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Ordering
5,000 units,
not 50,000.
Minimums, terms, lead times and what the process actually looks like.
Minimums
Our minimum is 5,000 units per size per colour on a custom printed run. Stocked formats go lower.
Factory minimums in this category start at 50,000 per size per colour. That prices out anyone launching a single SKU, so we hold the balance rather than asking you to buy it.
Terms and lead times
Net 30, rather than payment in full before anything ships.
Custom printed runs take ten to eleven weeks, because that is how long printing, curing and ocean freight honestly take. Stocked formats ship in days from five warehouses across the United States.
The process
Samples first, free and with no expectation. You fill them with the real product and find out what works before anything is specified.
Then interior dimensions and print area are confirmed, a dieline goes to your designer or to ours, artwork goes to plate, and you approve a printed proof before any volume runs.
Artwork
If the dieline has nowhere to go.
Artwork on metal distorts wherever the tin draws, and the dieline has to compensate for it before anything reaches plate. We do that in house when there is no designer on your side. how it works.