Custom Lanyards

Take that one step further from your standard plain lanyard with Custom Lanyards. Customise your lanyards with your brand colours and logo.

You can select from various print styles, materials, and attachments.

Not sure what the best options are for you and your business? Our guide below will help you decide.

Print Styles

Dye Sublimation

Dye-sub is the most luxurious lanyard print style option whilst still being the most economical print style for small and medium quantities. Your logo, font or design is digitally printed in full colour on one or two sides of the smooth polyester cloth. We provide dye-sub lanyards in 15mm, 20mm, and 25mm widths and have a wide array of attachment options.

Our recommendation: Our most popular dye-sublimation option is a 20mm wide smooth polyester cloth lanyard with full-colour print on both sides, a detachable buckle (side release), a safety breakaway and a heavy-duty swivel hook attachment.

Available Materials: Dye sublimation lanyards are only available in smooth polyester.

Screen Print

This print style is undoubtedly our most common choice for custom lanyards due to their economical cost for medium to large quantities. Ink is passed through a silk screen template and applied to the material. This method gives you the option of up to four colours. We recommend having a transparent print under the screen print (offset print), which allows for a higher-quality result.

Our recommendation: Our most popular screen-printed lanyard is a 15mm flat polyester lanyard with a safety breakaway and standard swivel hook.

Available Materials:

Polyester
Reinforced polyester
Nylon
Flat tube
Satin
Eco-friendly
PVC
Reflective

Offset Print

Offset print produces the finest lines and details on a lanyard. A transparent print (offset print) is applied prior to screen printing. You get a choice of up to 4 colours. Offset printing is great for larger quantity orders over 500.

Our recommendation: Our most popular offset printed lanyard is a 15mm wide reinforced polyester lanyard with a safety breakaway and heavy-duty swivel hook.

Available Materials:

Polyester
Reinforced polyester
Nylon
Flat tube
Satin
Eco-friendly
PVC
Reflective

Woven Print

Woven lanyards are the most unique and uncommon in the custom lanyard world. However, they have the same lead time and similar pricing as other lanyard printing options, with the aesthetic being an acquired taste. Dyed Polyester threads are woven into a pattern (or to create text) similar to embroidering, except the woven lanyard is flat. Due to this lanyard type’s nature, the cloth’s reverse side is inverted. Double-sided is achievable via two woven lanyards sewn back to back. However, this increases the overall thickness and costs.

Our recommendation: Our most popular option for woven print is a 20mm wide polyester lanyard with a safety breakaway and alligator clip.

Available Materials:

Polyester
Satin
Flat Tube

ID-Supplies-custom flat-tubular-offset-print-lanyard-00 — Orange flat tubular lanyard with white offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-flat-tubular-offset-print-lanyard-01 — Orange flat tubular lanyard with white offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-flat-tubular-screen-print-lanyard-02 — Blue flat tubular lanyard with white screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-flat-tubular-screen-print-lanyard-05 — Blue flat tubular lanyard with white screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-nylon-offset-print-lanyard-00 — Light blue nylon lanyard with offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-nylon-offset-print-lanyard-01 — Light blue nylon lanyard with offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-nylon-screen-print-lanyard-00_1 — Grey nylon lanyard with white screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-nylon-screen-print-lanyard-01 — Grey nylon lanyard with white screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-polyester-offset-print-lanyard-00 — Blue polyester lanyard with offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-polyester-offset-print-lanyard-01_1 — Blue polyester lanyard with offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-polyester-screen-print-lanyard-00 — Black polyester lanyard with screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-polyester-screen-print-lanyard-01 — Black polyester lanyard with screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-reflective-lanyard-01 — Red and silver reflective lanyard

ID-Supplies-custom-reflective-lanyard-03 — Red and silver reflective lanyard

ID-Supplies-custom-reinforced-poly-offset-print-lanyard-00 — Reinforced polyester lanyards with offset-print

ID-Supplies-custom-reinforced-poly-offset-print-lanyard-03_1 — Blue reinforced polyester lanyard with yellow offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-reinforced-poly-offset-print-lanyard-04 — Green reinforced polyester lanyard with offset print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-dye-sub-heat-lanyard-00 — Smooth polyester lanyards with dye sublimation print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-dye-sub-heat-lanyard-04 — Smooth polyester lanyard with dye sublimation print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-dye-sub-heat-lanyard-05_3 — Smooth polyester lanyard with dye sublimation print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-dye-sub-heat-lanyard-06 — Light blue smooth polyester lanyard with dye sublimation print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-dye-sub-heat-lanyard-07_1 — Light blue smooth polyester lanyard with dye sublimation print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-screen-print-lanyard-03 — Black smooth polyester lanyard with screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-smooth-poly-screen-print-lanyard-04 — Black smooth polyester lanyard with screen print

