Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Selden, New York

Twenty five at $45.00, fifty at $84.00

Twenty five 2 by 3 inch die cut stickers come to $45.00, and fifty of the same sticker come to $84.00. The arithmetic behind both numbers is short. A 2 by 3 inch sticker is 6 square inches. Die cut stickers here are priced per square inch, and the rate steps down as the count goes up: 35 cents 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. Twenty five pieces sit in the 30 cent band, so 6 square inches at 30 cents is $1.80 a sticker, and twenty five of those is $45.00. Fifty pieces cross into the 28 cent band, so the identical sticker is $1.68 each and the run is $84.00. What that buys is a label with its own outline, cut to the shape you drew rather than to a rectangle, printed and cut at our one shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington.

A food business in Selden ordering container labels is not ordering a souvenir. The label goes on a lid, it carries a name and maybe a line about what is inside, and it gets handled by somebody whose hands are already full. That changes what matters in the file you send and in the count you pick.

Size is the lever, not the design

Because the price is square inches at a rate, the size of the label moves the bill more than anything else you decide. A 2 by 3 inch label is 6 square inches. Trim it to 2 by 2 and it is 4 square inches. Stretch it to 3 by 3 and it is 9. The rate does not care which of those you choose, so the area is doing all the work. The design inside the outline does not change the number either. A label with one word on it and a label crowded with ingredients cost the same if they occupy the same area. The first decision is how much lid you are willing to give up, and the second is how many you want on one order.

Two bands worth knowing about

Between twenty five and fifty pieces there is a difference of two cents per square inch, which on a 6 square inch label is twelve cents a sticker. Doubling from twenty five to fifty does not double the bill: $45.00 becomes $84.00, not $90.00. The same shape repeats further up the table, so the count you put on a single order is worth a moment of thought. The rate is read off the pieces on that order and nothing else.

Five neighbours inside a short radius

Selden has five nearby places we also cover, and all of them sit within 3.7 miles in a straight line. Centereach is 2.0 miles off, Farmingville 2.2, Coram 2.2, Terryville 2.7, and Port Jefferson Station 3.7. For a food business that has a practical edge to it. If you run one counter here and a second one a couple of miles away, the labels for both are one file, one order and one count, and that count sets your rate. Splitting the same label across two orders puts each half in a smaller band. A hundred labels on one order sit at 26 cents a square inch. Fifty and fifty sit at 28 cents, twice.

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 doors into the same room. Ten of a small label will usually clear the piece count before the dollar figure, and one large piece can clear the dollar figure well before ten of anything. It is a qualifying line, not a number you are charged up to. If your run works out to $45.00, you pay $45.00.

Sending the file, and where the cut goes

A die cut follows an outline, so the file needs to make that outline obvious. Vector artwork with the shape drawn as its own path is the cleanest version of this. A flat image with a clean edge against an empty background can also work. What causes trouble is artwork where the intended edge is a guess: a soft shadow, a gradient trailing off into nothing, a white shape sitting on white. Keep anything that has to be readable, a name or a line of text, back from the outline, because the cut can sit a fraction off the drawn line.

Getting the order to you

Selden lies 18.3 miles east of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than a route. Orders ship within the United States, and pickup at the counter is free if coming to us suits you better than having a box sent. Either way the price is the one you worked out from the square inches and the band.

Who these labels tend to be for

If you run a kitchen that sends food out in containers, the label is doing two jobs. It says whose food this is, and it tells whoever opens the bag which container is which. Two sizes of one design, a larger for a lid and a smaller for a cup, is a common pairing, and both can go on a single order.

If you cater and the packaging changes from job to job, a design that names no size or portion fits whatever containers a given job calls for. Let the label be the constant and let the packaging move around underneath it.

If you sell from a stall or a pop up, a Selden order for container labels is often a smaller one, and the 25 to 49 band is where a good many of them land. $45.00 for twenty five of a 2 by 3 is the shape of that order.

If you are ordering for a second counter as well as your own, the pieces on one order set the rate for all of them. One file, one count, one rate, then split the box yourself.

Questions we get

Can a Selden order be picked up at the counter instead of shipped? Yes. Pickup is free, and it is the same run either way. Nothing about the sticker price changes.

If I put twenty five labels on one order and fifty on a second, does the first order count toward the better rate on the second Selden order? No. The rate is read off the pieces on a single order. Twenty five is $45.00 at 30 cents a square inch, and a separate fifty is $84.00 at 28 cents. For the 28 cent rate, put all fifty on one order.

Does the 11784 ZIP code need anything special on a Selden shipment? No. Write the address as you normally would, with 11784 on it. Suffolk County does not need to appear anywhere on it.

My counter is closer to Centereach than to the middle of Selden. Does that change the pricing?

No. Centereach is 2.0 miles off, and Farmingville, Coram, Terryville and Port

Jefferson Station are all within 3.7 miles. The square inch table is the same for all of them, and so is free pickup.

What is the smallest Selden order I can place if I only want to try one label design? Ten pieces, or $10 of merchandise, whichever you reach first. Ten of a 2 by 3 inch label falls in the 1 to 24 band at 35 cents a square inch, which is a reasonable way to see a design on an actual container before you commit to a larger count at a lower rate.