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Cool, but they probably won't be able to adopt that design. Badges like this are made with special printers which have a minimum margin which is why most/all badge you see out there have that ugly white margin around them.


I’m fairly certain that Microsoft can afford full-bleed printing for badges.


They already use them - OP didn't show an example badge where they're used. If you have single-person access to secure areas, the white area around the background color will be red.


Full-bleed dye-sub panel ribbon printers aren't all that expensive - under £2k for a current model Evolis printer.

And most card suppliers doing 5k+ cards will offer card pre-printing services, allowing you to have sheets of [blue, green, whatever color] cards printed and die-cut, leaving you to simply print the photo and text.


Die-cut.




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