Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Searingtown, New York

A home producer filling jars at a kitchen counter usually has the hard part finished and the labelling part still wide open: the recipe is settled, the batch is done, the lids are on, and the front of every jar is blank. That is the order this page is written for, a run of die-cut labels for jars and bottles, printed and cut to a shape you choose, in a quantity sized to a batch rather than a warehouse.

Labels like that sit in an awkward spot. They are too particular for a sheet of blanks out of a stationery aisle, and the run is too short for a converter who wants to talk in thousands. A die-cut order fills the gap, because the price is worked out per square inch rather than per plate.

A Mile and a Half of Neighbours

What stands out here, once you start mapping the orders, is how tightly packed the surrounding places are. Albertson is 0.7 miles away, which is unusually close for two named places. Herricks is 1.0 miles. North Hills is 1.1. Williston Park is 1.3, and Roslyn Heights is 1.4. Five places we cover sit inside a mile and a half, so a batch of jars handed around to friends and family can cross several of them without anyone going far.

That matters practically rather than sentimentally. If you are splitting a run between your own shelf and a couple of households nearby, you are still placing one order, and one order is what the quantity bands reward. Our own counter is further off. Searingtown lies 15.8 miles south west of the shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, measured as a straight line on a map, not as a route.

How the Per Square Inch Rate Works

Every die-cut sticker is priced on its own area, and the rate per square inch falls as the piece count climbs. At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents per square inch. At 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. At 50 to 99 it is 28 cents. At 100 to 249 it is 26 cents. At 250 to 499 it is 24 cents, and at 500 it is 22 cents.

Two things follow. A physically smaller label is cheaper for a direct reason rather than a promotional one: there is less area to pay for, and shaving half an inch off the width changes the square inch count on every piece in the run. And the band boundaries are worth checking before you settle on a number, since the rate that applies is the one for the band your total piece count lands in.

A Two Inch Square, Priced Twice

The clearest way to show the bands is to price one label at two counts. Take a 2 by 2 inch label, which is 4 square inches of area.

Order 16 of them and the count sits in the 1 to 24 band, so the rate is 35 cents per square inch. That works out to $1.40 each, and $22.40 for all 16.

Order 25 of the identical label and the count crosses into the next band, where the rate is 30 cents. The same 2 by 2 inch label is now $1.20 each, and 25 of them come to $30.00.

Nine extra labels, and the total rises by $7.60 while the unit price drops by 20 cents. If you were already thinking about 16, that arithmetic is worth a second look, because the jars you have not filled yet tend to turn up anyway.

The Minimum, and Why It Is Not a Price Floor

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 to walk through one of them.

That matters most for small labels. A narrow strip for the neck of a bottle may not add up to much money at ten pieces, and that is fine, because ten pieces is enough on its own. Going the other way, a few large labels can clear $10 of merchandise before reaching ten pieces, which is equally fine. The minimum is a threshold for placing the order, not a figure you are charged up to.

Shape, Bleed and the Curve of a Jar

Die-cut means the sticker is cut to the outline of your artwork rather than left as a rectangle on a square backing. For a jar label that opens up a rounded lozenge following the shoulder of the jar, a shape with a notch cut out of it, or a badge outline echoing something in the design.

A few constraints are worth knowing before you draw. Very thin projecting spurs are fragile to handle, and deep interior notches are fiddly to line up squarely on a curved surface. The wider a flat label is relative to the diameter of the jar, the more it wants to lift at the edges when it is wrapped, so a taller and narrower shape generally seats on a small jar better than a wide short one.

Leave a little bleed past your intended cut line, and keep text and fine rule work in from the edge rather than running up to it.

Four Ways This Order Usually Arrives

If you are putting up preserves in identical small jars, the same label repeated across the whole batch is the straightforward case. One artwork, one shape, one size, and the piece count is simply how many jars you filled.

If you are bottling syrups or infusions in mixed glassware, you may want two sizes of the same design, one for the tall bottles and one for the squat ones. Different sizes are priced on their own square inch counts, but they still add into one piece total for the band.

If the batch is going out as gifts to different households, a blank panel in the design leaves you somewhere to write a name by hand rather than paying for a separate artwork per recipient.

If you have been cutting a printed sheet by hand until now, bring over the artwork, not the trim marks. Send the design, name the finished size, and the outline gets cut for you.

Questions We Get

Can I collect a Searingtown order in person instead of having it sent to me?

Yes. Local pickup at our Huntington counter is free and open to anyone willing to come to the shop for it. Choose pickup at checkout instead of a shipping method.

My jars take a 2 by 2 inch label. What do 25 of those cost on a Searingtown order?

At 25 pieces the rate is 30 cents per square inch, and a 2 by 2 inch label is 4 square inches, so it is $1.20 each and $30.00 for the 25.

How should a Searingtown order be addressed, given there is no ZIP code on file for it here?

Use the street address exactly as you would write it on any piece of mail, ZIP code included. Nothing about the address is entered differently at checkout.

I am also labelling jars for someone in Albertson. Can that go on the same Searingtown order?

It can, and it usually should. The rate is set by the total piece count on the order, so combining the two runs may move you into a lower band than either would reach alone.

Does an order of 16 labels for Searingtown clear the minimum?

Comfortably, and twice over. Sixteen pieces is above the ten piece threshold, and at the 2 by 2 inch size that order is $22.40, which is also above the $10 of merchandise threshold.