Yes, in the way most people mean it. A printed vinyl sticker copes with rain, spilled coffee and a bottle washed by hand, because vinyl doesn’t soak up water the way paper does. The accurate word for that is water-resistant. The dishwasher, mud and constant spray are a harder test, and whether a sticker passes […]

Label the things that leave your house and look like everyone else’s: the charger at work, your tools, the bike helmet. A sticker on a clean, smooth surface does the job, and anything that could get left behind somewhere should carry your phone number as well. Clothes, lunchboxes and anything that goes in the dishwasher […]

To laminate stickers at home, apply a compatible self-adhesive laminate to the dry printed side of your sticker sheet, smooth it down gradually, then cut out the stickers. Leave the sticker’s backing paper in place throughout. You do not need a heated laminator for this method. The useful part is controlling how the two sheets […]

To remove a sticker, gently lift an edge and peel away what you can. Then treat the adhesive left behind using a method suited to the surface. Warm soapy water is a useful starting point for washable glass and plastic. A laptop needs a different approach, with very little moisture and only cleaning products permitted […]

To make stickers to sell, finish the design at the size it will print, have it printed once real orders start, check a single sticker before you order the batch, and price from the full cost of an order. Printing at home is fine for testing a design. It stops making sense around the time […]

Your camera roll has hundreds of photos of the dog, and only a handful will make a good sticker. They’re usually not your favourites. The best photo of him is probably the one where he’s asleep in a heap on the sofa, and cut along its outline, a heap stops looking like a dog. The […]