ⓘ This article is for Event Organizers
Elevate your brand with the Expo Pass custom badge lanyards. Crafted from premium materials, these lanyards offer durability and bring your designs to life with stunning detail and clarity.
When pre-purchasing lanyards, we ship it with your equipment and badges - hassle free!
❗ Important: This is for pre-purchased lanyards ONLY.
If you have not purchased lanyards through your Relationship Manager or Account Executive through the sales process, you will need to design and submit your order through https://shop.expopass.com/
❗If your design is not submitted at least 30 days before your event begins, we will not be able to accommodate custom lanyards.
Please make sure to allow time for edits and adjustments for your order.
1. Choose Your Size
Expo Pass offers 3 different side (width) lanyards:
5/8"
3/4"
1"
2. Choose Your Material
Expo Pass offers 2 different materials for your lanyards:
Polyester Satin: smooth-touch premium lanyards for any design.
Recycled (rPET): Same great feel and quality, made from recycled bottles.
3. Choose Your Clip
Expo Pass offers two options for your lanyard bulldog clips:
Single Bulldog: This is for badges or sleeves with 1 notch
Double Bulldog: This is for badges or sleeves with 2 notches
4. Design Your Lanyard
Once you have selected the width of your lanyard, material and how many clips, you can start the design!
OPTION 1: Full Custom Lanyard
General Tips when designing your lanyard
Place your artwork on the "Your Design" layer
Edit and save your files in CMYK (versus RGB)
Outline all text before saving (select all layers, under the ''Type" menu select "Create Outlines").
Use vector artwork for best results.
Images in your design should be 300 PPI (pixels per inch) or higher, as 300 is the ideal resolution for printing because it produces sharp, clear images.
While we'll accept receipt of your artwork in PDF, we strongly recommend saving the file instead as a PDF/x-1a whenever possible.
Designing a 5/8" Single or Double Bulldog Lanyard
Template Files:
Please design your lanyard on one of the templates below.
This is what you will submit to your Event Specialist for print.
Design Guidelines:
Bleed Area 36.25” x 0.875”
Make sure your background extends 0.125” to fill the bleed and avoid white on edges lanyards.
Lanyard Area (Trim) 36” x 0.625”
Your final lanyard size laid flat.
Crimp Placement 1.5” x 0.625”
Make sure to keep important aspects of your design such as logos and text outside of this zone.
Single Bulldog
Double Bulldog
Designing a 3/4" Single or Double Bulldog Lanyard
Template Files:
Please design your lanyard on one of the templates below.
This is what you will submit to your Event Specialist for print.
Design Guidelines:
Bleed Area 36.25” x 1”
Make sure your background extends 0.125” to fill the bleed and avoid white on edges lanyards.
Lanyard Area (Trim) 36” x 0.75”
Your final lanyard size laid.
Crimp Placement 1.5” x 0.625”
Make sure to keep important aspects of your design such as logos and text outside of this zone.
Single Bulldog
Double Bulldog
Designing a 1" Single or Double Bulldog Lanyard
Template Files:
Please design your lanyard on one of the templates below.
This is what you will submit to your Event Specialist for print.
Design Guidelines:
Bleed Area 36.25” x 1.25”
Make sure your background extends 0.125” to fill the bleed and avoid white on edges lanyards.
Lanyard Area (Trim) 36” x 1”
Your final lanyard size laid.
Crimp Placement 1.5” x 1”
Make sure to keep important aspects of your design such as logos and text outside of this zone
Single Bulldog
Double Bulldog
OPTION 2: Logo Only Design
If you do not want to fully design a custom lanyard, you can send a logo to your Specialist and we will place the logo repeatingly on a white lanyard for you.
What does this mean?
Design a full logo in the colors you would like. Make sure it is high resolution (300 DPI or greater) to ensure quality print.
Once your design is complete send the logo to your Specialist noting the following:
PNG file format if you wish to have a transparent background behind the logo
JPEG if you wish to have a solid background behind the logo
Provide the CMYK or Pantone color code you would like the lanyard to be.
❗ Important: IF YOU DO NOT PROVIDE A COLOR FOR THE LANYARD, WE WILL BE PRINTING THE LOGO ON WHITE.
They will send the logo to our team, who will space it repeatingly on a lanyard.
Once the design is complete, we will send you a proof for approval for print.
5. Submit Your Lanyard Design
Full Custom Lanyard: Once you have used the templates provided to design your lanyard, send your file as a PDF/x-1a to your Specialist. They will use the PDF file to send to print.
Logo Only Design: Send the logo in PNG or JPEG format to your Specialist. They will send the logo to our team, who will space it repeatingly on a white lanyard. Once the design is complete, we will send you a proof for approval for print.