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Decoration

How your logo gets on it

Decoration is the step that puts your artwork on the product: printing, engraving, stitching, stamping. Which method fits is decided by the surface and the material, not by taste — and that choice is what decides the setup charge, the artwork we need from you, and how many colors the surface will hold.

Twelve methods, one question: will the mark stay on that surface, at that volume, for that price. Each page says what the method can promise, what it cannot, and what drives the cost.

The methods we work with

Curved Screen

A flexible screen wraps around a cylinder, so bottles and tumblers print in one pass.

1 product Setup charge applies

How it works

Embroidery

A sewing machine stitches your logo in thread; the number of thread colors is the cost driver.

0 products Setup charge applies

How it works

Etching

Acid or a stencil cuts a shallow mark into metal, usually filled or left as texture.

0 products Setup charge applies

How it works

Laser Engraving

A laser burns the surface away, leaving a permanent mark in the material's own color.

2 products No setup charge

How it works

Pad Printing

A silicone pad lifts ink from an etched plate and presses it onto small or curved parts.

1 product Setup charge applies

How it works

Puff Printing

A special ink expands under heat as it cures, leaving a raised, soft print.

0 products Setup charge applies

How it works

PVC / Rubber Patch

A mold is cut to your logo and a PVC or rubber patch is cast from it, then sewn or glued on.

0 products Setup charge applies

How it works

Screen Printing

Ink is pushed through a mesh screen onto the surface, one screen per color.

2 products Setup charge applies

How it works

UV Printing

A print head lays UV-cured ink directly onto the item, photo-quality.

3 products No setup charge

How it works

Woven Labels

Your logo is woven into a label on a loom, then sewn onto the item.

1 product Setup charge applies

How it works

The setup figures are one-color reference numbers used by the quote calculator, printed on each method page. They are never folded into a unit price and never shown here as a price.

What decoration is, and what it does to the price

Decoration is a step, not a product

The item is made first: the tumbler, the bag, the notebook. Decoration happens after that — a laser burns the surface, a screen pushes ink through a mesh, a needle stitches thread into fabric. So the method never changes what the item is; it changes what your artwork looks like on it, and what the order costs on top of the item.

A print price has three parts

  • A one-off setup: the screen, the plate, the engraving file or the stamp, made once for your artwork. It is charged even if you order a small quantity, and it does not repeat on a reorder of the same artwork.
  • A cost per piece: what each unit costs to mark. It usually falls as the quantity rises, because the same setup is spread over more pieces.
  • Time: some methods add days to the sample or to production, because a proof has to come back before the run starts.

What moves the number

  • How many colors the artwork uses — each color position can be its own screen or pass.
  • How large the printed area is, and where it sits on the item.
  • How many pieces, because setup is only paid once.
  • The surface itself: a flat panel takes a clean print, a deep curve or a cylinder may need a pad, a jig or a hand operation.
  • Whether the artwork survives the method at all — fine detail, gradients and photographs cannot be reproduced by every process, and a method that loses your logo is not a saving.

Why the quote is still a person

Every reference number on this site is a basis, not an offer. When your artwork and the item are in front of us we can say which method will hold it, how many colors it really needs, and what the setup and the run cost together. That answer comes back itemised, with setup and freight on their own lines.

Not sure which method fits your logo?

Send the artwork and the item. If a method will not hold your logo on that surface, we say so before you order — that is the point of quoting it first.

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