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source for foil prints?
SavannahLion:
ANyone know of someone who prints custom foil (not metallic) stickers in small runs... very small runs, for a reasonable price? I've been Googling around and nearly every shop that I can find that does custom printings on foils wants a minimum print run of 200+ or even 500+ and even fewer still do a limited selection of custom shapes and none do true custom shapes.
Black print on silver. Even if it's not a custom shape, I could trim to fit. I just don't want to have to do a run of 200+ stickers. Especially if it doesn't turn out very well.
Anyone know of any sources?
shardian:
I think I saw a foil type sticker paper at Office Depot one day while looking for full-sheet sticker paper.
polaris:
im sure this isnt news to you, but in my experience the minimums are set to cover set up costs, eg we used to get screen printed t's ,you could have 1 or a 1000 but the initial set up cost made more sense to do big production runs. you'll pay the same for less stickers if you get me as the materials and running costs of the machine will be negligible in comparison to the set up cost.
SavannahLion:
I figured the majority of costs related to setup rather than actual runs. It's the same scenario I've been told about concerning custom PCB's. $105 for one board, but $55 each for two boards and ~$38 each for three. Doesn't take a mathmatical genius to figure out what's happening. I was kind of hoping there was something similar to the cottage market of reproduction prints we have for marquees and side art.... of course, I'm not interested in paying $200 for a sticker smaller than 3"x5" ;D Or like shardians suggestion of Office Depot sticker (if it's a good size) that might give me the possibility of printing it with the toner printer here at work or an ink jet.
It just occured to me to refer to scale modeling techniques and use metal foil. The card backing might be too thick and the foil might be too thin for a printer. Wouldn't hurt to look into that. :-\
--- Quote from: polaris on June 28, 2007, 04:43:33 pm ---you'll pay the same for less stickers if you get me as the materials and running costs of the machine will be negligible in comparison to the set up cost.
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You lost me on this point.
SavannahLion:
Buggers... just realized, ink jet won't work on foil. Bleh :angry:
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