Custom die-cut stickers for Lawrence

A 2 by 2 inch die-cut sticker is 4 square inches, and at 120 pieces the rate is 26 cents a square inch, so each one is $1.04 and the run of 120 comes to $124.80. That is the whole sum, and it is the one most club orders start from. What it buys is 120 individually cut stickers at a size that sits on a laptop lid or the flat face of a water bottle: big enough that a logo and a word or two stay legible, small enough that nobody has to think twice about where to put it. Push the same sticker to 250 pieces and the rate falls to 24 cents, which makes it $0.96 each and $240.00 for the 250. Roughly double the count, slightly less than double the money.

Why the rate moves

Die-cut stickers here are priced per square inch, and the rate steps down as the piece count climbs. 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. Two things set the price, then: how big one sticker is, and how many you are having cut. There is no separate charge for the shape, and the cut line follows your artwork rather than a rectangle you pay extra to escape.

The practical effect is that the interesting decision is often not the design but where your count sits against the nearest band edge. A count that stops just short of 100 pays 28 cents, while one that reaches 100 pays 26, so the few extra pieces can make the whole order cheaper rather than more expensive. The same thing happens again at 250. If your count lands near a boundary, count your members again before you commit.

Orders that travel by street address

Lawrence has no ZIP code of its own on our file, which sounds like a problem and is not one. Orders are addressed by street address, and that is what the label is generated from. Put the number, the street, the town and the state in the checkout fields exactly as you would write them on an envelope. If you know the postal code the carrier uses for your building, enter it. If you do not, the street line does the work of finding you.

This matters more for club orders than for personal ones, because a club address is often somebody's home, a meeting space, or a parent's office. Whichever it is, address it the way post arrives there now, and do not abbreviate the street name differently from how it appears on your own mail. One address per order is cleanest: one box, one destination, one person handing things out.

How far the shop is from you

Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, New York. In a straight line, ignoring roads entirely, you are about 25.4 miles to the south west of that address. We ship within the United States, and free local pickup is there if you would rather collect than have anything sent.

We also cover several places close to you, including Cedarhurst at 0.5 miles, Inwood at 1.2 miles, Woodmere at 1.5 miles, Hewlett at 2.6 miles and South Valley Stream at 2.7 miles. Those are straight line figures too. If your members are spread across a couple of those, one order sent to one person and handed out is usually simpler than splitting the run.

What a die cut actually follows

A die cut means the sticker is cut to the outline of the art rather than to a square. Send the design on a transparent background and the cut follows the edge of the shape. Send it on a solid colour block and the cut follows the block. Most club logos want a slight border around the crest or wordmark so the outline reads as deliberate, and if you want that border, build it into the file rather than describing it, because what we cut is what you sent.

Two things are worth checking first. That the art is sized to the sticker you actually want, since a logo drawn for a banner and one drawn for 4 square inches are not the same drawing. And that small text still holds together at that size. A club name in fine type across two inches is what people most often wish they had made larger.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. It is a threshold for placing the order at all, not a floor under the price. A run of large stickers can clear the $10 figure before it reaches 10 pieces, and a run of small ones will usually reach 10 pieces first. Either way you pay the rate for whichever band your count falls into, so a small order is priced at 35 cents because of its count, not because of the minimum.

Who tends to order these

The club organiser working from a member list. You know your count almost exactly, which is the useful position to be in. Compare it against the band edges first, because a few spare stickers are often cheaper than the exact number.

The treasurer who has to justify the line. The arithmetic above is the whole pricing model, so you can build the figure in a spreadsheet before anyone approves anything. Square inches, times rate, times count.

The member who got handed the design. You are not buying anything yet, you are making sure the file is the right size and the outline is the one you want cut.

The person ordering two designs at once. A laptop lid and a water bottle often want different sizes, and there is nothing stopping you having both cut. Work each size out separately against the rate table.

What people usually want to know before ordering

Does a Lawrence order need a ZIP code at checkout? No. The street address is what the label and the carrier work from. If you know the postal code your building receives mail under, you can enter it, but the order is not held up without one.

If our club orders 120 of the 2 by 2 inch sticker to Lawrence, what is the total? $124.80. That is 4 square inches at the 26 cent rate for the 100 to 249 band, which is $1.04 a sticker, times 120.

Would a Lawrence club actually save anything by going from 120 pieces to 250? Not in total, but yes per sticker. The 250 band rate is 24 cents, so each 2 by 2 inch sticker is $0.96 instead of $1.04, and 250 of them is $240.00. You spend more in total and less per piece.

Our members are spread between Cedarhurst, Inwood and Woodmere. Can one Lawrence order be split across them? An order ships to a single address, so the usual approach is one delivery to one member who hands the rest out. If collecting suits you better, pickup at the shop is free.

We want laptop stickers and water bottle stickers on the same Lawrence order. How does size change the cost? Price follows area, so a sticker with a larger footprint has more square inches and costs more at the same rate. The 2 by 2 inch example is 4 square inches. Work out the square inches of each size you want, apply the rate for your total piece count, and add them together.