Special Olympics New Jersey
March 2026
New Jersey, USA
For the Special Olympics New Jersey (SONJ) 2026 Spring Games, event badge production was doing what a lot of event workflows do over time: getting more complicated than it needed to be.
Before K&A got involved, producing event badges meant juggling multiple steps across vendors, internal printing, manual assembly, and unreliable equipment. It worked — but it took time, coordination, and a lot of hands to get from blank stock to a finished badge.
With a fixed event date and a process that didn’t scale easily, the team needed a more reliable way to get credentials produced, assembled, and ready for distribution.
“They had a very manual process in place, and it took a lot of effort to get from blank stock to a finished event badge. We were able to bring that work in-house, clean up the production, improve the finished product, and make it much easier on their team. That feels especially good when you’re supporting an organization that gives so much to its athletes.”
WE WERE ECSTATIC TO BE ABLE TO BE PART OF SUCH A WORTHY CAUSE.
K&A brought the entire process in-house and simplified what had been an 8-step process into a single, controlled workflow.
Badges were printed front and back with a Canon CX-G6400 using durable TuffJet material, eliminating the need for lamination and reducing handling. From there, the team assembled each badge with client-supplied lanyards, organized them for distribution, and prepared everything for direct handoff.
Instead of coordinating multiple steps across different systems and vendors, SONJ received fully finished badges — ready to issue.
Delivered for the Spring Games on a tight schedule, with each badge printed, attached to a lanyard, and collated in preparation for event distribution and use.
K&A streamlined a manual multi-step process that previously required outside background printing, internal variable data printing, manual removal from sheets, laminating, hole punching, assembly, and sorting.
From early March kickoff to delivery deadline, the project moved fast — without sacrificing quality or organization. From the moment we received the logo, the badges were ready to go within 48 hours.
By switching to durable TuffJet stock, and allowing the printing to happen in one pass, the K&A team eliminated a few of SONJ’s most time-consuming and problematic badge production steps.
From branding and badge formats to printer support and logistics — we’ve thought through the details that keep events running smoothly.
