Full Version: Other engraver's labels on trophies/plaques
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#2]
28 Mar 2007
To: Colin (MATROPHY) [#1] 29 Mar 2007
Colin,
I don't know if there's a right or wrong answer.
I do know that if I'm updating another company's particularly hideous perpetual award, I don't want my label anywhere near it.
In fact, I've seen some work so bad that even the person who made it won't attach their own label to it. :-)
EDITED: 28 Mar 2007 by DGL
From: Cindy (CINDYM) [#3]
29 Mar 2007
To: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#2] 29 Mar 2007
David - that's my view! We have one company in town that didn't used to use labels and I am always repairing or re-engraving their work to fix errors. I would not want my label on their work - it is not a reflection of my quality. They are using labels now and the fixes still come to us.
If the label is from somewhere out of my area, and they are bringing it in to have the engraving done (say a national company made the award and the client bought the item on-line or through their club), I will put my label on it so the next person who gets the engraving done knows where to go locally. I don't take the other label off, but put my label in a little more visible position on the back.
Cindy M
From: gt350ed [#4]
29 Mar 2007
To: Colin (MATROPHY) [#1] 29 Mar 2007
Beyond this, we label it if most of the work was done by us; in which case our's would be the only label.
But, again, if it's such that we are doing the bulk of the plaque for corrective purposes, we almost always talk them into a new plaque. Our "out" is generally related to the fact that our plaques, and any work that we do, utilizes laser engraving. Almost always, the plaque being brought to us has been diamond dragged or burnished.
I know others here may disagree, but we operate from the point of view that we primarily utilize our equipment to produce products that we sell, as opposed to fixing products that others sell.
From: Doc (GREAT_ATLANTIC) [#5]
31 Mar 2007
To: Colin (MATROPHY) [#1] 31 Mar 2007
:B
From: Colin (MATROPHY) [#6]
31 Mar 2007
To: Doc (GREAT_ATLANTIC) [#5] 31 Mar 2007
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#7]
31 Mar 2007
To: Doc (GREAT_ATLANTIC) [#5] 2 Apr 2007
What's a Brother P-Touch?
From: Stunt Engraver (DGL) [#8]
1 Apr 2007
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#7] 1 Apr 2007
Chuck,
It's a label maker.
www.brother-usa.com/ptouch/whatsapt/pt_whatsapt.html
EDITED: 1 Apr 2007 by DGL
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#9]
1 Apr 2007
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#7] 1 Apr 2007
See Stunt's answer first.
The labels are laminated with the printing inside the lamination. They take Windex and never fade. The DPI on the older unit I have is lousy, but you usually cannot notice it unless you try to print a graphic.
It is used for all of my price/description labels in my store.
From: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#10]
1 Apr 2007
To: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#9] 1 Apr 2007
Does it or can it produce the lables that one would put on the bottom of a trophy or the back of a plaque? ( HEY! That rhymes..I'm a poet and didn't know caust my feet are LONGFELLOWS) { insert corny joke laugh here}
Will it do foil lables?
From: Harvey only (HARVEY-ONLY) [#11]
1 Apr 2007
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#10] 2 Apr 2007
They have many different tapes available. I generally use gold letters on black. I used to use black letters on clear for the glass because they less obtrusive. They were so unobtrusive that customers were constantly asking how much it cost, into the bucket with that idea.
I have not seen foils as an option. It is too expensive for bottom labels. They are cheap in a few hundred quantities.
From: Cindy (CINDYM) [#12]
3 Apr 2007
To: LaZerDude (C_BURKE) [#10] Unread
Don't even think along those lines Chuck. The Brother unit is great for small runs, but if you are planning on getting labels for your products, there are more cost effective places by far.
Cindy
From: Cathy (METIME417) [#13]
3 Apr 2007
To: ALL
I have been known to NOT put my labels on trophies that the customers design, but I don't like (I always try and talk them out of bad designs first). I agree with the others, depends on the amount of work I put into it and if it is quality work.
Cathy