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Printing into recessed objects
Hi All
I was wondering if anyone might be able to helpI have a customer who is looking to have up to 1000 of these printed in likely batches of 100 at a time. We’ve been making stickers for them but they wish to have a more professional solution by direct printing to the tray.
Does anyone know if this can be done ? I’ve looked into pad printing but no one out there seems to be able to help !
The design they want printing does have a boarder but this can be reduced if printing to the edge causes a problem. By the sounds of it it’s the 21mm recess that’s the big issue. Overall sizes by the way are 305x153x21mm
Unfortunately the wording may vary on some (different ward numbers)
Cheers in advance for any advice you might be able to give
Lee
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Lee
The only way I can think of to do that is to print directly onto the flat plastic before vacuum forming it into a tray.Vacuum forming itself is not that hard, there are tons of instructional videos on you tube of geeks making excellent star wars costumes in their kitchens with home made vacuum forming devices.
Simon. 😀 😀
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try to get the customer to up the numbers, not many folk will help you out when the numbers are low.
pad printing/screen printing etc is all based on having high numbers in order to get the price down.
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quote Simon Worrall:Lee
The only way I can think of to do that is to print directly onto the flat plastic before vacuum forming it into a tray.Vacuum forming itself is not that hard, there are tons of instructional videos on you tube of geeks making excellent star wars costumes in their kitchens with home made vacuum forming devices.
Simon. 😀 😀
Hi Simon
Yeah that seems to be the general consensus with a couple of companies I’ve tried to speak to.
Doesn’t help when our customer has already bought 1000 blank trays !
By the sounds of it …stickers it will be – fine by me 😉Definitely going to check out the vacuum forming though as you suggest. Sounds quite interesting – in a non geeky way of course !
Cheers
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quote Denise Goodfellow:try to get the customer to up the numbers, not many folk will help you out when the numbers are low.
pad printing/screen printing etc is all based on having high numbers in order to get the price down.
Hi Denise
Yes volume is always good and better all round however they want the ward numbers changing and don’t know how many they want for each ward.
Customers eh. Most of the time they don’t know what they want and when they do know….they’re wrong !
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