adhesive magnets on a postcard?

[donsaction]

I have a customer who would like to get 10,000 postcards with either a square ,or dot, magnet in the 2 top corners. The idea is so the customer can keep the card on their refrigerator. I'm just looking for advice or experience with anything like this.

 

[jwheeler]

Applying magnets to just the corners sounds like a lot of work and would require hand gluing unless you had machinery specifically designed for it. Instead, I'd recommend making the entire postcard a magnet. Scroll down to the "Digital Sheet" and "Offset" sections of this site where you can find magnet sheets for your type of press. We use their DigiMag roll material for our eco-solvent printer.

 

[Magnus59]

I have a customer who would like to get 10,000 postcards with either a square ,or dot, magnet in the 2 top corners. The idea is so the customer can keep the card on their refrigerator. I'm just looking for advice or experience with anything like this.

We do this all the time. You can buy sheets of self adhesive magnetised rubber pre cut into squares or rectangles of various sizes.
Peel them of the backing sheets and apply by hand. 10,000 would be 6 - 8 hours work for 1 person, get a few hands on it, you'll get it done in no time.
If you have a sheltered workshop nearby, they may also offer this service at a low cost.

 

[gordo]

And this all goes through the postal system no problem?

 

[Magnus59]

And this all goes through the postal system no problem?

No problem with them here in Australia, we get all sorts of calendars, tradies advertising etc with magnets through the mail regularly.

 

[donsaction]

Applying magnets to just the corners sounds like a lot of work and would require hand gluing unless you had machinery specifically designed for it. Instead, I'd recommend making the entire postcard a magnet. Scroll down to the "Digital Sheet" and "Offset" sections of this site where you can find magnet sheets for your type of press. We use their DigiMag roll material for our eco-solvent printer.

Yes it does seem to be a lot of handwork, but it's only time. I wasn't aware of the digital sheets though. We run Ricoh 9200's, which looks like it would work, with an offline magnetizes. I'm looking into that.

 

[donsaction]

We do this all the time. You can buy sheets of self adhesive magnetised rubber pre cut into squares or rectangles of various sizes.
Peel them of the backing sheets and apply by hand. 10,000 would be 6 - 8 hours work for 1 person, get a few hands on it, you'll get it done in no time.
If you have a sheltered workshop nearby, they may also offer this service at a low cost.

This is probably the way we will go. Have you ever used the precut circles that come on sheets?

 

[Magnus59]

This is probably the way we will go. Have you ever used the precut circles that come on sheets?

We haven't had a call for circles, but shouldn't be much different to the rectangles.

 

[ReproElectroProspero]

And this all goes through the postal system no problem?

Yes, but you almost certainly won't be getting the discounted rates for postcards, at least with USPS. Most magnet stock is going to be at least 20mil, and the max allowable thickness for USPS postcard rate is something like 16mil.

 

[MailGuru]

Yes, but you almost certainly won't be getting the discounted rates for postcards, at least with USPS. Most magnet stock is going to be at least 20mil, and the max allowable thickness for USPS postcard rate is something like 16mil.

For "letter rate", maximum thickness is 1/4" (about 250 mil). However, you may/may not get some push-back from the USPS about uniform thickness of the mail piece. It should qualify, though.