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    Pin Badge Machine - Advice Required

    I have an order for 500 25mm badges and was going to contract out but I think it might be a good opportunity to make the small investment in a machine myself.

    Anyone have any recommendations for a good quality machine? Seen a couple on eBay and elsewhere but would be good to have something that's been tried and tested :-)

    Could also do with an idea at how much these badges retail for please.
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    If you do want to contract them out I have 2 x 25mm presses that need the work I also think IanM may have a 25mm machine.

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    Lol, maybe lead with my head on this one and just get them done elsewhere then! ;-)

    If you want to drop me a PM with a price John I'll see whether it's worth me taking the plunge! Could be an ongoing order which is why I thought about getting the machine....just looking for an excuse really :-)
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    Hi Justin

    I used to do them in house but gave up as the prices that the larger companies charge meant it was simply not worth it.

    As an example, I can get 500 badges for about 12p each. The unit cost is around 4-6p, so £40.00 profit on I would say about two hours plus work on a basic badge making machine.

    Plus it is arguably one of the most tedious things to do in the world :-)

    If you want to go down the route of making them yourself then Enterprise (www.buttons.co.uk) are pretty good machines and the company is a nice one to deal with. Knowing what I know now, you are better to go with a cheaper machine and get a cutter that punches out the circles (not the one style that you have to rotate) as this is the really really really tedious part.

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    Yeah, I've kinda been wondering about that.....not another tedious job! Was just looking at that site, good stuff but I'd want a decent cutter.....oh what the heck, I'm just going to outsource them! PM me with prices guys! lol.
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    The quick cut machine is pretty good and the super cut is excellent. But even with the quick cut it is still not worth it

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    Hi Justin,
    Sent you a PM but looking at SG prices - I shouldn't have bothered
    It's a lot more than 2 hours work.

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    Hi Justin,
    Try this company I bought a keyring machine off them at the printwear and promotion show they also do button badges they done a demo at the show and it looked first class. blankbadge.co.uk the machine I got is excellent not sure of prices though but think there on the website.
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    Hi MrC

    Not my prices, I do not do them and to be fair I did exclude the time taken to cut and also the time taken to print etc. etc. The prices came from what my clients currently pay.

    I know that Enterprise use their local prison for large runs as the labour rate is cheap and I did time a casual worker once on two machines, both from Enterprise. One was the budget system and the other was the faster Mini. Per hour she did 200-250 on the Micro and 300-350 on the Mini

    Compare this to acryllic keyrings @ 500 per hour and a higher profit margin I soon realised that this is not something I want to do.

    I think it is one of those items that unless you are doing bucket loads of them then it is simply not worth doing as the hassle/tedium factor is quite a major issue on these.

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    Whats does a keyring machine do Sammy?

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