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I want to make stickers... (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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But god-damn it is expensive. Automatic cutters are like $250, a decent printer is like $500 (not including ink refills), then all the paper. I just want to draw shit and stick it on stuff!

Stickers would be a cool outlet for drawing stuff. Give me an end product instead of just doodling aimlessly.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was in the same place, and eventually just bit the bullet and started getting them printed by a company, and I'd use money from side projects to buy batches of 50 or so. Now I sell them, and it makes some money, but not a lot. First I was using StickerMule until they turned out to be kind of fashy, so I switched to customstickers.com. It isn't free, but now my designs don't wash off in the rain, and if I spend a bunch of time on a design, I don't have to draw it every time I want a sticker of it.

Otherwise, USPS labels are your friend. Avery products come off insanely easily, and printer ink bleeds/fades.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Hmm, interesting. One of the appeals of printing this stuff at home was the kind of immediacy and spontaneity of it all. As a dad with two kids, one of which is obsessed with stickers, the idea of pulling out my iPad drawing something with the kiddo, and turning it into a sticker she could slap on her sticker wall was very appealing. However, that isn't the only reason I wanted to get into it. Ever since I finished the drawing of Bill Burr in the communist lineup, I thought it would make a pretty dope sticker. Which only got me thinking, "maybe I could make dope stickers."

I'll give customstickers.com a bookmark and think it over. Thanks!