Custom die-cut stickers for Oakdale, New York

Do I have to order hundreds of labels before it is worth you printing anything? No. An order qualifies once it reaches 10 or more pieces, or $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, and that is a threshold for placing an order rather than a floor under the price. Somebody in Oakdale bottling one product line at home can put in a dozen labels for a single batch, see how they sit on the glass, and come back for a bigger run once the recipe settles. A small order is printed and cut the same way a large one is.

Everything near you is genuinely near

The five closest places we also print for all sit within 2.7 miles, measured straight line: West Sayville at 1.6, North Great River at 2.2, Bohemia at 2.4, Sayville at 2.5 and East Islip at 2.7. That spacing changes a few practical things about how an order gets set up. Labels ordered from an Oakdale address are often handed on to somebody a ZIP code or two over, or made for two people who cook different things and share a table at the same market. The address on the order is simply the address you want the parcel to go to, so if the jars are filled in one place and the labels are wanted in another, put the second one in and nothing else about the order changes.

The rate per square inch, and where it steps down

Die-cut stickers are priced by area, so what a label costs follows its size and the size of the run. The rate is 35 cents a square inch 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.

Worked through with a real shape: a 3 by 3 inch sticker covers 9 square inches. Order 40 of them and the rate is 30 cents, which puts each label at $2.70 and the forty at $108.00. Order 50 instead and the rate steps down to 28 cents, so the same 3 by 3 inch sticker is $2.52 each and the fifty come to $126.00. The ten extra labels add $18.00 to the total and take 18 cents off every piece. That is worth doing on paper before you settle on a number, because the bands sit where they sit, and a run of 49 is priced at a different rate than a run of 50.

A label that fits the jar, not the other way round

Measure the flat panel you actually have before you pick a size. A straight sided jar gives you most of its face. A bottle with a shoulder gives you a narrower band than the label looks like it needs, and a squat jar often wants something wider than it is tall. Cap discs are usually ordered as their own small circle rather than stretched off the main label. Die cut means the sticker is cut to the outline of the artwork, not to a rectangle around it, so an oval, a hexagon, a shape that follows a drawn leaf or a bottle silhouette all cut the same way a square does. If the artwork has a border, keep it even on all four sides, because an uneven border is the thing people notice once the labels are on a shelf of identical jars.

What to send us

Artwork built at the size it will print, with a little room around the outside where the cut line falls, and any text pulled in from the edge rather than running up to it. If a shape is meant to be cut a particular way, draw that outline on its own layer and say so. If you are working from a hand drawn design, send a clean scan and we will tell you what needs redrawing before it can be cut. A proof goes back to you for approval, and nothing is cut until you have said yes to it.

Coming to get it, or having it sent

The shop is one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, and an Oakdale address sits 16.8 miles south east of it in a straight line. Both ends of that line are in Suffolk County. Local pickup is free if you would rather collect at the counter, and orders that are not collected go out to addresses within the United States.

Four reasons the same order turns up

The home producer with one product. One label, one size, a run somewhere in the low dozens, reordered whenever the batch is repeated. This is the most common version of the order, and the 25 to 49 band is usually where it lands.

The producer with four flavours. Same shape and size, four different names and colours. Each version is priced on its own area, and the pieces are all on one order, which is often what pushes a run across a band and brings the rate down.

The person leaving handwritten labels behind. Everything has been written by hand until now, and the jars have started going somewhere other than a neighbour's kitchen. Bring the handwriting with you if you like it. It can be scanned and cut as a shape rather than replaced.

The one-off batch. A wedding favour, a holiday gift run, a case of something bottled for one occasion. Small counts are fine, the 1 to 24 band exists for exactly this, and there is no obligation to order again.

Questions we get from this corner of the county

Can I collect an Oakdale order at the counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Pickup at the Huntington storefront is free, and it is the same order either way. Choose pickup at checkout and leave the shipping details alone.

I am in Oakdale and I need 40 labels. Is there any point going up to 50? On a 3 by 3 inch sticker, yes. Forty pieces price at 30 cents a square inch, $2.70 each and $108.00 in total. Fifty pieces price at 28 cents, $2.52 each and $126.00 in total. You get ten more labels for $18.00 and every label costs less.

I make two jar sizes. Can one Oakdale order carry both labels? Yes. Put both on the same order. Each label is priced on its own square inch area, and the rate band follows the total number of pieces on the order, so two sizes together can reach a band that neither would reach on its own.

I want to try 12 labels before committing to a full Oakdale run. Is that too small to place? No. Ten pieces clears the minimum on its own, so a dozen qualifies. The other way to qualify is $10 of merchandise, whichever of the two you reach first.

My jars are filled in Oakdale but the labels need to go to an address in West Sayville. Is that a problem? No. Enter the West Sayville address as the shipping address and the order follows it. Nothing about where the jars are filled is attached to the order, and the 1.6 miles between the two places makes no difference to the price.