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The stroke must be a spot color with the name “CutContour." For detailed instructions on how to add cut paths to your artwork in Adobe Illustrator, please view this short tutorial video. While ordering a sticker sheet, cut paths are signified by a 1 pt. **In some cases, where a transfer sticker is too small to cut, we may recommend changing to a sticker printed on clear vinyl. Clear vinyl stickers have the design printed in an opaque, white ink and can either be die cut around the shape of your design or cut to a standard shape, such as a circle, square, or oval. Transfer stickers have the design cut out of a piece of white vinyl and then have the background elements removed. If you are ordering a sticker where the only color in the design is white, you can choose from a white transfer sticker or a clear vinyl sticker with the design printed in white. When artwork is submitted without outlined text, we may not have the fonts needed to print your design as you created it. Outline FontsĪfter you’ve designed your sticker in Illustrator or other design software, make sure that your fonts are outlined. With the placed file selected, you can see whether the image is Linked or Embedded in the top left corner of the document. When you place an image or file into your illustrator document, make sure the file is embedded. Below are a list of best practices for uploaded files that can help you avoid delays in receiving your order. Uploading an existing image or design to create a custom sticker is easy! However, there are some common issues with uploaded files that can hold up the production process. Leaving the sticker in a sandwich between the vinyl backing and our transfer tape. The sticker is then cut to our customers specified dimensions. When the graphic is topped and weeded, we roll our high quality clear plastic transfer tape over the graphic. See our Counting Picks on a Transfer Stage page for more. Too many picks are very time consuming thus require an extra charge. Weeding spaces in between letters such as “A” and “O” are called picks. Once we’ve cut out the graphic, our team pulls the excess vinyl away from sticker (called topping) and carefully weeds the excess vinyl with a specialized tool. The plotter is a machine that cuts vinyl to a specified shape or design.
Our talented processing team then takes a premium sheet of the selected vinyl color and runs it through a plotter.
Our Graphic Design team then takes the design and prepares it for processing, ensuring that the design will look great for our customers. To help you understand why transfer tape is so important to your sticker, here is our step by step process to producing transfer stickers:Īfter our customers choose one of our premium graphics, upload their own, or creates something new using our custom sticker maker, they select the color and size of the transfer sticker. With the car windshield, water bottle, laptop or any other substrate surface clearly visible, the installer can clearly see how the sticker will look when placed.ĭue to the non porous plastic material of the transfer tape, we recommend applying the stickers on a clean and dry surface. The clear plastic construction provides the transparency that is needed for our customers easy placement stickers. Clear tapes are transparent because they’re made from plastic face films instead of paper.
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