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  • Vinyl stickers suitable for use with Ball point pen?

    Posted by Lee Pawlett on 18 October 2005 at 20:40

    Hi,
    I need to produce some stickers for my customer that they can write on with a standard ball point pen. We have a greber edge and the material needs to be 380mm width sprocketed. Does anyone have any suggestions? 🙄

    Lee Pawlett replied 20 years, 1 month ago 7 Members · 8 Replies
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  • Peter Normington

    Member
    18 October 2005 at 21:05

    I use polyester label stock from spandex for a similar job, it does not work with all ballpoints, I have just tried some off the roll.
    but the customer has written on more than 4000 now and has not complained. Dont know if this will help, but spandex should be able to give more advise.
    Peter

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    18 October 2005 at 21:11

    you can write on most printable material but you must let it dry, I make serves stickers for a garage and just use Avery 600, they write on the mileage and things.

    Just test what you have.

    Nick

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    18 October 2005 at 21:58

    I print on matt material, most biros will write on that. Avery have a new vinyl (3001) not sure if it will work on the gerber tho

  • Gordon Forbes

    Member
    18 October 2005 at 22:34

    Banner vinyl writes with a biro ok and sticks that bit harder to.

    Goop

  • Nick Minall

    Member
    19 October 2005 at 07:14

    you can print a white box were you need to write that helps.

  • Steve-Smith

    Member
    19 October 2005 at 08:07

    with the edge we normally use the clear coat/abrasion guard cartridges which can be written on with a ballpoint pen

  • Steve Maple

    Member
    19 October 2005 at 13:46

    TELL THEM
    -to use a different pen

    a fibre tipped permanent marker

    which can be removed with meths
    🙄

  • Lee Pawlett

    Member
    21 October 2005 at 10:21

    thanks for all your help :lol1:
    had some banner material and works fine now thanks again 😀

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