Versa Sign Maker: Individual Water Bottles for School Sports Teams

We have been using our Roland - Versa Studio Sign Maker BN-20 for a variety of different tasks around our school.  One of the things that it proving excellent for in terms of use is creating vinyl stickers which can be then used for the purpose of labelling etc.

The example shown left is for the school Netball team.   Each player in the team has been issued with a water bottle, to create a sense of identity for the team and also to ensure the bottles are clearly labelled a sticker has been produced for the team.

The sticker was created using Gimp and the main image taken was a photograph of the school team.   The picture had further elements to it - a silhouette of Mount Taranaki which is a local landmark, and the name of the team on the outside of the sticker.

There was potential for a further level of personalisation here as a second sticker could easily have been added on the other side of the bottle to ensure that students did not drink from the same bottle by accident.

 As is shown in close up left - you can see the features in more details.   The printing time is minimal (slightly longer than a regulation printer).   The sticker measured 160mm high and was 120mm wide.

The design was completed by (senior) students.

There are obviously further ideas that could be used that follow this format or this idea and the level of individuality could be also added to, in terms of layers (for instance if a student required multiple water bottles or containers some of which needed to be clearly separated or identified).