Some office printers will physically feed Tyvek®-style bands, but that doesn’t mean they’re happy doing it. The wrong fusing temperature or paper path can mark the bands or cause jams. It’s safer to use a printer and media combination that has actually been tested for wristbands.

For very simple black ID bands, a thermal unit can be fine. If you want your branding and sponsors to stand out, we generally look at colour LED printers such as the OKI C650dn or OKI Pro 9431, then pick media that suits the event.

Yes – as long as the original artwork and sizing are sensible. Most of the time we either build a simple template or work with your ticketing system so that codes drop into the right place on each band. If you already use QR codes elsewhere, the same logic usually applies.

With the right stock, it can. We’ll normally suggest different materials for a one-night indoor club versus a three-day outdoor festival. Tell us what your crowd and weather are like and we’ll point you at media that is built for that kind of abuse.

We can supply the printer, the wristband media and the consumables such as toner and drums. That way you’re not trying to make three different suppliers work together if something needs changing.

It ranges from Illustrator and InDesign right through to Word and PowerPoint. The important bit is getting the page size and layout right. Once that’s sorted, you can reuse the same template for different events very quickly.

You don’t always need a different template for every design, but you should have one per band format. That means one layout for a particular sheet or strip, then you drop different artwork into it for each show, day or sponsor.

A lot of wristband stocks are supplied as strips on A4 or A3 sheets, which work well with the OKI devices we’ve mentioned. Thermal units tend to use rolls or cartridges. Once we know the printer and the band style, we can be specific about sizes.

It depends how many sit on a sheet, your coverage and how quickly you’re swapping and stacking. As a rough indication, teams using an OKI C650dn with multi-band layouts can comfortably turn out hundreds of bands in under an hour once their process is dialled in.

Some band formats are designed to be printed on both sides, others aren’t. If you want artwork or information on the inside as well, tell us early and we’ll factor that into the media and printer choice.

There’s no mystery to it. Keep the paper path clean, don’t ignore warning messages and swap consumables when the device asks you to. We’ll go through a few simple checks with you so you know what “normal” looks like.

In a lot of cases, yes. If you’d rather finance the hardware as part of your event budget, we can talk you through options from our partners, subject to status and the usual checks.

Not always. Smaller sites often benefit because they’re the ones that get caught out by sudden demand changes. If you’re only putting on something once in a blue moon, we’ll tell you that too and suggest alternatives.

The basics are: event name, date and a clear way to see what level of access that person has. On top of that, people often add sponsor logos, QR codes for a drink or merch, and any legal or safety information that needs to be visible.