How to Make Custom ID Badges Online
Whether you’re creating custom ID badges for attendees at a convention, ensuring the safety and security of your company employees, or simply enjoy creating your own identification, you can harness online tools to help you in both the design and production processes. A number of vendors produce custom ID badges from your uploaded designs, where you may choose specifications such as color, size and logo; you can also find graphical assistance with some online tools to help you create the badges as well.
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Creating Custom Badges Online
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Review vendors’ pre-set designs. Many online badge printers have a collection of templates they’ve created in the past or that graphic designers have created for them that you may browse to determine whether one would work for your badge. For example, FullIdentity.com offers 17 badges with education designs, 31 public service designs such as police departments, 33 business designs and 13 sports-related designs.
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Upload your company logo to the site to see how it looks on its badges. You may need to customize your logo to meet the vendor’s specifications; for example, a site may request you upload a GIF file, which provides a transparent background so that the logo may be set on any badge color you choose. A specific logo size may also be required.
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Crop and enhance your company employees’ photos. For example, use a graphics software program such as Microsoft Paint or Adobe Photoshop to focus the badge picture on the person’s head and shoulders, removing any excess background.
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Test your badge on a trial run. Many online badge printing sites will allow you to upload your design and set text and photos, spacing everything out, and seeing your badge in “real time.” There’s no commitment; you can click off the website and go to another one at any time.
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Proofread badge information before ordering. Review the spelling of the company and employees’ names, their job title and any other information typed on the badge. Vendors will not refund money or rerun a print job due to order errors.
Ordering Custom Badges Online
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Check whether the company requires a minimum order. For example, if you require 25 badges but the minimum production number is 100, move on to a different vendor. Other vendors, such as EZBadges, have no minimum; you’ll receive a discount if you order higher quantities, but it’s not required.
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Review the website’s fees and charges. Some sites charge setup fees, which are a variety of additional costs related to positioning your logo and graphic on the badge, running it through the printer and getting matching ink colors.
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Determine production time. Each site offers its own schedule of printing requirements. The site will state its standard shipping time (such as five days from receipt of order) and most vendors have an expedited shipping fee, which you will pay on top of the standard fee, such as $100 for overnight shipment. Knowing your custom ID badge requirements ahead of time may help save you or your company money.
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