Most might only know Brian as RallyGuy, a great contributor to the forum, but I want to give him public kudos for his company as well.
I had a repeat order (1,000 subbed license tags) last August come in just 3 weeks before I was closing for a 3 week vacation. My normal suppliers could not get me that many license tags ASAP. Remembering what nice things had been said about Rallye's white sub aluminium, I gave Brian a call. No problem, we talked and I decided to let him print the tags BUT I would press them. This is a big account and I wanted to control each tag. We did a couple overnight samples to verify colors etc. With his wide format printer he was able to kick out the pages and sent them in two different batches so I could start pressing while waiting for the next batch. This also allowed me to work on other orders that had to be done before vacation. I know some of you reading are thinking why didn't you screenprint. Believe me (and Brian agreed) this design could not be screen printed.
This past May I had a car show needing 800 dash plates so I called Brian again - no problem getting blanks sent within days (these were a little different size than normal so he had to special cut them). He even offered me the choice of protective plastic on or off. For this order I took them off and it was a major time saver.
I emailed Brian last night regarding some gold aluminum for nametags.. he quoted me a price and said we can ship them tomorrow. :-)
Maybe he has a minimum I don't know about, but it has been so helpful to me to be able to order what I need (plus some extras) without having to purchase a 'set dollar amount'. The quality and service is fantastic!! His shipping department packs everything carefully. As a matter of fact my regular UPS carrier was extremely happy. When he was sending the packages of paper already printed his shipping department put the package inside a plastic bag, inside the box. A sub-UPS carrier didn't read the signs I have posted and left the box outside - in the rain. That little step saved everybody time and money.
Sorry this is so long, but I just wanted others to think of Rallye Productions for metal blanks, printing, or outsourcing orders to him.
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