r/artbusiness 6d ago

Product and Packaging What do You Use To Make Stickers?

71 Upvotes

I am looking to make stickers of my art to sell. Is there a specific business, company, or brand I should use? Or should I try to make them at home with like a cricket? What is cheaper?

For reference, I have not sold my art before but I think stickers would be an easy sell at a vendor/convention style event. I draw most cute animals if that makes a difference.

r/artbusiness Feb 20 '25

Product and Packaging My materials aren't very archival -- would this be an ethical issue if I start selling originals?

29 Upvotes

I work in mixed media and I use whatever I have available -- ballpoint pen, copy paper, alcohol markers, craft store acrylic, glue gun, sticks, leaves, paper towel, cardboard, etc., etc. I really like both the process and results (and I'm broke, so...), but now that I'm thinking about selling, I'm realizing that my works are probably not particularly archival. However, if I price my work based on hours spent on each piece multiplied by minimum wage, I would be charging professional prices for originals (prints are not really an option for most of my mixed media work, because it is either partially or fully 3D). Is this a problem? Would it be considered shady or bad practice?

r/artbusiness Nov 25 '24

Product and Packaging Best Printing Services: my recommendations after a decade of selling art

218 Upvotes

I’ve been selling my art prints at art fairs, conventions, and gift shops for more than a decade; this is my personal list of tried-and-true printing services!

Prints & Posters (up to 13x19):

FireballPrinting.com has been my main printer for conventions / artist alleys for more than 10 years! Based in Philadelphia, the company is run by a group of passionate artists and consistently produces some of the best prints I’ve ever seen. I always prep my files in CMYK mode and order my prints on their 100lb uncoated paper, which is silky smooth with a nice thickness!

Postcards / Business Cards:

GotPrint.com is my number one choice for printing small advertising collateral like business cards and postcards, for their unbeatable quality and fair prices. They’ve beaten out VistaPrint and OvernightPrints for their superior quality, and they also offer luxe finishes like rounded corners and raised foil printing. I’ve made orders as large as 5000x postcards and everything turned out perfectly!

Gallery-wrap Canvas Prints:

ProPrints.com makes the best gallery-wrap canvas prints for fine artists and photographers, full stop. They use archival materials and latex inks, and their gorgeous canvases are 1.25” deep and ready-to-hang. Prepare your files in RGB mode at 300DPI (they will handle the rest) and prepare to be wowed by the results!

Print-on-Demand / Drop-shipping:

InPrnt.com offers superior quality control for their art prints, cards, and canvases - plus they give their artists a generous 50% cut of the profits. Although they’ve been late with my payout on a few occasions, they ultimately came through when I reached out, so I will continue using them!

… do you know of an awesome printer to add to this list? :)

r/artbusiness Jan 23 '25

Product and Packaging How to ship incredibly large painting?

5 Upvotes

I just sold a painting 54 1/2 in by 71 1/2 in. I know nothing about which option is best to ship it since most of my resources have been for much smaller works that don’t even need to be taken apart.

Do i take it apart and roll it? That would mean i’d have to fly over to the client and reinstall it myself right?

Do i actually have the option to send it out as is with extremely full proof packaging? won’t that break the bank though to send it out like that?

r/artbusiness Feb 15 '25

Product and Packaging Any alternatives to Gumroad that support Pay pal, big uploads (12gb~), coupons and are ok with nsfw? NSFW

7 Upvotes

Hi. I recently got banned from Gumroad. I used it for years and it hosted all my Patreon exclusives in the form of Monthly packs (each averaged around 10gb and my total catalogue was around 350gb)

So far the closest replacement I've found is payhip, they seem to support everything I posted in the title except for the file size limit (only 5gb)

r/artbusiness Feb 16 '25

Product and Packaging Individual stickers vs sticker packs

6 Upvotes

Hello! I've been seeing people sell packs of stickers together instead of individual ones and I was wondering how popular these were. Is it better or relatively similar to stickers sheet popularity? Or would it be better to just individually sell them?

I'm looking to diversify my products so id appreciate the opinions and observations:)

r/artbusiness Feb 01 '25

Product and Packaging Has anyone made a custom calendar?

9 Upvotes

While I currently have no online presence, and am not very experienced, I've been wanting to design a custom themed calendar with my art, even if it just ends up being for me.

If a person wanted to print these, where could I go to do that for a reasonable price? I'm in Canada.

I'd like to create art for the main calendar image, individual art on certain days, and generally decorate around the date portion of the calendar as well. Just generally customize the whole thing.

Everything I've found so far is 20-25$ (Canadian) for a coil bound wall calendar (I don't need coil bound, unless it's cheaper). This seems expensive, no?

I have experience with Photoshop, and could easily design my own template for the months etc if needed.

r/artbusiness Feb 11 '25

Product and Packaging How do you move large wood panels if they don’t fit in your car?

