Product Production: Pens

Product Production: action item for 3-24-09

Custom Pens- price quotes

Most places have a logo charge which is something that has to be made up and sent to the manufacture. Nick might have some insight on this logo but discussion on the wording should be finalized before submission.

Pens Xpress- http://www.pensxpress.com/

• This company offers a wide array of pen types but one of the most feasible of which are their Xpress Pen TC PX 303TC. This is a plain cylindrical pen with cap and printed logo.

· The company is based out of New Jersey so the shipping process would conceivably not take long.

· Print area is ¾” x 2 ½” so the length of the wording can go up to 2 ½ inches.

· The color ink is either back or blue and have translucent barrels in green, pink, blue, yellow, purple, and orange.

· Logo charge of $20.00

· Ideally we would only need from 100-200 pens and that cost would be $.44 per pen for 100-249 pens in following the price drops to $.27 per pen for 250-499 pens

· For shipping purposes the weight would be 2 lbs. per 100 pens.

· The price for 200 pens would be $88.00 and the shipping for this package is estimated at $9.34 altogether it would be $117.34 which includes the logo charge. If we went with just with lettering there would be no logo charge.

The same company offers a style pen that is much like the one above but would be $10 cheaper for 200 but not as high quality. The PX 300

• All same shipping costs

• Same Logo fees

• Same size imprint area

• However this style has a wider variety of colors

Considering we would want the largest and most available room for the impring these would be the best to consider. Some of the other ones do not have as big an area to print our event statement or logo.

Other custom pens manufacturers either have higher prices or a much higher reserve as to the minimum of pens that must be ordered. However if we did order from a place called Marco Promotional Products we would be able to get 500 of their cheapest pens for $100 which includes set up fees however not shipping and handling.

PensRus is another option which has the 500 pen minimum but their prices are slightly lower at .$24 per pen and they also offer better and more in depth options to customization.

All of this can be discussed in class but i will need to know more on

A. if we even want to do this
B. how many pens we actually want
C. what would our budget be
D. our logo/ imprint to promote the event or the facilities or the neighborhood etc...