Die Cut Packaging Seals for Farmingdale, New York

Someone running a small product line usually hits the same wall at the packing table: the boxes are plain, the tissue is folded, and there is nothing on the outside that tells anyone whose work is inside. A printed box would fix it, but printed boxes start at a run size most small makers are nowhere near. A die cut sticker across the flap fixes it at the run size they actually have.

That is a good share of what we print for people packing product out of a spare room or a rented back corner. One seal, usually round or square, often a single colour, carrying a mark and maybe a line of type, cut to the outline of the artwork instead of to a rectangle drawn around it. Everything is printed and cut at our storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, and an order bound for Farmingdale either goes out from that counter or is picked up at it.

Why a sticker ends up doing the box's job

A custom carton is a tooling decision. You commit to one size, one structure and a quantity that has to be stored somewhere. A seal is the opposite kind of decision. You buy plain boxes or mailers in whatever size the product needs, and the sticker is the only part carrying your name. Change the box next season and the sticker still works. Add a second product at a different size and the same seal goes on both.

What the seals cost as the count goes up

Die cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity rises. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents. 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, and at 500 it is 22 cents.

Work it through on the size most packaging seals land on. A 4 by 4 inch sticker covers 16 square inches. Order 50 of them and the rate is 28 cents, so each one is $4.48 and the 50 come to $224.00. Order 100 and the rate moves down to 26 cents, so the same sticker is $4.16 each and the hundred is $416.00. Doubling the count does not double the bill cleanly, because the unit price moved at the same time. If you are hovering just under a band edge, the next band is usually where you want to be.

The smallest order that works

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. A run of small seals gets there on piece count. A short run of large ones gets there on value, because a few big stickers pass $10 before they reach ten pieces. This is not a price floor and no charge is attached to it. It matters mainly if you are testing a label design on a handful of boxes before committing to a season.

Shape, and the line the cutter follows

Die cut means the cut path follows your artwork rather than a stock shape. A circle gets a circle. A hexagon gets a hexagon. A logo with a tail on the letter form gets that tail. What the cutter needs is a clear outer edge, so send art with the shape plainly separated from what surrounds it, and keep anything you care about slightly inside the edge rather than running right up to it. Square inches come from the bounding box, so a 4 inch circle and a 4 inch square both price as 16 square inches. Worth knowing before you redraw a design smaller to save money, since the saving sits in the footprint and not in the shape.

Three names that share a root

Addresses in this corner of Nassau County get mixed up more than most, because the name repeats. South Farmingdale is 1.1 miles off, East Farmingdale is 1.5 miles off, and the three are easy to swap by accident when you are typing a shipping line at eleven at night. We cover all of them, along with Plainedge at 1.8 miles, Old Bethpage at 1.8 miles and North Massapequa at 2.6 miles. The shop is 10.6 miles north of the 11735 ZIP in a straight line. None of that changes what you pay or how the work is made. It matters only when you are deciding whether to have the order sent or to come and get it.

Four people at the packing table

If you pour candles or cut soap by hand, you are probably writing the scent on the box in pen. A seal takes that job over. Keep the type large enough to read at arm's length, because on a 4 inch seal a scent name set small disappears.

If you bake or jar something and hand it over in a paper bag, the seal is what turns the bag into packaging. Round works better than square here, since the bag folds and a corner folds with it.

If you print shirts or make jewellery in small batches, you are likely shipping in mailers where the closure is handled. Your seal is doing brand work rather than closing work, so it can be smaller, which means a lower square inch count and a cheaper piece at the same quantity.

If you assemble subscription boxes or gift sets, you close the same box shape over and over, and consistency beats variety. That is the case for ordering at 100 or 250 rather than 50, since the rate is better and the design will not change between batches.

Getting it to you

Local pickup at the Huntington counter is free, and you select it at checkout in place of a shipping method. Otherwise we send orders anywhere in the United States. Checkout does not require an account.

Questions we get

Can I collect a Farmingdale order at the shop instead of having it sent? Yes. Choose local pickup at checkout rather than a shipping method and there is no shipping charge. Nothing else about the order changes, only where it ends up.

My address says Farmingdale but the next neighbourhood over uses a different version of the name, will that confuse my label? No. We print the shipping line exactly as you type it, so use whatever your mail already uses, 11735 included. The overlapping names are a postal quirk and have no effect on how the order is handled here.

What does a run of fifty four inch seals for a Farmingdale product line come to? A 4 by 4 inch sticker is 16 square inches. At 50 pieces the rate is 28 cents per square inch, which puts each one at $4.48 and the 50 at $224.00.

If a Farmingdale order goes from fifty seals to a hundred, does the unit price move? Yes. At 100 pieces the rate drops from 28 cents to 26 cents per square inch. The same 4 by 4 inch sticker becomes $4.16 each, and 100 of them is $416.00 against $224.00 for fifty.

Is a Farmingdale order of fewer than ten seals too small to place? Not necessarily. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so a few large seals can clear the $10 line well before the count reaches ten. There is no charge for sitting under either threshold.