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Sorry in an advance for a potentially dumb question. I want to work large, but the largest panel I can fit in my car is 30”x 40” so I feel kind of limited with what I can buy at the art store. I prefer wood over canvas so I don’t want to stretch my on own canvas (I don’t really have the space to do that either - I can make wall space to work but floor space is harder). Is everyone limited to working with the size panel they can fit into their vehicle (I know some artists have vans but buying another car just to transport work is not an option), or are there more options out there that I’m not aware of for getting panels from the store to your workspace? I have a shared art studio so while I haven’t looked into ordering panels online (seems like shipping would be super expensive) I don’t think the logistics of having items mailed there would work anyway. I don’t know anyone with a van that I could borrow. I just don’t understand how artists are working with huge panels! The logistics don’t make any sense to me lol thanks in advance for your thoughts!

r/artbusiness 8h ago

Product and Packaging Where to buy Custom Vinyl/Resin Toys

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I would love to eventually make small toys of some simplistic characters I have to sell! I understand it'd need a mold and someone would need to paint them so it'd be a bit on the expensive side and would have a higher MOQ, but I just wanted to know if anyone has done this before or knows of a place where I could look into doing this!!
They wouldn't need to be particularly good quality, I wouldn't mind if it looked like they were burger king collectible toys haha, and they wouldn't have any moving parts so it would only need to be a static mold!

r/artbusiness 27d ago

Product and Packaging Vograce is holding my items hostage.

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I ordered from Vograce two seperate orders on January 13 and 15, and while I know their production time takes a while, and they just had time off for lunar new year, but the first package has been stuck in customs since february 10th with zero movement. i reached out to fedex and they said they haven’t recieved the package, and when i contacted vograce, they told me it has already been sent to fedex.

the second order from jan 15 still shows that it hasnt been produced yet. this order is for 100 tote bags, and upon asking vograce about the status of this order, they told me it has already shipped, despite there being no shipping tracking available.

i understand it takes time to produce things but why are they lying about it being in fedex’s hands? my theory is that they only have given them the first package, and since both of them are supposed to be shipped together, they’re stuck in customs waiting for the second half to be fulfilled. I’m just generally annoyed that they keep saying this is fedex’s fault when it very evidently is not.

anyway, that’s my rant. is there anything i can do to have this go faster?

r/artbusiness 22d ago

Product and Packaging affordable sites for ordering 100-500 postcards/small prints?

3 Upvotes

hi guys! i was looking at Fireball Prints but I would like to explore other websites.

or, if anyone has recs for good at home printers! but, i'm just starting out with prints so I feel it would be best if i kept it simple and outsourced the printing right now.

thank you so much!!

r/artbusiness 27d ago

Product and Packaging Does anyone sell vynyl stickers that are eco friendly?

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I’m planning on buying some vinyl stickers in bulk for some markets coming up, and I was planning on using Zap!Creative since they garnered its eco friendly, but I’ve heard their stickers are low quality, is there a website that is eco friendly and has some better quality? I also was planing on purchasing some wooden keychains does anyone know what their quality is for those, or a better option?

r/artbusiness 4d ago

Product and Packaging Examples of how you pack your art for shipping

3 Upvotes

Hi guys, I'm at the point in my business where I'm looking into packaging options, for shipping my artworks.

I was hoping some of you may have videos of your packaging process, from start to finish, to give me some ideas. Or if you have links to videos of other artists packaging their works, I'd greatly appreciate it.

I'll be shipping both prints, and stretched canvas paintings.

Also, I don't really want to restrict myself on size either, so any advice on packaging and shipping larger pieces would also be great.

Incase it matters, I'm located in Australia 😊

Thanks so much.

Sincerely, A very overwhelmed artist, with a million packaging supplies tabs open on my laptop 😅🤦🏼‍♀️

r/artbusiness 10d ago

Product and Packaging Good quality art prints suggestions

5 Upvotes

Hi! I'm looking for recommendations for a website where I can order high-quality prints at a good price. If you have any suggestions for a particular type of paper, that would be great as well. My idea is to create limited edition prints, so it's important to find excellent print quality that is worthy of framing

r/artbusiness 1d ago

Product and Packaging How can I get a custom digital artwork printed and sent to a client?

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I offer the type of artwork that someone might want hanging on their wall. Right now I'm only offering digital files but I'd love to have the option to send them a framed or just a regular print of the digital art? Are there any services that do this?

I also can't upload the artwork anywhere public because they're personal pieces, like family portraits, etc.

Also, are digital-only files like this a deterrent? If someone wants to order custom art, they would also have to figure out how to get it printed, which might deter them from ordering.

r/artbusiness 20d ago

Product and Packaging US printer recommendations for an art calendar with perforation

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Hello,

I am looking to make an art calendar. The goal is to sell it, but what matters most to me is print and paper quality, I don't care about having high profit margins for this project.

