Custom die-cut stickers for Holtsville

Sixty stickers at two inches by two inches come to $67.20, which is $1.12 apiece. A two inch square is four square inches, and an order of sixty sits in the 50 to 99 band, where the rate is 28 cents per square inch. Four square inches at 28 cents is $1.12, and sixty of those is $67.20. What that sum buys is a label for every jar in a run of fifty, with ten spare for the ones that go on crooked, for a sample to hand across a table, and for the jar you keep on your own shelf. Raise the same order to 100 pieces and the rate steps down to 26 cents, so the sticker becomes $1.04 and the order becomes $104.00. The extra forty pieces add $36.80 to the bill, which is a lower cost per piece than anything in the first sixty.

Three ZIP codes on one list

Most of the places on our list sit inside a single ZIP code. Holtsville sits inside three: 00501, 00544 and 11742. That is more than anywhere else we cover, and it is the sort of detail that only becomes interesting when you are typing an address into a checkout box and wondering whether you have put in the right one. The answer is that you put in the one your mail uses. Nothing about the order, the pricing or the way it is packed changes between the three.

The rate card, and why the band matters more than the size

Die-cut stickers here are priced by area, not by design. The rate per square inch is 35 cents 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. You multiply the area of one sticker by the rate for the quantity you are buying, then multiply by the quantity. That is the whole calculation.

The consequence is worth sitting with. Two people ordering the same two inch square pay different amounts per sticker purely because one is buying sixty and the other a hundred. The design is identical. The cut is identical. The only variable is which band the quantity lands in. If your number sits just under a band edge, look at what the next band up costs in total rather than per piece. The totals often sit closer together than you expect.

Ten pieces or ten dollars

There is an order minimum, and it is an easy one. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever you reach first. It is not a price floor and it is not a fee. If you want twelve labels for a dozen bottles, twelve pieces clears the first condition and you are done. If you want six of something larger, the merchandise total is likely to clear the second condition on its own. Small runs are a normal thing to ask for.

Where you are in relation to the counter

The shop is a single storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, New York, and everything is printed and cut there. In a straight line, not a drive, Holtsville is 19.7 miles east of that counter. Free local pickup is available if you would rather collect than have an order sent.

Several places nearby are on the same list. In straight line terms, North

Patchogue is 1.8 miles away, Holbrook is 2.1, Farmingville is 2.2, Medford is 2.4, and Patchogue is 3.1. If you are splitting a batch of labels with someone in one of those, or if your own mail and your workshop are not in the same place, that is not a complication. An order goes where you tell it to go.

Getting the cut line right

Die-cut means the sticker is cut to the outline of your artwork rather than to a rectangle. A circle stays a circle. A hand drawn jar shape with a curl at the top keeps the curl. What we need is a clear sense of where that outline falls, either as a shape in your file or as a plain description in your message. If your lettering runs close to the edge, say so and we will hold the cut back slightly.

Sizes are up to you. The two inch square in the sum above is a common jar face, but nothing in the pricing pushes you towards it. Area is area.

Four people with the same problem in different shapes

Someone bottling small batches at home usually wants a front label and a smaller neck or cap label. Those are two different areas, and the quantity band is worked out per item, so it is worth deciding early whether you want the same number of both or more of one than the other.

Someone making a single seasonal run for gifts often lands under fifty pieces. The 25 to 49 band at 30 cents is the practical home for that, and the thing to check is whether the total nudges past the point where the next band down makes the larger quantity the better buy.

Someone whose product has outgrown the kitchen table tends to jump straight from sixty to two hundred and fifty. That crosses two band edges at once, and the difference in cost per piece between 28 cents and 24 cents over a whole run is the number to look at, not the sticker price.

Someone with a design they drew themselves and have never sent to a printer before is the most common of the four. Send what you have. If the outline needs to be redrawn to cut cleanly, we will tell you what we are changing before anything is cut.

Questions people ask before they order

Which of the three Holtsville ZIP codes should I put on my order, 00501, 00544 or 11742?

Use whichever one your mail comes to. All three are covered and the order is handled the same way regardless.

I need sixty two inch labels for my jars. Is there a reason to order a hundred instead on a Holtsville order?

Sixty comes to $67.20 at $1.12 each. A hundred comes to $104.00 at $1.04 each. The extra forty pieces cost $36.80 in total, so if you expect a second batch at all, the hundred is usually the better arithmetic.

Can one Holtsville order include a jar label and a smaller bottle neck label at the same time?

Yes. They are two items with two areas, and each one gets the rate for its own quantity. Ordering sixty of one and sixty of the other does not combine into a hundred and twenty for band purposes.

I drew my label outline by hand. Will you cut a Holtsville order to that exact shape?

We will cut to your outline. If the drawn line is uneven enough that following it exactly would look like a mistake rather than a choice, we will clean it up and show you what we did first.

I live in Holtsville but I am closer to Holbrook and North Patchogue than to anywhere else. Do you take orders from all three?

We do. Those two are 2.1 and 1.8 miles away in a straight line, and both are on the same list as your own address. Where you sit between them makes no difference to what you pay.