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Normal 0 We all love a bargain but is there such a thing as a goodquality, cheap, printed USB stick. After all when you considering that anythingthat is printed with your companys brand becomes an ambassador for you companyits important when sourcing branded products that you dont compromise on thecore quality of the product by buying saving a few pennies.This is particularly true of branded USB sticks. Anyonegiven a printed USB stick is going to want to be able to trust it to store andcarry his or her personal data on. They will expect any promotional memorystick carrying a corporate brand to perform equally as well as, if not better,than memory sticks from regular brands such as Kingston, Sony or Transcend. Ifyoure printed memory sticks underperforms or worse fails and the user losestheir treasured or important data this negative memory will be associated withyour brand. Equally if you want to pre-load the memory sticks you arebuying with data before your distribute them then you dont want to discover whenyou come to load them that they are slow or worse fail. Today its common formemory sticks to be loaded with Sales Sheets, Product Sheets, Web Links, Audioand Movie Files and other sales collateral. Implicitly you need this data to beaccessible and readable otherwise why go to the trouble of preparing it andloading it. Trusting it to a cheap, sub standard memory stick that might havebeen manufactured using Grade B (recycled) flash memory chip sets would befalse economy. The core component of any memory stick is the flash memorymodule and the controller chip that goes with it. These have a price in themarket just like any commodity and most factories that assemble memory sticksbuy from the same small number of flash manufacturers at the prevailing rate.The price variance in the market of the finished memory stick (within a givenmemory size) is driven by the costs of the shell/case around this corecomponent, the assembly costs, the manufacturers profit margin and the currencyexchange rate to bring the memory sticks into the country. Given this the pricefor any printed flash drive should be broadly similar so if you are beingoffered prices below the general market price ask yourself why but moreimportantly ask your supplier why. Ensure you get some guarantees on the gradeof chipset being used and check the credentials of the supplier. In reality the only safe way to reduce the cost of brandedmemory sticks is to:1. Buy memory sticks with a smaller capacity, e.g. 128MB instead of 1GB.The smaller the memory capacity the cheaper the USB stick but dont go too small oryou will give the user little incentive to carry and use it.2. Plan ahead to ensure you allow sufficient time to get them printed atthe point of manufacture e.g. in China. Last minute orders mean your supplierwill have to print them locally and local printing is typically 3-4 times moreexpensive. 3. Avoid times of high demand and limited supply when the prices aredriven upwards. Typically this is during Chinese New Year and in the run up toChristmas.As with everything in life you get what you pay for andprinted memory sticks are no exception!
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