Your Basic Guide In Home Sticker Printing


by Kate Manheaven - Date: 2009-04-23 - Word Count: 583 Share This!

Sticker printing is a great thing to do at home. It can be very useful for a lot of things. It can be more or less like label printing to organize your things, and it can also be used as decorations for your rooms and accessories. If you are planning on doing some sticker printing at home, you should know the proper steps in doing it correctly. Below is your basic guide on how to do sticker printing at home.

1. Buy Materials - The first thing that you need to do is to buy the label printing materials. Go to your stationary or bookstore and try to find some sticker printing medium. You should see various standard sizes of it, but aim for a manageable size for your printer. A 8.5 by 11 inch or letter-sized sticker printing medium should suffice for most purposes. Also don't forget to buy extra printer ink just in case your printer runs out.

2. Download and Use a template - Afterwards, it is time to create your sticker or label design. The fastest way to do this is to download a label template over the Internet. There are a lot of standard dimensions and designs out there that you can choose from. Simply do a search engine query and you should be pretty much all set. Of course if you are a professional, you can do your own template if you want using your favorite image editing or desktop publishing software.

3. Add your label details - Once you have a template that you want to use, just load that up in your favorite image editing application and then alter it for your purposes. Place any custom images and text that you want to include in your sticker. Typically people may want to personalize these elements with their own pictures or their own drawings and sketch graphics. Do not forget to follow the appropriate layout though for your sticker. For example. If it is meant to be a customizable label printing where people can write on it, then you need to reserve space for some writing when possible.

4. Label printing en masse - Also, be sure that your template will fit in the sticker medium that you bought. Place several designs on a single page so that you can have multiple labels in a single sticker printing. This will make your sticker printing more effective since you can print your stickers en masse if need be.

5. Print them out - Once all the design details are finished, all you have to do is to print it out using your trusty home or office printer. Don't forget to adapt your sticker designs for the printer by compensating for bleeds and color collections. Check your ink levels as well so that you won't waste sticker paper when you accidentally print in a bad unbalanced ink color.

6. Cut them up - Finally, when the label printing is done, you can cut them up. In most cases a cutter or a cutting board would be most appropriate. However, if you don't have any of those tools, then a simple home scissor should be enough. In fact, for specially shaped stickers, this might be a good idea.

After cutting them up, then you should already have a nice wonderful set of stickers to use for fun and for organizational purposes. As you can see, sticker printing is very easy to do and you won't have any problems with it even if you are a novice. So, good luck with your printing!

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