Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Commack, New York

Custom Die-Cut Stickers, Printed and Cut in Huntington

An order going to Commack is addressed the plain way: a name, a street line, a suite or unit number if there is one, then NY 11725. Nothing more is needed from you at checkout. The ZIP does the routing, and on our side the order files itself under Suffolk County, inside the Town of Huntington, which happens to be the same township our own counter sits in. If the box is going to an office rather than a house, the suite number on the second line is the detail worth reading twice. A carton of shelf labels that arrives at a lobby desk with no suite on it tends to wander the building before it finds the person who ordered it.

Most of what we print is small and repetitive: a shape, a run of them, a price set by how big the shape is and how many you want. Bin labels and shelf labels fall squarely into that. They are usually ordered in one go rather than in dribs and drabs, and the only two decisions that really move the invoice are the size of the label and the size of the run.

Six and a bit miles, measured straight

Taken as a straight line on a map rather than as a route, the 11725 ZIP is 6.4 miles south east of our door. We do not quote that as travel time, because a straight line does not obey roads. It is simply the number that tells you the counter is near enough to be a real option. Everything we sell is printed and cut at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, and it either ships inside the United States or is picked up there.

The neighbours are all close together

The thing that stands out about this pocket of the map is how tightly it is packed. Smithtown Pines is 2.3 miles out, Elwood 2.9, East Northport 3.4, Dix Hills 3.7, and Kings Park 4.0. Every one of those is a place we cover, and every one of them sits inside four miles of Commack. If your company keeps a second office or a second studio in any of them, the labelling job for both is the same job, and it makes more sense to price it as one run than as two.

How the per square inch rate works

Die-cut stickers are priced by area, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity climbs. From 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents per square inch. 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. At 500 it is 22 cents. There is one rate for the whole order, set by the piece count, so the last sticker in a run costs the same as the first.

Area is length times width, so you can work a price out on the back of an envelope before you open the order form. A small label ordered in volume behaves very differently from a large one ordered in handfuls.

A worked example, at 300 and at 500

Take a shelf label at 1.75 by 2.75 inches. That is 4.8125 square inches. At 300 pieces you are in the 250 to 499 band, so the rate is 24 cents, the label is $1.16 each, and 300 of them come to $346.50.

Push the same label to 500 pieces and the rate steps down to 22 cents. Each sticker is now $1.06, and the 500 total $529.38. That is the comparison worth running before you commit to a number, particularly for bins and shelves, where a room tends to need more labels than the first walk around it suggests.

The smallest order we will take

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is a minimum to open an order, not a floor under the price. A handful of large labels can clear the $10 side of it without getting anywhere near ten pieces, and a run of very small ones clears the piece side long before it clears the dollar side. Either route is fine.

Shape, size and the cut line

A die cut follows the outline of the artwork, so a label does not have to be a rectangle. For bin and shelf work most people want a rectangle or a rounded one anyway, because it reads cleanly across a row and lines up with the lip of the bin. Send the artwork at the size you want it made, with the text far enough in from the edge that the cut has somewhere to go, and tell us the finished width and height in inches.

Who these usually go to

If you manage an office and you are labelling a stockroom, the thing to settle first is the size, because every price on the page hangs off it. Measure the front face of the bin, decide what has to be readable from the doorway, then let the quantity band do the rest of the arithmetic.

If you run a studio and your bins hold materials rather than office supplies, you are probably labelling by category and colour rather than by part number. That means fewer designs and more of each, which is the shape of order that reaches the lower rates easily.

If you are re-labelling after a move or a reorganisation, count the shelves before you count the bins. The shelf edge strips are almost always the larger number, and they are what pushes an order over a band line.

If you are ordering on behalf of a team and nobody there designs anything, keep it to type on a plain background at the size you actually need. That is a perfectly good label, and it prices the same as anything more elaborate.

Questions we get asked

Can I have a Commack order sent to an office suite rather than a street address?

Yes. Put the company name on the first line and the suite or unit on the second, above the street. The 11725 ZIP handles the rest.

Can I pick a Commack order up at the counter instead of having it shipped?

Yes. Local pickup is free, and you choose it at checkout instead of a shipping method. The pickup point is the same address everything is printed at.

If our Commack office orders 300 labels now, can we add 200 later and get the 500 rate?

No. The rate is set by the piece count on a single order, so a later run of 200 prices in the 100 to 249 band at 26 cents per square inch. If you know you want 500, ordering them together is what gets you the 22 cent rate.

Does a Commack bin label have to be the 1.75 by 2.75 inches used in your example?

No. That size is only there to show the arithmetic. Any size works, because the price comes from area times the rate for your quantity, and you can pick the dimensions that fit your bins.

Our Commack studio only needs eight labels. Is that too few to order?

Not necessarily. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so eight reasonably large labels can clear the merchandise side on their own. Eight very small ones will not, and the simplest fix is to round the run up to ten.