Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Medford, New York

Holtsville lies 2.4 miles off, Farmingville 2.7, Gordon Heights and Yaphank both 3.1, and North Bellport 3.2. Five of the places we cover sit inside a band barely more than three miles wide, and all five of them wrap around the same ZIP code, 11763. That closeness is the practical fact behind most of what follows. A group whose people are scattered across those five names is not scattered at all in any way that affects an order, so what looks like five separate sticker jobs is usually one.

The ring of neighbours

We treat 11763 and the five places listed above as a single working cluster. If one person is gathering names and sizes on behalf of everyone, there is no reason to split the run by where each person happens to live. One artwork file, one quantity, one price band. The alternative, five small orders at five small quantities, costs more for the same number of stickers, and the reason is in the pricing below. It is worth saying out loud here in Suffolk County rather than leaving it for someone to work out at checkout.

How a die-cut sticker is measured

Every sticker we make is priced on its area in square inches, so the first thing to settle is the size, not the shape. The cut follows the outline of the artwork, so a circle, a rounded badge, a shield, a lozenge or something with a genuinely odd silhouette all price the same way: we take the width and the height of the smallest rectangle the design fits inside, multiply them, and that is the square inch figure. A 1.75 by 2.75 inch sticker is 4.8125 square inches whether the art inside it is a tidy rectangle or a jagged outline.

That matters when you are choosing between a laptop sticker and a water bottle sticker, because the difference between them is almost always half an inch in one direction, and half an inch changes the area more than people expect.

What the rate actually does

The rate per square inch falls as the quantity rises. 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.

Take that 1.75 by 2.75 inch sticker at 4.8125 square inches. At 50 pieces the rate is 28 cents, which puts it at $1.35 each and $67.38 for the fifty. Push the same design to 100 pieces and the rate drops to 26 cents, so each one is $1.25 and the hundred comes to $125.12.

Read those two numbers next to each other and the argument for pooling a cluster order makes itself. Doubling from 50 to 100 does not double the bill, and the per sticker price falls while it happens. This is the whole reason a club with people in three or four of the nearby places is better off counting heads once and ordering once.

The minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Those are two separate doors into the same room and you only need one of them. A handful of large stickers can clear $10 well under ten pieces, and ten small ones can qualify on count alone without reaching $10. It is a minimum order threshold, not a price floor, so nobody is topped up to a round number they did not ask for.

Where the shop is

The shop is at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, and Medford is 21.7 miles east of it in a straight line on the map. That number is a map measurement and nothing more, since we have no way of knowing which way anyone would actually go. Every order is printed and cut at that one address, and you can either have it sent or collect it there at no charge.

Artwork, and what makes a cut line behave

The cut line is generated from the edge of your artwork, so the cleaner that edge is, the more predictable the outline. Flat colour with a defined border cuts most predictably. Soft glows, feathered shadows and gradients that dissolve into nothing at the edge give the cut line nothing firm to follow, and in those cases we will usually put a solid border around the design and cut on that instead.

Fine internal detail is a separate question from the outline. Thin lettering, hairline rules and small counters inside letters all survive printing far better than they survive being reproduced at postage stamp size, so if a design is going on a bottle rather than a laptop lid it is worth looking at the small type before committing to the size.

Who tends to order these

Club organisers are the obvious case. Someone is collecting a count from members, some of whom are in 11763 and some in the places a couple of miles either side, and they want one sticker that works on a laptop lid and on the curve of a water bottle. That person wants a total before they collect money, which is why the worked example above gives both the per piece figure and the full line.

Someone ordering for a very small group has a different problem. At 12 or 15 pieces you are sitting in the 35 cent band, and the jump to 25 pieces moves you to 30 cents. It is worth checking whether the extra pieces cost less than you assume before settling on the smaller count.

Someone working from a hand drawn logo should send what they have. A photograph of a drawing on paper is a starting point, and we will tell you plainly whether the edge can carry a cut line or whether it needs a border drawn around it first.

Someone splitting the bill across a group usually wants the per sticker number rather than the total, because that is the figure they will be quoting to everyone else. Both numbers are on the page above for the size used in the example, and the same arithmetic applies to any size you pick.

Questions that come up

Our members are split between Medford and Holtsville, can that be one order? Yes. There is no reason to split a run by where people live, and combining the counts usually moves you into a lower rate band, which makes the pooled order cheaper per sticker than two separate ones.

If our Medford club orders 100 of the 1.75 by 2.75 inch sticker, what is the total? $125.12. The sticker is 4.8125 square inches, 100 pieces puts you at the 26 cent rate, and that works out to $1.25 each.

Does a Medford order have to reach 10 pieces before it qualifies? Not necessarily. Ten pieces is one way to qualify and $10 of merchandise is the other, and you only need to satisfy whichever one you reach first.

What is the 21.7 miles to Medford measured along? A straight line on the map between the shop and the ZIP code. It is not a route and it is not an estimate of anything else.

Can a Medford order be collected instead of sent? Yes. Local pickup at the Huntington address is free, and it is the same counter where everything is printed and cut. Having it sent is the other option, and you choose at checkout.