic from previously cut awards, you can create a custom gift selection near your register to trigger impulse…
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Try This: Engraved Wooden Stamps
Woodblock printing is an ancient method of using wood carving to create impressions on fabric, paper, and other products. In…
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Rapid Fire – Trending Photo Products
These photo products are what industry experts are paying attention to and think will grow in popularity in the coming…
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Vertical Products for Stamp Makers
Most stamp applications are for use on paper – and computers print paper in homes and offices all day long.…
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Rapid Fire – Event Opportunities for Photo Products
Event-driven opportunities can be a lucrative way for decorators to market their personalization services – especially when you have a mix…
