Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Westbury, New York

How an order for 11590 gets routed

An order for Westbury is identified at checkout by its ZIP code, 11590, and that is the line we read first, because the ZIP settles the routing before the street name has to do any work. The order sits in Nassau County, and once 11590 is on the label there is no argument about which set of streets a box is headed toward.

This page is about custom die cut stickers: your shape, your artwork, cut to the outline you drew rather than trimmed to a rectangle. Everything is printed and cut at one storefront at 205 East Main Street in Huntington, New York, and an order for the 11590 area can either be shipped or picked up at that counter.

One name root, two separate addresses

The detail worth getting right before anything goes to print is the name itself. Old Westbury lies 2.4 miles away and shares a name root with its neighbour, so an address typed from memory can end up filed under the wrong one. Spoken aloud, both names get shortened to the same word.

We do not guess at it. The ZIP code decides. If a community group's roster mixes members from both, split the shipping lines by ZIP rather than by whatever name got written on the sign up sheet. The same applies to the other places we cover nearby: Carle Place at 1.3 miles, New Cassel at 1.4 miles, Uniondale at 2.8 miles and East Meadow at 2.8 miles. None of them inherits the routing of the address next to it.

What a run of event badges actually costs

Die cut stickers are priced by the square inch, and the rate per square inch falls as the count 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. The shape does not change the rate. A circle, a shield and a ragged outline all cost the same per square inch, so a committee can pick the outline it wants without the shape moving the number.

Where the quantity band is worth noticing

Take a 4 by 4 inch badge, which is 16 square inches. Ordered at 120 pieces the rate is 26 cents, so each badge is $4.16 and the run of 120 comes to $499.20. Push the same badge to 250 pieces and the rate drops to 24 cents, so each one is $3.84 and 250 of them is $960.00.

The extra badges beyond the first 120 work out cheaper per badge than the first 120 did, because the whole order reprices at the lower rate rather than only the pieces above the line. A count chosen to look modest can sit just under a band edge and cost more per badge than a slightly larger count would, so it is worth checking which side of 100, 250 or 500 you are standing on.

The order minimum, and what it is not

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. It is a threshold for placing an order, not a price floor. A short run of ten badges clears it on count alone, and a single larger piece can clear it on value alone.

Artwork and the line the cut follows

Send artwork at the size you want it cut. A die cut sticker is cut to the outline of the art, so that outline is a design decision rather than an afterthought. A badge with a thin tail, a narrow lettering spur or a hairline gap between two shapes will be cut around exactly that. We build a cut path from what you send and show it back before anything prints, so you can see where the cut falls and ask for it to be moved. Logos passed around a volunteer committee tend to arrive as whatever survived the last group chat, so send the largest, cleanest version anyone still has.

Getting the order to the group

Westbury is 13.3 miles south west of the shop in a straight line. That is the straight line figure and nothing more, not a route and not a measure of anything on the road. An order either goes out on a carrier within the United States or is picked up at the Huntington counter, with no shipping charge.

For the person organising a community event

You are ordering for a group that has not finalised its head count. Order to the count you can defend, not the count you hope for, and check the band edges first. The arithmetic above is the whole of it: there is no separate structure for group orders.

For the volunteer who inherited the design

You did not draw it and you cannot open the file it came in. Send what you have at the largest size you can find, tell us how big the badge should end up, and let the cut path proof catch the problems rather than trying to fix them yourself first.

For the treasurer signing off on the number

The line item is count times square inches times the band rate. Nothing else moves. A 16 square inch badge at 120 pieces is $499.20, and that figure does not change because of the shape, the number of colours or how many people end up attending.

For a group ordering more than one design

Each design is counted on its own for the band rate, so three badges of 40 pieces each price at the 25 to 49 band rather than pooling into one 120 piece band. If the designs can share one shape and differ only in printed detail, say so, because that usually lets the whole run sit in a single band.

Questions that come up on orders like these

Our group's mailing address is in Westbury but the event is being held in Carle Place. Which address should the order carry? Use the address where someone will be present to take the box. The ZIP on the label routes the order, so a venue address in a neighbouring place is fine as long as a named person is expecting it there.

We ordered 120 badges for a Westbury event and now want 250. Does the rate change on all of them? Yes. The band applies to the whole count, not just the pieces above 250. At 120 a 16 square inch badge is $4.16 each and $499.20 for the run. At 250 the rate falls to 24 cents, so the same badge is $3.84 each and $960.00 for 250.

Can a Westbury committee place an order for only 8 badges? Not on the count alone, since the minimum is 10 pieces. It can still qualify on value if the merchandise total reaches $10, which a larger badge at 8 pieces will usually do on its own.

The only version of our logo left in the Westbury group's files is a photo of a printed badge. Can you work from that? Often yes, though the cut path is the part that suffers. Send it along with a note about the finished size and we will show you the proposed outline before printing so you can judge it.

Instead of shipping, can a Westbury group send someone to the shop to pick the order up? Yes. Choose local pickup at checkout and no shipping is charged. We contact the person named on the order to arrange the handover at the Huntington counter.