Custom die-cut stickers for Copiague, New York

Amity Harbor sits 0.7 miles away and Copiague Harbor 0.9, which is a tight cluster by any measure, with Amityville at 1.2 miles, Lindenhurst at 1.5 and East Massapequa at 2.1 sitting just beyond them. We print and cut die-cut stickers for all of those places out of a single shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington. This page is written with one kind of order in mind: packaging seals for a small product line, the sort of thing a maker orders to close a box, a pouch or a paper wrap.

A cluster of names that sit close together

Seven tenths of a mile is a tight gap between two named places. What that means in practice is that the paperwork on an order matters a little more here than it does where the nearest neighbour is five miles off. Amity Harbor, Copiague Harbor and Amityville all read as distinct on a shipping line, and an order labelled for one can look at a glance like it belongs to another. We treat the ZIP as the anchor. If your line reads 11726, we set the order against that and print the place name exactly as you typed it. You do not have to argue with a form about which of the names is the correct one.

What a four inch seal costs

Die-cut stickers are priced by area, not by design. You give us the shape and the finished size, we work out the square inches, and the per square inch rate depends on how many pieces are on the order. A 4 by 4 inch seal is 16 square inches. At 60 pieces the rate is 28 cents, which puts that seal at $4.48 each and the order at $268.80. At 100 pieces the rate steps down to 26 cents, so the identical seal is $4.16 each and the hundred comes to $416.00. Nothing about the artwork changed between those two lines. Only the count did.

Where the rate steps down

The full ladder runs like this. One to 24 pieces is 35 cents per square inch. 25 to 49 is 30 cents. 50 to 99 is 28. 100 to 249 is 26. 250 to 499 is 24. At 500 it is 22. The steps are worth knowing before you settle on a number, because a run of 95 and a run of 100 are not far apart in pieces but sit in different bands. It costs nothing to check whether adding a few pieces moves the whole order into a lower rate.

The smallest order we will take

There is a floor on order size, but it is not a floor on price. An order qualifies once it reaches 10 or more pieces or $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. A single large seal can clear the dollar figure on its own. A short run of small ones clears the piece figure instead. Either way, you are not being pushed toward a minimum spend you did not want in the first place.

Drawing the cut line

A packaging seal is usually a simple shape: a circle, a rounded square, a shield, something with your mark sitting inside it. The cut follows a line you choose rather than a rectangle we impose, which is the whole point of die cutting. Two things are worth deciding early. First, the finished size, because that is what the price is built on, and a seal that grows from 4 inches to 5 changes the square inch figure underneath it. Second, how much room sits between your artwork and the cut line. A tight border reads well on a bold mark and awkwardly on fine linework. Send us the shape you have in mind and we will show you where the line falls.

Getting an order down to you, or you up to it

Copiague sits 14.4 miles south of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than by any road, both ends of that line inside Suffolk County. It is close enough that plenty of people choose free local pickup at the counter instead of having an order sent. If pickup does not suit, we ship within the United States. One address does all the printing and all the cutting, so there is no second location for a seal order to pass through.

Four situations we see with small product lines

You are sealing a first run of boxes. The count is small and you are not certain the design is final. Order at the band that matches the count you actually need rather than stretching to a number that feels more serious. The rate ladder will still be sitting there for the reorder.

You have two products and one mark. The same seal in one size can close both packages if the packages are near enough in size to each other. If they are not, two sizes on one order is an ordinary request, and each size is priced on its own area.

You are moving from a test run to a real one. This is where the 60 against 100 comparison earns its keep. Work both figures out before you commit, because the per piece price moves in your favour and the gap between the two orders is smaller than the jump in pieces suggests.

You are splitting a line into two labels. Some makers want the same outline with different artwork inside it, so the packaging reads as a family. That is two designs on one order, and the shape only has to be drawn once.

Questions we get asked

Should I put Amity Harbor or Copiague on the order?

Either. We match the order to ZIP 11726 and print the place name the way you entered it. Neither version changes anything on our side, so use whichever your own customers would recognise on a return address.

I need 60 four inch seals for a Copiague product run. Is 100 the better buy?

At 16 square inches a piece, 60 falls in the 28 cent band, which is $4.48 each and $268.80 for the run. 100 falls in the 26 cent band, which is $4.16 each and $416.00. You are buying 40 more pieces at a lower price on every piece. If the line will use them, the hundred is the better arithmetic. If it will not, there is nothing gained by ordering ahead of what you need.

Can I collect a Copiague order at the counter instead of having it sent?

Yes. Local pickup is free and you choose it at checkout instead of a shipping option. Nothing about the price of the stickers themselves changes.

Can one Copiague order carry two different seal sizes?

Yes. Each piece is priced on its own area, so a 4 by 4 inch seal and a taller one are worked out separately rather than averaged. Send the shape, the finished size and the count for each and we will price the order as a whole.

I only need a handful of seals for a Copiague sample batch. Is that under the minimum?

Probably not. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. A handful of seals at a reasonable finished size will usually clear the dollar figure without ever needing the piece count.