Custom Die-Cut Stickers for East Setauket, New York

Custom die-cut stickers for bands and small labels

Is East Setauket the same thing as the place next door when it comes time to fill in an order? No, and it is worth settling before artwork goes anywhere near the cutter. The two are listed separately in the places we cover, they sit about two miles apart, and the ZIP attached to the first of them is 11733. The short answer for anyone filling in a shipping field is to write the address exactly the way your own mail arrives. If your bills come one way, that is the way to type it, and nothing further needs explaining on our end.

Two names, one root, and one order form

The shared root is useful shorthand once you know it is there and a small trap until you do. Setauket without the prefix is a neighbour we also cover, and it is its own entry in our list rather than an abbreviation of anything. Bands run into this more than most, because a merch order tends to get placed by whoever is awake, using whatever address is saved in somebody's phone, and phones are not fussy about prefixes. If two people in the group are each half certain, the tiebreaker is the postal address on a piece of paper that reached you. We do not correct addresses on our own initiative, so what you type goes on the label.

Why the price is measured in square inches

Die-cut stickers here are priced by area rather than by shape, which is the only sane way to handle a format where no two jobs are the same outline. Multiply the width by the height of the space your design occupies and that is the number the rate applies to. The rate itself falls as the count climbs. At 1 to 24 pieces it is 35 cents per square inch. At 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. At 50 to 99 it is 28 cents. At 100 to 249 it is 26 cents. At 250 to 499 it is 24 cents. At 500 it is 22 cents.

Shape does not penalise you. A circle, a lightning bolt and a lopsided blob all cost the same if they occupy the same rectangle of space. The cutter follows the outline you supply, so the outline is a design decision rather than a pricing one.

A two inch square, five hundred times

Here is the arithmetic done for the size most people land on. A 2 by 2 inch sticker is 4 square inches. Order 500 of them and the rate is 22 cents, so each one is 88 cents and the run comes to $440.00.

That is the cheapest per piece the square inch rate goes, and it is also the largest jump a small operation faces. The gap between the 250 to 499 band and the 500 band is two cents per square inch, which on a four square inch sticker is eight cents each. Whether the extra pieces are worth eight cents apiece depends on whether you will hand them out. Plenty of people order in the middle bands on purpose and are right to.

The ten piece line and the ten dollar line

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Those are two separate doors into the same room, not a price floor and not a minimum spend. A tiny run of large stickers can clear the $10 side without getting near ten pieces. A run of small ones clears the piece side first. If your order does not reach either mark, the fix is usually to add a few more of what you have rather than to redesign anything, since the per piece rate is only going to improve as the count moves up.

Coming to get it, or having it sent

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

Huntington, New York. From there the straight line run out to East Setauket is 15.8 miles, heading east, which is a genuine distance and not a technicality. Local pickup is free and it is a real option for anyone making that trip for other reasons. We also ship inside the United States, and for most people that is the sensible choice.

Several places we cover sit close enough to matter if a run is being split or if somebody else in the group is collecting. Port Jefferson Station is 1.6 miles away in a straight line. Stony Brook is 2.0 miles. Setauket is 2.2. Port Jefferson and Terryville are both 2.4. All of those fall inside Suffolk County alongside the address the order is going to, which mostly means nobody has to cross the county to hand off a box.

Four ways this usually arrives

A band putting out a first run tends to order one design, one size, and more pieces than instinct suggests. The square inch bands reward that instinct even when the band does not trust it yet. Pick the size first, then let the quantity band tell you where the run stops making sense.

A small label with three or four acts on it has a different problem, which is four artworks rather than one. Each design is priced on its own area and its own count, so there is no advantage in forcing every act onto the same dimensions if their artwork wants different shapes.

A solo artist working a merch table at the end of a set is usually buying giveaway stock rather than stock to sell, and the calculation changes. Giveaway stock lives or dies on how many hands it reaches, which argues for the smaller sizes and the deeper bands.

Somebody handling distro for a split release is generally ordering two runs that need to look like siblings without being identical. Keeping the outer dimensions matched and letting the interiors differ is the usual way through, and it keeps both halves in the same pricing band.

Questions we get

Should I write East Setauket or the shorter version on my shipping address? Whichever your own post uses. We treat them as two distinct entries and we do not rewrite what you enter, so copy the form that reaches you today.

What does 500 of a 2 by 2 inch sticker come to for an East Setauket order? A 2 by 2 is 4 square inches, the 500 piece rate is 22 cents per square inch, so 88 cents each and $440.00 for the run. Nothing about the destination changes that figure.

We only want ten stickers for an East Setauket band. Is that enough to order? Yes. Ten pieces clears the minimum on its own, and so does $10 of merchandise if you are under ten pieces but ordering something larger. You need one or the other, not both.

Our label is splitting a run between East Setauket and Port Jefferson Station. Can that go on one order? The pricing is per design and per quantity, so order the full count as one run to get the better rate, then work out the handoff between the two addresses yourselves. Those two sit 1.6 miles apart in a straight line.

Can an East Setauket order be collected in Huntington instead of sent? Yes. Pickup is free at the one address where everything is made. It is a 15.8 mile straight line each way, so it suits people heading west for something else more than it suits a dedicated trip.