Overlabelling plaques? (1 Viewer)

[bhofeld]

Hey guys,

I’m thinking of recruiting a plaque as a $1,000 denom for my LCO set….can plaques be over labeled? If so, does anyone have experience with this and/or pictures?

I’m guessing If anyone can do it, @Gear and @Wifey can!

 

[Eriks]

Plaques don’t have labels like chips do. I would just get some made by either MSK or brpropoker depending on what material you prefer

 

[Geremie]

If you want to go high end then Abbiati or Matsui are the play.

 

[CrazyEddie]

There's a particular style of plaque that uses a center decal the way that chips do, so you could overlabel those... but they're not very nice-looking. The plaques are made of ABS plastic, similar to dice chips, and they have a center recess for a printed decal.

Here's one supplier of a particular stock design: https://www.casinosupply.com/produc...tangular-32g-holographic-poker-plaques-each-1

Here's a supplier that lets you specify your own custom artwork for the center label, which means overlabeling isn't necessary: https://www.mandychips.com/poker-plaques/

Even Matsui has a line of decal plaques, which are different from their acrylic plaques: https://matsuieurope.com/product-category/plaques/

But decal plaques like these all look a lot worse than acrylic plaques. You can get high-quality acrylic plaques from MSK, Matsui, and Abiatti - but they're quite expensive. You can get cheaper but still pretty nice ones from Alibaba vendors, including "Tina", who many PCF members have used for cards mold ceramic chips. But there's no way to relabel an acrylic plaque. The designs are printed on thin sheets of plastic, and those thin sheets are then sandwiched and glued between thick molded acrylic plates; to replace the design you'd have to destroy the plaque.

There's a handful of different stock designs available for acrylic plaques from different retailers; Apache Poker Chips has several, and there are some on eBay. If none of the stock designs meet your needs, you can order customs from MSK, Matsui, Abiatti, or Tina / Alibaba.

Here's some examples of acrylic plaques:

Alibaba:

MSK:

Matsui:

You can also get ceramic plaques. They're like ceramic chips, but large and rectangular. They can be printed with any design you like, but they can't be overlabeled (and there's no reason to do so anyway, since you can get them printed with your own design). ABC Gifts is probably the best source for ceramic plaques. Here's some examples, not necessarily from ABC:

Hope this helps!

 

[Wifey]

@CrazyEddie pretty much hit the nail on the head.

If you get the cheaper one like this:

Or the Matsui Decal plaques:

Then you could probably do an "inlay replacement"
(get a sample and check before you buy a brazillian of them though)

You could then put a laminated label in that space with your artwork.
We can absolutely make the custom size, but we would have to price out how much per label based on size...
We would also need a sample for measuring.

We could do an over label, likely an opaque laminated one, on a plaque like this:

There is a recess in there to fit a label that we can cut to shape and size...but why??
This thing is gorgeous and we can't match the pearling effect, bit of a sow's ear on a silk purse if you ask me...

Over labelling on any flat/flush surface is a bad idea.
On over labelled chips there is a tiny bit of a recess, so the label is not proud of the surface of the mold ring.
When the label is the highest point on the chip or plaque, it WILL get bent/dirty/caught and peel.

That is my 0.02...
Email me at ask@gearlabels.com if you want to ask more specific questions about what Gear can do based on your situation.

Cheers!

 

[Pinball]

Thinking also about relabeling or overlabeling some plaques.

 

[doublebooyah85]

There's a particular style of plaque that uses a center decal the way that chips do, so you could overlabel those... but they're not very nice-looking. The plaques are made of ABS plastic, similar to dice chips, and they have a center recess for a printed decal.

Here's one supplier of a particular stock design: https://www.casinosupply.com/produc...tangular-32g-holographic-poker-plaques-each-1

Here's a supplier that lets you specify your own custom artwork for the center label, which means overlabeling isn't necessary: https://www.mandychips.com/poker-plaques/

Even Matsui has a line of decal plaques, which are different from their acrylic plaques: https://matsuieurope.com/product-category/plaques/

But decal plaques like these all look a lot worse than acrylic plaques. You can get high-quality acrylic plaques from MSK, Matsui, and Abiatti - but they're quite expensive. You can get cheaper but still pretty nice ones from Alibaba vendors, including "Tina", who many PCF members have used for cards mold ceramic chips. But there's no way to relabel an acrylic plaque. The designs are printed on thin sheets of plastic, and those thin sheets are then sandwiched and glued between thick molded acrylic plates; to replace the design you'd have to destroy the plaque.

There's a handful of different stock designs available for acrylic plaques from different retailers; Apache Poker Chips has several, and there are some on eBay. If none of the stock designs meet your needs, you can order customs from MSK, Matsui, Abiatti, or Tina / Alibaba.

Here's some examples of acrylic plaques:

Alibaba:

MSK:

Matsui:

You can also get ceramic plaques. They're like ceramic chips, but large and rectangular. They can be printed with any design you like, but they can't be overlabeled (and there's no reason to do so anyway, since you can get them printed with your own design). ABC Gifts is probably the best source for ceramic plaques. Here's some examples, not necessarily from ABC:

Hope this helps!

Great thread/reply. Thanks!

 

[bhofeld]

@CrazyEddie @Wifey and everyone else thank you so much for the thoughtful thorough responses! You guys are awesome