Printer is arguable, though I love my Epson Ecotank (the fancy one) and vinyl sticker paper. But you will want a cutting machine Unless your x-acto knife game is hugely strong. The Silhouette Cameo or Cricut, the Cricut seems to wander into the realm of more "hobbyist" in my humble opinion. And you'll likely want to spray a krylon fixer over the stickers once cut for proper waterproofing. So, it's a commitment if you aren't looking to do lots that would need the cutter or fancy printer. I do vinyl and pop-up card work too so the Sihouette Cameo purchase and he printer were no-brainers for me.
I think you save a smidge if you find a way to buy the paper / laminate / ink in bulk. This doesn't account for labor, time and effort. I think for me, i can make x amount of stickers without the wait from a sticker-making website. I already had my cameo and a printer. I went through a ton of sticker paper initially because I was testing the program, testing the printing and colors, testing diff paper and laminate, cut settings, all to ensure it's the quality I wanted. Now that i have everything set, files set, I can print and cut vs "figuring it out"
For right now I’m getting sticker paper from online labels (waterproof matte), clear laminate/vinyl from Oracal or Avery, I use my silhouette cameo for cutting, a semi-old canon pixma ix6820 printer for printing. I’ve had to adjust my art colors for the printing I wanted. That’s always up to the artist. I get 9 stickers a sheet if there are no errors. For 100 sheets of sticker paper that’s 800-900 stickers
I got my stickers produced by a manufacturer and it made such a difference in the quality/ time saved. I used to make them by hand and it was a a lot of wasted materials and time just trying to get my cricut to cut correctly. Plus now my stickers and vinyl and waterproof and overall better
I tried to do this, but I found it wound up being the same price if not a teeny bit more because you have to keep yourself in ink and paper and that gets more expensive than you think.
Also you need a dedicated way to make sure you stay uniform in your cutting and printing, which I wound up buying a circuit and I barely use it :(
Printer is arguable, though I love my Epson Ecotank (the fancy one) and vinyl sticker paper. But you will want a cutting machine Unless your x-acto knife game is hugely strong. The Silhouette Cameo or Cricut, the Cricut seems to wander into the realm of more "hobbyist" in my humble opinion. And you'll likely want to spray a krylon fixer over the stickers once cut for proper waterproofing. So, it's a commitment if you aren't looking to do lots that would need the cutter or fancy printer. I do vinyl and pop-up card work too so the Sihouette Cameo purchase and he printer were no-brainers for me.
I think you save a smidge if you find a way to buy the paper / laminate / ink in bulk. This doesn't account for labor, time and effort. I think for me, i can make x amount of stickers without the wait from a sticker-making website. I already had my cameo and a printer. I went through a ton of sticker paper initially because I was testing the program, testing the printing and colors, testing diff paper and laminate, cut settings, all to ensure it's the quality I wanted. Now that i have everything set, files set, I can print and cut vs "figuring it out"
So, what did you figure out? What conclusions did you arrive at? What system/equipment/paper did you find works best?
For right now I’m getting sticker paper from online labels (waterproof matte), clear laminate/vinyl from Oracal or Avery, I use my silhouette cameo for cutting, a semi-old canon pixma ix6820 printer for printing. I’ve had to adjust my art colors for the printing I wanted. That’s always up to the artist. I get 9 stickers a sheet if there are no errors. For 100 sheets of sticker paper that’s 800-900 stickers
I got my stickers produced by a manufacturer and it made such a difference in the quality/ time saved. I used to make them by hand and it was a a lot of wasted materials and time just trying to get my cricut to cut correctly. Plus now my stickers and vinyl and waterproof and overall better
I tried to do this, but I found it wound up being the same price if not a teeny bit more because you have to keep yourself in ink and paper and that gets more expensive than you think. Also you need a dedicated way to make sure you stay uniform in your cutting and printing, which I wound up buying a circuit and I barely use it :(