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About Maxwell Medals & Awards

Our team of awards and recognition specialists invite you to discover the best in products and service in the industry.

Since 1978, we’ve been a national leader in designing and producing custom medals, plaques, lapel pins, trophies, glass awards, and many other recognition products. Although we specialize in custom designed awards, we also offer some of the finest stock products as well. Whether your event calls for an intricate, custom designed three-dimensional medal, or certificates of achievement, we can fill the order and deliver for your special occasion.

Take a moment to peruse our web site. You’ll find an extensive variety of the high quality award and recognition products we have available. If you’re looking for something not shown here, give us a call today, chances are great that one of our highly trained sales specialists will find exactly what you have in mind.

We’re a national company with a staff of talented graphic designers, knowledgeable sales representatives, and dedicated production and administrative personnel. Our team has provided thousands of customers with just the right product to perfectly fit any occasion, from track & field or swimming events, to marathons and soccer tournaments, to corporate sales meetings and banquets of every kind.

We make ordering your awards and recognition products easy for you. Just give us an idea of what you’d like, we’ll handle the details from there. Custom designed award and recognition products are what we’re known for. We’ll take your idea or design and make it into a custom award you’ll be glad to present and your participants will truly be proud to wear or display. At Maxwell Medals & Awards, you can count on hassle free pricing, low quantity minimums, and no die charges. Let us do the work for you, so you don’t have to!

Call us today; we’re here to serve you. You can count on Maxwell Medals & Awards to provide you, our valued customer, the very best in award and recognition products.

 

Order Authorization

Artwork

Acknowledgment Form

Billing and Payment

Shipping

Claims

Less-Than-Minimum

Returned Merchandise

Cancellation Charges

Pre-Production Samples

Samples Submitted by Customers

Rush Service

Web site Pricing

Errors & Omissions

Rights to Promotion

Trademarks, Registration Marks, and Copyrights

Sending Your Artwork

 

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

Order Authorization

All orders submitted to Maxwell Medals & Awards must be placed by authorized personnel only. It is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that only an authorized person places an order. Maxwell Medals & Awards will not be held responsible or liable for orders placed by anyone representing or employed by the customer that is not authorized to execute a purchase transaction.

Artwork

Final artwork is e-mailed, faxed, or mailed prior to production for approval by the customer or an authorized representative of the customer.

Acknowledgment Form

For order clarification purposes, all orders are acknowledged by e-mail, fax, or by mail. Upon receipt, please review this document carefully and contact your sales representative immediately with any discrepancies. The customer is responsible for reviewing all terms and conditions set forth in the acknowledgment form. A signed acknowledgment form that we’ve received via fax or mail constitutes your acceptance of the terms and conditions as stated in the document. Should you decide to e-mail the acknowledgment form back to us as an attachment or otherwise, without an authorized signature, the receipt of the e-mail by Maxwell Medals & Awards will constitute your acceptance of the order as stated in the document.

Billing and Payment

A 50% deposit is required before work begins on all orders, with the balance due upon receipt of the order. Net 30 day terms will be granted to schools and government agencies with a valid purchase order and to customers with established credit with Maxwell Medals & Awards. A credit application must be completed to establish credit terms. Please allow 3–4 weeks to process the credit application. A 2% pre-payment discount will apply on all orders where full payment is received at the time the order is placed. Visa and Mastercard are accepted. Sales and use taxes, if applicable, will be paid by the customer. Specific to some products and due to the nature of our business, we reserve the right to ship and invoice 5% over or under the total quantity ordered.

Shipping

All orders are shipped F.O.B. Factory, unless otherwise indicated. All freight and handling charges will be paid by the customer. If a shipping method has not been specifically requested by the customer, United Parcel Service will be utilized. If other shipment means are required due to unusual circumstances, upon your approval, we will select the most appropriate method to deliver your awards in time for your event. Drop shipment services are available. Please call for further details.

Claims

Upon receipt of your order, carefully count and compare with your acknowledgment form and examine all merchandise. All claims for shortage or defective goods must be reported to our office within 5 days of receipt of merchandise. All claims for undelivered shipments must be reported to our office within 5 days of anticipated receipt of merchandise.

