How to determine the maximum print size of your image using photoshop.
For your sticker to be the highest quality, we require a 300 dpi image.
If your image is larger than your desired sticker size, all you have to do is reduce your image size to achieve 300 dpi. If your image is smaller than your sticker size you cannot up-scale without loosing resolution, making it insufficient for printing..

I’ll show you how to rescale your image without loosing resolution. First, go to the image menu, and select the “image size” option.

As you can see the image size is rather large, but the resolution is not. Simply un-click the resample image button and change the resolution to 300. Now your sticker can print at 5 x 3.75 in or smaller and will look great!

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StickerGiant prints lots and lots of band stickers. But our latest project for All American Rejects was awesome. The band wanted stickers to sell at their shows, but understood the problems associated with selling stickers in a music venue.

Problems selling stickers at music venues:

1. Stickers are small, and when the stacks come un-organized they get hard to inventory and manage.
2. Low price point, bands want to sell stuff that costs $10 or more, like a $25 t-shirt, stickers cost $3.
3. Multiple versions, oh great, now the band has to keep track of several inventories of $3 items, everyone will want the one you don’t have and nobody will buy the one you have 4,000 of.

All-American Rejects solved this issue by printing a sticker sheet at StickerGiant. A sticker sheet is usually a rectangle (although it does not have to be) that has several separate stickers on the sheet (kiss-cut) that can be peeled and stuck individually.

Advantages of selling sheets of stickers at music venues:

1. Sticker sheets are easy to keep organized and inventoried in a hectic selling atmosphere.
2. Higher price point, getting $10-$15 for a sticker sheet is much better than selling one $3 sticker.
3. Multiple stickers per sheet keep your fans happy with variety, yet makes managing inventory simple.

About All-American Rejects:
This four piece band formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma in 1999. The band is led by Bassist Tyson Ritter, and backed up by guitarists Nick Wheeler and Mike Kennerty, with drummer Chris Gaylor keeping time. Their first album was a slam dunk and went platinum, and produced a #1 single Swing, Swing.

GeekMommy wanted stickers of her logo. So we made these! If you are a Mom (or a Dad) and love technology and being a parent, reading GeekMommy is for you.

About Geekmommy:

From Geekmommy.com: An ex-programmer and CIS professor, Lucretia M. Pruitt (@GeekMommy) left the glamorous world of academia for the fast-paced world of being a stay-at-home-Mom. But once a geek, always a geek. Her blogging habit started back in 1998 and she’s had one or more ongoing blogs since. After years wading about in Social Media she discovered Twitter and the unique environment enticed her to jump into Social Media both feet first. Around the same time, she started this blog to try express the whole “21st Century Mom” experience.

Currently, she can be found here at GeekMommy.net, as well as being a contributing blogger at Blissfully Domestic, and living on Twitter, FriendFeed, Pownce, Ustream, Stickam… and just about any Social Media site she can find. (Just look for GeekMommy & you’ve probably found her!)

That is, of course, when her daughter is in school or asleep. The rest of the time she can be found living up to the “Mommy” half of GeekMommy and loving every minute of it.

What Is WordCamp ?
WordCamp is a conference that focuses on everything WordPress. WordCamps are informal, community-organized events that are put together by WordPress users. Everyone from casual users to core developers participate, share ideas, and get to know each other. WordCamps are open to WordPress.com and WordPress.org users alike.

StickerGiant is pleased to be the official custom sticker sponsor of WordCampNYC 2009.

Avoid having to find and send fonts to your printer with Illustrator files.
For printers to use Illustrator files that contain type made with fonts they either need the actual font file or the fonts need to be outlined.
First open the file that you need to outline the fonts in, select the type that needs to be outlined.
Then go to the font menu, and select the “outline fonts” option.
Then save your file.
Now you don’t have to hunt down the fonts to send to your printer.
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Google is for searching web pages and finding stuff on the internet. The problem with Google is that they don’t specialize in conversations, that is finding discussions of certain topics in real time.

A company called backtype is solving this issue. The search engine at backtype is pretty amazing, I searched it for a few topics I follow and it returned what I knew to be complete results ordered by time and date, with the newest topics up top.

This company is still developing its technology so I look forward to the “trends” functionality and the ability to pull rss feeds of my favorite searches.

The team at backtype needed stickers, so we did what we do best, made them stickers, so they could focus on their product. Give backtype a try it is pretty slick.

StickerGiant had a cubicle decorating contest this week for Halloween. Our winner did a video featuring her family and me, John Fischer the founder of StickerGiant. What fun. Ilene won the contest! yeah Ilene.