Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Centereach, New York

A band with a show on the calendar and a folding table to fill needs something small to put out next to the shirts, and a label putting out a short run of tapes has the same problem: a logo people will actually keep, cut to its own outline instead of a square, in a quantity that matches the size of the room. That is the order this page is about. Musicians and the people who run small labels for them usually arrive with a finished logo, a loose idea of how big it ought to be, and a number in their head that is either too cautious or a round guess. All three are easy to settle.

An order like that from Centereach lands under the 11720 ZIP code, in the Town of Brookhaven end of Suffolk County. None of that changes the work itself. The file is the file, and the shape gets cut the way it is drawn. What the location does affect is the short list of practical choices at the end of the order, which is whether somebody comes and collects the box or whether it gets sent.

A cluster you can walk an order around

The useful thing about this particular corner of the county is how tightly the places next to it are packed. Measured in a straight line, Lake Grove sits 1.9 miles from Centereach, Selden 2.0, Lake Ronkonkoma 2.8, Farmingville 3.2 and Terryville 3.4. All five of the nearest places we also cover fall inside 3.4 miles. For a band that matters more than it sounds. The drummer, the person who runs the merch table and the friend with the van are often scattered across that handful of places, and a single run of stickers can be split among them by hand. One order, one box, five sets of pockets.

What the price is built out of

Die-cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity goes up. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents. From 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. From 50 to 99 it is 28 cents. From 100 to 249 it is 26 cents. From 250 to 499 it is 24 cents, and at 500 it is 22 cents. There is no separate charge hiding behind that. Two numbers decide what you pay: the area of the shape, and how many of them you want.

A run of 100 and a run of 250, side by side

Take a sticker 1.75 inches wide and 2.75 inches tall, which is about the size most band logos end up at once somebody has held one in their hand. That is 4.8125 square inches. At 100 pieces the rate is 26 cents, so each sticker is $1.25 and the run of 100 comes to $125.12. Ask for 250 of the same sticker and the rate drops to 24 cents, which puts each one at $1.16 and the run of 250 at $288.75. The 150 extra stickers cost about $163 more, and the price of every sticker in the run comes down at the same time. That is the calculation worth doing before you commit.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever one you reach first. It is not a price floor and it is not a penalty for ordering small. A band that wants ten of something to see the shape in person before committing to hundreds is a completely normal order, and so is a label ordering one small batch per release.

Drawing a logo that still reads at merch table size

At roughly 1.75 by 2.75 inches, a hand drawn script with hairline strokes and a five word band name stacked underneath is asking a lot of a small shape. The two things worth checking before you send artwork are the thinnest stroke in the drawing and the outline you want cut. Send the logo on a transparent background and the cut follows the shape of the art. If you would rather have a border of even thickness around the whole logo, say so, because that is a decision about the cut path rather than the drawing, and it changes the outside dimensions and therefore the square inches.

Collecting it or having it sent

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

Huntington. Centereach is 16.3 miles east of that address in a straight line, so local pickup is free and genuinely practical if somebody in the group happens to be heading that way. Otherwise the box ships anywhere in the United States.

Four versions of the same order

A band putting out a first release. You want the logo and nothing else, at one size, in a quantity you can hand out for free without thinking about it. Start at 100, see how many come back to you, and work out the real number from there.

A small label with several artists. You are ordering for a catalogue, so one shape per artist plus one label mark makes sense, each priced on its own square inch area. Different artists can sit at different quantity bands in one order.

A solo act splitting the bill with the openers. Three acts, three logos, one invoice. Each logo is priced by its own area and its own count, so nobody subsidises anybody, and one person collects the box.

Somebody running a monthly night. You want the same mark reprinted regularly rather than in one large run. Each reorder is priced the same way, so quantity is the only lever, and the 250 band is usually where that starts making sense.

Questions about these orders

Can one Centereach order cover friends spread across the nearby places you list? Yes. It is a single order shipped or collected as one box, and how you divide the stickers afterwards is up to you. Given that the five nearest places are all within 3.4 miles, most groups find that simpler than placing separate orders.

What would 250 of a 1.75 by 2.75 inch sticker cost on a Centereach order? $288.75. That size is 4.8125 square inches, and 250 pieces falls in the 24 cent band, which works out to $1.16 per sticker. The same sticker at 100 pieces is $1.25 each and $125.12 for the run.

Can we collect a Centereach order in Huntington instead of having it sent to

11720? Yes. Local pickup at the shop is free, and it is worth considering because the distance is 16.3 miles in a straight line. If nobody in the group is making that trip, having it sent is the normal choice.

Does a 10 piece Centereach order meet the minimum? Yes. Ten pieces clears the minimum on its own, and an order under ten pieces also qualifies once it reaches $10 of merchandise. Ordering ten to look at the shape before committing to a full run is a reasonable thing to do.

Our label logo is a thin hand drawn script. Can you cut a Centereach run around a shape like that? Yes, with one caution about scale. The cut follows the outline of the artwork you send, so an open script will be cut as an open script. At 1.75 inches wide the thinnest strokes get very small, so send the file and we will tell you whether the shape wants a border around it instead of a cut tight to the letters.