Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Bohemia, New York

A 3 by 4 inch die cut sticker covers 12 square inches, and at 16 pieces the rate is 35 cents per square inch, so each one is $4.20 and the run of 16 comes to $67.20. That is the sum most people arrive with, because 16 is a realistic number for a single property: a few on the sign rider, a few on the front of the folder you hand out, one on the window of the car, a couple held back. What the sum buys is sixteen stickers cut to the outline of your own shape instead of trimmed to a rectangle, printed from the file you send, at a rate you can check yourself before you commit to it.

How the rate moves as the pile grows

Die cut stickers here are priced by area, not by design, and the rate per square inch steps down as the piece count rises. It is 35 cents from 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents from 25 to 49, 28 cents from 50 to 99, 26 cents from 100 to 249, 24 cents from 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500. The step that matters most to a small order is the first one. Take the same 3 by 4 inch sticker from the paragraph above and order 25 instead of 16, and the rate becomes 30 cents, which makes each sticker $3.60 and the run $90.00. You have added nine stickers and lowered what each one costs at the same time.

Two figures interact here and they are easy to mix up. The square inches decide how much sticker you are buying. The piece count decides which rate that area is charged at. A bigger shape does not move you into a cheaper band.

The minimum is a gate, not a floor

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Those are two separate doors into the same room. Ten small stickers often clear the piece count long before they clear ten dollars of value, and a single large panel can clear the dollar figure while sitting well under ten pieces. Either one is enough. Nothing is rounded up to meet it and no shortfall is charged, which is why it reads as a minimum to qualify rather than a minimum you pay.

Oakdale and Sayville, at the same remove

Bohemia is 16.3 miles south east of the shop in a straight line, which is the only honest way to put it, since roads do not run in straight lines and we are not going to pretend otherwise. What is more useful is the local picture. Two of the places we also cover, Oakdale and Sayville, sit at exactly the same distance away, 2.4 miles each, one to either side. North Great River is 2.6 miles off, Ronkonkoma 2.7, West Sayville 2.9. An agent working this patch is rarely working one ZIP code alone, and a design made for 11716 usually has a sibling a couple of miles away with a different address line on it. Think about that when you choose a quantity rather than after the first run is gone, because the band is set by the number of pieces on the order and not by how many versions of the layout are on it.

Artwork, and where the cut line comes from

A die cut sticker is cut to the edge of the shape you give us, so the shape is part of the artwork rather than a setting applied afterwards. If your logo has a long thin tail or a fine serif hanging off it, the cut line has to follow that. Most people are better served by a simple outline around the mark with a little breathing room. Send the highest resolution version you have, with the background separated if the shape is not a plain rectangle or circle, and say in plain words what you want cut around.

Getting the order to you

Everything is printed and cut at one address, 205 East Main Street in

Huntington, New York. You can collect at the counter for free, or have the order sent anywhere in the United States, and a Suffolk County address is handled the same as any other.

Who these runs usually belong to

The agent taking one Bohemia property to market. You want the listing to look like a listing and not like a photocopy, so the sticker carries the mark, the address line and nothing else. A run in the low tens covers the sign rider, the folders and the window card, and the arithmetic at the top of this page is more or less your order.

The team that brands everything the same. The design is settled and only the address changes, so the sensible move is to work out a year of listings rather than one, put the pieces on a single order and land in a lower band. The rate does not care that the stickers will be used at different times.

The open house table. Some people put out a small take away sticker for anyone who walks through, which is a different object from the one on the sign: smaller shape, far higher count, and the count is what pulls the rate down. This is the case where 250 or 500 pieces stops sounding excessive.

The office manager ordering for other people. One design, several agents, several address lines, some of them in Bohemia and some a few miles off. As long as it all goes on one order the pieces are counted together, which beats four people each ordering sixteen of their own.

Questions that come up

I only need 16 stickers for a single Bohemia listing. Is there a reason to order 25 instead? There is. At 16 the rate is 35 cents per square inch, so a 3 by 4 inch sticker is $4.20 and the run is $67.20. At 25 the rate is 30 cents, the same sticker is $3.60, and 25 of them is $90.00. You pay a little more in total, get nine more pieces, and lower the cost of each one.

My Bohemia design and one for Sayville are identical except for the address line. Do those go on one order or two? One order, if you want them counted together. Two versions of a layout are still two files, but the pieces add up for the purpose of the rate, so the pair may reach a band that neither version would reach on its own.

Can a Bohemia order be collected at the counter instead of sent out? Yes. Local pickup at the Huntington shop is free and is offered on every order, whichever ZIP code the stickers are destined for.

The sticker I want for a Bohemia listing is bigger than 3 by 4 inches. Does that move me into a different rate? No. Size changes the square inches, which changes what each sticker costs, but the rate per square inch is set purely by how many pieces are on the order. A larger sticker at 16 pieces is still charged at 35 cents.

Two agents are splitting one Bohemia run between them. Does the combined count set the rate? It does, as long as it is one order. Twelve pieces each, placed separately, are two small orders charged at 35 cents. Put together on one order, the same pieces sit a hair under the 25 piece step, and adding one more takes the whole thing to 30 cents.