woldsweather
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Any suggestions for way of printing your own bottle labels? The only ones I can find work out as expensive as the bottle.
I print on regular paper, cut and use a glue stick to apply to the bottles. Extra steps compared to Avery labels, but a little more flexibility in design.
I'm not fancy. I use mailing labels from Staples and a color laser printer.
Yes but do you pay 50p per label? That's all I can find, it seems a lot.
I bought a 100 sheet pack of 2x4 mailing labels (1,000 total) for $9 on Amazon. I use Avery's online tool to build the labels, and then print them on a color printer. Price comes out to less than one cent each plus ink. Results are pretty decent and really only limited by my willingness to spend time on them (and learn graphics design).
I use Beer Labelizer... https://www.beerlabelizer.com/
Link Attached - Lifetime premium membership $5 and some free ones if you don't want to spend the $.
Format takes a little bit to figure out but made a template in Word. Print on regular 8.5 x 11 white paper on a Xerox four color laser printer. Work is kind enough not to care and toner does not smudge when wet. Then cut out the labels and stick them to the bottles with kids Elmers glue sticks. Makes removing them really easy as it just takes a little warm water.
Here is an example.
Just a note with the avery labels:
The print to the edge 3 3/4" x 4 3/4" do not like to come off the bottles when done. I soaked and scrubbed and ended up just tossing the bottles. I have no problems with the smaller 2x4 labels however. Perhaps they use a different glue on the bigger labels?
What about the labels getting wet? Have you experienced this? I’m thinking about going this route.This. Exactly this, right down to the Elmer's Glue Sticks. Great labels that come off easily, no fuss, no hassle.
Anybody know a site where I can order 1L bottle labels? I'd like to just upload my 3.5x6 design and get nice professional looking labels.
Look for Avery labels. Easy to apply and remove to boot.
What about the labels getting wet? Have you experienced this? I’m thinking about going this route.
Never really found Avery labels particularly easy to remove.
This is an old thread that seems to have burst into life again.
Anyhow for what it is worth, I have "upgraded" to using Unistat 38947 (68mmx70mm) which is a good size for 330ml and 500ml bottles and it has rounded rather than square corners. I generally use Labelizer copied to MSWord (or just make something up in Word), and expand the label to fit the Unistat 38947 template then colour fill in the unused white part of the label. Cost is about 3 cents per label (probably even cheaper in the USA) and they come off with hot water.
If you use an Inkjet printer (as I do) the ink can run a bit if they get wet, but by then you have probably drunk the contents so it doesn't matter!!!
I design labels ,more or less to put on the boxes .I dont own a laser jet and Im not about to just for beer labels. I don't bother putting any labels on my bottles, since I hate peeling the labels off bottles in the first place.Any suggestions for way of printing your own bottle labels? The only ones I can find work out as expensive as the bottle.
Never really found Avery labels particularly easy to remove.
Phew! It sounds a bit complicated but really isn't.
Regular paper? Glue stick adhesive?Hi Maylar
My version of Beer Labelizer downloads in JPEG format. The process after that is a bit longwinded (but it doesn't really take much time). I understand that it also downloads in PNG format but I haven't used it.
I open the chosen label template in Word (in my case Unistat 38947 which is 70mmx68mm or about 2.8"x2.7", but I am sure that Avery has similar labels) then copy and paste the downloaded label to the first label space (the template is actually a Word table so the first label space is Cell 1).
You will then need to drag the corners of the downloaded label image to the appropriate size for the template. You can change the height and width of the downloaded label to fit the template space exactly as you would like it since a bit of a distortion in height or width really isn't noticable.
It is then just a matter of customising the appearance. If the chosen label is rectangular, you can just size it to fit the shape of the template label.
If the downloaded label is an irregular image on a rectangular label like the one I have attached, it will initially have a white rectangular boundary. So the trick is to get rid of the white bit. I do this by...
Click on the white bit of the downloaded label that you have copied to the template, and Picture Tools should appear on your Word Toolbar. Select Format then Recolour (or Colour Set) and choose Set Transparent Colour (this will turn the white bit into transparent)
Then, if Table Tools isn't already on the Toolbar, click somewhere in the template to bring it up. Then simply select Design, Shading, and choose a suitable background colour to fill the space between the label and the boundaries of the rectangular label (i.e. it replaces the white bit and fills in the rest of the label).
I will sometimes add some information such as the yeast I used in the area between the downloaded label and the edge of the template label, especially if I have used different apple blends or different yeasts in two different batches and I am doing a "comparison taste"(This is a good excuse for tasting and it lets you waffle on as though you know what you are talking about, without looking up your notes).
Then just fill the remaining template labels on the sheet with the appropriate background colour and copy the label from Cell 1 to the others. I get 12 or 13 bottles (333ml) from a gallon (4.5 litres) after a bit of wastage so I only have to copy a few rows of labels to get a sheet ready to go.
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This label is simply one of Beer Labelizer's standard ones with an image from Google inserted. The labels wash off with hot water.
Phew! It sounds a bit complicated but really isn't.
Regular paper? Glue stick adhesive?
I get my labels done at grogtag.comAnybody know a site where I can order 1L bottle labels? I'd like to just upload my 3.5x6 design and get nice professional looking labels.
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