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Anonymous asked: Hi!I loove love your art! you are an inspiration! I saw your stickers and I have a question, did you cut them yourself? Is there a special machine that cuts them so they are still on the sheet of paper? Can you describe the process of making them? It would be great help, Thank you!
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That’s a bit tricky when it comes to cutting the stickers, and it hugely depends on where you produce them and what equipment is available to you.
Generally, there are combined printers/plotters that are of wide use for rather big prints, they serve for manufacturing outdoor designs, signs, they would provide you with high precision cutting line, printed on nice vinyl film, but: as they are meant to be a tool for, say, outdoor advertising, they aren’t made to work with tiny raster images. Therefore your file should be in vector format or you will end up with a huge grain in printing, usual for these machines. That is quite an issue with my tiny Sayakas.
You can choose another option for a better quality printing, and have nicely printed images with tiny grain, but the most common machines of this kind have no plotter going with them. And therefore, to make pre-cut stickers, it would require creating custom metallic knives, kind of like cookie forms, to cut your printed stuff out. That’s not a problem when you’re going for simple forms, like square/round/triangle stickers. These would be easy to manufacture. But when you’re having over 150 custom formed stickers, it costs a fortune to make a personal knife for each and every sticker.
So I just did half of the stickers on the first machine and the other half on the second. First half with bigger grain, but pre-cut, the other half with better printing quality, but you’d have to cut it yourself.
Of course, there are nice machines that combine both, they exist and they are available. But they tend to be a little more pricy for the company to purchase, so it’s not like any place would have them. You’d have to search for a company that would suit your needs. I guess that wouldn’t be an issue in big cities, but for instance, I found myself in a situation, where the closest equipment available for me is in Moscow. While I live in Helsinki.
For the next sticker project I am planning to test services online, to see what’s their quality or actually go to Moscow and print everything there.