Features of choosing and using self-adhesive printer paper

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

Types of paper and its purpose

Printer paper intended for making stickers consists of several layers.

The top layer is the base material. It is this that is located on the surface and the image is applied to it.
Another layer in the composition is silicone, thanks to which the layer of backing paper can be easily separated.
The next layer is the glue itself, with the help of which the printed images are attached to any materials.
And the bottom layer is superficial. It prevents the sheets from sticking to other materials until they are used. This backing is easily separated from the adhesive layer.

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

Paper is divided by format - most often found in stores are A4 and A3 formats.
There are also sheets that are a complete canvas, and there are self-adhesive ones with divisions into sectors.
It can be white or a specific color (red or blue is common).
The paper comes in glossy and matte finishes.
There is a universal self-adhesive that is 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 printer paper come in handy? It will be needed not only for business, to produce designer stickers and labels for goods. Self-adhesive is also useful for home use to perform a number of household tasks.

Firstly, with the help of this paper you can decorate your equipment. Want to make your laptop unique? To do this, it is not at all necessary to contact a printing house: producing stickers can require a lot of money, it all depends on the organization you contact. Therefore, you can develop and implement the design yourself - print individual stickers or a whole canvas to cover the entire laptop lid (if you have a wide-format printer).
Secondly, self-made stickers will come in handy during the season of making jam and other preserves. Housewives come up with different ways to somehow indicate the contents of jars. Most often, they sign the leaves and attach them with tape to the jars. But this is tedious for those who do a lot of preparations. It's much easier for them to print out multiple copies of sticker sheets.

Self-adhesive labels on sheets for printer

Another purpose of self-adhesive is to use it for making labels.Of course, you have all seen them in stores on most products. Labels are usually small rectangles of white, green or orange. And they only contain information about price. These labels are usually sold in rolls. But thanks to the spread of self-adhesive paper, you can make more informative labels. Plus, if you make them more colorful, they provide another way to personalize your product.

To make your own labels, it is better to purchase plain paper. It is applied to it:

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 dimensions - 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 is that it comes in two types:

week;
divided into sectors.

Advice

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

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

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 division options.The largest number of cells you will find in stores is 189. The cell size is 25.4 * 10 millimeters.

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

Manufacturers

Such printer paper is produced by a fairly large number of companies. Most often you have probably seen paper from the company LOMOND. Self-adhesive products from this manufacturer are distinguished by the greatest variety.

It can be either white or colored.
Transparent sheets are also available.
Colored paper is also produced in a neon version.
They also produce special photographic paper.

The formats are also varied. 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-weekly and sectioned sheets.

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

Feature of the company 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 different densities. In stores there are sets with double-sided sheets.

Price

The range of prices that printer paper with adhesive backing is found in stores is quite large.

The cost is determined by several parameters:

paper format;
division into cells;
sheet density;
number of sheets in the package;
Are the sheets glossy or matte?
Is it bilateral or not?

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

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

The same packaging, but with A3 sheets, from a B2B company 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 A4 sheets from Lomond costs approximately 250 rubles, both without divisions and with 65 cells.

Conclusion

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

If you sell goods, then using this paper you can make custom labels that will attract more attention to your products.