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 The way to achieve high quality stickers, is to have high quality artwork.sticker machines, interestingly, much like primates, follow some simple rules, put crap in, you get crap out. Please don't ask the monkey to make a million huge stickers from that tiny 32k web .gif your mate found on myspace. That will get some bananas thrown at you. stale ones that are mooshy, and smell bad. VECTOR IS BEST!! The monkeys machines eat up vector graphics for breakfast, and spit out brilliant stickers at lunch. Dinner time is a feeding frenzy of .svg’s .eps’s and .ai’s with a smattering of top notch decals for pudding. Then it’s off to the treetops (handily enough, signposted with some correx boards he made earlier) for some serious hanging out. No, really, he’s an ape, he loves to hang around the trees with his great ape mates, staring at the stars and enjoying some leaf. peace out, yo!  The machines here at sticker towers are spot colour machines,so they print one colour at a time, and each colour costs money. unlike your desktop printer, which has one cartridge for all the colours in the rainbow - have you seen how they make them, they harvest rainbows and squeeze them into that little white cuboid you slot into your printer, then tiny little bits leak out onto your paper to make that print of your sister pulling a funny face as some guy grabs her bottom at the latest teeny pop concert. The monkeys machines utilise a thermal transfer foil to sort of melt pure colour onto the vinyl substrate. this makes for some amazing, bold, flat colour reproduction. They are capable of doing photo like images, using all four process colours (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black) but this is often not the most graceful solution to a problem. and the results are not as ace when compared to spot colour jobs. The sticker monkey loves clever solutions, they rock his world. if you need to know more about this, go study at art school for four years. |