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Custom Keychains - Custom Key Chains
Custom keychains are giveaway promotional products. Your key chain will likely be used everyday, as keychains do not normally get thrown away. Key chains can be fully tailored to your design needs. Full color promotional keychains or enamel custom keychains are an effective way to promote your business and Custom keychains are used for a variety of promotional purposes. Below are the major keychain style categories. Read about each below, and you'll know enough to make an informed choice.
View Keychains GalleryHard Enamel Keychains
Hard enamel keychains, are one of the highest quality key chains available. Most Pantone colors choices are available. Hard enamel keychains offer brilliant colors, metal separated detailing, great durability with a highly polished smooth and hard finish. Hard enamel keychains are the most durable key chain available and have a high retention rate. Metro Pins recommends hard enamel for your keychains.
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Soft Enamel keychains (also known as embossed or epola), start as die struck keychains and have soft enamel Pantone colors added to the surface. Soft enamel key chains offer brilliant colors, fine raised metal detail that you can feel, and the option of having either a smooth epoxy or bare textured finish. By default, soft enamel keychains will have a smooth, transparent epoxy coating added to the surface for protection.
Learn MoreDie Struck Keychains
Die struck keychains are made of uncolored metal and are simplistically elegant. Plating options allow for many distinguished looks. If you require a classy, dignified keychain, a die struck pin is a great choice. Universities, law firms, fraternities & government offices favor die struck keychains. Colored die struck keychains are called soft or hard enamel. 3D diecast keychains are available and look similar to die struck keychains, however they incorporate three-dimensional aspects into the design.
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Photoscreen keychains (also known as photo, screenprint, offset print, silkscreen or photo-etched) are the most versatile. To recreate a design exactly, a photoscreen keychains is the best choice. Photoscreen keychains permit any design to be recreated, down to the smallest detail, without the need for fine metal separating lines around each of the colors.
Learn More See also: Deluxe Photoscreen & Photo Enamel HybridRubber PVC Keychains
Rubber PVC keychains are made from flexible/bendable rubber PVC. They are fully customizable and can be colored to your specifications. Soft rubber PVC is durable and permits a surprising amount of detail, though not as much as an enamel pin. A PVC loop is part of the design and is part of your keychain's mold size. The loop is where your metal chain & key ring are attached. Colors on rubber PVC keychains are exceptionally vibrant and it is thicker than similar sized enamel keychains.
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