ID-Supplies-custom-woven-lanyard-00 — Green and yellow woven lanyard

ID-Supplies-custom-woven-lanyard-02 — Green and yellow woven lanyard

Fabrics

Polyester

When it comes to choosing material for custom lanyards, polyester is in the lead. Polyester threads are woven tightly to produce a flat lanyard with a slightly ribbed surface. Other types of polyester lanyards include reinforced, smooth and flat tubular. The polyester can be custom dyed to a specific PMS or Pantone colour (within 5% difference). Please refer to “Colour Specifications” which you can find under “Artwork Specifications & Requirements” for full details.

Our recommendation: Our most popular polyester lanyard is 15mm wide, screen printed, has a safety breakaway and a standard swivel hook.

Available Print Types:

Screenprint
Offset print

Available Widths: 12mm, 15mm, 20mm, 25mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved.

Reinforced Polyester

Like standard Polyester, Polyester threads are woven tightly, producing a ribbed surface – only the threads are thicker and more durable. Reinforced polyester can be dyed to a specific PMS or Pantone colour (within a 5% difference). Refer to “Colour Specifications” under “Artwork Specifications & Requirments” for full details).

Our recommendation: Our most common reinforced polyester lanyard is 15mm wide, offset printed, and has a safety breakaway with a heavy-duty swivel hook.

Available Print Types:

Screenprint
Offset print

Available Widths: 15mm, 20mm and 25mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved.

Smooth Polyester

Smooth polyester lanyards are refined threads of polyester tightly woven together to produce a very smooth surface for increased comfort to the wearer. Generally printed using dye-sublimation, the cloth can be printed in full colour, producing bright and colourful lanyards.

Our recommendation: Our most popular smooth polyester lanyard is 20mm in width, dye sub print both sides, detachable buckle (side release), and safety breakaway with a heavy-duty swivel hook.

Available Print Types:

Dye sublimation
Screenprint
Offset print

Available Widths: 15mm, 20mm and 25mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved. wide, offset printed, and has a safety breakaway with a heavy-duty swivel hook.

Available Print Types:

Screen print
Offset print

Available Widths:15mm, 20mm, 25mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved.

Flat Tubular Polyester

Soft threads of polyester are loosely woven to produce a tube of material that is flattened, similar to a bootlace. Flat Tubular lanyards are popular for their comfort.

Flat tubular lanyards can be dyed to a specific PMS or Pantone colour (within 5% difference). Refer to our “Colour Specifications” under “Artwork Specifications & Requirements” for full details.

Available Print Types:

Screenprint
Offset print

Available Widths: 12mm and 15mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved.

Nylon

Similar to polyester, only with a higher sheen, Our Nylon lanyards are made of soft threads woven tightly together to produce a flat, shiny, ribbed surface lanyard. Nylon lanyards can be dyed to a specific PMS or Pantone colour (within a 5% difference). Refer to “Colour Specifications” under “Artwork Specifications & Requirments” for complete details.

Our recommendation: A 15mm wide Nylon lanyard, offset printed with a safety breakaway and heavy-duty swivel hook.

Available Print Types:

Screenprint
Offset print

Available Widths: 15mm, 20mm, 25mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved.

Antibacterial Cotton NEW!

Soft threads of antibacterial-treated cotton are tightly woven to produce a smooth surface that is flat and comfortable to wear. The lanyard has a similar, almost identical appearance to our most popular lanyard type; smooth poly dye sub-lanyards.

Available Print Types:

Dye Sublimation

Available Widths: 12mm and 15mm

Available Lengths: Standard length is 900mm or 960mm. Custom lengths can be achieved.

Eco-friendly & Sustainable Options

Bamboo (Eco-friendly & sustainable choice)
Cork (Eco-friendly & sustainable choice) NEW!
Recycled Polyester (Sustainable choice)

What is the difference between eco-friendly & sustainable?

Eco-friendly is precisely as it sounds: a material that is friendly to our ecosystem. Eco-friendly materials are made from resources that come from our ecosystem itself. Some examples include bamboo fabric, which is made of pulp from the bamboo plant. Another example is cork, which is made of bark tissue from cork oak trees. Cork and bamboo are both great examples of a material that is both eco-friendly and sustainable because they both have a small ecological and carbon footprint and are recyclable and biodegradable. Eco-friendly materials are essentially non-toxic and natural, so should they end up back in our ecosystem, they will easily biodegrade.

