Custom die cut stickers for Shelter Island, New York

One hundred die cut stickers measuring 1.75 by 2.75 inches come to $125.12. That figure is not a package or a bundle. It is the result of one calculation: the sticker is 4.8125 square inches, the rate at a hundred pieces is 26 cents per square inch, so each piece is $1.25 and a hundred of them is $125.12. What that buys is a hundred identical decals cut to a shape you choose rather than trimmed to a rectangle, which for a small shop is usually a door set, a window set and a reserve held back in the drawer.

The rate moves with the count, not with the occasion

Die cut stickers here are priced per square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the quantity rises. It is 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. Because the price is built from area, the size of the piece matters as much as the number of them. A taller decal at the same count costs more than a short one, and a smaller decal ordered in quantity can land under a larger decal ordered in handfuls. You can work out any size and any count from those two figures.

The same decal at fifty and at a hundred

Take the same 1.75 by 2.75 inch piece, which is 4.8125 square inches. At 50 pieces the rate is 28 cents, which makes each one $1.35 and the fifty $67.38. At 100 pieces you cross into the next band, the rate becomes 26 cents, each piece is $1.25, and the hundred is $125.12. The per piece figure falls from $1.35 to $1.25 simply by crossing a line in the table. Check this before you settle on a count, because a shop that wants forty of something is often a few pieces away from a lower rate.

Where these are made, and how they reach you

Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in

Huntington. Shelter Island sits 56.6 miles east of that address in a straight line, which is a measurement on a map rather than a route. Orders ship within the United States, and pickup at the shop is free for anyone in Suffolk County who is coming west anyway.

Neighbours that sit closer than you might expect

The five nearest places we also cover are all within 9.8 miles: Southold at 5.3 miles, Noyack at 5.4 miles, Northwest Harbor at 6.8 miles, Cutchogue at 8.5 miles, and North Sea at 9.8 miles. That spread matters in a practical way. A Shelter Island shop with a second counter in any of them can use one artwork file and one cut line for both. Count is what sets the rate, so putting two addresses on one order often reaches a lower band than splitting them, and the finished pieces can still go out as separate parcels.

Laying out a decal that lives on glass

A die cut piece is cut along a path you define rather than a border we impose, which is why shopkeepers use them on glass instead of a square label. Send the mark as vector artwork if you have it, and say whether the cut should hug the outline of the logo or hold an even margin around it, because those two produce very different objects at small sizes. Fine interior detail, thin counters inside letters and hairline strokes all behave differently once a piece is only a couple of inches across, so a simplified version of a mark often reads better on a door than the full version. A proof shows the cut path drawn on the art, and you approve the shape as well as the design.

What makes an order an order

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. That is a qualifying threshold rather than a price floor, so a small number of larger pieces can meet it on value even when the count is under ten, and a run of very small pieces meets it on count. Nothing is rounded up to a minimum spend.

Four people who order the same thing for different reasons

The shopkeeper with one front door usually wants two pieces of the same mark, one facing out and one facing in, plus a phone number on a separate smaller decal. That is a short count at a high rate, and the case most likely to be worth adding spares to.

The owner adding a second storefront wants everything matched. One artwork file, one cut line, one order, two destinations. This is where the combined count pays for itself, because the second address does not start a second price band.

The shop that has changed its logo is replacing decals that already exist. Send the dimensions of the old piece if you have them, because matching the footprint means the new decal sits where the old one sat and the window does not need rethinking.

The trader working out of a van wants the same mark at two sizes, a larger one for the side panels and a small one for the rear glass. Two sizes means two area calculations, but the piece count is added together for the purpose of the rate band.

Questions we are asked about ordering here

If I order 50 of the 1.75 by 2.75 inch decals for a Shelter Island shop and later want 100, do I pay the same rate?

No. Fifty pieces falls in the 50 to 99 band at 28 cents per square inch, which is $1.35 each and $67.38 for the fifty. One hundred pieces falls in the 100 to 249 band at 26 cents, which is $1.25 each and $125.12 for the hundred. The later order is priced on its own count, not on the earlier one.

My Shelter Island address is in 11964 and a friend's shop is in 11965. Which should go on the order?

Whichever one belongs to the address the parcel is going to. Both ZIP codes are covered and neither changes the price of anything, since the rate is set by area and count alone.

Does a Shelter Island order for six door decals qualify, or do I have to reach ten pieces?

Either route works. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so six larger pieces can clear the threshold on merchandise value without reaching a count of ten.

I run a shop on Shelter Island and one in Southold. Can both sets come from a single order?

Yes, and it is usually the better way to do it. The full count sets the rate, so the two sets together may reach a lower band than either would alone. Tell us the split and the destinations go out as separate parcels.

Can you cut a Shelter Island shop's decal to the outline of its logo instead of a rectangle?

That is what die cutting is for. Send vector artwork and tell us whether the cut should follow the logo exactly or hold an even margin around it. The proof shows the cut path before anything is cut, so you can see the finished outline first.