Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Port Washington North, New York

Sixty stickers at 2 by 3 inches comes to $100.80, or $1.68 each. That is the whole of the sum: one size, one count, one price each. What the figure buys is sixty labels cut to the outline you drew rather than trimmed square, printed in one run so the sixtieth matches the first. Carry the same 2 by 3 inch label up to 100 pieces and the price steps down, which puts the sticker at $1.56 and the hundred at $156.00.

Where the price breaks

Die-cut stickers are priced from the finished size, and the price of each one falls as the count rises. On that 2 by 3 inch label it is $2.10 at 1 to 24 pieces, $1.80 at 25 to 49, $1.68 at 50 to 99, $1.56 at 100 to 249, $1.44 at 250 to 499, and $1.32 at 500. A footprint is a footprint, so a wide squat label and a tall narrow one that take up the same room land on the same price.

Two things follow. The step is set by the piece count and not by the size of the sticker, so a small label crosses to a cheaper step at the same count as a large one. And the gap between steps is worth a look before you commit: going from 60 pieces to 100 on that 2 by 3 inch label adds forty labels for $55.20 on top of the $100.80, because every piece reprices rather than only the extra forty.

There is an order minimum, and it is gentler than it sounds. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever it reaches first. It is not a floor on what you are allowed to spend.

Cut to the outline, not to a rectangle

A jar lid, a bottle shoulder and a squat tin all want different shapes, and a rectangle is rarely the right one. Die cutting means the cut path follows the shape in your file, so an oval for a bottle neck, a hexagon for a lid, or a label with a notch out of one side all cost the same as a plain rectangle that takes up the same room. Price follows the footprint, not the complexity.

So you can size the label to the glass instead of the glass to the label. If a 2 by 3 inch rectangle overhangs the curve of a bottle, an oval of similar size solves it without changing the price.

Seven tenths of a mile

Port Washington North sits in Nassau County under ZIP code 11050, and its nearest neighbour, Manorhaven, is 0.7 miles away in a straight line. That is unusually tight. Most places on this site are two or three miles apart at least, and here two distinct addresses sit close enough that one order can serve both.

The rest of the ring is not much wider. Port Washington is 1.5 miles off, Kings Point 2.5, Flower Hill 2.8 and Sea Cliff 2.9, all straight line. Our shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington is 16.2 miles east of you, again straight line rather than by any road.

The tightness matters because of the arithmetic above. If you and someone working half a mile away both need labels, two separate runs of 60 sit at $1.68 apiece. Put the whole count behind one label and 120 pieces prices at $1.56, including yours. A design is priced on the number of pieces you take of it, so the one you share is the one that reaches the better figure.

Getting the artwork right the first time

Send the shape you want cut, not a description of it. A vector outline is cleanest, but a high resolution file with the cut path on its own layer works the same way. Leave a small margin of colour between your text and the cut edge so a slight shift does not clip a word, and give us the finished width and height in inches, because that is what the price comes from.

If you print a batch code, a fill date or a net weight, leave that patch clear and we will print it blank for you to stamp. It costs nothing extra and it saves redrawing a design every time a detail moves.

Collecting or sending

Everything is printed and cut at the one Huntington address. Pickup there is free if you want to collect a Port Washington North order yourself, and we send orders to addresses in the United States if you would rather not.

If you bottle a sauce in your own kitchen

You are probably working in short runs while a recipe settles. A run of 25 to 49 at $1.80 a label is built for exactly that, and there is nothing stopping you moving to 100 pieces once the recipe stops changing.

If you jar preserves for weekend markets

Seasonal fruit means several small designs rather than one large run. Remember the count is read per design, so four flavours at 25 jars each are four runs of 25 at $1.80 a label rather than one run of 100 at $1.56.

If you fill candle tins

A lid label and a side wrap are two different sizes, and both are priced on their own dimensions and their own counts. They can still travel on one order.

If you bottle cold brew or a syrup

Tall bottles usually want a narrow label, which keeps the price per piece down. A narrower strip of the same height costs less than the 2 by 3 inch rectangle does.

Questions that come up on orders out this way

Can I collect a Port Washington North order at the Huntington shop instead of having it sent? Yes. Pickup at 205 East Main Street is free, and it is the same order either way. Choose pickup at checkout and leave the shipping address off.

I need 60 labels this month and 100 next month for my Port Washington North kitchen. Does the second order get the 100 piece price on its own? It does. Each order is priced on its own piece count, so the 60 comes to $100.80 and the 100 comes to $156.00. Nothing carries over between them.

A friend bottles in Manorhaven, 0.7 miles from me. Can we combine her labels with my Port Washington North order to reach a better price? Yes, if you can share one label between you. The count is read per design, so two runs of 60 sit at $1.68 each, while 120 pieces of a single label sit at $1.56.

Is 10 sample labels too small an order to send to Port Washington North? No. An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first, so ten pieces is enough on its own. At that count a 2 by 3 inch label is $2.10 each, which is the top of the ladder.

My bottles are curved, so the label is an oval rather than a rectangle. Does a Port Washington North order need anything different for that? Only the cut path. Draw the oval as the outline in your file and we cut to it. The price still comes from the box the oval sits inside, so a shaped label and a rectangle of the same size are the same money.