Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Smithtown, New York

Custom Die-Cut Stickers, Printed and Cut in Huntington

An order bound for Smithtown can be addressed with any one of six ZIP codes, 11725, 11745, 11754, 11755, 11768 or 11779, and the one printed on the label is what tells us exactly where the box is going. That is a wider spread than we see on most of the places we cover. Nothing about the price or the artwork changes across those six. The only thing that changes is the routing.

The shop itself is one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, where the printing and the cutting both happen. Orders either go out by mail inside the United States or get collected in person at the counter. Everything below is about the stickers.

Six ZIP codes under one name

Most of the communities we write pages for sit inside one or two postal codes. Six is unusual, and it has a practical consequence. Two customers can both give Smithtown as their address and still be a few miles apart, in different postal zones, with mail that sorts along different paths. When you are ordering merch for a band and the drummer's apartment is the shipping address while the bass player's parents' house is on the card, that difference stops being trivia.

Use the ZIP code that appears on the mail you actually receive at that address, not the one you think of as the area's default. All six are accepted, and we do not second-guess an address a customer has typed deliberately.

What pricing by the square inch actually means

Die-cut stickers here are priced by area rather than by a fixed menu of sizes. Multiply the width by the height in inches and you have the square inch figure. Multiply that by the rate for your quantity and you have the price of a single sticker.

The rate falls as the count goes up. At 1 to 24 pieces it is 35 cents per square inch. From 25 to 49 it is 30 cents. From 50 to 99 it is 28 cents. From 100 to 249 it is 26 cents. From 250 to 499 it is 24 cents. At 500 it is 22 cents.

Because the rate is tied to area, a logo the size of a guitar pick and a tour poster shrunk to palm size are not the same job, and the arithmetic says so before anyone argues about it.

Twenty-four pieces, and then twenty-five

A 2 by 3 inch sticker is 6 square inches. Order 24 of them and you are still in the 35 cent band, so each one is $2.10 and the run of 24 comes to $50.40. Order 25 and the rate drops to 30 cents, so the identical sticker is $1.80 and 25 of them is $45.00.

One more sticker, and the total falls by $5.40. That is simply what a quantity band does at its edge. If your count lands a piece or two short of a band, add the pieces rather than trimming them.

The point at which an order qualifies

There is a minimum, and it is not a price floor. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. If you want 10 small stickers that add up to less than $10, the piece count has carried you over the line. If you want a few larger ones that reach $10 with fewer than 10 pieces, the dollar figure has carried you over instead. Either route is fine, and you do not need to satisfy both.

Artwork, and the line the cutter follows

A die-cut sticker is cut to the outline of the art rather than to a rectangle, so the shape of your logo becomes the shape of the sticker. A wordmark with long descenders, a circle with a banner across it, a hand-drawn scrawl: each produces a different cut line, and that line is part of the design decision.

Think about the outline before you settle on the size. If the art has thin arms or isolated dots floating away from the main mass, those either sit inside a contour that holds them together or they become separate little pieces.

Ten miles east, and the places next door

Smithtown lies 10.3 miles east of the shop measured in a straight line, which is how every distance on this site is given. It is not a route and it is not a time.

Several places we also cover sit close by. Hauppauge is 2.2 miles away, Smithtown Pines 2.5, Nesconset 2.6, and St. James and Kings Park are both 3.3. All of it is Suffolk County, with Brookhaven as the township on record.

If you are a band printing a first run

You probably want one design, a modest count, and a number you can cover out of one night behind the merch table. Look hard at the 25 piece line. Crossing it costs a single extra sticker and moves the whole run into a lower rate.

If you run a small label with a roster

You are thinking about several artists rather than one release. Each design is its own run and sits in the band that its own count reaches, so four separate designs of 25 are four runs at 30 cents, not one run of 100 at 26. Knowing that before you split the budget tends to change how you split it.

If you are putting out a release on your own

A run does not need to be large to qualify. Ten pieces clears the minimum, and so does $10 of merchandise. If you want to see a design cut before committing to a bigger count, that small qualifying order is what the minimum was written for.

If you are restocking a table that sold out

Restocks are where area pricing shows its hand. The same design at a smaller size costs less at the same count, because it is fewer square inches. Taking half an inch off each dimension is a real lever on the total, so do the multiplication before you reorder at the old size out of habit.

Questions we hear

Does it matter which of the six Smithtown ZIP codes goes on my order?

No. All six are handled the same way and the price is identical across them. Use the code that matches the mail you receive at that address. The only thing it affects is how the package is routed.

Why does 25 stickers cost less than 24 on a Smithtown order?

Because 25 is the first piece count inside the 30 cent band. At 24 you are still paying 35 cents per square inch. On a 2 by 3 inch sticker that works out to $2.10 each and $50.40 for 24, against $1.80 each and $45.00 for 25.

Our run for a Smithtown address is only 10 pieces, is that enough to place the order?

Yes. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Ten pieces clears it on count alone, whatever the merchandise total works out to.

Can I collect a Smithtown order at the shop instead of having it sent?

Yes. Local pickup is free, and nothing about the order or the price changes if you choose it over mail.

We are closer to Hauppauge than to the middle of Smithtown, does that change anything?

No. Hauppauge is 2.2 miles from there and we cover it on the same terms. Use whichever name and ZIP code belong to the address the box should arrive at.