Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Northport, New York

## Reading the rate ladder

Two hundred die cut stickers at 2 by 3 inches come to $312.00, and the same sticker at 250 pieces comes to $360.00. A 2 by 3 inch sticker is 6 square inches, and every die cut sticker is priced per square inch, so at 200 pieces the rate is 26 cents and one sticker works out to $1.56. Cross into the next quantity band at 250 and the rate falls to 24 cents, which puts that identical sticker at $1.44. The total goes up, the unit price goes down, and the fifty extra pieces cost less each than the two hundred you had counted on. That sum is what most Northport customers want settled first, so it sits at the top of this page rather than three screens down.

The pricing works the same way for every shape and every design. Multiply the width by the height to get the square inches, find the rate that matches the number of pieces you are ordering, then multiply the two figures for the price of a single sticker. The rate is 35 cents per square inch from 1 to 24 pieces, 30 cents from 25 to 49, 28 cents from 50 to 99, 26 cents from 100 to 249, 24 cents from 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500. The square inch figure comes from the overall width and height of the sticker, not from the area the ink happens to cover, so a circle and a square that fit the same box are priced the same.

There is an order minimum, and it is worth understanding because it is not a price floor. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. A few large stickers can clear it on value alone, and a pile of tiny ones clears it on count.

## When it pays to round the order up

The step between 249 and 250 pieces is the one that catches people out, because the lower rate applies to the whole order and not only to the pieces above the line. A run of 200 of the 2 by 3 inch sticker sits inside the 100 to 249 band at 26 cents and totals $312.00. Push it to 250 and every sticker in the run is priced at 24 cents, which is $1.44 each and $360.00 for the lot.

The same thing happens at 25, at 50, at 100 and again at 500. If a number you have in mind is sitting just under one of those lines, do the arithmetic both ways before you commit. Sometimes the answer is to stay where you are. Often it is not.

## The name on the address line

Northport shares a name root with East Northport, a separate place 1.9 miles from the shop and one we also cover. We keep the two as distinct entries rather than treating one as a variation of the other, and the reason is practical: an address that drops or adds a word can send an order to the wrong doorstep.

Write the town line exactly as you would on an envelope, and include the ZIP, which here is 11768, in Suffolk County and within the township of Huntington. If the box is going to a rehearsal space or a shop counter rather than your own home, put the name of whoever will take it on the line above the street.

## How far it is from the counter

Northport is 3.1 miles north east of our storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, measured in a straight line on a map. The other places we cover nearby are Centerport at 1.6 miles, Fort Salonga at 2.7, Greenlawn at 3.0 and Elwood at 3.8, all measured the same way. Everything is printed and cut at that one address, so nothing passes through a third party between the file you send and the stickers you get. Free local pickup is there at checkout if you would rather collect than ship, and shipping within the United States is the alternative if you would not.

## Getting artwork set for a cut line

Die cut means the blade follows the outline of the art rather than a rectangle around it. A logo with a clean silhouette, a piece of lettering, a shape with a flat bottom edge: all of these cut well. What matters is that the outline is deliberate. Decide whether you want the cut hugging the artwork itself or running around a border offset from it, because that choice changes the overall width and height, and those two figures are what the square inch price is built from.

If the design lives on a record sleeve or a shirt, strip it back before it becomes a sticker. Detail that reads fine at twelve inches across can close up at two.

## Who tends to order these

A band with a merch table. Stickers are what people take when they are not spending on a shirt, and they are usually priced to move or handed over for nothing. Ordering 250 rather than 200 is a reasonable call here, because the leftover box goes back in the van and comes out again at the next show.

A small label running several acts. One design per artist means several separate runs, each priced on its own piece count. A single label mark instead puts the whole order in one band, and one 500 piece run is priced very differently from five 100 piece runs of five different designs.

A solo musician working to a fixed budget. Start from the money rather than the count. Pick the size, work out the square inches, then try the rates in turn until the total lands where you need it.

Someone putting out a single release. A one off run does not need to be large, and the smaller bands exist for exactly that. A 2 by 3 inch sticker at 50 pieces is priced at 28 cents per square inch, which is a different sum entirely from the worked example above.

## Questions we are asked

**If I ordered 200 of the 2 by 3 inch sticker for a Northport band and then decided on 250, what actually changes?** Every sticker in the order reprices at 24 cents per square inch instead of 26. Each one goes from $1.56 to $1.44 and the total goes from $312.00 to $360.00. The lower rate is not restricted to the additional fifty pieces.

**Can a Northport order be collected at the shop instead of shipped?**

Yes. Local pickup is free and you choose it at checkout, so you are not paying to send a box 3.1 miles. Shipping is there as the alternative if collecting is inconvenient.

**We only want a handful of stickers for a Northport release. Is there a minimum we have to hit?** An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever of the two you reach first. It is a qualifying threshold rather than a minimum spend, so a small run of larger stickers and a larger run of small ones can both clear it.

**How do I make sure a Northport order is not confused with the similarly named place next door?** Write the town exactly and add the ZIP, 11768. The two are separate entries for us, and the ZIP settles it on its own if the town line is ever ambiguous.

**Is the 26 cent rate on a Northport order set by how many stickers I buy or by how big they are?** By how many. Size only sets the square inches, which is width times height. The piece count picks the rate, and the two are then multiplied together.