Every year for my niece’s and nephew’s birthday, I make custom wrapping paper. This year I did a Star Wars theme and a Minecraft theme.
When making custom wrapping paper, it’s often nice to work in the recipient’s name to make it feel more custom. The Minecrafter font and Star Jedi on dafont.com are handy.
This is the coolest thing, Matt. What kind of printer & paper do you use?
Oh for this it’s just regular office paper and a simple inkjet printer, Canon Pixma G3200. I bought it mostly because it’s a bulk ink printer. My previous printer died after very little usage, so I figured this time around I’d buy one that takes bulk ink tanks. If a printer is meant to print thousands and thousands of prints, it probably will last for a while.
Granted, I did look at all the bulk ink printers out there, and I got this one because the reviews said it’s the best for photo printing.
Usually I print my custom wrapping paper at work on our laser 11×17 printer. You can imagine printing on 11×17 paper is a lot better for wrapping than 8.5×11 paper. But stay-at-home makes us work with what we got.
Since I was printing with my home printer, with my ink, I designed the wrapping paper, so there would be a good amount of white space. I wasn’t about to print full-out all color—even with a bulk ink printer 🙂
Thanks for the info & inspiration, Matt.
And thank you Melissa for asking! I really appreciate your comments.