FAQ
The most important is we accept customer's design orders only, there are no open designs to choose from, no stocks or over run items for sale either everything must be your own logo or designs.
We firstly need to know your design. You can inquire us via email with your artwork, even your medals design ideas or reference images will work. We creat an initial sketch or we will show images of similar existing products for your review. Once design is confirmed,then we can calculate the prices. Please note that to create a price quote we require the quantity to be ordered and desired size.
We don’t set minimum order quantity, but quantity will directly influence the price. Surely, the larger quantity, the more favourable price.
We accept T/T (Telegram Transfer), Western Union, Paypal etc….
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We offer gold, silver and copper platings standard with our orders. For an extra charge, we can antique those standard finishes to give an aged look to your lapel pins. Antique finishes also help greatly when your design is mostly metal (die struck) as the darker recessed areas provide a greater contrast for text and fine lines.
Regular materials include brass, zinc alloy, iron, stainless steel, stainless iron,etc.
Any shape is available. They don’t need to be circular, as traditional lapel pins are. Our galleries have some examples of unique shapes.
We prefer images to be in CDR or AI formats, if possible. Otherwise, we accept EPS.JPG, .GIF, .PNG, .PPT, .DOC, .PDF, .BMP, .TIFF and .PSD. Almost every format are available for us.
We have established good relationship with international door-to-door couriers include FedEx, DHL,UPS, TNT, especially Fedex. And 2-3 business days for Fedex priority service,4-7dasy for Fedex Economic Service. You are welcomed to enjoy low freight and fast shipping service.
If your goods are shipping to the Europe, North America, Asia, your typical turn around time is 10-12 business days for manufacturing. And 2 business days for Fedex priority service,4-7dasy for Fedex Economic Service. All other destinations’ delivery times differ.
We are pleased to try our best to meet your rush delivery time, so we don’t charge any rush service fee.
Still no minimum order quantity.
Every of your mold will be kept for possible reorders. So you don’t need to pay the mold cost anymore.
We require 30% depoist before we start the order. Small amounts below in full payments will be appreciated because of the handling fee occurs every time.
Yes, we are pleased to provide free existing samples and pre-production samples to you to refer and approve.
Sure, you just need to pay the mold charge and shipping fee to get the sample, sample is free.
The Die Struck process involves creating a stamping and trimming mold and die.
A metal allow is placed over the mold and hydraulic pressure is applied.
This process is suitable for medals that are smaller than 3″ wide and 3mm thick
The Die Casting process is perfect for larger and thicker medals. If you have 3D in your design we may need to go with cast.
Ideal or medals that are thicker than 3mm.
Used mostly for national and international events where a substantial award medal is required
Die casting is a metal casting process that is characterized by forcing molten metal under high pressure into a mold cavity. Once the mold cavity is filled, the pressure is maintained until the casting solidifies after cooling down. Then the half-finished products would be polished, electroplated and color-filled.
Imitation hard enamel is invented in early 1990 and also named Soft cloisonne or synthetic cloisonne. It would be filled into the stamped metal first, and have polishing and electroplating afterwards. It is hard to tell the difference between real hard enamel and imitation hard enamel colors, but if you stab the color parts with knife point, imitation hard enamel colors will get visible marks, however real hard enamel colors won’t because hard enamel colors are as hard as tiles.
There are stamped iron with soft enamel/ stamped brass with soft enamel/ photo etched brass with soft enamel/ die cast zinc alloy or spin cast pewter with soft enamel, a lot of procedures or materails can be filled with soft enaml colors. Prices of soft enamel pins are usually cheaper than hard enamel or imitation hard enamel pins. Colors are liquid stage and can be mixed to the pantone numbers as instructions. Colors are stored in syringes and applied by injection. Our soft enamel colors comply with the standards of ASTM F963-11 and CPSIA.
There are kinds of material that can be applied to custom lapel pins. Such as brass, copper, iron, stainless Steel, aluminum, pewter and zinc alloy. If you have no idea which material is better for your design, just drop an inquiry to us and we will offer our suggestion after evaluating your design, quantity, budget and delivery time, finally turning your ideas into affordable and eye-catching custom lapel pins!
–Send us inquiry->get quotation->our designer design drawing and send it to you for approval->payment done.
->open mold and make samples->deliver you samples or send you pictures of samples for approval->mass production.
The most common lapelpins sizes range from 0.75″ to 1.0″. Average team trading pin size is 1.75″. 90% of teams order 1.50″, 1.75″ or 2.00″ Custom lapel pins come in just about any size you want. Custom any shape or custom logos. Get the size that’s right for you.