How we make our personalized products
All our products are individually created in house, using up to date digital mapping, and finished using handcrafted, traditional methods. Our production processes include encapsulation (a robust form of protective lamination), jigsaw production, mounting & framing, sublimation (printing customized maps onto a range of different materials) and product assembly.
Our aim is to make this as simple and straightforward as possible, providing you with all the tools necessary to allow you to add your chosen products into your range. Review our set up process below, but if there is anything you’d like to discuss, then please just call us. We look forward to hearing from you!
Stage One
Using our specially designed software, we create a piece of mapping in digital format, centered exactly on the address provided to us for each individual customer’s order. We then transfer the data to our cutting edge, top of the range printers to print out the unique, personalized and site centered maps the customers have requested.
Stage Two
These unique maps are then put through the manual production process. First, each one is glued with a water based adhesive and hand fixed onto recycled board, before being left to rest and dry.
Then the heavy work begins! The puzzles are carefully stamped out, one at a time, on a hand fed platen machine, each keeping its own identity throughout the process. Mindful eyes maintain the quality checks at each stage of production!
Stage Three
Then another check – paperwork to puzzle, puzzle to correct packaging! This stage shows the careful process of ‘breaking’ the puzzle into its individual pieces, to be placed into the bag and then packed in the appropriate box. Each box, with its unique customer number handwritten onto it, is then packed into the specially designed postal outer wrap.
The puzzle is then ready for dispatch!
Packaging/Shipping Information -Personalized Gifts
Shipping to suit your needs, and packaging to suit your customers. We offer fast, efficient turnaround times, constantly working with our solutions providers to make sure our service is first class. We manufacture and drop ship our products all over the world. For our reseller clients that means:
- No stock holding, so no warehouse fees.
- All orders are drop shipped direct to your customer.
- All our products are individually made to order - so no minimum order numbers.
- We offer a range of delivery options to suit your needs and those of your customers.
- We only use proven delivery systems – which we constantly monitor for performance.
- Orders will arrive within 8 days of dispatch.
- All our jigsaw products come carefully packed in presentation boxes and all our products are dispatched in robust outer packaging to protect them during delivery.
The Hometown puzzle range of products comes with a choice of boxes. Select from either:
Original Map Style Presentation Box
Contemporary Style Presentation Box
Tailor Made Branded Presentation Box
Become a Trading Partner
We would be delighted if you would like to join the growing list of US re-sellers offering this unique and popular range of personalized gifts.
All our gifts are carefully handmade to order and couriered over to the US for delivery. Each year we successfully ship over 100,000 personalized gifts to our customers worldwide.
Stage One
- Browse our site and review our range of personalized gift ideas.
- Request samples
Stage Two
- Contact one of our team to discuss your individual requirements and request trade pricing.
Stage Three
We’re here to help you in any way we can:
We’ll provide you with images, copy, product information - all you need to get started. If you prefer to do your own photography and copy, we will happily ship you product samples. Map Marketing will work with you to fill out any documentation you require and work through any other contractual agreements before we get going. We will need to talk through your system requirements and how you would like us to handle your customers’ orders. We deal in a variety of order formats from fully automated systems through to plain e-mails. Once everything is set-up and tested and you are happy, we’re good to go.
We have a dedicated, experienced team of Client Service advisors, who will help you manage your customers’ orders and ensure they receive the attention they deserve. Each order is unique, therefore each requires individual attention. We pride ourselves on being both re-active and pro-active at all times and we strive to provide both a unique gift and an excellent service.
Please do call or e-mail us. We’ll be delighted to take this further with you.
