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Custom Ribbon Definitions: Part 4

Defining our business helps our customers to understand what we do.

While our FAQ pages contain many questions, we thought about getting down to the nitty-gritty for you. Here is part four of our definitions series. Find out more about how our business runs! As we recently formatted our ribbons website to be accessible via mobile usage, let’s cover what ribbon types we offer!

Rosette Ribbons

This ribbon type is the best way to give as an award to any winner or event participant. With decorative tops and bottom streamer ribbons, rosette ribbons have an elegant look that will show recognition for doing well at anything. Rosettes are ideal for awards for businesses, sports events, educational needs, hobbies, animal shows and more. We offer both stock and custom styles of these ribbons. They range from stock titles and places to fully customized.

Classic Ribbons

This variety of classic ribbons refers to several ribbon options. Flat pieces of ribbon that can be either attached to a name badge or used as other promotional material are commonly known as badge ribbons. Order many of these ribbons can as custom or stock; both have their benefits. These ribbons can be printed with information that identifies speakers and staff or an assortment of other functions of people during conferences and other meetings. This ribbon type also includes imprinted ribbons and they prove to be valuable networking and marketing tools and are great for brand recognition. Full color ribbons, which are classic ribbons that are personalized with your custom text, a company logo or full color graphics.

Custom Ribbon Rolls

From celebrations to awards, custom ribbon rolls are extremely versatile. Each ribbon selection can be customized to meet all your needs by simply imprinting your text or logos. These are perfect for weddings decorations or other events and floral arrangements. Add your personalized message and tie them around bags and boxes when giving gifts. Ribbon rolls also make great award or awareness ribbons. And, we have several types to choose from that will meet all your needs.

Same Day Ribbons

This section is incredible! It features all of our ribbons that will ship either the same day they are ordered or the next day. These same day ribbons include ribbons from each of the above categories.

Do you have any further questions about these ribbon types or definitions?

There will be more articles coming with even more definitions! Please help us by letting us know what definitions you need. Are there specific things you just don’t quite understand? Reply with anything that you might need help with! And don’t forget that we have definitions for name tags too!

Easy Uses for Custom Ribbon Rolls This Holiday

Making your holiday traditions outshine others with personalized ribbon rolls!

With the holidays only weeks away, we are all turning our focus to the gift giving and the feasts with family and friends. Well, this year, why not make those traditions a bit more special with custom ribbon rolls.

From celebrations to awards, custom ribbon rolls are extremely versatile. Each ribbon roll selection can be customized to meet any need by adding text or logos. Ideal for weddings, holidays or other events for decorations and floral arrangements. Add your personalized message and tie them around bags and boxes when giving gifts. Ribbon rolls make great award or awareness ribbons. Customize a ribbon roll of your choice with your message and simply cut them to the length you like and present them to be worn or displayed.

Ribbon rolls are perfect for wrapping, decorating and so much more! We have several styles to choose from to match your needs.

Satin ribbon rolls are relatively inexpensive and are perfect for gift wrapping. Choose from single or double faced depending on how shiny and smooth you want them to look. And they are just simply lovely on those gifts under your Christmas tree this year!

DYNA floral satin ribbons rolls have a slight sheen and a supple, satin feel. This ribbon is easy to tie and knots very well. As such, they are perfect for bows, wrapping gift boxes and using on floral arrangements and table centerpieces.

Chiffon-Organza ribbon rolls are lightweight and translucent. These are 100% nylon and are a unique choice for ribbons. As this ribbon is lightweight, it is easy to work with and provides an elegant, iridescent finish. While these are ideal for offsetting colors of wrapping paper, don’t underestimate how versatile they can be! Try wrapping them around your Christmas tree for a quick, sheer decoration. Or simply hang them from your favorite wreath.

While these are only a few quick ideas, and we didn’t feature all of our available ribbons, we hope that they get your creative juices flowing! Personalize your custom ribbon rolls today before the holidays are over!

And, we always love hearing how you’ve been using your personalized ribbons! Please make sure to share your favorite holiday traditions below. And even better if you include ribbons in those traditions!

Thanksgiving, ribbons and the best customers!

Thanksgiving is so close that we can smell the turkey in the oven!

Families will soon gather in dining rooms across this great nation. And thankfulness is found everywhere. Celebrating Thanksgiving allows us to focus on our blessings, giving thanks for what we have, and for the freedoms which we all enjoy.

We here at Coller Industries Incorporated just wanted to take the time to say Happy Thanksgiving and give thanks to all of our customers, new and old, that have supported our business over the past year. Thank you for stopping by, leaving a comment, and shopping our large personalized ribbon selection. We are blessed to be part of your personalized identification needs.

To help celebrate the Thanksgiving occasion, here’s our list of things for which we are thankful.

