2" Compostable Round Labels, Blank

Satisfied with product

Posted by Aaron Olsen on Dec 14th 2021

I ordered one pack of 25 sheets (500 labels) of the Natural variety in December 2021. They arrived in perfect condition, wrapped in plastic (ie protected from water) with cardboard as a stiffener. All the sheets were in good condition, no wrinkles, tears, etc.

I used their online template (PDF) to create my stickers and printed them using an Epson ET-3760 inkjet printer. I created my digital sticker sheet in Keynote (could use Powerpoint too) and then printed directly from there. I found that exporting my sheet to a PDF and printing resulted in the wrong scaling. So make sure you print your digital sticker sheet in such a way that Elevate Packaging's PDF template extends all the way to the edge of the sheet.

In the description, Elevate Packaging notes that there is a "1/8" variance in the die-cut". This is more or less what I observed in the sheets I ordered. This variance seems to be entirely in where the stickers (as a whole) are cut along the long dimension (11" dimension) of the page. There isn't significant variance in where the stickers are cut in the short dimension (8.5") or in the distances among the stickers.

But I wouldn't actually call this "variance." I found that the sticker die-cuts are actually consistent from sheet to sheet - thankfully, or else I would be leaving a less than 5 star review... It's simply that the sticker die-cut (again, as a whole) is not perfectly centered on the page in the long dimension. The die-cut is shifted by about 1/16" from center.

What I do before printing is measure which side has a shorter distance from the first sticker die-cut to the edge of the sheet and then put that end in my printer first. So far that gets me a consistent print each time. I need to do this because I'm printing a circle around my stickers, about 1/8" in from the edge of the sticker. In other words, I need my sticker design to be centered pretty well otherwise they'll look sloppy because of a misalignment between the sticker edge and printed circle.

Unrelated to the die-cut shift, I did have to move the bottom 8 stickers in my design (by just about 1/16") to align with the actual sticker sheet. The template is really close but not exactly right. But again, this is consistent from sheet to sheet so I only wasted one sheet getting the alignment right.

If you're printing a design that needs to be centered in each sticker - these will do if you have the time to adjust your design at the start and note the orientation for each inserted sheet. If you're printing a design that doesn't need to be centered, these will work even better for you.

The color is great. I love the "speckled" particles in the surface. It's exactly what I was looking for so that our customers know we're using recycled materials.