Die-Cut Labels and Stickers for East Yaphank, New York

A home producer with three dozen jars cooling on the kitchen counter usually has one thing left to settle, and it is what goes on the front of them. The recipe is finished, the jars are bought, the batch size is known, and the label is the part that keeps getting pushed back because it has to be decided rather than made. That is the order this page is about: a run of die-cut labels for jars or bottles, cut to a shape instead of a rectangle, for someone producing at home in East Yaphank.

Two names with one root

The name carries its neighbour inside it. Yaphank sits a mile off in a straight line, close enough that the two get swapped in address fields, in spreadsheets and in the return address somebody writes on the side of a case. The name you type at checkout is the name that ends up on the parcel, and the whole difference is one word at the front of it. Write the address the way your own carrier expects to see it and the order will follow that.

What a label costs, measured by the inch

Die-cut work here is priced on area, not on a menu of fixed sizes. You multiply width by height to get square inches, then multiply that by a rate, and the rate comes down as the piece count goes up. It is 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, which means you can price a change in your head before you ask us about it.

A worked example, using a jar label

Take a label 1.75 inches wide and 2.75 inches tall, which is a common front panel size for a squat preserve jar. That is 4.8125 square inches. At 300 pieces you are in the 250 to 499 band, so the rate is 24 cents, the label works out at $1.16 each, and 300 of them come to $346.50. Push the same label to 500 pieces and the rate drops to 22 cents. Each one is then $1.06 and the 500 come to $529.38. The extra 200 labels add about $183 to the total, which is the kind of arithmetic worth doing before you commit, because the per piece price on the larger run is lower than the per piece price on the smaller one.

It also shows the trap in the bands. Plan 480 labels and you pay the 24 cent rate on all of them, while stepping up to 500 puts every piece on the 22 cent rate. Count the pieces you want first, then look at which side of the line you are standing on.

Where the cut line goes

Die-cut means the outline follows the artwork rather than a stock rectangle. A label shaped to a hexagon, a bottle neck tag, an oval that hugs the curve of a jar, a badge with a scalloped edge: all of that is the same job on our end, since the cut path is drawn from your art. What we need is artwork that makes the intended edge obvious, either because the shape is a closed outline or because you tell us in a sentence where the line should fall. Leave a little room between your text and that edge. Type running right up to the cut has nowhere to go if the shape shifts by a hair, and the margin costs you nothing at the design stage.

If you are labelling a round jar, measure the flat part of the glass rather than the widest point, since that flat area is what your label actually has to live on.

Collecting or having it sent

We print and cut everything at one counter in Huntington, at 205 East Main

Street, so an order placed for East Yaphank either travels to you or you travel to it. The shop is 25.5 miles east of here as the crow flies, which is a real trip and the reason most orders out that way go by post instead. Shipping runs inside the United States, and pickup at the counter is free if you happen to be coming west anyway. Checkout does not ask you to make an account.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever condition you meet first. That is a qualifying threshold, not a price floor, and it matters mostly to people testing a design before a real batch. A single proof label sits under the line. Ten of them clear it, and so does one larger piece reaching $10 on its own area.

Four people who order this exact thing

The preserve maker. You put up jam, pickles or sauce in small batches and the jars change through the season. Order the batch you are running now rather than guessing at the year, and keep the size fixed so future runs drop straight onto the same glass.

The small batch bottler. Syrups, cold brew, infused oils, hot sauce in a five ounce woozy bottle. The neck is narrow and the flat panel is smaller than people expect, so measure the bottle in front of you rather than working from the supplier listing.

The candle and soap pourer. Your label is usually a top disc for a tin plus a front piece for the jar. Two sizes means two square inch figures, priced separately even when they arrive together.

The person selling at a table. You want the jar to look finished in somebody's hand. The shaped cut does most of that work, so pick the outline before you fuss over the typeface.

Questions we get asked

Does the 300 piece example above price an East Yaphank order the same way? Yes. The rate bands are not regional. A 1.75 by 2.75 inch label at 300 pieces is 4.8125 square inches at 24 cents, so $1.16 each and $346.50 for the run, wherever the order is going.

I am moving up from 300 labels to 500. What does that do to an East Yaphank order? It moves you from the 24 cent rate to the 22 cent rate on every piece. The same label goes from $1.16 to $1.06 each, and the total goes from $346.50 to $529.38 for 500.

My mail gets written two different ways depending on who is sending it. Which name should go on an East Yaphank order? Use the form your own carrier expects, including the 11967 ZIP. The two names are close enough to confuse a reader, and the ZIP is what stops that.

Can I collect an East Yaphank order at the counter instead of paying to have it sent? Yes. Pickup in Huntington is free and open to anyone, and plenty of people choose it when they are already heading in this direction.

Friends in Middle Island and Shirley want the same jar label. Can that go on one East Yaphank order? It can, and it is usually the cheaper way to do it, because the rate follows the total piece count on a single order. Three people ordering 120 pieces each pay the 26 cent rate separately. One order of 360 pieces sits in the 250 to 499 band at 24 cents, and you split the pieces up afterwards.