Printing your own stickers at home not only saves you the cost of buying stickers, it gives you the ability to customize your own designs while printing out exactly how many you need. You won't need a special sticker printer since a regular inkjet printer will work, but you'll want to do some planning to avoid wasting ink or inkjet sticker paper. If you plan to print several hundred stickers on an inkjet printer, check your printer's documentation to see how many cartridges it will take, since the cost of ink may make this more expensive than buying stickers online instead of a savings.
Purchase Sticker Paper
Get some quality inkjet sticker paper to print regular stickers. You can find this paper online or at most office supply stores. These are letter-sized sheets, usually sold in packs of 50. As an alternative, you can consider special sticker paper for printing vinyl stickers at home.
Design Your Sticker
Design your sticker on whichever app you are most familiar with. You can use a photo editing app like Photoshop or GIMP, a word processor like Microsoft Word, or any other software that lets you write text and add images, like Microsoft PowerPoint. Use a standard letter-sized document size. If you want to make several stickers, maximize your use of paper by arranging them on a single page, while ensuring there is enough space between each sticker to cut each one out.
Sticker templates are also available online from sticker paper manufacturers.
Be Mindful of Sticker Colors
Examine the colors used in your sticker design. Heavy use of colors can take a toll on an inkjet printer's ink supply. If your design is mostly blue, for example, the blue ink may run out if you are printing dozens of stickers.