I have a local BOTL that's moving away. I have rolled up a wheel of cigars as a gift and I'd like to do something a bit nicer as to the bands than my usual 2 boxes on a strip cut out of copy paper. I'm looking for small quantities and I'm willing to spend a couple bucks. Any ideas?
Nice bands
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I have designed a couple bands for some of the home rollers. Is that what you're looking for?
I can design a band in Excel. I can print a band using my cheesy little ink jet printer. However, the result ends up looking like something someone made on their cheesy inkjet printer. Was looking for a resource that can receive my design, print and cut on professional tools and return to me a small quantity of presentation quality bands. The little I do know about the printing industry leads me to believe it usually takes couple thousand sheets of waste to get the presses up to speed and reliably reproduction a quality product, therefore beyond the reach of us hobby rollers. Is there something between Oscar homeroller and his inkjet printer, and a professional band printing service?
This might be way out there, but I've done it before. I used to do advertising work, and had a really good relationship with a local print company. They had a pretty big offset operation, and did a lot of jobs that involved die cutting and binding. So I had given them a file that would be a "piggy-back" meaning that when they had a job that would have extra room in the sheet, they could add my art to the die. It literally added no cost to the job, and I'd put a little extra cash in my homeboy's pocket for the hookup.
Format the band to a sheet of 12 or so, how ever many bands your able to fit on a sheet of paper, put it on a thumb drive and give it to kinkos and have them print some on the laser printer. you'll have to cut them out but it's cheap enough.
This site also has some less "fancy" options. Pre-set designs that can be modified with respect to the text you want. They may also do custom jobs, not positive though.
http://mycigarlabels.com/samples.html
Post up when you figure out what you are going with and how they turn out.
http://mycigarlabels.com/samples.html
Post up when you figure out what you are going with and how they turn out.
That is a good question. nobody wants to answer there phone so I'll let someone else try an online response.
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self adhesive = stickers. My wife ordered me some bands from labelsonthefly.com with that same description as a present last year. They were stickers.
It sounds like one could remove just the part needed to keep it from sticking to the wrapper?
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they were unusable for me and the wife felt bad as they were a present. I'll find them and upload a picture when I get home later, but they are just like a sheet of stickers with the waxy paper backing. You would have to cut each one out and leave the backing on.
