Our Manufacturing Capabilities

When you need customized name badges and plates, you can count on LoneStar Badge & Sign! Our variety of tools and printing processes ensure that all of our customers receive high-quality products created to their exact specifications.

Here’s a quick sample of just some of the advanced technologies we utilize in our production:

Laser Engraving:  We can cut and etch (also known as rastering and vectoring) most any materials.  We have lasers up to 250 watts and have oxygen, nitrogen, and air assist capabilities.  We can laser out one single item up to 5’ x 5’ in size.

UV Flatbed Printing:  Our flatbed printers use UV cured CMYK inks and are able to print up to 4’ x 8’ items in any colors, including Pantone color matches.

UV Roll Printing:  Our 6’ wide UV roll printer can print almost any kind of decal, floor graphic, wall graphic, stickers, and many other roll format substrates.

Digital Cutting:  Our state-of-the-art Zund digital cutter will cut almost anything up to 1” thick (depending on the material type).  We can cut full sheets of material and substrates up to 5’ x 10’ in overall size.  This includes custom-shaped graphics made from materials like composite metal (ACM), acrylic, aluminum, and many more.

Dye-Sublimation:  We use high-quality, high-detail sublimation printers and heat presses to create name badges, name plates, and signs on metal and FRP materials.  Sublimation creates a long-lasting and vibrantly colored print that is transferred directly onto the material’s surface.

Digital Printing:  We use high-quality industrial digital dye-sublimation printers to create full color photo ID badge cards and other name badges.

Braille:  We use our specialty Braille tools to apply Grade II Braille beads to acrylic (ADA material) signs.  Our Braille beads are available in clear (to match your sign background), white, black, or silver.

Online Design Studio:  Create and see your own design before you buy your name badges and name plates on our shopping site.

We can also laminate, print in 3D, and make products with custom shapes and sizes – if you can envision it, we can make it happen!

Materials We Can Work With

Laser Engraving:  Engravable plastics and acrylics, thin metals (thicknesses vary with metal type).

UV Flatbed Printing:  We can print on many UV receptive materials up to 2″ thick including aluminum composite metal (ACM), acrylic, vinyl, Styrene, Gatorfoam, Coroplast, and wood (MDO).

UV Roll Printing:  Materials up to 6’ wide in a roll format and up to 1.0mm thickness including vinyl and paper.

Digital Cutting:  The material thickness we can cut varies on the individual substrate, but we have the ability to laser cut, knife cut, and/or route ACM, acrylic, vinyl, Styrene, Gatorfoam, Coroplast, and MDO.  Please contact us for any other materials (such as rubber, leather, etc.), as we most likely will be able to cut it as well!

Sublimation:  We typically use sublimatable aluminum up to 0.080″ thickness and FRP (fiber-reinforced plastic) up to 1/16″ thickness, however we can likely sublimate other thicknesses of materials if needed.  Contact us with your specific needs and we’ll see what we can do!

Digital Printing:  The typical ID card thickness we use is 40 mil, but we also have 30 mil cards available and have the ability to print up to 50 mil thickness cards.

Additionally…

In addition to production technology, we help eliminate the headaches that can come with ordering customized name badges and plates with our custom corporate ordering options. With a private, personalized portal or subdomain we can create an exclusive list of products employees are allowed to purchase, incorporate your branding, replicate a past ordering site your company has used, ship orders to multiple locations, and more!

This unique approach helps us save customers (you!) time and energy by solving the common challenges that come with having large orders or multiple offices. Plus, if a product isn’t available in a specific color or shape, we’ll work with one of our many partners throughout the country to create it for you.

With 40 years of experience creating personalized identification items, LoneStar has the experience and facilities to offer each customer exactly what they’re looking for, whether it’s a small batch of name plates or hundreds of personalized name tags.

If you’re looking for an easier way to order high-quality customized name badges and plates, get in touch with our team today!