Folder Number Imprinting

Track your valuable new assets with permanent foil-stamped numbering.

• This allows for easier organization,
• is less expensive than imprinting singer's names, and
• lets you determine, without any question, who to bill if a choir folder goes missing!

The standard numbering location is the top right corner of the front of the folder, the font is 36 pt. Times Roman, and the usual colour is gold.

Blind debossing (imprinting the numbers into the folder without any colour) is an option at no additional cost, and other customized locations are possible.

Standard costs:
$0 setup, $2 per stamped folder.
At 50 and more, $1.75 per folder.

Custom locations: +$1.00

There is a $5 minimum numbering charge with standard settings.
Tip: enter the total quantity of folders to be numbered first, to get an accurate per-folder cost in the Product Summary.

Text Imprinting

Letterpress Text Imprinting

Letterpress Text imprinting is imprinting with moveable type, ready for us to do in-house right away with no die-casting or logo etching processes to slow things down. Turnaround time is usually 1 to 3 business days. We offer both upper and lower case letters for excellent legibility, in either the standard 36 pt. Times Roman font, or in an elegant script-like font called Brush.

The setup costs are minimal and the per-folder stamping cost is also low; see the table below.

The usual location for choir name imprinting is centered, in the upper portion of the front of the folder, approximately 3 to 4 inches (8-10 cm) down from the top. The usual location for imprinting a singer or music director name is at the lower right front corner of the folder.

Die-cast Text Imprinting

Die-cast text imprinting uses type slugs cast from molten metal, and you have a greater flexibility in choice of size and font. We have 15 choices across various popular fonts. As you may expect, setup costs are higher, and turnaround time is typically 3-6 business days. However, the stamping cost per-folder is the same. Die-cast text, therefore, is also a very reasonable choice for repetitive imprinting of choir names since the somewhat higher setup cost spreads out nicely across a choir-size order.

For a single folder order, where a singer chooses a font for their name which they really like from the die-cast text choices below, the imprinting may cost more than the folder! However, given the quality and longevity of our folders, people do, and are very happy with the result. Given the higher setup cost compared to Letterpress text imprinting, we see this style of imprinting more often on individual orders which are gifts.

Note that if none of our listed fonts matches your existing typestyle, we can print anything in any font when it is done graphically as a logo (details are in next folder customization tab for logos).

Here are the font choices for Die-cast text imprinting:

N.B. Don't trust the screen or print size which you see to be precise, but rather, note that we have listed the point size of each font.

Imprint Locations:

1. Mid-top front; centered
2. Upper right front; right-justified
3. Lower right front; right-justified
4. Inside folder in upper top left
5. Upper left back outer edge; left-justified
6. Mid-top back; centered
7. Lower left back outer edge; left-justified

Logo Imprinting

We can imprint your folders with a logo, or imprint any text layout in any font exactly as you want, because it is done as an image.

These can look amazingly elegant whether in colour (gold is the standard option) or blind debossed (i.e. indented using heat and pressure but no colour) into the folder.

Your image is printed to film then exposed under UV light on a coated plate, then etched, to produce the hot-stamping die which is carefully leveled on the press to produce an even imprint. There is a setup charge, then a stamping cost per folder.

The setup charge is based on area. Math is not your friend here, as you may recall that doubling the width of a square quadruples the area, and the cost. 1 inch=2.54cm for the metrically inclined; the print industry here still uses Imperial measurements.

Depending on the logo, you do want sufficiently large area to prevent fine detail from being obscured, or small detailed spaces filled in, when printing on the textured leatherette material. Our maximum imprint area without outsourcing is 5"x12" (or 12"x5") but logos with good line separation can be done very nicely at a 2x2 or 3x3 size, for example. Roughly 90% of the logos we print are between 4 and 12 square inches.

Enter the specifications for your logo as you choose your folder options. Then e-mail your file (minimum resolution must be 300 dpi) to sales@musicfolder.com

Preferred format is PDF. EPS, TIFF, GIF, JPG may also be acceptable.

• The best place for logos is mid-top front, centered.
• If you need formatting or design help or want an opinion on how well your logo will work and what size we recommend, email us all types of files that you have, and we'll respond.
• If you’re designing a logo, typically people put text below a crest or graphic element.
• Stacking 2 lines of text is preferable to having a very wide single line, as setup price corresponds to the area of a rectangle drawn around the total print area.
• It’s typically much less expensive and very much better for registration accuracy to combine the text (in any font you want) with a crest or graphic element as one logo with everything in it, than to attempt separate text imprinting in step 3 and logo near it in step 4.
• Larger logos may have some positioning restrictions as the surface must be perfectly level, so we can't come too near the boundary of a pocket or its expanding edge below, for example.

1. Mid-top front; centered
2. Upper right front; right-justified
3. Lower right front; right-justified
4. Inside folder in upper top left
5. Upper left back outer edge; left-justified
6. Mid-top back; centered
7. Lower left back outer edge; left-justified

Usual position for choir name imprinting is mid-top front center of the folder, and individuals at lower right front.