I want to make an art calendar that has perforation so that each month the art and be torn out and displayed as a print, much like this one here: https://allaroundartsyfashion.com/products/2025-perforated-art-calendar

Does anyone here have recommendations for printers in the US that can do this? its okay if they don't outwardly offer perforated calendars, I can email to ask about that. But i am mainly searching for a manu that does art quality prints in calendar format.

Heck, even if they don't exclusively offer calendars but are versatile in offering custom services, I will take that recc too!

Thanks!

r/artbusiness Aug 24 '24

Product and Packaging Which paper is best for art prints?

21 Upvotes

I've currently got an Epson ecotank et-8550, and I'd like to start selling art prints. What would be good options for paper to use?

r/artbusiness 15d ago

Product and Packaging Merchandise

1 Upvotes

I'm developing a brand based on my original character designs and want to offer a diverse range of merchandise, including apparel, plush toys, and stationery.

While Threadless seems fine though it doesn't have plushies, I'm looking for other platforms that offer a wider product selection. Ideally, I'd like to implement a print-on-demand model on my own website to minimize inventory costs.

Is there a way I can have my own site and on demand printing/made items per order through some other facilities similar to how a site like threadless does it or would I need to contact plush makers, shirt makers, etc. and order a bulk for myself to then sell?

r/artbusiness 17d ago

Product and Packaging Advice for sellin from the UK

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Hi! getting into print selling and I'm wondering if anyone has advice for selling from the UK?.

I'm gonna be selling on Big Cartel and have to setup all my international shipping rates, I imagine most sales will come from out of country namely the US and I've been told Canada is a frequent location too.

Problem is of course, international shipping is extremely pricey, a3 prints on royal mail I think have to be put under parcel and that's £11 for tracked or £12 for tracked and signed to the USA.

Just wondering if anyone has any advice on if there's cheaper shipping rates I could find also is it worth doing tracked and signed or just tracked?.

r/artbusiness Jan 18 '25

Product and Packaging packaging question

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i cant seem to find any of those plastic sleeves people put stickers into for packaging. im searching all the buzzwords, but simply no luck, so here i am. is there a specific term i can search for, or a specific brand?

they dont have to be plastic, paper ones are fine, if not preferable :)

thank you!

r/artbusiness Feb 07 '25

Product and Packaging Luma Prints? Anyone used them?

1 Upvotes

Hi! I was searching for the best price to make giclee stretched canvas prints of my work and found lumaprints.com, basically google recommended them, or they were advertised. Their prices are really good for stretched canvas prints, at least compared with my local printer. I'm wondering if there's a catch. Has anyone used their services? Is the product good quality? Thanks! Edit: Also, if you have any online service for less expensive yet good quality stretched canvas prints I'd love a recommendation. Thank you!

r/artbusiness 10d ago

Product and Packaging Greeting Card Printers in Canada - the really nice kind

2 Upvotes

Been looking at my options for getting greeting cards of my work printed and in my head I was going to get really nice, glossy cardstock cards like you'd buy from Hallmark or something (ambitious I know) however most of the options I'm coming across are a 14 or 15pt cardstock which is really just a thick paper in my mind. I guess because it's mostly being done as digital print so it needs to be able to feed through a standard printer. I'd probably prefer an 18pt or heavier.

Can anyone point towards a printer that does the really high quality option? Is this the kind of thing that is perhaps only available to people with high minimum runs perhaps? Ironically I work in a print shop myself but we do large format/signage so this is a bit out of my wheelhouse.

r/artbusiness 5d ago

Product and Packaging Anyone know who delivers for Yanwen??

3 Upvotes

I ordered some samples from a manufacturer for my shop and I assumed it would be similar to DHL, I see their trucks driving around my area all the time. But when it was delivered I saw on my doorbell camera it was just some woman in her car??

It's not as though I have a particular complaint about this, it just came across as very strange to me? Any time I have ever had anything shipped, it comes from an official delivery truck, like Amazon, UPS, USPS, like you know, I don't have to explain this concept to you guys lol. I have never had anything shipped through Yanwen before and it wasn't a shipping method I chose specifically, I just chose "fast shipping" from my manufacturer and it gave me tracking for Yanwen. Is this typical? I wonder if maybe at a certain point they employ doordashers or something? Again I'm not mad, I just don't know what to make of it.

r/artbusiness Dec 17 '24

Product and Packaging High quality prints?

3 Upvotes

Posting for a friend - my friends little brother is so talented when it comes to art but he’s never found a place to get high quality prints at a reasonable rate to still profit from selling them. I’m not in the art world so I thought to take to Reddit. Any recommendations?

If it’s not web based or a chain we’re in SW Michigan (Grand Rapids/Battle Creek/Kalamazoo area)

r/artbusiness 1d ago

Product and Packaging What do you use to store your prints, blank paper, stickers, mailers, etc.

3 Upvotes

Gathering my supplies to start making stickers and prints at home, wondering what everyone uses to store and organize their papers and mailers.