Die-cut stickers for East Farmingdale

Farmingdale is 1.5 miles away and South Farmingdale is 1.9, so three closely related names share a very small radius. North Amityville is 2.2 miles off, and North Lindenhurst and Old Bethpage are both 2.6. We print custom die-cut stickers and cut them to whatever outline the artwork calls for, and East Farmingdale is one of the places we cover.

Three similar names on one order form

A name root shared by two neighbours a couple of miles apart is a practical problem, not a curiosity. Anyone filling in an order from memory can shorten the name, and the shortened version points somewhere else. The ZIP code here is 11735 and the county is Suffolk. Put the full name and the ZIP on the order together and the two agree with each other, leaving nothing to guess at. If only one of the two is there, we go with the ZIP, because a ZIP cannot be shortened by habit the way a name can.

This matters more than usual when the stickers themselves carry an address. A label for a listing packet, a sticker meant to sit on a folder, a tag for a lockbox: all of these end up printed with a location on them. Proof what the artwork says, not just where the box is going. We cut what you send.

The rate is per square inch, and it steps down with quantity

Pricing is area based. You are charged for the square inches of the sticker, and the rate per square inch falls as the run gets larger. The bands are 35 cents at 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents at 25 to 49, 28 cents at 50 to 99, 26 cents at 100 to 249, 24 cents at 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500.

Two things follow. Size and quantity are separate levers, so it is worth working out which one you actually need before committing to a shape. And the steps are real steps rather than a smooth curve. Sitting just under a band boundary means paying the higher rate on every piece, so at 240 pieces it is worth seeing what 250 does to the figure.

A 1.5 inch square, five hundred times

Here is the arithmetic on a common case. A sticker 1.5 inches by 1.5 inches is 2.25 square inches. Order 500 of them and the rate is 22 cents a square inch, so each sticker is 49 cents and the run is $247.50.

That is a useful anchor, because 1.5 inches square is roughly the size people reach for when they want a mark rather than a label: a logo dot for the corner of a folder, a seal for an envelope flap. The same 2.25 square inches at the 1 to 24 band would cost noticeably more per piece, which is the point of the table above.

Ten pieces or ten dollars, whichever arrives first

There is an order minimum, and it is easy to misread as a price floor. It is not. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Either condition on its own is enough.

A run of ten small stickers qualifies on the piece count even if the merchandise figure is under ten dollars. A pair of large stickers that reaches $10 of merchandise qualifies on the dollar figure even though it is nowhere near ten pieces. You are not being pushed up to a minimum spend. You are clearing one of two low bars, and most real orders clear both without anyone thinking about it.

Outlines, and what the cutter follows

Die cut means the cut line follows the shape of the design rather than a rectangle around it. If your logo is a house outline, a keyring shape, a circle with a flag on it, the sticker can be that. What the cutter needs is a clean edge to follow and a little room around the artwork, so the cut is not sitting directly on top of a line you care about.

Very fine points and thin necks are where an outline gets awkward, so a narrow spike coming off a shape usually wants thickening or absorbing into the body of the design. If you are unsure, send the artwork and say what you are trying to end up holding.

Where the shop is, and how the order reaches you

Everything is printed and cut at our storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, New York. The straight line distance from here to the shop is 10.2 miles, with the shop lying to the north. That is a straight line on a map and nothing more, so treat it as a rough sense of where we are rather than a route. Pickup at the counter is free. If you would rather not make the trip, we ship within the United States, and checkout does not require an account.

Four people branding a listing

The agent running a single open house. One address, one weekend, a modest count. A small square with the agency mark on it, applied to sign in sheets, folders and the bags of printed material people carry out, does more work than it looks like it should. This order lives in the 25 to 49 or 50 to 99 band.

The two person team covering several properties at once. The run is bigger and the design is generic on purpose: the mark, not the address. One order of the same sticker covers every property for the season and lands in a lower band than five separate small orders would.

The office manager buying for everybody. Different agents, same brand. Ordering centrally is what pushes a run past 250 or 500 pieces, and the rate table is built so that consolidating is worth doing.

The stager or photographer leaving a mark behind. Smaller counts, often an unusual shape, usually applied to something being handed over rather than sold. The minimum is the thing to check here, since these runs sit near the bottom of the table.

Questions people ask

Our printed material uses the short version of the name, but the property is in East Farmingdale. Which one goes on the order? Use the longer name and add 11735 next to it. The short version is the one that gets confused with a neighbour, so the longer name plus the ZIP removes the ambiguity completely.

Can I pick an East Farmingdale order up at the counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Pickup at 205 East Main Street is free, and it is available on any order whatever the size of the run.

I want 500 of the 1.5 inch square for an East Farmingdale open house. Is $247.50 the full merchandise figure? Yes. At 2.25 square inches and the 22 cent rate that is 49 cents a piece, so $247.50 covers the merchandise for all 500.

I only need eight stickers for one East Farmingdale listing. Does that clear the minimum? Not on the piece count, since eight sits under 10. It clears on the other condition if the merchandise comes to $10 or more, which eight stickers will do once they are past a certain size. Otherwise, going to ten pieces settles it.

Can one East Farmingdale order carry five different listing designs? It can, but the rate is read off the quantity of each design rather than the order as a whole. Five designs of 100 each sit in the 100 to 249 band, not the 500 band. If the goal is the lower rate, one design in a larger run is what gets you there.