Custom Die-Cut Stickers for East Shoreham, New York

The place, in one short paragraph

A 3 by 3 inch die-cut sticker is 9 square inches, and at 16 pieces the rate is 35 cents per square inch, which makes each one $3.15 and the run of 16 exactly $50.40. Order nine more of that same sticker and the sum changes shape rather than simply growing, because at 25 pieces the rate steps down to 30 cents, so the identical 3 by 3 inch sticker becomes $2.70 each and 25 of them comes to $67.50. The nine extra pieces add $17.10 in total, which is less than six stickers would have cost you at the smaller count. That piece of arithmetic is the most useful thing to have in your head before you decide how many equipment labels an East Shoreham job actually calls for.

Brookhaven township, Suffolk County, ZIP code 11786. The detail worth knowing, from where we sit, is proximity. Rocky Point is 2.4 miles off in a straight line. Ridge is 2.7. Wading River is 3.4, Sound Beach 4.5, and Middle Island 5.1. Five separate places we also cover, and not one of them further than 5.1 miles.

Square inches first, then the quantity band

Every die-cut sticker we make is priced on two numbers. The first is area: multiply width by height and you have square inches, so a 3 by 3 is 9, a 2 by 4 is 8, a 5 by 5 is 25. The second is how many you buy, because the rate per square inch falls as the count rises. It is 35 cents from 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents from 25 to 49, 28 cents from 50 to 99, 26 cents from 100 to 249, 24 cents from 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500.

The practical consequence is that the band boundaries are worth watching. Sixteen pieces and twenty five pieces sit on opposite sides of one of them, and the worked example above shows exactly what that does to a real total. If your count lands at 22, or 46, or 94, look at the next number up before you commit. The bigger order is often closer in price than the gap in piece count suggests.

Labels that go on equipment rather than on packaging

A sticker destined for a ladder, a generator, a job box or a trailer tongue is doing a different job from one destined for a shop window. It has to be read at arm's length by somebody holding something heavy, and usually read as one of a numbered set. That pushes the design toward fewer words, larger type and strong contrast, and the size toward something square or close to it, because a square sits on more surfaces than a long thin rectangle does.

Most asset label runs we set up carry three things: the business name or mark, a phone number, and a unit number. The unit number is the part people forget to plan for. If you want 01 through 40 on forty separate labels, that is forty distinct pieces of artwork rather than forty copies of one, and it is worth telling us up front so the file is built that way from the start. The quantity band still counts total pieces, so a numbered set of forty lands in the 26 cent band just as a plain set of forty would.

Twenty six point seven miles east

That is the straight line figure from our counter to your side of the county, measured east. It matters for one decision only: whether you collect or whether we send. Local pickup is free at the shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, where every sticker is printed and cut, and it is genuinely worth doing if you are coming this way anyway or if the order is large enough that you would rather carry it than box it. Otherwise we ship anywhere in the United States, and an East Shoreham address is handled the same as any other. No account is needed either way.

One order across a tight cluster of places

Because Rocky Point, Ridge, Wading River, Sound Beach and Middle Island all sit within 5.1 miles, a business working that ground is frequently running crews or vehicles that touch several of them in a week. There is a small but real saving in treating that as one order instead of five. Forty labels split across five locations is still forty pieces, priced in the 26 cent band. Ordered as five sets of eight, every one of those sets is priced at 35 cents. Same stickers, different total, and the difference is entirely a function of how you group the request.

Artwork, shapes and the line we cut to

Die-cut means the outline follows your shape rather than a rectangle. A logo with a defined silhouette, a shield, a hexagon, a rounded badge, a truck profile, all cut to that edge. We build the cut path a little outside the artwork so there is a margin of material carrying the shape, which is why very fine spurs and hairline points get simplified: a one millimetre spike has nothing holding it.

Send the best version of the mark you have. If what exists is a drawing on a work order or a photo of a van door, say so, and we will redraw it rather than enlarge something soft. Small type that has been through a photocopier turns to mush at label size, so text almost always gets redrawn.

Four ways this usually arrives

A contractor with a handful of vans and a trailer wants a matched set: same mark, same size, sequential unit numbers, ordered once so the whole fleet is priced in a single band.

A sole trader wants a modest run for a tool case and a couple of pieces of plant, lands somewhere under 24 pieces, and either accepts the 35 cent rate or rounds up to 25 to get the 30 cent one.

An outfit that lends equipment between crews wants identification tags in a quantity that covers the whole inventory plus spares, which usually pushes them past 50 pieces and into the 28 cent band without any effort.

A supervisor numbering job boxes wants forty or fifty small squares with nothing on them but a number and a phone line, which is the cheapest kind of file to build and the easiest kind of order to reorder later.

Questions people ask about ordering from out that way

What does a 3 by 3 inch equipment label cost for an East Shoreham crew if I need 25? Nine square inches at the 25 piece rate of 30 cents is $2.70 each, so 25 of them is $67.50.

Can I collect an East Shoreham order at the counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Local pickup is free, and it is the only alternative to shipping, so tell us at checkout which you want.

We cover East Shoreham, Rocky Point and Ridge with three separate crews. Does one order still get the better rate? Yes. The band is set by total pieces on the order, not by how many places the stickers end up in.

Is the 10 piece minimum going to stop me ordering labels for a single East Shoreham van? No. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so a small number of larger stickers clears it on value alone.

Can one East Shoreham order carry two different designs and still count as a single quantity? Yes. Separate designs are separate artwork, but the pieces are added together for the rate.