What is a Vinyl Sticker and what is a Vinyl decal?

[equippaint]

Let’s go to the New Oxford Dictionary and try to break it down. Seller of custom stickers, decals, and labels tend to define these product categories as it suits them .

sticker n. an adhesive label or notice, generally printed or illustrated. <-------- PRINTED

label n. a small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object and giving information about it.

decal n. a design prepared on special paper for transfer onto another surface such as glass, porcelain, or metal sometimes non printed.

By definition then a label is a sticker. It says "generally" printed but that is not absolute so cut vinyl would apply here as well.
Strict interpretation of a decal would not be anything vinyl because it says special paper and vinyl is not paper. Also, the design is transferred onto a new surface so wouldn't that only apply to sublimation?
Transfer tape would not transfer the image, it would transfer the label with an image on it.
It looks like most of you are in the sticker business. Don't worry though, it pays the same as the decal business.

 

[Pippin Decals]

By definition then a label is a sticker. It says "generally" printed but that is not absolute so cut vinyl would apply here as well.
Strict interpretation of a decal would not be anything vinyl because it says special paper and vinyl is not paper. Also, the design is transferred onto a new surface so wouldn't that only apply to sublimation?
Transfer tape would not transfer the image, it would transfer the label with an image on it.
It looks like most of you are in the sticker business. Don't worry though, it pays the same as the decal business.

Thanks for the extra info,At least you didnt call me a fool lol...I guess depending on where you live or how it was explained to some of us, It falls under how we want to perceive it and explain it to those who pay us for what everyone does lol... In the end we are making money selling stickers,decals and or labels or what ever you want to call it lol.

 

[bob]

Let’s go to the New Oxford Dictionary and try to break it down. Seller of custom stickers, decals, and labels tend to define these product categories as it suits them .

sticker n. an adhesive label or notice, generally printed or illustrated. <-------- PRINTED

label n. a small piece of paper, fabric, plastic, or similar material attached to an object and giving information about it.

decal n. a design prepared on special paper for transfer onto another surface such as glass, porcelain, or metal sometimes non printed.

Another fine example of the popular fallacy Argumentum Ad Lexicon or Arguing from A Dictionary. For the nth time; a dictionary is descriptive, not definitive. A dictionary only describes word usage in vogue and of which the editors were aware at the time of publishing. It defines nothing.

Arguing from a dictionary is prima facie evidience that you have no argument and that you have a rather tenuous grasp of the notions that you're attempting to put forth. This is aptly demonstrated in your original exposition telling of just how you [erroneously] explain stickers and decals to your patrons.