Custom Die-Cut Stickers for West Hempstead, New York

Does it matter that West Hempstead and South Hempstead share half a name when I am typing my address into a sticker order? No. Every job we run is keyed to the street address on the order, not to the place name above it, so the two names sitting a short way apart in Nassau County never get confused for one another on our end. The name at the top of this page is here so you know the place is covered, and nothing more than that.

What usually arrives in our inbox from this corner of the county is a band's logo, or a label's mark, or a line of text from a song, drawn once and meant to be cut to its own outline rather than dropped onto a square. That is the shape of order this page is written around: merch stickers, a few dozen to a few hundred, printed and cut to the artwork's edge at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington.

Two names, one street address

The shared root between the two Hempstead names is the thing most likely to send a package sideways, and it is also the easiest thing to rule out. We hold no ZIP code on file for this page and do not need one: the address you enter at checkout is the address the order carries, digit for digit, including your own postal code.

The same logic covers the places sitting close by, all of which we serve. Garden City South is 1.2 miles off, Franklin Square and Lakeview are each 1.4 miles, Malverne is 1.8 miles, and South Hempstead is 1.9 miles, all straight line figures. If your drummer lives in one of them and your bass player in another, each of you can order to your own door.

What four square inches costs

Die-cut stickers here are priced by area, not by a menu of fixed sizes. You multiply width by height to get square inches, then multiply that by the rate for the quantity you are ordering. A 2 by 2 inch sticker, the size most bands land on for a merch table, is 4 square inches.

At 1 to 24 pieces the rate is 35 cents per square inch. So that 2 by 2 inch sticker is $1.40 each, and 24 of them come to $33.60. It is width times height times rate, and you can run the same arithmetic on any size before opening the order form.

The step at twenty five pieces

Here is the part worth knowing before you settle on a number. At 25 pieces the rate drops to 30 cents per square inch. The same 2 by 2 inch sticker becomes $1.20 each, and 25 of them come to $30.00. Ordering one more sticker than 24 costs you $3.60 less in total. It is not a trick and it is not a promotion, it is just where the band boundary falls.

The rest of the ladder runs the same way. The rate is 28 cents at 50 to 99 pieces, 26 cents at 100 to 249, 24 cents at 250 to 499, and 22 cents at 500. Every step down applies to the whole order, not only to the pieces above the line, so it is always worth checking whether you are sitting just under a boundary.

When an order qualifies

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. If you want eight large pieces for a table and the merchandise total clears $10, the order stands. If you want ten small ones and the total is under $10, the piece count carries it. You do not need to pad an order with designs you do not want in order to reach a number.

Artwork and the line we cut to

A die cut follows the outline of your artwork, which means the outline is a design decision and not an afterthought. A logo with thin spurs coming off it will be cut around those spurs. Most bands end up choosing a contour that sits slightly outside the mark, giving the shape a border that reads as part of the design. Keep any text in from the edge so the cut is not running through a letter, and send the art at the size you want it printed if you already know that size. If one mark is going across several designs, send it at the largest size you expect to use rather than a version already scaled down for something else.

Getting an order to you

You are 18.4 miles south west of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than a route. Two options follow from that. Local pickup at the storefront is free, and you collect the order at the counter at 205 East Main Street. Otherwise we ship anywhere in the United States, to the address on the form.

Four ways this usually starts

A band pressing a first run. You have one logo, no budget to speak of, and a show where you would rather hand something out than sell nothing. The 25 piece band is where most first runs land, because the arithmetic above makes 25 cheaper than 24.

A small label with a roster. You are ordering several designs at once, one per artist. Each design is its own order line with its own quantity, so the rate is worked out per design rather than pooled. If one artist warrants 100 and another warrants 25, price each accordingly.

A solo musician with a single mark. One design, one size, repeated. This is the simplest case and the one where the per square inch math is most useful, because you can decide the size and the quantity together instead of one after the other.

Someone running a merch table for other people. You are buying on behalf of a group and the pieces need to be kept separate. Order per design, label each clearly, and the packing follows the way you ordered.

Questions from West Hempstead customers

Can I collect a West Hempstead order at the Huntington counter instead of having it sent? Yes. Local pickup is free, and you collect at 205 East Main Street. Choose it at checkout and the order waits at the counter for you.

There is no ZIP code shown on your West Hempstead page. Do I need to supply one? Yes, your own, in the address field at checkout. We hold no postal code for this page by design, so the address you type is the only one the order uses.

My band is split between West Hempstead and Franklin Square, 1.4 miles apart. Can one order go to both? One order carries one destination address. Place two orders, or send the whole run to one door and split the box between you, whichever suits.

I want 25 stickers at 2 by 2 inches for a West Hempstead release. What is the total? $30.00. That is 4 square inches at the 30 cent rate, which is $1.20 each, times 25.

If I only need 8 pieces for a West Hempstead merch table, does the order still qualify? It does, provided the merchandise total reaches $10. The qualifier is 10 or more pieces or $10 of merchandise, whichever you hit first.