Kiss-Cut Vinyl Stickers Sized for the Back of Instax Mini Photos
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Late on the same Sunday its table runner was ordered, Regalia asked a second question: could the logo be made into a sticker? The answer became 100 kiss-cut vinyl stickers, quoted within minutes, paid late the next morning and cut and ready by 17:17 the same afternoon. The whole job turned on one physical fact the customer supplied halfway through: the sticker had to sit on the back of an Instax Mini photograph, and an Instax Mini print is only 53 mm wide.
Written by Maciej Antosz, Production Manager at Silver Image London ·
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The brief: a logo sticker for the back of a photograph
The first idea was 55 × 40 mm — “not very big”. At that size the logo would print, but the two lines of small text under it would not be readable: for type at that weight we advised at least 80–90 mm across. The design was confirmed overnight and the sticker printing quote — 100 pieces, shape cut, quoted at business-card size — was accepted and paid at 11:48 the next morning. Only then did the purpose come out: the stickers were going onto the backs of Instax Mini photographs handed out at the event.
Why the photograph, not the artwork, set the size
An Instax Mini print is about the size of a business card, and its back is 53 mm wide. A sticker wider than that overhangs. So the readability rule that said “bigger” met a physical edge that said “smaller”, and the edge won: the sticker was set at about 70 mm along the back of the print, the largest that fits without overhanging, and the customer chose the back rather than the narrow white margin on the front, where it could only have been a fraction of that. Five or ten millimetres either way changes nothing on price at this quantity; what it changes is whether the text can be read from a hand’s length — and at 70 mm on matt vinyl, it can.
Kiss-cut on matt vinyl, 21-up on SRA3
The stickers were printed on matt vinyl and kiss-cut: the blade cuts through the vinyl and its adhesive but not the backing sheet, so each sticker peels away from a sheet that stays whole. The photograph shows exactly that — one hundred logos on their carrier sheets, ready to peel. The run was imposed 21-up on SRA3 (320 × 450 mm), which is 5 sheets for 100 stickers with five spare positions. That imposition, rather than cutting each sticker individually, is why a 100-piece order can be ready the same afternoon.
Paid 11:48, ready 17:17: the sticker timeline
| When | What happened |
|---|---|
| 31 Aug, late evening | “Are you able to make it into a sticker?” — yes, on sticker stock, shape cut |
| 31 Aug, 22:15 | Quote emailed |
| 1 Sept, 11:48 | Accepted and paid online |
| 1 Sept, midday | Purpose confirmed: back of an Instax Mini; size set at ≈70 mm |
| 1 Sept, 17:17 | Kiss-cut and ready |
The stickers went out at 20:34 that evening on the same courier as the customer’s printed table runner, ordered earlier the same day.
What to tell us when a sticker has to fit something
- The object’s size. “Instax Mini” told us more than “55 × 40 mm” did — 53 mm wide decided the sticker.
- Which face it goes on. The back of a print takes a 70 mm sticker; the white front margin takes a fraction of that.
- How much text is on it. A logo alone reads at 40 mm; a logo with two lines of small type needs around 80 mm, or the type has to go.
Send the artwork and the thing it is going on; the size follows.
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