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Reminders and guidelines as you print stickers digitally
01-04-12

Printing your stickers digitally is a very good idea. Not only does this let you print cheap stickers, but it also helps you ease into the process without too much introduction since it is very easy to understand. Before you go head on though, you may want to know a few of the basic reminders and guidelines in the digital printing of stickers.
While it might be easy to do, it is important that you be accurate with it so that you do not waste money with badly formatted stickers. So read the guidelines below carefully so that you can print those stickers digitally without too many problems.
Be sure about the template you are loading - To make sure that you submit the right kind of document for digital printing, you must be sure about the template that you are using. There are lots of templates for stickers, and all of them have specific dimensions and guidelines.

It is recommended that you just use the free templates that your sticker printer gives out to its clients. This should help you avoid all the different conversion errors and compatibility issues that usually happens when people use different templates in printing these stickers. So go for those templates, believe me, it will be far less of a hassle for you.

Use only print quality images in your design - When you insert your images for printing, it is better that you only use print quality pictures. Print quality pictures are images that have very high resolutions. Target pictures that are rendered at least at 300dpi or higher.

This should give you pretty crisp and clear looking stickers that do not have that fuzzy quality that impairs amateur color stickers. So be careful and be aware of the images that you are inserting into your sticker designs, use only the best high resolution images for your prints.

Be careful when converting and scaling - When you move and position your sticker design elements, be careful with your conversions and scaling. Sometimes images, text and other elements can look distorted or become fuzzier if you scale and convert them wrong.

If possible, always try to maintain the aspect ratio of images and text so that nothing will appear distorted once they are printed. Believe me, people will notice if your images are a bit thinner or fatter than the original and common image expected by people.

Test print everything before mass production - Before you go ahead with mass producing your stickers, you should always do a test printing. This gives you a chance to spot any other printing errors that you might not see in the screen. Many people have been saved in printing badly designed stickers by doing it this way, so make sure that you attempt to at least print one sample sticker before you finalize your design.


Be aware of the file format you are using - Knowing the file format is very important when you are designing stickers for digital printing. The file format determines the software that can open the file more easily. For digital printers this is a key issue since they will have to convert some files if they are not compatible with their software. Of course, as much as possible try to go with the file formats your printers are using to minimize conversion errors.

I would also recommend using image file backups so that the printers can use these just in case the document files get corrupted. You might also want to use a zip archiver to compress all your files into one big backup file that the printers can use just in case the whole original package cannot be opened. This allows you to give the printer all the file format options to be sure that nothing goes off with these files.

So take note of all of these guidelines. Follow them precisely so that your stickers can be printed properly and accurately through that digital printer.

 

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