Features of the choice and use of self-adhesive paper for the printer

Many people, when buying a printer, choose rather expensive models equipped with various additional functions. But after they do not realize these opportunities, limiting themselves only to printing reports to the school and institute and various documents. Otherwise, we are used to using the services of printing houses and small print departments. But the printer can be used for much more interesting purposes. With it, you can, for example, make decorative elements or print your own author's drawings in the form of stickers. For this you need a special paper for the printer - adhesive. It may have different characteristics, and in stores there are sheets from different manufacturers.

Types of paper and its purpose

Label printer paper is made up of several layers.

1. The top layer is the base material. It is he who is on the surface and the image is applied to him.
2. Another layer in the composition is silicone, thanks to which a layer of substrate paper is easily separated.
3. The next layer is the glue itself, with the help of which the printed images are attached to any materials.
4. And the bottom layer is surface. It protects sheets from sticking to other materials before they are used. This substrate is easily detached from the adhesive layer.

In stores you will find a huge number of different types of self-adhesive. Depending on the different formats and materials of the top layer, these sheets can be used for different purposes.

• Paper is divided by format - most often in stores there are A4 and A3 formats.
• There are also sheets representing a holistic canvas, and there is self-gluing with divisions into sectors.
• It can be white or a certain color (often red or blue).
• The paper is glossy and matte.
• There is a universal self-adhesive suitable for all printers, as well as one that can only be used in an inkjet or only in a laser printer.

Application

But where can such paper for a printer come in handy? It will be needed not only for business, to produce copyright stickers and labels for goods. Self-gluing is also useful for home use to perform a number of household tasks.

• Firstly, with the help of this paper you can decorate your technique. Want to make your laptop unique? To do this, it is not necessary to contact the printing house: the production of a sticker may require a lot of money, it all depends on the organization you are contacting. Therefore, the design can be developed and implemented independently - print individual stickers or a whole canvas to cover the entire cover of the laptop (if you have a large format printer).
• Secondly, self-made stickers are useful in the season of jam preparation and other preservation. Mistresses come up with different ways to somehow indicate the contents of the cans. Most often they sign leaflets and stick them with tape on the banks. But this is tiring for those who do a lot of workpieces. It is much easier for them to print several copies of sheets with stickers.

Self-adhesive labels on printer sheets

Another purpose of self-adhesive is its use for the manufacture of labels. Of course, you all saw them in stores on most products. Typically, labels are small rectangles of white, green, or orange. And they contain information only about the price. Such labels are usually sold in rolls.But thanks to the spread of self-adhesive paper, you can make more informative labels. In addition, if you make them brighter, they will become another means of individualizing your product.

For self-made labels it is better to purchase plain paper. It is applied to:

• manufacturer's logo;
• barcode;
• product name, weight and other important information.

Dimensions

As mentioned earlier, most often adhesive paper is found in A4 format. It has standard sizes - 297 * 210 millimeters, and diagonally - 364.

A slightly rarer format is A3. Its dimensions are 297 * 420 millimeters.

But these parameters are not the only characteristic of the self-adhesive sheet. The fact that it is of two types:

• unshared;
• divided into sectors.

Tip

If you are going to print stickers, labels or other repeating drawings of small sizes, it is better to give preference to the second type. These sheets are divided by the manufacturer into several identical cells, which will save you time and get a more accurate result.

So, if we are talking about A4 format, then there are the following types of divided sheets:

• with two cells, the dimensions of which are 210 * 148.5 millimeters;
• with three cells, the dimensions of which are 210 * 99 millimeters;
• cell sizes on paper with four divisions - 105 * 148.5 millimeters;
• when divided into six cells - 105 * 99 millimeters.

There are many more options for dividing. The largest number of cells that you will find in stores is 189. At the same time, the cell size is 25.4 * 10 millimeters.

In addition, there are also round cells with different diameters, which depend on the number of divisions.

Manufacturers

Such printer paper is produced by a sufficiently large number of companies. Most often, you must have seen company paper in stores Lomond. Self-adhesive of this manufacturer is the most diverse.

• It can be both white and color.
• There are also transparent sheets.
• Colored paper is produced in the neon version.
• They also make special photo paper.

Varied and formats. In addition to the most popular sheets of sizes A4 and A3 under this brand, you will also find paper in A3 + and even A2 format.

Another feature is the production of double-sided glossy paper. Lomond produces both non-divided and sectorized sheets.

Company IST produces many types of self-adhesive photo paper. In the format of 10 * 15 centimeters you will find self-adhesive of different densities. It is also divided into semi-glossy, glossy, supergloss and satin.

Company Feature INKO is the manufacture of paper that is specifically designed for inkjet printers. Such sheets have a lower cost.

Manufacturer Life produces high quality coated paper. It has a different density. In stores there are sets with double-sided sheets.

Cost

The price gradation found in paper stores for printer with an adhesive backing is quite large.

The cost is determined by several parameters:

• paper size;
• division into cells;
• density of sheets;
• the number of sheets in the package;
• glossy are sheets or matte;
• bilateral or not.

The cheapest option is a pack of twenty-five matte A4 sheets from Lomond. The density of the sheets is 70 g / m2. The cost of this paper is about ninety-one rubles.

If you are interested in a higher density, then you should take a closer look at Polychromatic paper. The density of these sheets is 108 g / m². True, there are fewer of them in the set - twenty pieces. And the price of packaging is one hundred rubles.

The same packaging, but with sheets of A3 format, from B2B will cost about two hundred rubles. Glossy sheets cost a little more.

The presence of divisions also does not particularly affect the cost of paper. A set of fifty sheets of A4 format by Lomond costs approximately 250 rubles, both without divisions and with 65 cells.

Output

If you have a printer and you use it mainly for printing documents, try purchasing self-adhesive paper. It will open up many new possibilities - with its help you can make stickers that are useful for decoration (for example, to decorate a laptop), and for solving everyday problems (stickers are useful for jars of jam).

If you sell goods, then with the help of this paper you can make copyright labels that will attract more attention to your products.