Sustainable materials are materials made, used and disposed of in a sustainable way – but are not always eco-friendly – to minimise their negative impact on the environment and human health. For example, a lanyard made of recycled polyester is sustainable because the polyester threads are made from plastic, such as plastic bottles, collected from our landfills and the ocean. However, whether recycled or virgin, polyester is still polyester—a manufactured material that cannot biodegrade should it end up in our environment.

Just because something is sustainable does not also make it eco-friendly, and vice versa. At ID Supplies, we believe it’s essential for our customers to know and understand these labels to help them make informed and empowered choices that are healthier for our earth and our future.

Other Materials

Other materials options we offer include;

Satin
Reflective
PVC

Attachments & Safety Add-on's

What are attachments?

Deciding your attachment type is as important as the print type and material used. The attachment you decide on determines how the wearer will utilise the lanyard, and how the item you choose to hold behaves – whether it rotates or sits flat against the wearer. The best way to decide the attachment that is right for you is to determine who will be wearing the lanyard and what the objective of the lanyard is. E.g. If the lanyards are for your employees to wear daily to hold their building access card, a retractable reel with a strap clip would be ideal to hold the cardholder or connect directly to the access card.

There are many different types of lanyard attachments. Using the knowledge we have collected over the years, we have compiled a list of the most common attachment options below.

Types of attachments

Hooks

Swivel Hook – Rotates
Heavy Duty Swivel Hook -Rotates
Swivel Latch Hook – Rotates

Clips

Strap Clip – usually attached to a split ring or retractable reel
Reinforced Strap Clip – usually attached to a split ring or retractable reel
Alligator Clip – Sits flat
Carabiner Clip – Sits flat
Lobster Clip – Rotates
Dog Clip – Rotates

Other attachment options

Split ring (Keyring) – Sits flat
Retractable Reel – Sits flat
Detachable phone loop – Sits flat

Safety add-ons

Safety in the workplace is a priority in Australia, and most of the time, WHS rules dictate what people can and can’t wear. Safety add-ons available for custom lanyards include;

Safety breakaways

A safety breakaway is the best preventative against wearers being injured or choked by lanyards caught on or in objects or machinery. The safety breakaway will come apart when pulling force is applied. We always recommend two safety breakaways on a lanyard to increase wearer safety.

Reflective cloth

Like safety vests with reflective strips, a reflective layer on a lanyard is the perfect solution for low visibility areas such as docks, warehouses, and night shift road workers. The reflective cloth will reflect any light, making the wearer’s whereabouts more visible.

Artwork Specifications & Requirements

Accepted Files

Please provide your Artwork in vector format as an AI, EPS or editable PDF suitable for the latest version of Adobe Illustrator.

You can provide your Artwork via email, file hosting services (online storage such as Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.), or a direct download link.

Font

If you are ordering a one coloured lanyard with one coloured printed text, the following must be provided;

The text you want printed e.g. if its one word such as “STAFF”.
The name of the font type, the style (e.g. regular, medium or bold), and the proposed positioning.
If the font type is not a standard windows font, you must provide the font file or you can provide the artwork in AI, EPS or editable PDF format with the font outlined (vector format).

Image

If you are providing a logo or image, please provide it in vector format.

ID Supplies can’t guarantee the lanyard print quality if you provide your logo in raster format.
If you provide your artwork as a raster file, there may be a small vectoring fee depending on the image, which will be advised before this service is used.
Hand-drawn images will not be accepted due to quality issues.
On request, we can provide design and advise services from our graphics department (charges may apply).

Colour

We highly recommend that cloth colour and print colour be provided in Pantone (PMS) colour codes.

Customers may provide colours in RGB or CMYK codes. However, ID Supplies cannot guarantee that the colour will be within a set percentage variance of what the customer expects.

Due to colour changes based on material, print method, and the variation between different monitor displays, we can only guarantee colours will be within a 5% variance of the current Pantone Colour Chart.

Please visit the link below to view the current Pantone (PMS) Colour Chart. http://www.pantone-colours.com/

Artwork Approval

Approval

All Custom Lanyard orders will receive an Artwork Approval sent via email outlining the specifications of their Custom Lanyard along with the artwork proof.

Any changes requested to the artwork proof after artwork approval will incur an additional fee.

You must review all the specifications and artwork before signing off, as an error that is signed off will not be the responsibility of ID Supplies Pty Ltd.

Sample photos

Pre-production sample photos may be provided upon request for orders over 500 (charges may apply).

Finished production photos may be provided upon request (these are the finished product photos, and no changes can be made).

If you have any questions, please call us on 1800 330 099 or email [email protected].

Take that one step further from your standard plain lanyard with Custom Lanyards. Customise your lanyards with your brand colours and logo.

Print Styles

Fabrics