Die-cut stickers and labels for Lloyd Harbor, New York

West Manor, Cold Spring Harbor and Centerport are close neighbours of one another, and Lloyd Harbor sits among them. Huntington and Huntington Station belong to the same small group of places we cover, and every order from any of them is printed and cut at our one shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington. A lot of what comes off that bench is not the sticker people picture when they hear the word. A good share of it is labels: small, plain, repeated pieces whose entire job is to tell somebody which bin holds the letterhead and which shelf holds the blue card stock.

Two names that end the same way

Lloyd Harbor and Cold Spring Harbor finish their names identically, and anyone who has typed either one into a form knows the ending is the easy part. The beginning is where people slip. Orders reach us addressed to one when the writer meant the other, and we have no clever fix for that beyond reading what you actually wrote and asking you about it when something looks off.

That habit of reading closely is exactly the habit a label set needs. A label is a piece of writing before it is a piece of print. If the shelf says HARDWARE and the box behind it holds anchors, screws and a roll of tape, nobody believes the next label either. So the wording comes first and the artwork second. When you send us a list, we set what is on the list. We do not tidy up your abbreviations or decide that ACCTG should really say ACCOUNTING, because that choice belongs to whoever has to find the box.

What a shelf label is actually doing

A bin label is read from a standing position by somebody holding something in both hands. That single sentence decides most of the design. Short words beat long ones, one idea per label beats three, and a heavy plain letterform on a strong contrast beats a decorative one on a subtle tint every time.

Die cut means the cut line follows the outline you give us rather than defaulting to a rectangle with square corners. That can be an arrow, a tag shape, a circle, or the silhouette of the thing in the bin. It can also be a plain rounded rectangle, which is still a die cut and is often the right answer for a wall of shelving where you want the eye to travel along a row without catching. We send a proof showing the cut line against your artwork, and nothing goes on press until you have looked at it and said yes.

Working out what a run of labels costs

Die-cut work is priced per square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the count goes up. 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 a square. A 3 by 3 inch sticker is 9 square inches. Order 24 of them and the rate is 35 cents, so each one is $3.15 and the 24 come to $75.60. Add a single piece to make it 25 and the rate drops to 30 cents, so the same 3 by 3 inch sticker is $2.70 each and the 25 come to $67.50. One more label and you have paid $8.10 less. That is why we publish the bands: you can see the edges and decide which side of one you want to be on.

The ten piece or ten dollar mark

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. Those are two doors into the same room and you only need one. A handful of physically large labels can clear the ten dollars long before it gets near ten pieces, and a pile of very small ones goes the other way. It is not a price floor and there is nothing to top up to.

Where the shop is from you

You are 3.7 miles north west of the counter in a straight line, which is a map measurement and not a statement about roads. Orders here fall in Suffolk County, in the Town of Huntington, under ZIP code 11743. You can have an order shipped anywhere in the United States, or choose free pickup and skip the shipping cost. If you pick up, tell us the name the order was placed under rather than the name on the artwork, because on a run of office labels those are very often two different things.

Who these tend to be for

If you manage an office, you are probably relabelling a supply room that grew by accident. Send the inventory list in whatever spreadsheet it lives in, with a count beside each line. Duplicates are expected. Nobody needs one label reading TONER.

If you run a studio, your bins are sorted by material rather than by department, and the names matter more because two things that look identical behave completely differently. Labels carrying a code as well as a word earn their keep here.

If you are building a filing system from scratch, settle the structure before you order. Decide the categories, live with them, then print. Reprinting a naming scheme you abandoned is the most common waste in this kind of work.

If you are organising a home office or a back room, the run is small and the piece count will get you over the minimum rather than the dollar figure. Keep the shapes simple and the wording blunt.

Questions we get asked

Can I collect a Lloyd Harbor order at the counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Choose pickup instead of a shipping method at checkout and there is no shipping charge on the order. Everything is at the one address in Huntington.

If I need 24 labels for a Lloyd Harbor office, is there any reason to order 25? On a 3 by 3 inch label, yes. Twenty four costs $75.60 and twenty five costs $67.50, because crossing into the 25 to 49 band moves you from 35 cents per square inch to 30. The saving exists at every size, not just that one.

Our Lloyd Harbor studio only needs six shelf labels. Can we order that few? It depends on the size rather than the count. Six pieces is under the ten piece door, so the order has to reach $10 of merchandise through the other door. Six large labels will manage it comfortably. Six small ones will not.

Does a Lloyd Harbor order need anything special to keep it apart from a Cold Spring Harbor one? The ZIP code and the street line do the work, and the two names sit in different ZIP codes. Write the town out in full rather than shortening it to Harbor and nothing will go astray.

Can a single Lloyd Harbor order mix bin labels and shelf labels at different sizes? Yes. Each design is priced on its own square inch area, and the quantity band follows the total piece count on the order, so mixing sizes does not cost you the better rate.