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CatPrint

Location:
US

Product Specialty:
Cards and art prints

Additional Products:
Business cards, posters, envelopes, stickers, brochures

Price Range:
Middle

Pros

  • Extensive finishes and paper types
  • No minimum order quantity
  • Free digital and physical proofs available

Cons

  • Occasional print errors

CatPrint offers a variety of printed goods, with an extensive library of paper types and finishes to customize your products. The print quality is high, but some artists have reported having no-bleed prints arrive with bleeds and vice-versa, however these type of issues are usually caught and fixed in the proof stage.

Noissue

Location:
US, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines

Product Specialty:
Tissue Paper

Additional Products:
Seal stickers, packaging tape, mailers, stamps, cards

Price Range:
Middle

Pros

  • Products are sustainably sourced and recyclable
  • Trees planted for orders made
  • Very affordable unit prices

Cons

  • Relatively high minimum order quantity

Noissue creates custom branded packaging supplies for independent companies and artists. Their materials are all biodegradable and sustainably sourced, and if you join their Eco-Packaging Alliance, trees will be planted for every order you make. Noissue is a great choice if you want to reduce the amount of plastic used in your packaging.

The unit prices for items such as the tissue paper and mailers are very low, but the minimum order quantities are pretty high if you're a small artist.

Printkeg

Location:
US

Product Specialty:
Art prints, postcards, and booklets

Additional Products:
Flyers, brochures, posters, bookmarks

Price Range:
Low

Pros

  • Very reasonable prices
  • Fast turnaround

Cons

  • Minimum order quantities can be high
  • Only orders for large size prints can be split between designs

Printkeg offers various printed goods for marketing, as well as high quality art prints. Minimum order quantities can be high, and only orders for prints 11x17" and above can be split among multiple designs, so you may end up with excess of each design.

StickerApp

Location:
US, Sweden, UK

Product Specialty:
Stickers

Additional Products:
Phone cases, phone and laptop skins

Price Range:
Middle

Pros

  • Many unique finishes
  • Relatively affordable
  • Free shipping (US and Canada)

Cons

  • High minimum order quantity

Though the prices per sticker pack are reasonable, you can’t divide the order between multiple designs, which means you will end up with around 80+ stickers of the same design. This isn’t very practical for those just starting out, or who have a smaller audience.

StickerBunnies

Location:
US

Product Specialty:
Stickers

Additional Products:
None*

Price Range:
Low

Pros

  • No minimum order quantity
  • Made by independent artist for independent artists
  • Willing to work with deadlines
  • Fast turnaround

Cons

  • No dedicated website

StickerBunnies offers custom stickers with a variety of finishes including holo, metallic, and clear. It is a new up-and-coming brand so they don’t have a dedicated site yet, and instead host their custom sticker order form in a page on the website they use to sell their own merch and goods.

*There are other products available on the website, but they are not custom merch.

Sticker Ninja

Location:
US

Product Specialty:
Stickers

Price Range:
Middle

Pros

  • Fast turnaround
  • Many different shapes and unique finishes

Cons

  • Minimum order quantities can be high

Sticker Ninja offers many different finishes for their stickers, including holographic, chrome, glow in the dark, and fluorescent. Along with kiss-cut stickers they also offer sticker sheets, round, square, rectangular, and oval stickers, bumper stickers, and sticker business cards.

Vograce

Location:
China

Product Specialty:
Acrylic charms

Additional Products:
Acrylic standees, plushies, home goods

Price Range:
Low

Pros

  • Low prices
  • No minimum order quantity
  • Keyrings included
  • Extensive features and options

Cons

  • Large defect margin
  • Risk of designs being stolen
  • Shipping costs can be very high

Vograce offers many different finishes and configurations for charms, including holographic, rainbow film, epoxy, and more, and you get to choose from a range of keyrings and attachments to further customize your charms. Charms from Vograce come fully assembled with keyrings attached, so there is no need to buy hardware yourself.

Items from Vograce are very affordable with no minimum order quantity, so you could order as few as one item. However, overseas shipping costs can be very high, and with the products being cheaply produced you run the risk of defective items. Additionally, some artists have reported having their designs stolen after working with this company.

Zap! Creatives

Location:
UK

Product Specialty:
Acrylic and wooden charms and standees

Additional Products:
Buttons, stickers, LED lamps, backing cards

Price Range:
High

Pros

  • High product quality
  • Free worldwide shipping
  • Sustainably sourced materials
  • Frequent sales and discounts

Cons

  • Relatively high prices
  • Charm hardware not included*

The acrylic used by Zap is made with recycled leftovers from previous production that would otherwise be sent to a landfill, the wood is sustainably sourced from responsibly managed woodlands, and the paper used for backing cards is recycled uncoated paper.

*Normally, Zap’s acrylic charms don’t come with hardware; you would have to buy any rings and attachments offsite. If you buy the Keyring option rather than the Charm option, you get a metal ring attached with a rubber clip. You get to choose the color of the rubber, but that’s as far as the customization goes.

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