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advice on fridge magnets please / trade supplier
Hello All
A customer requires some magnetic business cards, and I just wondered if anyone has done some before, and can advise me…
As far as I can see I have a couple of options:
1. Print onto laser vinyl then apply to magnetic sheet before cutting to size.
2. Print onto laser media and heatpress onto white coated magnetic sheet.
3. Use the clear plastics magnetics (where I can just put printed inserts in)
4. Find a trade supplier who can do it on my behalf more cost effectively.Any suggestions will be greatly received. He’s after maybe a hundred or two hundred, depending on cost.
Thanks in advance…..
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8 Replies
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Hello
I use http://www.vistaprint.co.uk for my business cards and they do a magnetic version that works really well.
Here is a tip – don’t order magnetic business cards in the first instance. Order a small quantity of normal business cards. At almost daily intervals thereafter you will start getting e-mail special offers from Vistaprint allowing you to go and purchase things FOC or mega-reduced, albeit you pay for the postage only.
ie. if you place a straight order for 1000 custom business cards it’ll cost you around £50 – £60. Instead just order 250 at around £13 and then a few days later you will get the offer and can order further batches of 500 for around a £5 (or cheaper) each batch! Also, this is where the magentic cards come in – you can buy batches of 25 FOC and just pay £2 P&P each batch + VAT, so an average of under 10P each. Normally you’d have to pay around 25p each even on very large order quantities? I just keep re-ordering batches of 25 – OK it’s a bit long winded if I want 500 but it saves money!
One more tip – pay for the ‘slow’ delivery, it’s far cheaper and everything I’ve ever ordered has come in a week, even though you have the option to pay more for a fast 1-week delivery?
Cheers
Macky DI just can’t help helping!
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I have made business cards printed onto clear applied to photoluminescent then applied to magnetic vinyl which worked quite well
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Hello itkserv (How the hell do you pronounce that?)
I do loads of magnetic business cards – lasered onto Magic Touch CPM paper and heat pressed onto magnetic sheet. The only pain in the proverbial is cutting them up, so I print a thin line border around the card, and use that as a cutting guide.
Quite easy really and I make a few quids out of them, so luvverly jubbly Eh?
Hope that helps
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You can even buy magnetic paper from PC weird just to give you a taster. 😀
Hey Lee, nice to see you on the boards again.
Anychance of an update on how things are going?
Regards
Andy -
Hello, and thank you everyone for the advice.
Lee,
I’ve got the magic touch system (Space One printer), and I have some CPM so I might try that one first off. Do they come out okay? Do you use the A-Pad to do it? Do you have to coverseal it as well?
Oh yes by the way ITK Services is my trading name…..
Thanks,
Ali
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I use http://www.martinprint.com.au for all my magnetic cards. Just email them the artwork, and they post them back complete.
Although they are based in Australia, they sell world wide.
Cheers
Shane -
Ali,
Yep…use the a-pad or you’ll crinkle the magnetic.
They come out fine – I don’t know whether it will wear off, though -but nobody’s come back to moan (and they usually will if they’re not happy).
So there y’go
Oh Andy…..Update is I’m still here messing about with sticky backed plastic and looking out at the sunshine thinking ” I’m dying to get out there and do some fishin’ “. I’ve had a couple of people asking for details of the business, but nobody’s got any dosh I reckon, so I’m reducing the price and am going to try and set up a deal with someone who hasn’t neccessarily got lots of cash, but who is willing, able and experienced and would like to live in the sun. I’m prepared to leave a goodly amount in the business to help someone get set up.
I had some guy came over a few months ago – I picked him and his wife up from the airport, booked him accommodation, took them out for afternoon tea and biccies, took them, along with some buiness friends of mine, out for dinner at night, dropped them off at the B&B and never heard a word from them again – not even thanks! Blimey, why do we bother, Eh?
By the by, if there are any Sea Angling types out there – can anyone tell me of a discount tackle dealer in the U.K. who sells Penn International taclk at the righ money. I want a reel to go with my fab new International rod, but I can’t find one out here………. Oh, we’re s’posed to be talking about signmaking and stuff aren’t we?????
Ta Ta for now
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Lee try the cabelas web site I have a friend who swears by it for most things.
Goop
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