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The 10 Funniest Bumper Stickers
Humour can be compared to watching your young child perform at a school concert – it’s often a matter less of taste and more of personal involvement. In this post, for example,…
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The Birth of Stickers
Stickers are familiar because they are simple to use: peel, position and press. Behind that small action is a combination of material, adhesive, printing and cutting that…
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The History of the Self Adhesive Label
A self-adhesive label combines a printable face material with an adhesive and a backing liner. That construction made it possible to apply a label without wetting a gum coating or…
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Using the Sticky Labels’ Label Designer (Real Label Design Example)
The online label designer lets you choose a label specification and add your artwork. Start with the surface and dimensions, then use the current options shown in the builder.…
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Warning Stickers That Really Fail to Get the Message Across
When you’re designing warning labels or stickers for your business or organisation, it’s important to convey a clear and unambiguous message. Warnings that are badly written or…
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Calorie Labels to be Fitted to Staircases
I’ve seen many interesting uses of labels over the years and read with interest a recent news story in the Telegraph announcing that staircases will be labelled with…
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Setting Labels Line By Line In The 70’s
Linotype Setting Machine It was fascinating to see the cover of this month’s Print Monthly Magazine showing an operator working diligently at his Intertype machine. When I first…
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Sticky Labels Has A New Home Page!
Here at Sticky Labels , we’re constantly trying to improve our service to you and make ordering printed labels even easier. You may have noticed we had a brand new website back in…
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Sustainable Energy and Sticky Labels
Here at Sticky Labels, we’re passionate about moving with the times and providing not only eco-friendly labels but ensuring we have systems in place to make our business as…
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Mysterious Sticky Labels Appearing on London’s Central Line
Satirical ‘Art’ Hits the Tube Since April 2011 there has been numerous high-quality stickers and labels appearing on trains using London’s Central Line on the Tube. They are…
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A Conservation Trust Chooses Biodegradable Labels
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust has chosen Sticky Labels for biodegradable labels to be stuck onto its biodegradable, compostable pots . Putting labels to work Check production…
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Would you Eat a Watermelon that Smiled at You?
It might seem like a strange question, but actually, it is rather topical. On June 23, 2013, the European Union formally gave its backing to the use of iron oxides and hydroxides…