The different types of pins we offer are known for their unique textures and styles. Layered soft enamel pins are the most traditional designs you’ll find, and the jewelry-quality finish of cloisonne pins has made them the go-to choice for club pins and employee recognition awards.
are known for their vibrant colors and clarity. The even lines in the artwork are created by using a custom stencil to apply colors one at a time to the surface of your pins. The result is a design that completely covers the pin’s surface without the need for metal strokes in the design to separate colors.
Silk screen printing is a technique used on certain lapel pins that allows color to be added in layers. This means your pins can feature the most detailed designs at the smallest size imaginable without sacrificing quality.
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Gordon College Class of 1971 Lapel Pin
Barrington College - Class of 1971 Lapel Pin
Humana Flag Pin
Screen printed pins like this President's Emergency Operation's Center pin have an amazing level of detail. The minuscule stars, stripes and eagle feathers are all screen printed onto the surface of the pin using a custom stencil.
These baseball trading pins have a bright and colorful silk screen design. Choosing a silk screen pin over a more traditional soft enamel trading pin allowed our production team to overlap the orange and blue colors in the Crush logo.
Choosing a silk screen design over a soft enamel or hard enamel design is an easy choice is you're looking for a lapel pin with a lot of small text and detail. Without the need for metal strokes to separate colorfill areas, silk screen pins like this one can include very small text and have colors overlapping as you see in the doves at the center.
The only way to capture the small details of the eath, the text around the edge and the overlapping colors was to use a silk screen stencil. Silk screen pins are perfect for capturing the smallest, most colorful detail with perfect accuracy.
This star-shaped flag pin has an amazing level of fine detail thanks to the silk screen design. Screen printing is the best way to capture intricate detail in the smallest areas.
This logo pin uses the company's Pantone red to achieve the perfect brand image. Using a silk screen stencil made it easy to include the small Registered Trademark symbol.
This lapel pin combines hard enamel and silk screen printing to create an amazingly detailed design. While the flag and gold police badge make use of hard enamel colorfills, the seal of the Town of Yarmouth was added to the pins with a silk screen stencil.
Silk screen pins that incorporate cloisonne get the best of both worlds. While the text around the edge of this pin was created using a custom mold, the image at the center of the pin was added using a stencil once the pins were colorfilled and plated.
If you want a high-quality pin that doesn't have raised metal strokes separating colors, a silk screen pin is your best bet. Without the need for molded artwork, colors can be screen printed right on the surface of the metal pin, allowing colors to overlap and blend seamlessly.
Silk screen pins are often chosen for special award pins because of their crisp artwork and bright colors. If you're in need of a set of special logo pins, we've got you covered.
There are two ways to create a pin like this: offset printing and silk screen printing. Offset printed pins have a photo disk sealed into the pin while silk screen pins like this one have the artwork inked on top of the metal surface using a custom stencil.
A soft enamel version of this pin would have turned out beautifully, however, choosing a silk screen pin allowed the Missouri Safety Center to ovoid using raised metal strokes to separate colorfills. This allows for a crisp and clear design with different colors touching.
Like any enamel pin, screen printed lapel pins start as a blank piece of metal. However, instead of using a custom die to stamp impressions of your artwork into place, silk screen pins are created by applying enamel paint directly to a flat metal surface. Without raised and recessed levels in the artwork, screen printed designs have a smooth surface with colors that aren’t separated by metal borders.
One of the biggest reasons our customers choose a screen printed pin over a soft or hard enamel design is because they need to recreate a brand image with perfect accuracy, or because their design incorporates a lot of text. However, if you’re looking for the traditional feel of a molded pin, there are ways of combining silk screen printed artwork with a hard enamel design that will give you the best of both worlds.
No matter what kind of artwork you have in mind, a custom silk screen lapel pin will provide vivid detail. Since colors are printed one at a time on the surface of a flat pin, silk screen lapel pins let different colors touch, sometimes layering different colors on top of each other to add crisp detail to the artwork.