Less-Than-Minimum

Orders with less-than-minimum quantities required, as stated in the product notes, are available under certain circumstances. A minimum order charge of $25.00 will apply. For further details, please contact a sales representative.

Returned Merchandise

Unless custom products are damaged in shipment or reflect obvious defects in workmanship, they cannot be returned to us under any circumstances. Authorization for return of certain products that can be restocked and sold again will not be granted after 15 working days from the date of receipt of the shipment. If authorization for return of products that can be restocked is granted, a 15% restocking charge will apply. The customer is responsible for shipping charges to and from their location.

Cancellation Charges

Orders canceled during production and prior to shipment will be charged an amount equal to the percentage of completion of the order at the time the order is canceled.

Pre-Production Samples

Some award lines are available for pre-production samples to be produced and delivered for review prior to the actual production of the order. For further details, please contact a sales representative.

Samples Submitted by Customers

Maxwell Medals & Awards cannot guarantee the return of samples to the customer. If requested and if possible, every effort will be made to return customer samples promptly.

Rush Service

Due to time constraint circumstances stated by the customer, some products may be produced in less time than the stated normal production schedules. A charge may or may not apply. For further details, please discuss with a sales representative.

Web site Pricing

Prices depicted throughout the Web site are current and subject to change without any prior notice. In the event of a price increase, every effort will be made to provide advance notice of such an increase.

Errors & Omissions

Maxwell Medals & Awards has made every effort to accurately publish its pricing, notes, and other general information in this Web Site. If an error has occurred in pricing, quantity breaks, delivery times, or in some other area of pertinent information, which may or may not affect your order, we reserve the right to override what is published and provide to you the accurate information at any time during the course of the ordering process.

Rights to Promotion

Maxwell Medals & Awards reserves the right to use any and all products produced for sale to customers in any advertising, direct mail, collateral materials, tradeshow booth, or other marketing vehicles and displays unless otherwise specified in writing by the customer at the time the order is placed. Products displayed in any advertising, marketing, display, or promotional vehicle are shown as examples of the type and quality of the products produced. They are not represented for resale, nor are they to be construed as product or brand-name endorsements for the registered mark owners.

Trademarks, Registration Marks, and Copyrights

The customer shall defend, hold harmless and free of all liability, Maxwell Medals & Awards regarding trademark, registration mark, or copyright infringements and/or disputes. Maxwell Medals & Awards assumes the customer has permission prior to production to use all registered designs, marks, logos, graphics, and other artwork submitted for the express purpose of reproduction of same into custom medals and/or other awards. The customer agrees to assume any and all responsibility and liability resulting from trademark, registration mark, or copyright infringement actions or demands brought against Maxwell Medals & Awards

Sending Your Artwork

We will accept any artwork you send -- pencil sketch, camera ready art, or electronic file.

In most cases our designers and artists will prepare your artwork to meet the specifications of its intended product.

When e-mailing an electronic file, please submit it in any of the following formats (in order of preference):

Line Art or Logos:

Adobe Illustrator (.ai)
Adobe Photoshop (.psd, .tiff, .eps, .pdf, .jpg)
Adobe Acrobat (.pdf, .jpg)
Corel Draw (.cdr)
• Resolution of 600 dpi at same size as final reproduction.
• Include any font files that are unique to your artwork or convert the text to outlines.

Photographic Images: RGB or CMYK

Adobe Photoshop (.psd, .tiff, .eps, .pdf, .jpg)
Resolution of 300 dpi at same size as final reproduction.

Data Files:

Basic layout for text placement and line changes for plates, plaques, and certificates.

Microsoft Word (.doc, .rtf, .txt)
Microsoft Excel (.xls, [tab delimited].txt)
QuarkXPress (.qxd, ASCII Text .txt)
WordPerfect (.doc)
Works (.wps)

E-mail artwork, logos, photos, and data files to:
art@maxmedals.com
Contact a sales representative with any questions or for assistance in preparing and sending artwork.

Contact Us:

1296 Business Park Drive
Traverse City MI 49686
Phone: 800-331-1383, 231-941-1685
Fax: 231-941-2102
Email: maxwell@maxmedals.com

 

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