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Separate 100k+ stickers into 100s

ikarasu

Active Member
I'd convince the customer to accept them kiss cut to shape, but then perf cut to square or rectangle, lots of stickers are like this. Most places are fine with this as it also makes peeling the stickers off the backer easier.


We then print/ kiss cut, then perf. It them into 30" x 30" or whatever sheets make sense.... Stack them 100 sheets up, and cut on our sheer.... Every single cut is 100 stickers, so say your sticker is 2" x 2"... On a 30" x 30" sheet, you can fit 15 across, and 15 up and down ... Take maybe 30 minutes to sheer 100 sheets down, and those 100 sheets would yield 22,500 stickers.... And every single one would have 100 stickers... Unless your sheering guy screws up the count.

We do hundreds of thousands of stickers like this a year and it works great. I think 1 customer out of the dozens we've had didn't want rectangle cut.... But it all depends on the use purpose... Most of our customers are industrial users putting it on equipment they manufactured, so having a square backer makes it easier for them and they prefer it

If they won't accept square or rectangle liners.... I'd print them 100 up like suggested above, then pop them out 100 at a time. A 2" x 2" decal won't weight much... So using a scale would be somewhat hard.

You could also measure 100 of them.... Build a little stacker box where the top of the stacker is 100 stickers, or 102-105 stickers.. then just stack to the top, would be faster than weighting if you're willing to give them a few extra stickers per stack... You can get pretty baby on accurate, but I'd rather throw in a few extra stickers then short them.


Personally, if sheering doesn't work... I'd print 5 thousand stickers and time the box stack way vs the weighting way, see which is more accurate and which is faster.

I've had a small scale that could do .5 grams before though.... It took a few stickers for it to register a change in weight. It was a cheap ass kitchen scale, so maybe you can get better and have it be accurate, but that way never worked for me.
 

victor bogdanov

Active Member
I've had a small scale that could do .5 grams before though.... It took a few stickers for it to register a change in weight. It was a cheap ass kitchen scale, so maybe you can get better and have it be accurate, but that way never worked for me.
Scale is working great, just finished some Sunday night testing at home

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Pauly

Printrade.com.au
What machine are they done on?
If its the colex, id split them into 100 x a sheet. slight gaps or a line between. cut the full bed worth. when it's done cutting, user, will see each row of 100x.
scale will work. keep in mind, you'll ever have someone man a machine, or man the scales.
 

netsol

Premium Subscriber
Yes I'm waiting for one to come in in a few hours
I am not sure how often the scale samples for changes. Sample rate is probably the biggest difference between a $12. Scale and a $100. One
keep in mind, the fact that it displays that many “least significant digits”:doesn’t mean the display will neccessarily update with the addition of one or 2 labels.

take a few minutes & experiment with flour or oatmeal first with your scale.
you will probably overshoot your count by quite a bit before before the display changes.

I am not visualizing how you are printing these (54” printer?) 27 across, 4 rows =128
or how they are cut. Is it possible to use a photo sensor & a digital counter to do a running count as the labels “fall” after cutting?
 

guillermo

New Member
If the printing time and cutting is not a problem, then print them in batches of 100, you do not have to count them if done this way.
Or, print them in batches of 500 or a 1000 and then weight them divided by 5 or 10.
 

Boudica

I'm here for Educational Purposes
Scale is working great, 76 grams = 102 stickers consistently. Very fast to weigh them out
I was going to suggest a scale.... scrolled through and missed where someone else did - so plus 1 for weighing them. Some scales can weigh by count which makes it really easy.
 

victor bogdanov

Active Member
2 people were able to bag up the stickers today using a scale in about 4hrs, 1000 baggies x 100 stickers per back . Was easier/faster than I was expecting
 
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