Kingston
Well-known member
Hello,
I have a bit of a dilemma here. In the past I have used this one sticker shop for creating stickers for my front panel designs. They have been spot colored with high quality ink and materials, very heat proof and they will absolutely never come off under any circumstances. I have used foil based stickers and transparent stickers. It's the same stuff used in professional advertising applications. Spot coloring means I always use just one color, a strict qualification in order to make sure it ends up perfect using RAL color charts.
This has worked well, but the shop I use has a quality control issues. I can see the pixels, and sometimes even tiny pieces of graphics are missing. For casual user of the gear these will probably be never noticed, but it matters to me. Maybe their spot color printer is a bit old, but it's still strange to see the actual pixels since I provide them PDF vector graphics, unlimited DPI.
These kind of sticker prints are a bit expensive, because the guys want to deal with hundreds of copies, and I need just one or two. But this is the only shop I've found that even does one off prints. Many shops I contacted were even a bit rude when I asked about having one off stickers made. "quit wasting my time, I have better things to do".
Are any of you people out there familiar with what I'm talking about? Could you direct me to a shop that meets my specs above, but does not have quality control issues?
Mike
I have a bit of a dilemma here. In the past I have used this one sticker shop for creating stickers for my front panel designs. They have been spot colored with high quality ink and materials, very heat proof and they will absolutely never come off under any circumstances. I have used foil based stickers and transparent stickers. It's the same stuff used in professional advertising applications. Spot coloring means I always use just one color, a strict qualification in order to make sure it ends up perfect using RAL color charts.
This has worked well, but the shop I use has a quality control issues. I can see the pixels, and sometimes even tiny pieces of graphics are missing. For casual user of the gear these will probably be never noticed, but it matters to me. Maybe their spot color printer is a bit old, but it's still strange to see the actual pixels since I provide them PDF vector graphics, unlimited DPI.
These kind of sticker prints are a bit expensive, because the guys want to deal with hundreds of copies, and I need just one or two. But this is the only shop I've found that even does one off prints. Many shops I contacted were even a bit rude when I asked about having one off stickers made. "quit wasting my time, I have better things to do".
Are any of you people out there familiar with what I'm talking about? Could you direct me to a shop that meets my specs above, but does not have quality control issues?
Mike