Customization Options

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Customization Options

In many situations, Compendium products stand as the perfect gift best when they stand alone, with your personal hand-written note. Many clients, though, want to customize our products with a logo, message or other corporate mark to personalize it for their business. In these situations, Compendium offers myriad options to do so at very cost-effective prices.

Following is a “glossary of terms” of customizing options.


Logo imprint:

Compendium can stamp-imprint your logo, conference icon or similar identification mark onto many of our products. There are two options available for doing this: a foil stamp or a silk screen. A foil stamp requires us to make a “die” from a native vector art file (Illustrator or EPS file) and heat-imprint it onto a book’s dust jacket, or the box cover sleeve an Openings Window Card collection or our Today is Your Day coaster/magnet. This imprints your logo or mark in a single, solid color. White, black and metallic colors such as silver or gold are standard options. A wide array of additional colors are available for special order, and are charged a price premium. In a silk screen, we create a “screen” with customer-supplied vector art as outlined above, and an exact PMS color-match can be imprint onto most of our products.

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Tip-in message page:

Compendium can design a custom message page, which we print and then glue into the end-sheet of the book post-production. This can be much more appropriate in some occasions than simply imprinting a logo on the book jacket. In addition, it provides roughly 125 words to convey a unique message about the occasion of the gift, or about your company, and tie that into the content of the book. As such we refer to this as a positioning message.

Standard pricing is for 2 colors, which most customers match to the book colors. By doing this, and by matching type style, paper stock and by the way in which it is glued, it often can be difficult for readers to tell this message page is not part of the original book—giving it a unique and special appeal. The other benefit is that, should the jacket ever be lost, this page stays with the book for its life-cycle. These can be created for any of our books or journals.

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Custom belly wrap:

For any of our journals, or for our Take Note notepads, we can very easily and elegantly customize our standard product by creating a belly wrap—with your message, your colors and your logo—that replaces the wrap featured on our standard retail product. These are typically printed in a single PMS color (just like retail product) and allow you to easily message and brand your gift, while still allowing it to remain a gift.

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Custom dust jacket:

We can design and print a custom jacket for your book, creating a jacket that incorporates your corporate colors, typography, photography and more. Subtly make the book reflect you or your event, or change it in dramatic fashion. Use the jacket flap copy to position the book, your event or initiative, or your company. Even alter the subtitle of the book to match your theme. Pricing is reflective not only of quantity but number of colors used, and minimums begin at 500 units.

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Create new box sleeve:

For our Window Card collections, as well as for the box sleeve on our Today is Your Day magnetic coasters, we can design and make a new box sleeve that reflects your colors, your brand and your message. We do encourage customers to keep in mind this is packaging, and will not likely be kept. However, it can be a very effective and powerful way to position and brand a gift so that it still feels like a gift.

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Custom-create your own unique product.

There are limited options for customization when you are purchasing products in the hundreds. At that point we’re fulfilling “after market” ways to personalize them to you.

However, when your usage calls for numbers of 1,000 to 2,500 and above (minimums are different for different media) Compendium provides you the opportunity to turn our products into your own products—or to work with our creative team to custom-design your own, unique gift. As we receive lots of inquiries for custom-created pop-open Window Cards, please note the minimum on that product for custom printing is 50,000 cards.

Please keep in mind that prices, availability and timelines vary greatly for custom products, so please inquire about details with your sales representative. Also please note that most of our manufacturing requires long lead times.

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