Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Port Washington North, New York

Sixty stickers at 2 by 3 inches comes to $100.80, or $1.68 each. That is the whole of the sum: 6 square inches of printed area at 28 cents per square inch, which is the rate that applies from 50 to 99 pieces. What the figure buys is sixty labels cut to the outline you drew rather than trimmed square, printed in one run so the sixtieth matches the first. Carry the same 2 by 3 inch label up to 100 pieces and the rate steps down to 26 cents, which puts the sticker at $1.56 and the hundred at $156.00.

Where the rate breaks

Die-cut stickers are priced per square inch, and the rate falls as the count rises: 35 cents at 1 to 24 pieces, 30 at 25 to 49, 28 at 50 to 99, 26 at 100 to 249, 24 at 250 to 499, and 22 at 500. Area is area, so a wide squat label and a tall narrow one covering the same square inches land on the same price.

Two things follow. The band is set by the piece count on the order and not by the size of the sticker, so a small label crosses into a cheaper band at the same count as a large one. And the step between bands is worth a look before you commit: going from 60 pieces to 100 on that 2 by 3 inch label adds forty labels for $55.20 on top of the $100.80, because every piece reprices at 26 cents rather than only the extra forty.

There is an order minimum, and it is gentler than it sounds. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. It is not a floor on what you are allowed to spend.

Cut to the outline, not to a rectangle

A jar lid, a bottle shoulder and a squat tin all want different shapes, and a rectangle is rarely the right one. Die cutting means the cut path follows the shape in your file, so an oval for a bottle neck, a hexagon for a lid, or a label with a notch out of one side all cost the same as a plain rectangle of the same square inches. Price follows area, not complexity.

So you can size the label to the glass instead of the glass to the label. If a 2 by 3 inch rectangle overhangs the curve of a bottle, an oval of similar area solves it without moving you into another band.

Seven tenths of a mile

Port Washington North sits in Nassau County under ZIP code 11050, and its nearest neighbour, Manorhaven, is 0.7 miles away in a straight line. That is unusually tight. Most places on this site are two or three miles apart at least, and here two distinct addresses sit close enough that one order can serve both.

The rest of the ring is not much wider. Port Washington is 1.5 miles off, Kings Point 2.5, Flower Hill 2.8 and Sea Cliff 2.9, all straight line. Our shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington is 16.2 miles east of you, again straight line rather than by any road.

The tightness matters because of the arithmetic above. If you and someone working half a mile away both need labels, two separate runs of 60 sit at 28 cents apiece. Put them on one order and the combined count clears 100, so every piece prices at 26 cents, including yours. Two designs, two sizes, two names on the labels: the rate follows the total pieces, not the number of artworks.

Getting the artwork right the first time

Send the shape you want cut, not a description of it. A vector outline is cleanest, but a high resolution file with the cut path on its own layer works the same way. Leave a small margin of colour between your text and the cut edge so a slight shift does not clip a word, and give us the finished width and height in inches, because that is what the square inch price comes from.

If you print a batch code, a fill date or a net weight, leave that patch clear and we will print it blank for you to stamp. It costs nothing extra and it saves redrawing a design every time a detail moves.

Collecting or sending

Everything is printed and cut at the one Huntington address. Pickup there is free if you want to collect a Port Washington North order yourself, and we send orders to addresses in the United States if you would rather not.

If you bottle a sauce in your own kitchen

You are probably working in short runs while a recipe settles. The 25 to 49 band at 30 cents is built for exactly that, and there is nothing stopping you moving to 100 pieces once the recipe stops changing.

If you jar preserves for weekend markets

Seasonal fruit means several small designs rather than one large run. Remember the count is what sets the band, so four flavours at 25 jars each is one order of 100 pieces at 26 cents, not four orders at 30.

If you fill candle tins

A lid label and a side wrap are two different sizes, and both are priced by their own area. Ordering them together still counts them together for the band.

If you bottle cold brew or a syrup

Tall bottles usually want a narrow label, which keeps the square inch count down. A 2 by 3 inch rectangle is 6 square inches, and a narrower strip of the same height is less.

Questions that come up on orders out this way

Can I collect a Port Washington North order at the Huntington shop instead of having it sent? Yes. Pickup at 205 East Main Street is free, and it is the same order either way. Choose pickup at checkout and leave the shipping address off.

I need 60 labels this month and 100 next month for my Port Washington North kitchen. Does the second order get the 100 piece rate on its own? It does. Each order is banded on its own piece count, so the 60 prices at 28 cents and comes to $100.80, and the 100 prices at 26 cents and comes to $156.00. Nothing carries over between them.

A friend bottles in Manorhaven, 0.7 miles from me. Can we combine her labels with my Port Washington North order to reach a better band? Yes, and given how close the two are it is worth doing. The band counts total pieces on one order regardless of how many separate designs are on it. Two runs of 60 sit at 28 cents each, while the same 120 pieces on one order sit at 26.

Is 10 sample labels too small an order to send to Port Washington North? No. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so ten pieces is enough on its own. At that count the rate is 35 cents per square inch, which is the 1 to 24 band.

My bottles are curved, so the label is an oval rather than a rectangle. Does a Port Washington North order need anything different for that? Only the cut path. Draw the oval as the outline in your file and we cut to it. The price still comes from the square inches the oval covers, so a shaped label and a rectangle of the same area are the same money.