Whether an award is presented at a student fair, an animal showcase or a sporting meet, rosette ribbons will make anyone feel special at any and all events.

As they are an easy way to identify and recognize different roles people serve, classic ribbons deserve the recognition this time!

From celebrations to holidays, custom ribbon rolls are extremely versatile and are perfect for decorations, gifts and so much more.

Finding people who adore personalized ribbons as much as we do!

There are also a few customers that we need to thank:

We appreciate all of our customers who ask all the right questions. Thank you for your continued encouragement and suggestions.

All of our new customers that we gained this year! Thank you for placing your trust in us and our products.

We love all of our repeat customers. Loyalty sits well with us!

And most of all YOU!

We appreciate your friendship, business and the confidence you have placed in us. So, on behalf of all of us at Coller Industries Incorporated, our best wishes for a Happy Thanksgiving.

Enjoy the day, your meal, and especially the company of your family and friends, and let us know what you’re grateful for! And in case, you didn’t know:

WE’RE THANKFUL FOR PERSONALIZED RIBBONS!

Custom Ribbon Definitions: Part 3

Defining our business helps our customers to understand what we do.

While our FAQ pages contain many questions, we thought about getting down to the nitty-gritty for you. Here is part three of our definitions series. Find out more about how our business runs! While our Artwork Guide features most of this topic, there might still be a few unanswered questions.

HORIZONTAL VS VERTICAL RIBBONS

Our classic ribbons come in two different orientations. Both horizontal and vertical ribbons are useful for many different things. Attach these ribbons to a name badge with a simple adhesive strip located at the top of the ribbon.

Horizontal ribbons feature a width that is longer than the length of the ribbon. These ribbons are ideal for sales and promotions. They can also recognize accomplishments or feature a title or position.

Vertical ribbons feature a length that is longer than the width of the ribbon. These ribbons are perfect for making someone stand out. With the longer feature of this ribbon, graphics and sayings stand out for anyone to see.

IMAGE BLEED

This feature is only available on our full-color ribbons. A bleed means that the background colors of a design may extend off the edges of the ribbon. The design may bleed on any and all sides of the ribbon. However, because the ribbons are printed and cut from a continuous roll, ribbons with a background image that extends off the pinked edges (the zigzag edge cutting) may show the beginning of the repeated background on the tips of the pinking. To avoid this, design your background so that both pinked edges have the same color or pattern.

Do you have any further questions about these definitions?

Custom Ribbon Definitions: Part 2

Defining our business helps our customers to fully understand what we do.

While our FAQ pages contain many questions, we thought about getting down to the nitty-gritty for you. Here is part two of our definitions series. Find out more about how our business runs! While our Artwork Guide features most of this topic, there might still be a few unanswered questions.

Our artwork guide says the following:
Imprinted Ribbons require black and white, one color vector art. Full Color Ribbons may be created using vector art or high quality bitmap files (300 dpi minimum). High quality artwork is required for all processes. Unfortunately, we cannot consider faxes, photocopies, business cards, printed products or photos of any of the above to be print-ready artwork. We can quote most jobs by using such artwork, but we cannot use this art for production.

To help you understand better what we need for your artwork, here are the definitions to the files we accept for production.

Vector Artwork
For the best results, we recommend submitting all artwork as vector files (.eps, .ai,.cdr ) with all text converted to curves or outlines. Vector art means the computer mathematically plots the outline of each shape and applies a fill color. The computer knows exactly what shapes are in the image. If you zoom in on a vector file the colors remain clear and the edges are clean and well defined.

Bitmap Artwork
The quality of your printed ribbons depends on the quality of the artwork submitted. Bitmap art uses a grid of tiny squares of color (pixels) to create the image. The computer will not know what shape is in the image because it does not recognize color differences in pixels. This is also known as raster artwork. An image from the internet (usually a .jpg, .png, or .gif saved at a resolution of 72 dpi) that looks great on your monitor will not print well. When you zoom in on a low-quality bitmap image you will see squares, rough edges and uneven colors. You cannot improve the quality of the image simply by saving it with higher dpi settings. The image will have more dots per inch, but the quality will remain the same or even degrade further.

Color Matching
The best way to let us know what colors you expect is the Pantone Matching System (PMS). We make reasonable efforts to match these colors however, we do not offer exact color matches due to limitations of the production processes. Available materials limit the color of imprinted logos and surfaces. Variations in materials, printer ribbons, equipment, and environmental factors preclude any guarantee of color. If color matches are important, we recommend the purchase of a First Article; we may send a color sample in some circumstances. However, variations in materials, stamping foils, printer ribbons, equipment, and environmental factors preclude any guarantee of exact color consistency from lot to lot or even item to item within the same lot.