This makes them the best choice for company pins that incorporate intricate brand artwork, or designs with a lot of small text or details. Screen printing enamel pins is often the best way to include sharp, clean images on a small pin design. A 1” custom lapel pin only has so much room available for artwork and text, limiting what’s possible with a cloisonne or soft enamel design.
Using a silk screen stencil allows your images and messages to be printed in smaller fonts without losing their clarity or legibility. However, even if you choose a larger size for your custom silk screen lapel pins, the level of fine detail available makes for some of the most incredible designs we’ve seen.
If you prefer the unique texture and look of a cloisonne pin over a full-color silk screen design, you can still benefit from the higher level of detail provided by screen printing. In situations where text or artwork is too small to capture in a molded cloisonne design, our production team can add them to your pins using a silk screen stencil.
All you need to get started on a custom design is to fill out a free quote form. This is the best way to get in contact with our sales team and send us your ideas for a custom artwork. Once we have an idea of what kind of design you need, our art team will set to work and have your first free proof ready within 48 hours.
Gold and silver are two of our more popular plating options, but we also offer black nickel plating that has a shimmering charcoal color, bronze plating that has a classic hew of pale gold, and dual plating that mixes and matches different styles of metal plating together in the same design. Dual plating is one of the best ways to add a sense of contrast to a design and to help certain elements of the artwork stand out from the rest.
Because colors need to be added one at a time, the process of creating a set of silk screen pins is a little more time consuming and expensive than some other types of pins. To cover the cost of creating and setting up the stencils for your artwork, there is a flat fee of $19 for every silk screen color in your design. However, artwork is always free and we offer free unlimited revisions.
Be sure to let us know how we can improve the design after you take a look at your first proof. We’ll include free quotes with your revisions, and you won’t have to pay a dime until you’re ready to order. All of our products are backed by a 100% quality guarantee and come with free overnight shipping as well. Give us a call today, and see what makes Signature Pins the best custom pin maker online.
| Size | 100 | 200 | 300 | 500 | 750 | 1,000 | 2,000 | 3,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.75" | $2.74 | $2.14 | $1.57 | $1.32 | $1.17 | $1.11 | $0.99 | $0.83 | $0.72 | $0.59 |
| 1" | $2.76 | $2.22 | $1.65 | $1.36 | $1.21 | $1.14 | $1.04 | $0.86 | $0.76 | $0.64 |
| 1.25" | $2.84 | $2.37 | $1.77 | $1.45 | $1.26 | $1.18 | $1.08 | $0.91 | $0.81 | $0.67 |
| 1.5" | $3.01 | $2.54 | $2.06 | $1.53 | $1.35 | $1.29 | $1.14 | $0.97 | $0.90 | $0.72 |
We offer a variety of different optional attachments
A lapel pin, also known as an enamel pin, is a small pin worn on clothing, often on the lapel of a jacket, attached to a bag, or displayed on a piece of fabric. Lapel pins can be ornamental or can indicate the wearer's affiliation with an organization or cause.
All we need is your logo, text, thoughts or ideas. We have a staff of graphic artists and they will create your design from any information that you can provide to us.
Our minimum quantity to order is 100.
Once you have received your proof and pricing, approved the digital proof and paid for your order, we will begin production immediately! Standard production time is 7-10 business days but adding upgrades like glitter, spinners, etc. adds production time. Sometimes we get backed up during trading pin season as well and production times for enamel pins can extend to 3-4 weeks, so order early! When complete, we'll ship your order via UPS Red Label shipping free of charge to the continental United States. If you need your pins quicker than our current lead time, we also offer rush trading pin options delivered in as little as 2 days!
We do! We have a few different rush trading pin options that can be made made and delivered in as few as 2 days! For more information on these, check out this page! We also have the ability to rush some soft enamel pin orders but you'll need to confirm with your salesperson what the production queue looks like at the time of order.
All of the designs that you see on the web page are previous designs that we have created for other clients. We do not stock any lapel pins however we can create any custom design that you want.
