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Refrigerator Magnets
Has anyone made refrigerator magnets. I have a customer looking for about a hundred of them I thought I could probably make them, my rep first told me I could but the magnetic materials with a backing on it so it wouldn't magnetize to the versacamm then the other one told me to buy precut magnets and print onto clear vinyl. Or should I just order them for a promo products dealer? Thank you for all your help. Have a great weekend!!!
Tammy Campbell
Affordable Embroidery
Tammy Campbell
Affordable Embroidery
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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on -
I have done them occasionally, for customers that are spending a lot of money on other stuff and want a good heavy duty magnet. Normally 'promo' magnets are done on .020 or even .015 garbage magnets...I use MagnaTel for most of the ones I send out, and specify .030 thickness. Just had 2500 done for a client that would have taken me days to do.
You CANNOT use magnetic material on the Versacamm without raising the head, as a tech told me-and it is lightweight, not what you might want to sell. And buying precut magnet blanks will cost you three times what it would be to just farm it out. Think of it...design it, email it, deliver it, get paid. What more could you ask for?
Roland
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on -
Hi Tammy,
We do magnets all the time. I would not feed any magnetic sheeting through your Versacamm..
Print your design out on white vinyl and laminate it on to a sheet of magnetic material. Use a straight edge and a sharp razor/knife to score around your design. You do not need to cut all the way through the magnetic sheeting. Once you've scored the entire sheet, you'll be able to separately your magnets from the waste.
Kevin
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Permalink Reply by A. Tamara Campbell on -
Kevin,
I don't have a laminater, I guess I could buy one. What would you charge me for 125 magnets 2 color design? Where are you located. I would love to see one you have made.
Tammy
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Hirata on
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Hi Tammy,
I'm in California. You can email me at kevin@inkit-promotions.com
Thanks,
Kevin
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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on -
Stouse is a good source to get magnets done for you. If you are looking to run small quantities, you might want to check out the magnet king online where you can get cut blanks and they also have the outlines in EPS so you just design and run the decals and then apply to the blank magnet that is already cut and ready for you.
Hope this helps!
Steven
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Permalink Reply by A. Tamara Campbell on
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Steven,
You like me don't seem very excited over making these haha. I contacted Stouse but hve not heard back from them yet. I only need a 125 of them so hoping they get back to me soon.
Tammy
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Permalink Reply by A. Tamara Campbell on
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Thank you all who replied to this, it is nice to know someone has your back when you have no idea what your doing lol!!
Tammy Campbell
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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on
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I don't know what size you need, but check out www.magna-tel.com and see if they have what you need-they have always done good for me. Some sizes the minimum is only 50.
All kinds of shapes, etc. and both 20 mil and 30 mil. Quality is outstanding, it is NOT just a 'printed paper' applique but is printed directly to the vinyl overlay.
800-467-2537 and talk to a live person...
Roland
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Permalink Reply by Steven Jackson on
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Tamara,
We are also experimenting with Seramark as an alternative to magnets. It is a woven fiber wall graphic material that does not curl and can be print and cut right away. It has held up on my car for a couple of weeks so far with no issues. Since it has removable adhesive (primarily used for removable wall graphics), it can be removed cleanly from the vehicle and reapplied! I am kind of excited about this as most people do not want a permanent decal on their vehilce and I don't want to cut the shape for a magnet.
Steven
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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on
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I have clients for vehicle magnets that use them during the day, and remove them at night when they go out somewhere-after having some stolen. Seems a common problem around here...so if you want to test that Seramark, take it off your vehicle every once in awhile, throw it behind the seat (like a customer would do) and then re apply the next morning...see if it holds up the same way!
As for 'fridge magnets' like she is looking for-the Seramark wouldn't work-people use their fridge magnets to hold up recipes, school pictures, etc.-and an adhesive back wouldn't work if you just stuck it in the middle of the page like they do.
Roland
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Permalink Reply by Candy Mattingly on -
I THOUGHT THE VERSACAMM WOULD SCOR THE THINER MAGNET MATERIAL. FOR MAGNETS ON A FRIG, WOULD YOU JUST PRINT ON VINVLY WITH REGISTATION MARKS. APPLIE THE VINLY AND CUT THE MAGNET.
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Permalink Reply by Roland R. Irish III on
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Your time is money...and making 100 magnets can easily tie you up for a couple hours-layout, printing, application, cutting (and each magnet HAS to be cut perfectly-the customer is NOT going to accept crooked!)
so you spend all afternoon carefully trimming each magnet...when you can just do up the design, email it to the supplier, wait a week or so-and have a package of perfect magnets and a happy customer.
When I run off vehicle magnets, I duplicate the image on some of the scrap vinyl before I cut off the roll. When I lay down the material on the magnetic blank, I take those couple of mini's and put them on the scrap...just as a 'freebie' sample to the client. They like them-they want more, I show them the samples from MagnaTel I have stuck all over my file cabinet-and then the prices. Usually results in a couple hundred piece order-for artwork I already have done. So it's a no-brainer job. Potential of damaging a head or wearing off a $19 blade every couple of feet of magnet (if there is one that fits without raising the head) just isn't worth it. Nor is it worth trying to lay down 100 or more perfect pieces of vinyl without any bubbles or dust bumps.
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