Custom Die-Cut Stickers for Selden, New York

Twenty five at $45.00, fifty at $84.00

Twenty five 2 by 3 inch die cut stickers come to $45.00, and fifty of the same sticker come to $84.00. The arithmetic behind both numbers is short. Die cut stickers here are priced from the finished size, and the price of each one steps down as the count goes up: on a 2 by 3 inch sticker 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. So twenty five pieces is $1.80 a sticker, and twenty five of those is $45.00. Fifty pieces crosses the next step, so the identical sticker is $1.68 each and the run is $84.00. What that buys is a label with its own outline, cut to the shape you drew rather than to a rectangle, printed and cut at our one shop at 205 East Main Street in Huntington.

A food business in Selden ordering container labels is not ordering a souvenir. The label goes on a lid, it carries a name and maybe a line about what is inside, and it gets handled by somebody whose hands are already full. That changes what matters in the file you send and in the count you pick.

Size is the lever, not the design

Because the price follows the finished size, the size of the label moves the bill more than anything else you decide. At fifty pieces a 2 by 3 inch label is $1.68, a 2 by 2 is $1.12 and a 3 by 3 is $2.52. The steps do not care which of those you choose, so the footprint is doing all the work. The design inside the outline does not change the number either. A label with one word on it and a label crowded with ingredients cost the same if they take up the same room. The first decision is how much lid you are willing to give up, and the second is how many you want on one order.

Two steps worth knowing about

Between twenty five and fifty pieces there is a difference of twelve cents a sticker on that 2 by 3 inch label. Doubling from twenty five to fifty does not double the bill: $45.00 becomes $84.00, not $90.00. The same shape repeats further up the ladder, so the count you put on a single order is worth a moment of thought. The price is read off the pieces on that order and nothing else.

Five neighbours inside a short radius

Selden has five nearby places we also cover, and all of them sit within 3.7 miles in a straight line. Centereach is 2.0 miles off, Farmingville 2.2, Coram 2.2, Terryville 2.7, and Port Jefferson Station 3.7. For a food business that has a practical edge to it. If you run one counter here and a second one a couple of miles away, the labels for both are one file, one order and one count, and that count sets your price. Splitting the same label across two orders puts each half at a higher figure. A hundred labels on one order sit at $1.56 each. Fifty and fifty sit at $1.68 each, twice.

The minimum, and why it is not a price floor

An order qualifies at 10 or more pieces, or at $10 of merchandise, whichever comes first. Those are two doors into the same room. Ten of a small label will usually clear the piece count before the dollar figure, and one large piece can clear the dollar figure well before ten of anything. It is a qualifying line, not a number you are charged up to. If your run works out to $45.00, you pay $45.00.

Sending the file, and where the cut goes

A die cut follows an outline, so the file needs to make that outline obvious. Vector artwork with the shape drawn as its own path is the cleanest version of this. A flat image with a clean edge against an empty background can also work. What causes trouble is artwork where the intended edge is a guess: a soft shadow, a gradient trailing off into nothing, a white shape sitting on white. Keep anything that has to be readable, a name or a line of text, back from the outline, because the cut can sit a fraction off the drawn line.

Getting the order to you

Selden lies 18.3 miles east of the shop, measured as a straight line rather than a route. Orders ship within the United States, and pickup at the counter is free if coming to us suits you better than having a box sent. Either way the price is the one you worked out from the size and the count.

Who these labels tend to be for

If you run a kitchen that sends food out in containers, the label is doing two jobs. It says whose food this is, and it tells whoever opens the bag which container is which. Two sizes of one design, a larger for a lid and a smaller for a cup, is a common pairing, and both can go on a single order.

If you cater and the packaging changes from job to job, a design that names no size or portion fits whatever containers a given job calls for. Let the label be the constant and let the packaging move around underneath it.

If you sell from a stall or a pop up, a Selden order for container labels is often a smaller one, and 25 to 49 pieces is where a good many of them land. $45.00 for twenty five of a 2 by 3 is the shape of that order.

If you are ordering for a second counter as well as your own, the pieces on one order set the price for all of them. One file, one count, one price, then split the box yourself.

Questions we get

Can a Selden order be picked up at the counter instead of shipped? Yes. Pickup is free, and it is the same run either way. Nothing about the sticker price changes.

If I put twenty five labels on one order and fifty on a second, does the first order count toward the better price on the second Selden order? No. The price is read off the pieces on a single order. Twenty five is $45.00 at $1.80 each, and a separate fifty is $84.00 at $1.68 each. For the lower figure, put all fifty on one order.

Does the 11784 ZIP code need anything special on a Selden shipment? No. Write the address as you normally would, with 11784 on it. Suffolk County does not need to appear anywhere on it.

My counter is closer to Centereach than to the middle of Selden. Does that change the pricing?

No. Centereach is 2.0 miles off, and Farmingville, Coram, Terryville and Port Jefferson Station are all within 3.7 miles. The price ladder is the same for all of them, and so is free pickup.

What is the smallest Selden order I can place if I only want to try one label design? Ten pieces, or $10 of merchandise, whichever you reach first. Ten of a 2 by 3 inch label is $2.10 each, which is a reasonable way to see a design on an actual container before you commit to a larger count at a lower price.