The reason that lanyards are most often used is to hold membership and identity cards so people may hang then around their necks. The   lanyard enables the user to conveniently show their identification cards or carry their keys and USB flash drives. Even though some lanyards are plain, one can see more and more lanyards that are being printed each day with company names and their logos. However, the printed lanyard’s function goes far beyond holding identification cards.  Lanyards can be used to make the presence of companies and businesses felt in trade shows, meetings or seminars. Aside from company logos and names, lanyards can be printed with a message particularly if the company is trying to make their presence known at seminars, meetings or trade shows. In addition to company logos and names, lanyards can be printed with a special message particularly   if the company is trying to promote a specific cause.

Why are Printed Lanyards Used?

If a business owner wants to look for a way to promote his business, he may wonder why he should use lanyards.  This is a very good question and thank goodness the answer is quite simple.

Lanyards are rather inexpensive items to produce and during seminars, school events, tradeshows and company meetings these items can be sold as novelty items in order to promote one’s business. Lanyards can also be used within a meeting or a company in order to distinguish between people from various departments, or they can also be used in seminars to identify individuals from certain organizations. This can easily be done by printing custom lanyards in different colors or simply giving a different design to the lanyard.

Printing Lanyards

There are a number of ways to print lanyards having a company logo or name on them; however, some are easier to print than others. It seems that most people do their lanyard ordering online. Yet, you can easily do your lanyard printing at home using printing tools and desk publishing. There is a wide variety of materials from which lanyards can be made including the following: nylon, polyester as well as woven fabric that can be breakaway or non-breakaway. It all depends upon what the lanyard is going to be used for. The most popular lanyard material is nylon because it is strong and is easy to clean.

One of the very best methods to print lanyards is by screen-printing. The results are not only very well done but this method also makes certain that there is durability to the images. When someone decides to screen-print a lanyard, he transfers the design onto a very fine mesh screen. After that, it is transferred onto the lanyard. Hot stamping is the other means by which lanyards can be printed. When a person uses this method, he first has to transfer the design to a film. The design is then transferred onto the material of the lanyard. One other method that can be used when producing detailed logos and texts is a process called dye sublimation. Just about the best thing about using this method of printing lanyards is that the designs or images will last much longer.