Name Tag or Name Badge Full Color and Tooth Shaped Dentist

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How strong are your magnets?

Strong enough to firmly hold through a thick business suit lapel and summer jackets. They do not work on some winter overcoats.

What are the name badges or name tags made out of?

Our badges are made out of high quality white fiberglass reinforced plastic (FRP) with a glossy finish. This is a stiff plastic which is approximately .09" thick (about the same thickness of 2 U.S. dimes stacked on top of each other) .

We ask that you upload only the background of your badge (you are welcome to put sample text in your vector or layered background of the badge for us to use as a guideline for layout) and then add the names/titles, etc. in our our ordering system. If you don't find a text or color to your liking, ask for a specific font and/or font color and we will do our very best to accommodate your request. The reason we ask that you do it this way is that we normally need to convert everything from your file format to our printing process. This is sometimes a very cumbersome task depending on your artwork. We much prefer to convert only one badge and then change the names then to convert each and every badge you submit.

Keep in mind that badges are normally viewed from a distance of 4-6+ feet. Names should be easily read from that distance. We recommend you do not use text any smaller than 6 pt. (some fonts should not be smaller than 10-12 point).

When using thin text or serif text we recommend using bold versions of these fonts especially if they are used on darker colored backgrounds. Light text on dark backgrounds tend to get "swallowed up" by the surrounding dyes in our printing process. We recommend after your design is finished to make all text in darker areas at least 1 point larger and outline the text with the same color to make it more bold.

What types of files can you accept?
File types:

Adobe Photoshop - psd
Adobe Illustrator - ai
Corel Draw - cdr (preferred)
Scalable Vector Graphics - svg
Bitmap - bmp
JPEG - jpg
TIFF - tif
TARGA - tga
Windows Meta File - WMF
PNG - png
Encapsulated Postscript - EPS
GIF - gif

Color matching is not guaranteed. Why?

There are several reasons for not being able to match colors with this process. A monitor image is produced using light to illuminate red, green and blue (RGB) dots so is considered "light additive" or "transmissive". The monitor is able to display a much wider range of colors than a reflective product. An image printed onto something is viewed by "reflective light" of the cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK) colors. It is nearly impossible to make reflective and transmissive colors match.

If your monitor is calibrated correctly the colors will be very close to what you see on the screen. Most monitors are not calibrated correctly when you purchase them. Usually when you purchase a monitor you must calibrate it yourself using a program such as Adobe PhotoShop's gamma utility.

Last but not least, the process we use is a dye. The color gamut of these dyes are much more limited than the color gamut of regular printer inks. Regular CMYK printer inks can print upwards of 14 million colors. Our dyes can only print a fraction of that many colors.

Will you do PMS color matching?

To the best of our ability, yes. As we mentioned under the color matching question, our dyes do not have a complete range of the color spectrum so there will be certain PMS colors which we can not match exactly.

If you require your design to be a specific PMS color, please provide the PMS color number(s) with a fully editable design (vector format). We will do our best to get as close as possible.

Additional charges may apply.

We would prefer to handle this via email for files, number of badges needed, what attachement you would like and the rest!

Once you get us an idea of what you would use to order we will supply an online proof to make sure the placement is how you want it. Once that is complete your order is ready to ship!

We will invoice you using google checkout for preference, but if you have someone else in mind I'm sure we can work something out!

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