Die-cut stickers for North Bellport

Sixteen die-cut stickers at three inches square cost $50.40, and twenty five of the identical sticker cost $67.50. The larger order costs more in total but less per piece, because it crosses a price break and the smaller one does not. A three by three inch sticker is nine square inches. At sixteen pieces the rate is 35 cents a square inch, which is $3.15 each. At twenty five pieces the rate becomes 30 cents, which is $2.70 each. The arithmetic is the whole quote. There is no separate charge sitting behind it and no plate or die cost hiding underneath, because the shape is cut from your outline rather than from a tool that has to be made first.

How the rate steps down

Every die-cut sticker here is priced by area, and the rate per square inch falls as the count rises. From 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents. From 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. From 50 to 99 it is 28 cents. From 100 to 249 it is 26 cents. From 250 to 499 it is 24 cents. At 500 the rate is 22 cents. Because the rate applies to the entire order rather than only to the pieces above the break, a count that sits just under a break is usually worth nudging. Sixteen pieces and twenty five pieces are the clearest illustration of that, but the same logic sits at 50, at 100, at 250 and at 500. Work out your square inches first, pick the band, multiply.

Ten pieces or ten dollars

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. A large label can clear the dollar figure long before it reaches ten pieces, since a single three by three inch sticker already runs $3.15 at the opening rate. A small label is more likely to reach the piece count first. Either way, this is a minimum on the order, not a floor under the price, so nothing gets rounded up to a threshold. If your job is genuinely two labels for two machines, the sensible move is to order the spares you will want anyway rather than to pad the cart.

Five places we already cover, all close in

The thing worth knowing about ordering from North Bellport is how tightly the surrounding places sit. East Patchogue is 2.2 miles off, Medford 3.2, Yaphank 3.3, Patchogue 3.7 and North Patchogue 3.9. Every one of those falls inside four miles, and every one of them is a place we already print and cut for. For a trade business that keeps equipment moving between yards, storage units and job sites across that cluster, it means the labels on a machine parked in one of those places and the labels on a machine parked in another came off the same cutter, against the same artwork, at the same measured size. Asset tags only work as a system when they match each other, and a tight cluster of places under one rate card is the easiest way to keep them matching.

Where the shop actually is

The shop is at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, and North Bellport is 24.2 miles east of it in a straight line, all of it inside Suffolk County. Everything is printed and cut at that one address, and orders either ship inside the United States or get collected at the counter for free. The distance matters for one reason only, which is deciding whether collection is worth the trip for you. It has no effect on the price. Area and count set the price, and nothing else does.

Getting the cut line right on an asset label

A die cut follows an outline you decide, so the useful conversation is about that outline rather than about the printing. Tell us whether you want the cut to hug the artwork tightly or to sit outside it with a margin of colour showing, because those are different shapes and they measure differently. Measure the flat area you are labelling and give us that figure, since a label for the side of a case and a label for the top of a control panel are rarely the same rectangle. If the design carries a serial number, a unit number or a QR code that changes piece by piece, say so at the start, because sequenced pieces are laid out differently from a single repeated design. And if the label has to fit between two fixings or inside a recess, send the measurement of the gap, not just the size you would like.

Four ways these orders usually start

If you are tagging hand tools and cases, you are normally after the smallest readable size and a high count, which puts you well down the rate card. Work the square inches on the smallest label that still reads at arm's length, then set the quantity at the next break above what you need.

If you are numbering a fleet of bins, ladders or trailers, you are buying a sequence rather than a batch. Send the number range you want covered along with the artwork, and include a few beyond the current fleet so the sequence has room to grow.

If you are putting a company mark on job boxes and gang boxes, you are usually buying one large size in a modest count, which is exactly the case where the dollar minimum matters more than the piece minimum. Check the square inches before you assume you need ten.

If you already have labels in service and are adding new equipment, bring the measurement of the existing label rather than the original artwork dimensions. Matching what is physically on the machine is what keeps the set looking like a set.

Questions we are asked

Why does a North Bellport order of 25 three inch stickers cost $67.50 when 16 of them cost $50.40? Because 25 pieces crosses into the 30 cent band while 16 sits in the 35 cent band, and the lower rate applies to every piece in the order. Nine square inches at 30 cents is $2.70 each against $3.15 each.

Our North Bellport job only needs eight labels. Does that meet the minimum? Possibly, yes. An order qualifies at 10 pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so eight reasonably large labels can clear the dollar side on their own. Work out the square inches times 35 cents times eight and see where it lands.

Do you charge more for North Bellport than for Medford, Yaphank or East Patchogue? No. The rate card is square inches and quantity, full stop. A job priced from one of those places and the identical job priced from another produce the same number.

Is a North Bellport street address with ZIP 11713 enough at checkout? Yes. Street address and 11713 is all the shipping form needs, and it is inside Suffolk County, so nothing unusual applies. Collection at the Huntington counter is the alternative if you would rather not have it sent at all.

If I order equipment labels for North Bellport now and more next season, will the second batch match? It will if the artwork and the measured size are the same, which is why we ask you to record both. Send back the same outline at the same dimensions and the cut follows the same path.