Tab Manufacturing for the Trade
Plenty of successful tab businesses never touch a die. If you sell custom tabs — or want to — we can be the plant behind you: your brand, your customer, our presses.
How trade tab production works
- You quote your customer; we quote you trade pricing on the production
- Any spec we make for ourselves: paper or poly, every cut from 1/2 to 1/15, printed one or two sides, Mylar-coated tabs, edge reinforcing, punching, full collation
- Variable data: numbered exhibit ranges, alphabetical sets, and per-set custom copy generated from your data file
- Confidential: plain-wrapped shipping with your paperwork — your customer never sees our name
- Proof discipline: a PDF proof before anything prints, so what your customer approved is what ships
Who uses it
Commercial printers whose customers ask for tabs a few times a year; binderies without tabbing lines; print brokers building a product line; and shops that used to run tabs in-house and retired the equipment. You keep the margin and the relationship — we keep the presses busy.
Common questions
Do you wholesale custom tabs to print shops?
Yes. Trade accounts get trade pricing, plain-wrapped or your-paperwork shipping, and complete confidentiality — your customer relationship stays yours.
What specs can you produce for trade accounts?
Everything we produce for our own storefront: paper (90#/110#) and .015 poly tabs, every cut from 1/2 to 1/15, 1- or 2-sided printing, clear or colored Mylar tab coating, edge reinforcing, punching, and full collation, including variable-data numbered and lettered sets.
How do trade quotes work?
Call 1-800-778-2100 or use the quote form with your spec; estimates come back same day on most work. No charge until you approve a proof.
Estimates same day on most trade work — no charge until you approve a proof.