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Straight answers for patch bar planners.
No sales fog. These are the questions we get on real calls, answered the way we answer them on the phone — with numbers where numbers exist.
What is a custom patch bar?
The plain-language definition, what happens at the station, and how it differs from a table of stock patches.
Read the answer →What does it cost?
The real anchors — station, staffing, travel — plus the two variable lines that move every quote.
Read the answer →How many patches per guest?
The ordering math: averages, hero-design weighting, and why leftovers are a feature, not waste.
Read the answer →Have a question these pages miss?
Call (562) 614-4800 or send it through the quote form — a producer answers, not an autoresponder. Common follow-ups we are happy to talk through: venue power limits, union load-in rules at convention centers, bring-your-own-blank policies, and whether your artwork will survive translation to thread (short version: our artists will make it work or tell you which style will).
A note on how we answer: the numbers on these pages are the same ones we quote from. When a page says stations start around $5,000 locally or that a patch run needs two to three weeks, that is not marketing rounding — it is the planning reality we schedule against. If your situation bends a rule (a 40-guest micro event, a 2,000-badge show floor, a venue with no power near the footprint), say so up front. Almost everything has a workaround; the only unfixable problem is finding out about it during load-in.
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Two minutes on the form gets you a reply scoped to your date, venue, and guest count.