Pricing: 12x6” Screen-Printed Spot-Color Custom Aluminum License Plates

Note: “Spot-color” is the least expensive printing method, using separate individual colors rather than the full color spectrum.

Item #40124

Standard items included
at no additional charge

• No setup fees, and designed free by our experienced designers in 3 business days, except when art is complex.
• Long-lasting, high-gloss, rustproof aluminum plates, .024-gauge.
• Screen-printed with 5 to 7-year non-fade inks. Note: Cheap aluminum plates found elsewhere often use dye-sublimation or UV-inkjet printing with 3-year or less no-fade life. Make sure you get screen-printed or industrial-resin plates if you want them to last.
• Select from 12 standard colors (color chart).
• Standard production time is 2–3 weeks once you’ve reviewed and approved your plate artwork. Shipping time is extra, via UPS Ground.

More details about our screen-printed auto tags.

Extra-cost options

• Custom/ PMS color match available for $25 extra each. More details including color chart.
• Black plate bla nks. For extra amount, see note at bottom of price chart at right.
• Most colored inks on black plates require a white undercoat to prevent show-through of the black tag surface, which adds one ink color to the cost if white ink is not already in play. (This is standard practice in the screen-printing industry — including T-shirt printing as well — when printing on dark materials.) Exceptions: White ink itself, and metallic gold, silver, and bronze inks are more opaque and do not require an undercoat.
• Rush turnaround available if room in our production schedule for extra cost. (Contact us for additional amount — depends on circumstances.) Rush orders must be paid by credit or debit card.

How to count the number
of ink colors

Does white or black count toward the number of ink colors? Black counts as an ink color on white plates but not on black plates, since on black plates, the color of the plate surface itself is used for black areas instead of ink. With white as a color, the situation is just the reverse: White counts as an ink color on black plates but not on white plates.

Background colors other than white or black are achieved by printing a flood of colored ink on white tag stock, with a 3/16” outer white border (required for tag gripper edge). In these cases, the background color counts as an ink color, but do not count white lettering or artwork that’s “reversed out” of the background color. (“Reversed out” means areas where the plate surface is unprinted so the plate substrate color forms the letter shapes or artwork.)

Questions?

Feel free to call us toll-free with your questions about our custom license plates: 1-800-330-8247, Mon.–Fri., 9:00–5:00 Central Standard Time. Or email us at . (Note our 50-tag minimum order for these plates.)

 

$40 order discount for print-ready art supplied in Adobe Illustrator (.ai or .eps) format using our template, and that follows our artwork requirements.

Sales tax: Not charged for states outside Kansas. KS residents other than nonprofits add 6.3% state sales tax, plus your applicable local (city and/or county) rate. For KS nonprofits, an exemption form is required for us to waive tax, which we’ll ask you to furnish.

We can expedite shipping using faster delivery methods at UPS’s usual rates for those services. However, aluminum plates are heavy and non-Ground shipping costs considerably more, so we recommend planning ahead.

Shipping weight is 17.7 lbs. per 100 plates.

We do not profit on shipping, and pass through only UPS’s rates as charged to us, plus our packing materials cost. Included in the shipping rates above is a small but mandatory UPS insurance fee to cover reprinting your order in the event of a lost or damaged shipment.

Prices and shipping rates subject to change without notice.