GoKawiilBack-to-school usually means two things: a shopping list and things that need labels and stickers. Whether you’re looking to add name tags to your or your kids’ supplies, make planner stickers, or want to add a personalized touch to your laptop lid or dorm room, it can be quite a time-consuming project. Creating a custom sticker sheet typically means designing on one screen, printing on another device, then carrying that sheet to a separate cutter to trace and slice by hand. And any misstep along the way means going right back to the start.
The Liene PixCut S1 is the company’s attempt to combine that entire chain into a single device. Liene has spent 700 days developing, testing, and refining its all-in-one printer and cutter, just in time for the start of the new school year. With the PixCut S1 Starter Kit, you have the perfect tool for making name labels, planner stickers, locker decor, and more. Here’s what you need to know.
What the PixCut S1 does
Liene A visual overview of the PixCut S1 print-and-cut workflow
The main idea behind the PixCut S1 is also its biggest USP: it’s an all-in-one printer and cutter. Liene started the project in July 2023 and spent the following months on product design, finalizing it in March 2024, before any manufacturing even began. That upfront design phase ensured there weren’t any hardware design issues that often accompany a new gadget build. This long development cycle supports the “700 Days Proven, Perfect From Day 1” tagline the brand built around.
It’s definitely worth emphasizing how important the “all-in-one” phrasing is here. Some print-and-cut setups still require you to feed a printed sheet into a second machine and manually align everything perfectly. Liene doesn’t keep it vague or use the phrase loosely. The PixCut S1 keeps the paper in one machine from the first print pass through the final cut, with no manual transfer steps or unnecessary intervention in between.
Everything starts in the Liene Photo app, where you can pick from more than 10,000 templates and creative assets, or upload your own JPG, PNG, or HEIC images. Say you want a sheet of name labels for your first grader’s school supplies. You can use a preset template, drop in a photo, or ask your kids to choose their favorite color scheme, then make several copies of the design on one sheet before sending it to print. If you want to turn your own photos into stickers, you can also use the app’s AI-powered image recognition feature to remove the background.
The app then automatically generates the cut path. Instead of manually tracing an outline, the software detects the shape of the design and sends that path to the machine. If you’ve used any cutting software before, you know that this step is the one that normally takes a while and often requires a lot of trial-and-error. Here, the app removes the background and calculates the outline perfectly, so you don’t have to worry about slightly off cuts or a noticeable border around the stickers. Most importantly, you don’t need manual alignment or tracing.
The PixCut S1 then prints the image using dye-sublimation, adds a protective overcoat in the same print pass, aligns the sheet through built-in sensing, and follows the detected contour to cut it out. What you end up with is a finished, ready-to-peel sticker sheet. So going back to that sheet of name labels, the full sheet comes out already cut and ready to peel apart.
The printing tech behind the PixCut S1
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