What is Texture Tone®?

Achieve awesome-looking imprints fast with Texture Tone®. For those who still want high-quality lapel pins, coins, medallions, and more.

Overview of Texture Tone®

Texture Tone® is a quick decoration process (5-7 business days) that can create a high-quality imprint w/ Texture and Special Effects.

It is produced domestically in North Carolina and California, which is a short ship to most people in the United States.

Additionally, the versatility of the decoration method means it’s available on all express products (products produced in-house).

In short, the combination of high quality and quick production time makes this decoration process ideal for projects that have a close in-hands date and require high quality.Texture-Tone-980x980-1

Benefits of Texture Tone®

High-Quality Decoration

Texture Tone® is a high-quality imprint that 3D Prints Textures with Special Effects. It can make your customers’ last-minute jobs look like fantastic, fully custom pieces that took months to produce.

Fast Production

It is a quick production time (5 – 7 business days) and is produced in the USA (in North Carolina and California). That means it’s a short ship to most people in the United States.

Custom or Stock Shapes

Achieve a custom shape (with cutouts) when you use customizable materials like Acrylic or Wood. You can also use our stock products with pre-defined imprint locations.

Satisfy Artwork Requirements

The Texture Tone® decoration is extremely adept at fulfilling artwork requirements. It can produce Gradients, Full Color, and Fine Details.

Production Flexibility

Texture Tone® can be used on any express product, customized with variable data.

Ideal Use Cases

1: Last Minute – High-Quality Jobs

The overarching benefits of Texture Tone® are Speed, Quality and Flexibility. As such, it is primarily used for high-quality, last-minute jobs. The typical scenario is when your client asks for something high quality, but needs it in a week or two (that never happens, right ;).

Custom Shape Acrylic Pin

5 Business Days

Faux Colorfill w/ Faux Sandblasted Background

5 Business Days

Mirror Blue Finish with Exposed Metal lettering inside pre-designed Titan Ring

5 Business Days


2: When Art or Production Flexibility Required

You might also use Texture Tone® if your client needs something more than traditional custom pieces allow.

Variable Data

For example, say they want variable data for years of service on a lapel pin; or names for name badges. This can get complicated (or expensive) to do with a traditional custom piece, but is easy with Texture Tone®.

Mixing Design Styles

Or, let’s say your client has a full-color image that they want to mix with colorfill design; or gradients that need to appear. While these things are possible overseas, they can be more expensive and harder to pull off. But with Texture Tone®, this can be easily accomplished.

Cost

Since Texture Tone® is a quality decoration with a fast turnaround, it’s typically a premium price point. However, in certain circumstances, Texture Tone® can be less expensive than fully custom alternatives.

This typically occurs when the product is physically big or heavy (think medallion or coin). In those cases, it can be more cost-effective to go with Texture Tone® for your clients than a traditional custom piece.

Price Breakdown for 2-1/2″ Medallion
example pricing only. for actual pricing see product

  Texture Tone® Texture Tone® Casted Stamped
Shape Stock Design Custom Shape Custom Shape Custom Shape
Material Zinc Acrylic Zinc Iron
Production Time 5 days 5 Days 25 Days 25 Days
Qty 1000 1000 1000 1000
Piece Price $3.30 – $4.12 $4.50 $4.34 $5.56
2D Die Or Setup Charge Free Free $195 $165
Extended Price $3,300 – $4,120 $4,500 $4,535 $5,725

 

 Price Breakdown for 3″ Medallion
example pricing only. for actual pricing see product

  Texture Tone® Texture Tone® Casted
Shape Stock Design Custom Shape Custom Shape
Material Zinc Acrylic Zinc
Production Time 5 days 5 Days 25 Days
Qty 1000 1000 1000
Piece Price $4.02 – $5.52 $5.00 $5.98
2D Die Or Setup Charge Free Free $220
Extended Price $4,020 – $5,520 $5,000 $6,200

Effects Breakdown

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Background Options

Style Options

Production Flexibility

 

How to Order Texture Tone®

Ordering Texture Tone® is pretty much the same as ordering any other express product.
There are a few extra details you should include:
Vector Artwork
Where possible, your art should always be vector. Obviously, with full-color images this is not always possible.
Visual Style
Please specify if your client wants a certain background or visual style.
Visual Effects
Also specify if your client wants specific special effects (faux sandblast) and where those should be (ex: “Please make the background look faux sandblasted”)
Custom Shape
If the product is a custom shape, please tell us what shape that is. Should it be cut to the art bounds or a different shape?