All Desk Plates and Name Badges made by Trans Stamp are laser engraved on high quality plastic unless mechanical engraving is requested. We do not do sublimation, because in our opinion it does not provide the quality or look of engraving. Engraved content does not wear off, does not become illegible due to scratch marks or fading. All signage can be customized to fit your needs as to shape size and engraved wording. Any image which is recognizable in a black and white format can be engraved on these items as long as a clean image is available for scanning into the computer. Desk Plates and Name Badges are normally made in one of three (3) ways:
 1. Mechanical engraving - a rotary bit machine is used to cut away portions of plastic or metal to form the name and/or logo being placed on the plate or badge. or a sheet of plastic with an upper and lower color are used. The engraver cuts thru the top layer exposing the second color on the bottom layer, thus for example giving you a red background with white letters. This normally leaves small ridges in the engraved area if it is larger then the bit being used.
 2. Sublimation - the name and/or logo is printed on a clear material and then bonded to a plastic or metal backing. This is perfect print or logo reproduction as seen from a laser printer. It is normally less expensive then engraving because it requires less time.
 3. Laser Engraving - A laser is used to burn the name and/or logo into the backing material. As with Mechanical Engraving, a two color plastic is normally used. However, since the laser is burning very small pixels from the material it does not have the ribbed appearance in large areas which the mechanical engraver gives. If the name plate is being engraved directly into wood rather then on a piece of plastic the laser is far superior to the mechanical engraver since it does not tend to leave the rough edges in wood that a mechanical engraver does.