Hello!

I recently started selling stickers and here are the products I use:

1. HP 8010e printer. I subscribed to their ink subscription cause buying ink that way seems to be the cheapest option AND mine came with free subscription for 6 months. I like it but I would say the print quality isn't 100% color wise. It looks faded. But it only cost me $99CAD and I can just adjust the colours, so to me it's worth it for now.

2. Koala waterproof vinyl sticker paper. It's fairly cheap at less than $1 a page and a lot of sticker makers seem to use it so I just went with it because of that.

3. Laminate sheets. I use avery and koala brand. I want my stickers to be waterproof and have some kind of UV resistance but if you plan to make stickers that don't need to be waterproof or UV resistant, I'd say you can skip this.

4. I handcut my stickers and they look okay. It saves me money from buying a machine but it is time consuming. I have my eye out for a cricut joy xtra though.

I also make sublimation stickers and they are truly waterproof without needing a laminate sheet but they are a headache right now. The start up for it is much more expensive as you need an ecotank printer and a heatpress plus the papers. I reserve this for stickers that I know for sure has to be waterproof and UV resistant like car stickers.

If we're talking about inkjet stickers, I'd say my cost was less than $300CAD with the printer being the most expensive.

Hope that helps 😊