Custom Labels & Stickers

Retailers generally use custom labels to mark specific equipment, products or merchandise that require a ‘cut to size’ or ‘cut to shape’ label. They don’t sacrifice on design using off the shelf sizes, they tailor labels to suit their individual application.
An easy to apply custom label is either die cut or kiss cut on a range of machines on varying materials. Vinyl is the most commonly used material, also known as polypropylene or PVC. All labels are finished with a clean cut edge in the exact size and shape required.
You can buy personalised custom stickers if in various vinyl materials, from metallic to high tack adhesive materials.

You can get custom stickers in any shape or size from us, here are a few recommendations to consider when designing them;

1. Try and keep the shape of the sticker as basic as possible, really intricate and detailed edge designs can cause you to take extra care when peeling them from their wax backing sheet.
2. When designing stickers, make sure add a contour cut around the logo which can be used by our presses to cut-out your design.
3. To achieve a perforation across your label, simply add a dotted line on your cutter file and we’ll take care of the rest. Useful when designing tamper proof labels for jars and other containers. A micro perforation will do this. We recommend a 0.5pt dotted line for perforations.

Supplying your artwork

Clients should supply high quality artwork for their personalised stickers in one of three ways, either upload your artwork with the order on the product page, supply it via email or simply design it online. If you are designing for custom shape labels you’ll need to supply a vector file in PDF format. You’ll need to include a cutter guide so we know where to cut your labels or stickers.

What are your advantages?

Your main advantage is that you are creating something unique. A custom label will stand out even more with a unique design when compared to a standard size or shaped label. You’ll also able to tailor the size of the label to the content that is required on it. Wasted space on labels costs money, choosing your own dimensions to fit your content will save you costs in the long run. Increase your bottom line by ensuring you create labels that fit precisely the content provided on them.

Custom printed labels & stickers

Tying to get the perfect result for your product labelling can be quite a challenge. It’s often difficult to find label printers that will print vinyl labels to your exact requirements. Many sticker printers will use off the shelf cutting dies, but this restricts you to certain sizes in their library. If you require a different size, then they’ll charge you for the manufacturing of a new cutting die. So if for instance you have many different products with varying space for a label, it suddenly becomes very costly. Dies rand anywhere from £100 to thousands depending on how complicated the die needs to be.
Here at Stickythings Ltd we custom print & cut your labels digitally. This means that we don’t have the expensive manufacturing fees for cutting dies and we can instantly cut to your specific shape and size. If you get the size slightly wrong the first time, we can simply amend the cutter guide layer on the artwork and get them perfect. It’s that easy. We also offer a hard copy service where you can order a minimum run, often only £15 and see what the actual labels will look like prior to ordering a larger print run. This is ideal for photo shoots and prototypes where cost is a major factor.

Simply put, no. These custom labels will cost you no more than off-the-shelf labels because of the process used to produce them. We don’t have to make expensive cutting dies as we will digitally cut your labels directly on the press once they are printed. This means that not only is there a quick turnaround, the accuracy is second to none as it’s a single process.
Orders start from only £15 excluding delivery.

Yes you can. Because we print digitally we can split the print run evenly amongst all your different artworks. The only stipulation is that they are printed in the same shape/size and on the same material.

Yes you can. If you have data that you want on each of your stickers and labels, you can provide us with a spreadsheet of that data and a sample mock-up for how you want it to look. There are some design limitations with variable data so please feel free to contact us to see if your requirements are possible. We don’t charge extra for variable data as long as the single file supplied has less than 10 data columns.

Once you order your custom vinyl stickers, we’ll aim to dispatch them within 3-5 working days. You can get free delivery if your order is over £100 ex VAT. The delivery is a next day service from DPD, depending on where you live. This is calculated at the checkout. If you have any questions, you can send a message to our customer service team directly through the website. We aim to get back to all enquiries with 24h.

Customise your label using our product pages. Each page has a unique set of features that can be customised. Such items include; shape & size, rounded or square corners, choice of adhesive and material.