Filament Sample Chip - Business Card Style

 We have put together here, an excellent way to manage your filament samples!

 Are you tired of hiking around from friend to friend, client to client or around the house with filament chips on a string or scattered everywhere? Do you even remember which chip is which filament?

 Why not make your filament samples into business card sized pieces and store them neatly in a business card clear binder insert found at your local office supply stores.

 We've produced these sample chips with the following dimensions, [L-85mm;H-47mm;W-5mm] & 5mm radius corners to help with inserting the chips into the binder insert slots. Keep in mind that these chips are designed to be slightly smaller than your typical business card. This is due to their added thickness and we needed to be able to insert and remove them from the sleeves as needed.

The chips come with 4 "Windows" used to show the transparency features of each filament. The windows, from left to right are the following thickness', [1mm;2mm;3mm;4mm]

As can be seen in the sample images, we've added descriptive text to each chip we currently have samples of.

How we label our chips:

 What we like to do with our samples is to ensure we have a descriptive label on each. With these labels we can determine the basics of each filament and with the included number system we can lookup the brand, purchase price and what ever else you've kept a record of for each roll!

• The first part of our labels includes the filaments color. We tend to keep this to one abbreviated word, sometimes two words.
• Secondly, We add in our filament type [ex. ABS, PLA, T-Glass, Wood] Again, trying to keep it as short as possible
• Lastly, we add in our numbers. We keep them to 2 digits giving us plenty of space down the road for more of the same color/type filaments.

In a separate book is where we keep the same label information as well as additional beneficial information such as filament manufacturer, spool price, purchase location and even printer settings. Making consistency much easier.

Printing the chips:

Printing is pretty simple for these samples. No supports necessary. As your labels increase in information the need to print fine detail around the labels will be needed.

Summary:

Stop lugging around your sample chips on a string, falling out of your pockets or lost forever under some couch! Using these chips and storage method you can have organization and the ease of transporting your chips around for yourself and potential clients, we all know how much they are impressed by seeing what filament choices are out there!! Make it count!

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Below is a link to some of the sleeves to hold these samples

Staples - Business Card Pages

Designers: Brad & Chris Halliday

If you need any custom chip labels made, drop me a line!