Custom Die-Cut Stickers for East Moriches, New York

Center Moriches sits 2.1 miles from East Moriches and plain Moriches is 3.5 miles out, three names grown off one root, which is the reason we read the address line on an order twice before anything reaches the cutter. Remsenburg-Speonk at 2.8 miles, Manorville at 4.0 and Westhampton at 4.5 round out that pocket, and we take work from all of them. So the first practical thing to say has nothing to do with vinyl. It is that the postal line carries more weight here than it does for most places we send orders to, and the ZIP, 11940, settles the question.

Sorting out which Moriches is yours

Brookhaven township, Suffolk County, 11940. If you give us those three things along with the street and the number, there is no ambiguity left for anyone to resolve later. We do not guess at a missing suffix and we do not quietly correct one. If a line could be read two ways, we ask. That is the whole of the procedure.

How the square inch rate works

Die-cut stickers are priced by area, not by shape. You take the width, multiply by the height, and that is the number the rate applies to. The rate itself steps down as the count goes up: 35 cents per square inch 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. Nothing else moves. A circle, a hexagon and a logo with three tails all cost the same if they occupy the same area, so the interesting decision is almost never the shape. It is the count.

Sixteen pieces, then twenty five

Here is the arithmetic on a small sticker, a size bands tend to land on. A 1.5 by 1.5 inch sticker is 2.25 square inches. At 16 pieces you are in the first band, 35 cents, so each one is $0.79 and the 16 come to $12.60. Ask for 25 instead and you cross into the second band at 30 cents, which puts the same 1.5 by 1.5 inch sticker at $0.68 each and the set of 25 at $16.88. You paid $4.28 more and got nine more stickers. That is the shape of every band edge on the list, and it is worth checking your number against the nearest one before you settle.

What makes an order an order

There is a minimum, and it is satisfied two ways. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. One small design at a dozen pieces clears it on count. One large design on its own can clear it on value while sitting under ten pieces. It is not a price floor. It is the point at which an order is large enough to be worth setting up, and most requests we see from East Moriches clear it without anyone having to think about it.

Artwork and the path the cut follows

Send the design at the size you want it, with the background separated from the art, and tell us whether you want the cut to follow the outline of the artwork or sit at a set distance outside it. Thin serifs, hairline strokes and very tight interior corners are where a cut path gets awkward, so if your logo has any of those we will say so before we go further rather than after. If the design is a wordmark, tell us the intended width and we will work the height from it. Nothing about the file needs to be clever. It needs to be the right size and unambiguous about where the edge goes.

Collecting it or having it sent

East Moriches lies 33.8 miles east of our shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, where every sticker we make is printed and cut. Local pickup is free if you are coming this way anyway. Otherwise the order ships, and we ship within the United States. Most people at that end of Suffolk County have it sent, which is the sensible call unless you had a reason to be out west regardless.

A first run for a band that has not printed anything yet

You have a logo, a single show, and no idea how many stickers people actually take. Start small, price it at the count you can justify, and look at what the next band up would cost you before you commit. The example above exists for exactly this: two counts, two rates, one number to weigh.

A label putting out its first few releases

Once there is more than one artist on the roster, the useful move is to work out the area of each design and price them as separate runs rather than trying to force everything onto one size. The rate band is set by the piece count of a given design, so a label ordering three designs at 100 each is in the 26 cent band three times over.

A touring musician restocking the merch box

You know your number from the last few shows. Bring it, along with the finished art and the size you have been using, and the price falls out of the two figures without any back and forth. If you were sitting just under a band edge last time, this is the order to push over it.

A release with more than one design in the same sleeve

Bands often want a small logo sticker and a larger art sticker from the same session. Price each by its own area and its own count. They do not pool into a single quantity for the purpose of the rate, so the larger design is usually the one worth ordering deeper on.

Questions we get from this corner of Suffolk County

How do I keep an East Moriches order from being mixed up with Center Moriches or Moriches? Write the town out in full and include 11940. Those two together settle it, and we will ask rather than assume if anything on the line is open to interpretation.

We rehearse in Manorville but the label address is in East Moriches, can the order go to either one? Yes. Both are places we work with, and the shipping address is simply whichever one you put on the order. It does not change the price or anything else about how the run is handled.

For a 1.5 inch square sticker for an East Moriches release, is it worth going from 16 pieces up to 25? By the numbers, usually. Sixteen at the 35 cent rate is $12.60. Twenty five at the 30 cent rate is $16.88. The extra nine stickers cost you $4.28, which is less than they would have cost at the smaller count.

We only need a dozen stickers for one show in East Moriches, does that clear your minimum? It does. Twelve pieces is over the ten piece threshold, so the order qualifies on count regardless of what the total comes to.

Can you cut around the outline of our band logo for an East Moriches order, or does it have to be a simple shape? It can follow the outline. Send the art with the background separated and say whether you want the cut tight to the artwork or offset outside it. If any part of the logo is too fine for a clean path, we will raise it with you first.