The 6-Piece Event Credential and Access Set That Runs Your Door

A badge exists so nobody has to ask. It carries the name, the company and the access tier, and it does that from about six feet away or it does not work. That distance is the whole design brief: first name large, everything else small, tier color as a solid band rather than a thin rule.

The configurator runs six sizes, from 2 by 3 inches up to 4 by 6 inches. The small end is for a lanyard badge people wear all day. The 4 by 6 end is for a badge a volunteer needs to read across a registration table. Choose the hole style at the same time: a 5/16 inch drilled hole for a clip, or a lanyard slot if you are ordering the 38 inch hook lanyards with the badges. Breakaway hook lanyards in black, red and blue are the safer choice anywhere staff work near equipment.

Turn on personalization and the press prints the real names instead of leaving you a stack of blanks and a marker. Runs start at 25 pieces, which is why late add-ons are cheap, and a next-day hardcopy proof is available when the color of the tier band has to be exact. For the layout itself, our event name tags and badges printing guide covers safe areas, and designing conference badges that stand out goes further on the visual side. Browse the full event badge printing category if you want every option in one view.

An event ticket is a financial record that happens to look like a keepsake. Print it at 2 by 5.5 inches, the admission shape that fits a pocket and a cash box, and let two options do the real work: sequential numbering in black ink, and perfing. Numbering gives every ticket a unique identity. Perfing splits it, so the stub in your box matches the half that walked in.

Fifteen stocks are available and the spread matters more than it sounds. 14pt gloss cover is the default and photographs well for a show poster look. 18pt uncoated takes a pen, which is what you want if the door team writes a table number on the stub. 15pt synthetic plastic is the one to reach for at an outdoor event where rain is a real possibility. There is a 13pt uncoated cover at 100 percent post-consumer waste for anyone printing to an environmental brief. Our ticket paper and stock options guide compares them side by side.

Runs start at 50 and production moves in 1 to 5 business days. Before you order, read event ticket formats for the anatomy and event ticket layout for where the number and the terms belong. The full event ticket printing category holds every variant, including raffle tickets if you are running a draw on the night.

A key tag is what you hand someone whose access outlasts the event. Members, season-pass holders, gym and studio regulars, volunteers who come back every month. It prints at 1.125 by 2.375 inches on 30mil white plastic, the same thickness as a credit card, with a single 3/16 inch drilled hole and a 1/8 inch corner radius so it never catches on a pocket.

The scanning options are the reason to choose plastic over a paper card. Barcoding with numbering is available in Code 128, Code 39, UPC-A and EAN-13, and variable data prints a sequential number on every tag, so each one is genuinely unique rather than a copy. Finish it in UV gloss for a bright surface or silk laminated matte if the tag will be handled daily and you do not want fingerprints on it.

Two constraints to plan around. Runs start at 500 pieces, so this is a product for an established list, not a first event. And production quotes 13 business days, the second-longest lead time in this set. Order the tags the day the artwork is approved. For adjacent formats, hotel keycards explained and choosing a key card holder cover the carrier side, and the wider plastic cards printing collection holds every card stock we run.