Get Your Printer Involved Early in Custom Sticker and Label Design
Custom Labels and Stickers – Design Tip #22
Talk to your printer early. You’re cranking along on your custom label design and call your printer to place your order. You happily send off your artwork and are expecting to kick back and let the good times roll while waiting for them to work their label printing magic. Then (insert scary, horror flick soundtrack here) you get the dreaded phone call. Your artwork won’t work. You didn’t know you needed bleeds, margins and your fonts created into outlines! What’s all this?
Custom labels and stickers can be really, really easy to design, or a huge pain in the butt to fix if you’ve forgotten critical elements needed by your printer. Make it easy on everyone, and call your printer early to find out what their specs are for custom stickers. Most of us have it outlined on our websites as well, though I always like to talk to someone ‘live’ just to be sure we’re on the same page. Most printers will also have helpful hints, and can help you design your custom labels to meet print specifications as well. Remember, we’re friendly folk, we printer-types. We’re here to help you with your custom label printing; just don’t wait until it’s too late!
Custom Labels and Stickers- Design tip #23 next time!
