The Printing Rules for Holiday Stickers
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Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 |
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a. Protect against harsh environmental effects – This holiday season, you should always try to protect your stickers from environmental effects. The holidays and the winter always comes with it extreme moisture and cold. If your stickers are meant to be deployed for promotions or for items that will be taken outdoors sometimes, then you will need to prepare those sticker prints for the worst.
It is typically best to use a thicker paper material so that the custom stickers are more robust. Also, special coatings that make the paper more resistant to moisture and dirt should make the color stickers really tough and durable even if it is exposed to very cold and very wet conditions. You just need to specify this to your sticker printing company and everything should be fine.
b. Add better holiday materials – Beyond just toughening up your stickers, it is of course also good to upgrade your color stickers for the holidays with some festive materials. The use of glitter material and metallic inks plus other exotic elements like reflectors and such can really add much light and a interesting sheen to your custom stickers. This increases the visibility of your stickers, making them more noticeable and of course more effective at communicating their message. That is why it is really good to add better holiday materials for your holiday sticker printing.
c. Create bigger stickers – Also, during the holidays, you will of course need to have color stickers that have more impact. This means that it is actually good to try to create bigger color stickers so that people can be more impressed with your bigger sticker designs. Do not worry, it is every easy to translate many things to a new and larger sticker configuration. All you need are images with better/higher resolutions and of course a large sticker template. It is that easy, and you can easily create more powerful holiday color stickers because of that increased size.
d. Only use full color stickers – Now, this is an important reminder, always try to use full color stickers. Do not settle for custom stickers that are only printed in black. Though it is quite cheap to print those stickers that way, it also results in boring and common holiday stickers. If you really want to make an impact and print great custom stickers effectively, then you will want go all the way and print in full color. These stickers have more emotion and power.
e. Pay attention to holiday themes and color schemes – Finally, one very big tip I can give you as you design your stickers is to always pay attention to holiday schemes and color themes. You never know it, but sometimes those traditional schemes and color themes can change. If you want to always have effective stickers, try to always update your own with better designs. In this way, you can keep on top of the current styles today, making your color stickers “Hip” and “In” with the times.
So those are the rules you have to remember when printing stickers during the holidays. Take these suggestions to heart so that your stickers can be used effectively to help yourself. Good Luck with sticker printing.
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Brad Kartel is a marketing executive whose passion is helping business owners build their campaign through sticker printing.
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