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Posted by Clinton Hamilton at 03/06/2001 6:20 PM EST


Student on team #108, SigmaC@T, from Dillard High School and Motorola.


In Reply to: Button Making
Posted by Kevin Sevcik on 03/06/2001 11:21 AM EST:



A) It costs ALOT less (about $0.12 per button) plus
manpower
B) if you have a good machine you can really crank
them out. 2 people can produce about 5-10
buttons per minute (sound about right Robbie)
C) allows me to change designs as often as I want
to.
D) I can make great looking buttons with smooth
gradients (tried doing that when you have to pay
per color)
And the #1 reason is that I already tried talking
them into doing that but kids are cheap labor, feed
them and they're happy (for awhile), and we're
barely within our promotional budget as is.


: Nothing personal, but why in the world are you
making buttons by hand? I've done it before, and
it's tedious, annoying, and error prone. Our team,
and I suspect many others, goes to a company
with the artwork, and has them make up the
buttons for us. You get some pretty nice price
breaks for making lots of buttons. I think ours are
coming out to $0.70 or less each, and we're
making about a thousand. Of course, then you
can't make lots of different buttons, but it sure is
cheaper and easier. Just a thought for next year.
I'm not exactly sure what the company would be
listed under in the yellow pages. Probably novelty
supply or something.
: Actually, that's probably where you should look for
button making supplies. Call some shops listed
in the novelties section. if they don't have them,
one of them can probably direct you to the right
place.