Printing question - sets of stickers associated with form

November 1, 2019 11:07 AM

I need 1000 sets of 10 stickers. Each set of 10 are identical to each other; each set is different from all the rest. Each set is associated with a regular size piece of paper (printed questionnaire).

I have a sheet that I will use as questionnaire in a study - so one sheet per person that I enroll in the study.

Then I will draw some tubes of blood from the subject and need to have these tubes labeled all the same way as each other and to match the questionnaire sheet.

So what we've done in the past is have a bunch of these questionnaires printed with a little panel of stickers associated with each sheet. All ten stickers carry the same ID number, but each individual questionnaire sheet carries stickers with different numbers than all the rest of the sheets. (So in the end we have 1000 sets of 10 stickers.)

Problem: whoever ordered these at my company has left leaving no info on where he got them printed up. Can anyone suggest an online source????

posted by Tandem Affinity to Media & Arts (12 answers total)

ULine makes custom stickers. I have used their service and was happy with the results.
posted by sacrifix at 11:32 AM on November 1, 2019

Sticker Mule also does custom stickers. Have heard good things about the company but never used it.
posted by Bella Donna at 11:39 AM on November 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

ULine makes custom stickers.
Uline also donates enormous amounts of money to conservative causes
posted by Dr. Twist at 11:49 AM on November 1, 2019 [6 favorites]

Myassettag.com had multi-part options that might work for you. (I’m on mobile so I can’t browse very effectively)
posted by itesser at 11:53 AM on November 1, 2019

+1 for Stickermule. Have done a good chunk of work with them with no complaints.
posted by matrixclown at 12:18 PM on November 1, 2019

It seems like doing a mail merge run in MS word or whatever onto some laser label will do the trick for you. Each page has ten copies of the same serial number, and every page has a different number? That's effectively a "mail merge."

You can get blank stickers at Staples, etc.
posted by seanmpuckett at 12:19 PM on November 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

Stickermule is the go-to for this, I think. My friend uses them for her small business and has recommended them to me in the past.
posted by widdershins at 12:19 PM on November 1, 2019

Get printable stickers; print them. Word has sticker templates. In theory, you could do a merge in Word that prints the questionnaire with the ID number, then prints the stickers with that number, staples them, next, etc. But even decent office printers are infested with demons, so maybe manually collate.
posted by theora55 at 12:46 PM on November 1, 2019

Is there a human research coordinator at your organization that you can check in with? (Unless that's who left...) I'd confirm there aren't any special requirements for labeling medical samples, like water- or temperature-resistance, before you start printing off labels on your own.
posted by yeahlikethat at 1:07 PM on November 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: Ha yeahlikethat, I am effectively the coordinator and would be applying criteria on label stability and durability during purchase...we need to outsource this task, so definitely won't be printing on my own. A little more searching and I believe I'm looking for "integrated" forms.
posted by Tandem Affinity at 2:02 PM on November 1, 2019

If the tubes are getting frozen, please make sure you order actual cryo labels and not stickers from random internet sticker companies. Not all adhesives perform equally in liquid nitrogen. Ask me how I know...
posted by juliapangolin at 8:34 PM on November 1, 2019 [1 favorite]

It seems like something like this might work? I don’t know anything about that company except that they buy google ads for “custom cryo labels.” It appears, unsurprising, that there are many vendors who specialize in this kind of thing.
posted by juliapangolin at 8:40 PM on November 1, 2019 [1 favorite]