Die-Cut Stickers and Equipment Labels for Inwood, New York

Lawrence sits 1.2 miles from Inwood in a straight line, Cedarhurst 1.4 and

Woodmere 1.7, with South Valley Stream at 2.8 and Hewlett at 3.3, which puts all of them inside a very small pocket of the map. We cover every one of those places. For a trade business that keeps a yard in one and a job in the next, that closeness tends to shape how the labels get handed out: one order, one delivery point, then a box that travels around in somebody's cab. It is usually the reason people order in a single run rather than in pieces.

## The far end of the county, as far as we are concerned

Of everywhere we cover in Nassau County, this is the outermost point. Inwood is

25.8 miles to the south west of the shop, measured as a straight line across the map rather than as a route anyone would actually take. In practice that comes down to a single choice at checkout: whether the box comes to you or you come to the box. Nothing about the printing, the cutting, the price per piece or the minimum shifts with distance.

## What die-cut actually means here

Die-cut means the sticker is cut to the outline of the artwork rather than to a rectangle that happens to contain it. If your label is a rounded badge with a serial window, the cut follows that badge. If it is a plain square with your company mark and a blank strip for a hand written unit number, the cut follows the square. The shape is yours to decide, and it is worth deciding deliberately, because on equipment labelling the outline is often doing as much identifying work as the text. A crew that can pick out its own tags across a shared bench spends less of the morning arguing about whose grinder is whose.

## The rate falls as the count rises

Everything is priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch steps down as the quantity goes up. It 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. Because the rate is tied to area rather than to a fixed catalogue size, a small label is genuinely cheap and a large one costs what its area says it costs. There is no menu of sizes to squeeze your artwork into. You give us the dimensions you want and the arithmetic follows from there.

## The same sum, run on a real label

Take a common shape for tool and equipment tagging: a 1.5 by 1.5 inch square. That is 2.25 square inches. Order 500 of them and the rate is 22 cents per square inch, which puts each sticker at $0.49 and the full run of 500 at $247.50. That is the whole calculation, and you can run it yourself for any size you like: width times height gives the area, area times the rate for your quantity band gives the unit price, unit price times quantity gives the order.

A business weighing 250 labels against 500 is not comparing two figures that scale evenly, because the larger quantity is priced at a lower rate per square inch as well as covering more pieces.

## Where the minimum sits

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is a qualifying line rather than a price floor, so it is not a charge that gets added to small orders. It simply means an order of six labels does not clear the bar, while an order of ten does, and a smaller count of physically large stickers can clear it on value instead of on count.

## Sending the artwork

Send the design at the size you want it cut, with the outline you want cut either drawn in or clearly obvious from the shape of the art. Keep the text large enough to read at arm's length, keep any barcode or serial field clear of the cut edge, and leave a little room between the artwork and the outline so a slight shift in cutting does not clip a letter. If you are producing a numbered series, tell us how the numbering runs rather than sending one file per number.

## Collection or a parcel

Local pickup at 205 East Main Street in Huntington is free, and we ship anywhere in the United States. Checkout takes guests, so there is no account to set up first.

## If you run tools out of a yard

Grinders, drills, levels and test gear circulate between people, and the ones that come back are usually the ones somebody can identify without thinking about it. A small tag carrying the company mark and a unit number does that job.

## If you hire equipment out

Anything that leaves your control and comes back benefits from a label that states who owns it and gives a number to quote on the phone. Keep the design simple enough that the number is readable in a photograph taken by a customer.

## If you are tagging vehicles and trailers

Asset numbers on vans, trailers and site boxes give your paperwork and your physical fleet the same names. Larger stickers cost more because they cover more square inches, so decide the size by how far away it needs to be readable.

## If you subcontract alongside other trades

When your kit shares a job with three other outfits, an owner label settles a dispute about a missing box without anyone raising their voice. The distinct outline helps here more than anywhere else.

## Questions people ask

**We run crews out of Cedarhurst and Woodmere as well. Can one Inwood order cover all three?** Yes. It is one order, one delivery address and one price calculation. What you do with the box after it reaches you is entirely your business, and splitting a single run between sites is normal.

**If I order 500 of the 1.5 inch square labels for the Inwood yard, what is the total?** $247.50. Each one is 2.25 square inches, the rate at 500 pieces is 22 cents per square inch, and that comes to $0.49 per sticker.

**We only need ten asset tags for the Inwood shop. Is that enough to place an order?** Yes. Ten pieces meets the qualifying line, and so does $10 of merchandise, so a run of ten clears it on count alone. Note that ten pieces falls in the 35 cent band, the highest rate on the card.

**What do I put in the address fields for an Inwood delivery?**

The street address exactly as you would write it on an envelope. We do not hold separate postal zones for the area and we do not route by anything other than the address you type in, so write it the way your mail already arrives.

**Can I collect an Inwood order from the shop instead of paying to have it sent?** Yes. Pickup at the Huntington counter is free and open to any order regardless of where the buyer is based. Given the distance involved it is usually only worth it if someone is already making the trip east.