Custom Die Cut Stickers for Freeport, New York

The person placing this kind of order is usually whoever has finally lost patience with an unlabelled stockroom. An office manager, a studio coordinator, a facilities lead: someone holding a list of forty bin names, a shelf plan drawn on paper, and a firm view that every label should look like it came out of the same run. They are not buying decoration. They are buying the thing that stops two people pulling from the wrong shelf. Orders shaped like that reach us from Freeport often enough that the questions attached to them are worth answering in one place rather than one email at a time.

Reading a label from across the room

A bin label gets read at arm's length or further, by someone carrying something in the other hand. The design decisions that matter are the dull ones. Short words. One typeface. Real contrast between the text and whatever sits behind it. A die cut outline earns its keep here, because a label cut to the shape of its own content reads as one object instead of a rectangle with writing in the middle. If your shelf plan groups items by category, giving each category its own outline shape or colour block does more useful work than any amount of styling inside the label.

Size is the first decision, because size is the price

Die cut stickers are priced per square inch, which means the shape of the label and the shape of the bill are the same decision. A 2 by 3 inch label is 6 square inches. Stretch it to 2 by 4 and it becomes 8 square inches, a third more area and a third more cost at every quantity. So before pricing anything, hold a ruler against the bin front you are actually labelling and decide what fits. Most shelf and drawer work lands small, because the label has to sit on the front face without hanging over the edge of it.

Where the rate steps down

The per square inch rate falls as the piece count rises. At 1 to 24 pieces it is 35 cents. At 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. At 50 to 99, 28 cents. At 100 to 249, 26 cents. At 250 to 499, 24 cents. At 500 it is 22 cents.

Worked through on the label above: a 2 by 3 inch sticker is 6 square inches, and at 500 pieces the rate is 22 cents, so each one is $1.32 and the run of 500 is $660.00. That same 6 square inch label ordered forty at a time falls in the 25 to 49 band at 30 cents, which works out to $1.80 each. The bands move the whole order, not just the pieces above the line, so a plan that calls for 240 labels is worth counting a second time. Ten more pieces crosses into 250 and takes every label with it.

The minimum is a count or a total, not a floor

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is deliberately not a price floor. A stockroom that needs eleven drawer labels and nothing else is a real order and gets treated as one. So is a single large label, if the merchandise reaches $10 on its own. What the minimum rules out is the order of two or three small pieces, which takes more handling to set up than it does to make.

Five neighbours inside two and a bit miles

Freeport sits 18.3 miles south west of the shop, measured in a straight line rather than any kind of route. More useful than the distance is what surrounds it. Roosevelt is 1.4 miles away. Merrick is 1.7. Baldwin Harbor is 1.8, Hempstead 2.2, North Merrick 2.3. Five places we also cover, all inside 2.3 miles, which changes how a multi site order is worth thinking about. An office manager with a front desk in one of those places and a storage room in another can put the whole label set on one order and one artwork file, and the labels match across every room. Everything is printed and cut at a single address, 205 East Main Street in Huntington, so there is no drift between one batch and the next. Local pickup there costs nothing, and shipping is within the United States.

Artwork that still reads at two inches wide

Send the label art at the size you mean to print it, or in a form that scales without the text going soft. If what you have is a typed list of bin names rather than a designed file, send the list and the finished size, and the layout can be built around that. Two things to settle first. Leave clearance between the text and the cut line, so no part of a word ends up on the edge. And decide whether every bin name is its own artwork or whether one design carries the whole set, because that determines how the piece count is split.

Who tends to be on the other end of these orders

If you manage an office, the usual job is a supply closet and a filing bank that grew without a system. Count the shelves and drawers first, then the categories. The count you land on sets your rate band, and the band is where the money is.

If you run a studio, the labels tend to be for material bins, and the categories change more often than an office's do. Order the stable names in volume and keep the changeable ones in a smaller separate run, so one rethink does not strand four hundred labels.

If you are fitting out a new suite, you are labelling before anything is in the bins, which is the easiest version of this. Work from the shelving spec rather than from the contents, and size every label to the narrowest bin front.

If you look after several rooms or floors, consistency is the whole point. One order, one rate band, one set of shapes. Splitting it up costs more per label and leaves you two slightly different label sets to live with.

Questions that come up

Can I get 500 labels at 2 by 3 inches sent to our Freeport office, and what is that? A 2 by 3 inch label is 6 square inches. At 500 pieces the rate is 22 cents per square inch, so each label is $1.32 and the full 500 comes to $660.00.

Our Freeport studio only needs about forty bin labels. Is that enough to place an order? Yes. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, and forty clears the piece count on its own. Forty sits in the 25 to 49 band, so the rate is 30 cents per square inch.

We are on the line between Freeport and Roosevelt. Does that change anything about the order?

No. Roosevelt is 1.4 miles away, and Merrick, Baldwin Harbor, Hempstead and

North Merrick are all within 2.3 miles. Same rate card, same one shop, whichever side of the line the address falls on.

Can someone collect a Freeport order at the shop instead of having it sent? Yes. Local pickup is free, and it is the same single address for every order, since nothing is made anywhere else.

How should a Freeport order be addressed if our post goes to a suite number? Put the suite on the street line with the number, and include the 11520 ZIP. Nassau County does not need to appear anywhere on it.