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Buying a wristband run without regretting it
These are procurement guides rather than product pages. They cover the decisions that happen before a band is made and the ones that decide whether the season goes well — sizing, artwork, colour systems, minimums, lead times, tenders, and what to check on the day the delivery lands.
Where a guide contradicts something a supplier has told you, that is worth raising with them. Several of these exist because we have watched the same avoidable mistake made repeatedly.
Guide 01
Choosing a wristband
Four questions in order. Answer them honestly and the range narrows to one or two bands before price is discussed at all.
Read the guideGuide 02
Sizing
Adult, child and the awkward middle. Where adjustable helps, and where it is the reason bands go missing.
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Artwork and print
What to send, what will not survive the process, and why the proof is on the band shape rather than on paper.
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Colour coding
Colour is read at four metres by staff who are busy. Four categories is the practical ceiling, and reuse is what breaks a system.
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Minimum runs
Five hundred per artwork, mixed colours counted as one. What that means in practice for a small property.
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Lead times
Production is 12 to 21 days by material. The clock starts at approval, not at enquiry, and transit is separate.
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Samples and approval
What a sample set contains, what it is for, and the approval that turns everything after it into a fixed cost.
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Cost per wrist per week
The number in the quotation is not the number that governs the budget. Replacement rate usually is.
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Tender checklist
The questions that separate suppliers, including the ones most tenders forget to ask.
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Switching supplier
The credential is the risky part. Everything else is a colour match and a proof.
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Comfort and skin
The band a guest resents is the band that comes off. Comfort is a retention control, not a courtesy.
Read the guideGuide 12
Counting and delivery
Twenty minutes of checks on the day bands arrive, while there is still time to do something about a problem.
Read the guideThe terms behind all of them
Three numbers that apply to every run.
Minimum run
500 bands per artwork, mixed colours counted as one run.
Lead time
Typical production time is 12–21 days by material, counted from artwork and technical approval. Transit is additional and depends on destination and shipping mode.
Samples
Samples are free for one set per property, and we cover standard shipping to a business address. Additional sets, express shipping and custom-printed samples are quoted separately.
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Bring us a specification and we will pick it apart.
Send what you have been quoted elsewhere, or nothing at all. Either way you get a written recommendation, a unit price, a lead time and samples.