[philsnow]

The end result is much cooler looking than I was expecting, and will be even more so with multiple colors.

For people who want labels for homemade bottled products, and who don’t want to make or buy a plotter, milk labels are pretty great. You print on plain paper (important: with a laser printer), cut to shape, dip in a shallow pan of milk, apply the paper to the bottle and ease out any wrinkles, then press gently on it with a paper towel.

When it dries, it stays on really well (unless it gets wet), and it comes off super easily for reusing the bottle (just get it wet).

Edit: I'm no artist, but chatgpt is good enough for generating images for a couple labels for bottles to bring to a friend's house: https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-23T21-51-59.om16cg7cwmuo244... and https://snap.philsnow.io/2024-04-23T21-51-23.4w510xksghqiamx...

[dylan604]

I have been in the hell of labels for bottles/jars for a few years now. Never needing enough to send off for professional printing with their minimum order sizes, but more than enough that I've tried several label vendors and purchased laser printed dedicated for purpose. For my needs, none have proven worthy of anything more than "bring to a friend's house" or taking some pictures to look like you're doing something. I absolutely hate this aspect of the chosen side hustle. Not sure this would be the solution for me either, as it would just be too slow. Labels are just so much faster for quantity. If you're not doing quantity, would the expense of something like this make sense?

[hahamrfunnyguy]

I would suggest looking in to a manual pad printer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDj-9qEAPc0

[logrot]

Interesting idea to use milk. Although I might be inclined to use heavily water diluted PVA.

[ComodoHacker]

My father have used PVA for homemade wine for decades. Works fine.