Custom Sticker Printing

We all know stickers printing well. When we were young we found stickers in our lucky packets. Sticker printing is on all the products we use. Sitting in traffic reading the full-colour bumper stickers on the car before you or the “my family” window sticker decals of everybody and the dog. License discs are also well-known and popular.

Vinyl labels allow for so much. From waterproof labels for water bottles to paper packaging labels.

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Colour Stickers and Labels

The most commonly used labels are made from white adhesive vinyl. White is used as personalized label designs are printed in colour on these labels.

Custom clear label printing is popular with commercial product labeling as the design appears as thou it is printed onto the container itself.

You do get vinyl in colour also. There are hundreds of colours from many manufacturers. From standard colours to metallic, neons, reflective and even carbon vinyl. The sky is the limit. Even chalkboard vinyl has become popular these days.

Colour vinyls are typically not used for stickers printing but mostly used for signage and car decals. The design is cut from a roll of colour vinyl stickers using a vinyl cutter machine. The pieces of in different colour cut vinyl are applied together to make up the final design of your choice. Many of the racing stripes on a sports car or even the whole car can be wrapped in these interesting colours

Sticker Types

Adhesive stickers have many functions.

Paper Product Labels

Cheap labels are used for example on fruit and veg packaging. Some of these cheap stickers say things like “Freshly Packed”, “A Class” or fragile handles with care labels. Cheap sticker printing is used to reduce the cost of the packaging and because the sticker has a single use and does not have to last that long. These labels are often made from paper or very cheap vinyl.

Typically vinyl stickers have a longer lifespan. Vinyl sticker materials are also graded by quality and durability. Digital wide format vinyl is graded from 1 year monomeric to 8 year polymeric vinyl. They are waterproof and can be laminated to extend their lifespan even further.

Branded stickers for packaging can also be higher quality custom stickers. If the vinyl label is used on the product packaging that is displayed on the shelf, you want to have a quality look and feel not to discourage customer from buying. You can have the best product but your customer's first impression is the branded stickers for packaging you used.

Monomeric Vinyl Stickers Printing

Monomeric reverse to the structure of the vinyl. These vinyl are cheaper to manufacture and therefore cost less to buy. This vinyl is ideal for short term and indoor use. This type of vinyl is normally thicker and more rigid. The vinyl does not expand and contractions very well outdoors causing it to peel and crack.

Polymeric Vinyl Sticker

Polymeric vinyl has a more complex structure. It is also a more expensive product to make and therefore more costly. The complex structure allows for it to be shaped, for example, the curves of a car. The structure also allows for the vinyl to contract and expand therefore do not crack as easily. This vinyl is ideal for vehicle wrapping and outdoor use.

If you are looking for a sticker to cover a window, please view sandblast printing or contra vision vinyl printing.

Magnetic Sticker Printing

A magnetic sticker is not technically a sticker. As sticker printer we often get asked for magnet stickers. A magnetic sticker is a sheet of printable magnet, either printed directly or a sticker applied to the magnet sheet.

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Vinyl Sticker Printing Prices

Stickers printing prices depend on

• Size - the bigger the sticker the more material is used
• Number of colours - the more colours the more ink used
• Quantity - The more labels you order the cheaper it will get
• Type of vinyl used - low quality vinyl for short term use is less expensive than durable vinyl

UV DTF Printing

DTF UV Printing is a new technology. It is a bit more expensive than a regular sticker and ideal for gifting and high end products. Click here to view our dtf printing

Vinyl Cutting and Custom Sticker Cutting

Die Cut Stickers

Custom shape kisscut stickers are made using a die cut block. The vinyl is run through a machine and the die cut block punches each sticker according to the shape required. This method is most often used with high volume label printing.

There is however a setup fee and a cost for the die block itself making it a very expensive solution for low volume and once off stickers printing runs. Cutting circle or square stickers is easily done.

