Hartford Badges About Us

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About Us

About Us...The Hartford Badges story...

Hartford Badges was a spin off of Hartford Engraving, the first computerized engraving house in the country. Hartford Engraving was one of the first to use ID card printers for name badge production. The division producing full color name badges and ID cards was later spun off as a separate company, becoming Hartford Badges.

Hartford Badges is a wholly owned division of Decision Support Dynamics, LLC. Managed and owned by the brother and sister team of Peter and Ann Kingsbury. We moved to our new office in May of 2000. We're located in Western New York State, about 20 miles south of Buffalo.

Ann Kingsbury

Bachelors Degree - Western Kentucky University

Associates Degree - Niagara County Community College

Both of us work all aspects of the business, however I spend most of my time working in billing, quality control and shipping.

Peter Kingsbury

Bachelors Degree - Niagara University

Associates Degree - Erie Community College

I concentrate my efforts on design, customer service and administration. I'm also responsible for designing and maintaining this web site.

Company Policies & Notices

Design Copyright and Promotional Use

All of our designs, whether preliminary or final, are copyrighted by Hartford Badges. Using one of our designs or a substantially similar design for production at another manufacturer is in violation of copyright laws.

Unless notified in writing at the time your order is placed, Hartford Badges retains the copyright to all custom badge designs it creates. Hartford Badges also reserves the right to use items produced as customer samples, in point of sale displays, in advertising material and on our web site

Privacy

All information gathered on this site or in our other contact with you, will be used strictly for internal accounting and marketing purposes. We do not sell or share information with other companies

Sales Tax

Sales tax is charged on all shipments or pickups in New York State at the applicable rate for your county. Please send a tax exempt or reseller certificate prior to us completing your order if it applies.

Sales outside the United States

At this time we only sell to customers in the United States.

Credit Card Security

We will take your credit card information over the phone or via fax. Orders paid by credit card are shipped to verified addresses only.

Fake ID's

Bottom line, we won't do them, we never have and never will.

Our Production Process

	Our production process uses Dye-Sublimation, printed into polished PVC for permanently vibrant colors and sharp detail
	This printing process can produce up to 16,000,000 colors on a name badge or photo ID card. The sky’s the limit!
	A clear protective overlay provides UV protection and keeps the badge from fading
	Full color badges print at 300 DPI with a full bleed for photographic quality
	Our full color process is more versatile than engraving and unlike hot stamps our colors won’t rub or chip off
	The full color process gives much more artistic freedom than was ever available with traditional engraved badges