Vinyl Cutting Labels

Vinyl cutters are machines that cut any shape according to the artwork supplied. A special colour is use in the artwork to indicate where the artwork should be cut. This allows for very complex shapes to be cut.

Although this method allows a lot of flexibility and possibilities, the custom stickers are cut one at a time making this method very slow. The more complex the design the longer it takes to cut.

Sticker Printing Methods

Getting stickers made is fairly easy. Most designs are exported to a print that is printed on a media like vinyl for example. There are however several types of stickers for printers. The right method will depend on how you wish to use the label.

These stickers can either be printed with a glossy solvent ink or UV cured ink. See our DTF UV printing for an example of a high end UV label

There are many types of stickers for printers but the methods below are the more popular ones

Wide Format Vinyl Printers

These sticker printers can use solvent or UV inks. Wide rolls of self-adhesive vinyl is loaded and printed on. The roll can be anything from 600mm to 3.2m wide. Custom stickers printing for car wraps and signage are printed on these machines due to the size required.

These machines are ideal for big surface low volume printing. One can print small stickers on these machines however high volume small stickers may take a long time to produce.

Thermal Label Printers

These sticker printers are often used for barcode and pricing labels at shops. These label printers use heat to print on the labels and print in black and white on a pre branded label. For example, the sticker used on the container for the salad you bought at a Spar.

They print the price, salad type and weight as needed. The logo of Spar was printed beforehand. This is typically printed on an as-needed basis.

Flexography

A flexograph printer is an industrial printer used to print high volume labels at a high speed. A plate is made for each colour in the design and loaded on the machine.

Cans of ink are poured into the machine. As the label runs through the machine, the plate rolls through the ink and then presses on the label. Once the label has gone through all the plates, all the colours together make up the final image. The more you print the cheaper it gets

Label Uses

Popular Labels

Custom stickers for personal use can be anything for water bottle labels to be used at weddings and events thank you stickers or bumper stickers. Window stickers are popular these days like your license disc sticker.

Personalised and custom low volume water bottle labels are simply a sticker cut to fit around a water bottle. A branded water bottle with printed label is perfect and cheap giveaway at meeting, wedding or corporate event. the size of the watterbottle label you need depends of the size of the bottle but a popular size is 100x50mm.  High volume water bottle label printing is cheap per label but has a minimum quantity order.

A wine bottle with a personalised wine bottle label make the perfect gift. You may print the event name, date and even a personal message or name on the wine label. As label printers we typically use a matt wine label however gloss is an option as a label print.

Company Stickers Printing

Companies make use of brand sticker printing to mark their products with the company logo and other information.

Dome stickers are normal stickers with a resin layer on top. The resin not only protects the sticker but also gives it a high quality feel. Companies that manufacture appliances and other devices use a dome logo sticker to brand the product.

Custom Wholesale Packaging and Product Labels

Packaging sticker printing for product manufacturing is in high demand. From barcodes to labels for jars and custom product labels. Chemical and safety labels eg. "fragile handle with care" are also important, the user will know the content of the product and how to handle it.

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Real Estate Agent stickers

The real estate agent uses many kinds of stickers. Personalized vinyl name stickers and number decals are among the favourites.

Custom design stickers like To Let, For Sale, Sold and other stickers are not far behind. These stickers are easy to peel and stick on a sign or a correx board, updating the sign and changing the function or message.

Stickers are often bought with name tags, correx boards and car magnets

Design of your labels

As sticker printers, we supply a wide range of stickers to many industries. From private once off use for a wedding or party sticker, to long term signage and high volume wholesale packaging and product labels.

You may supply us with print ready artwork design files or we can assist you in designing the perfect sticker to match your needs. With over 20 years of experience in vinyl sticker printing, we can advise you on the best material and print method to use

Delivery Anywhere in South Africa

Are you looking of vinyl stickers near me? We currently print and deliver throughout South Africa with a high customer concentration in Pretoria, Centurion, Johannesburg, Midrand, Durban, Cape Town, Western Cape and Port Elizabeth.

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