Custom Pin Back Buttons for Westbury, New York

Carle Place sits 1.3 miles away, New Cassel 1.4 miles and Old Westbury 2.4 miles, three neighbours close enough to each other that a single order usually ends up covering people in more than one of them. Uniondale and East Meadow are both 2.8 miles out, near enough that a staff list for one workplace in 11590 quietly turns into a list covering several of the places around it. This page is for anyone in that cluster who needs a run of full colour pin back buttons, and in particular for the person handed an awareness month and asked to produce something colleagues will genuinely put on.

Two names with one root

The two names share a root, and in conversation people treat them as one thing. Old Westbury is its own place with its own listing on our site, and 11590 is not it. That matters less for a mailing label than it does for the button itself. Wording printed on a disc an inch and a half across has no room for a correction later, so decide early whether the button names a place at all. Plenty of workplace runs never do. A campaign ribbon, a slogan and a month is often the whole design, and it reads cleanly to anyone who picks it up regardless of which of the two names is on their driving licence. If you do want a place name on there, write it out exactly as your group says it aloud, and check the proof against that before you sign it off.

What an awareness month order actually costs

Here is a real worked example rather than a range. Forty of the 3 inch button at $2.49 each is $99.60 in buttons. Flat shipping for an order of that size is $9.99, so the order comes to $109.59 before tax. That is the whole arithmetic.

Forty is a useful number to think in because it covers a floor, a shift or a department with a few spares. If your headcount is larger, multiply the per button figure and add the shipping tier. Nothing else enters the sum.

Why the number per button never moves

The rate you pay depends on how many of that one size are on the order. The 1 inch is $1.49 each, the 1.25 inch is $1.69 each, the 1.5 inch is $1.89 each, the 2.25 inch is $1.99 each and the 3 inch is $2.49 each, and those figures are the same on a small order as on a large one. Nothing is hidden, so there is nothing to hunt for. There are three thresholds and they are printed above.

The one thing quantity does change is the flat shipping charge, which steps by total buttons on the order. Up to 100 buttons it is $9.99. Up to 250 it is $14.99. Up to 500 it is $19.99. Up to 1000 it is $24.99. The ladder is published rather than negotiated, so there is nothing to ask for: your count applies it. An order that lands one button above 100 pays $14.99 in shipping where an order of exactly 100 pays $9.99. If your final tally is hovering just above a line, it is worth a second look at the list before you submit it.

Distance plays no part in that figure. 11590 sits 13.3 miles south west of the shop, straight line, and the tier a Nassau County order pays is the same flat figure the count would earn anywhere else.

Picking between the five sizes

There are five round sizes and nothing else: 1 inch, 1.25 inch, 1.5 inch, 2.25 inch and 3 inch. The choice is mostly about how much the artwork asks a reader to do. The 1.5 inch carries a symbol, a ribbon or a few words, and it sits on a lapel without pulling the fabric. The 2.25 inch is the option most workplace runs land on, with room for a short line of text under a mark. The 3 inch gives you space for a logo plus a full sentence, and it is the size people read from across a room rather than across a desk. All five print full colour from artwork you upload, so a photograph, a hand drawn design and a corporate mark are equally at home.

Ordering for people spread across the neighbouring places

A workplace group rarely lives in one ZIP code. If some of your people are in Carle Place, some in New Cassel and some in Uniondale or East Meadow, the simplest approach is still one order with one count. Splitting a run across designs is free as long as the designs are the same size. Sort them into piles at your end, where you know who is who, rather than splitting the order at ours.

Getting the artwork to behave

Two things cause most of the back and forth on a workplace run. The first is text crowding the edge. A round button wraps a little of its face around the rim, so anything sitting at the boundary of your design can end up turning the corner. Keep wording and logos comfortably inside the edge and the front face stays as you laid it out. The second is contrast. Awareness colours are often pale, and pale text on a pale field that looked fine on a monitor can go quiet once it is printed at 1.5 inch. If you are unsure, step up a size or darken the type.

Four people who order these

The workplace organiser. You have a month, a colour, a list of names and a budget somebody will ask you to justify. Take the printed rate ladder, multiply by headcount, add the one shipping tier and you have a number you can defend in a sentence.

The person collecting money from a committee. The cost per head falls for a large group, because the band is set by the count of that one size. Nobody is subsidising anybody and no group has to grow before the price makes sense.

The one who inherited the artwork. Somebody in the office made the design last year and left. You have a file and no designer. Upload it, check the proof against what you remember, and pay attention to the edge and the contrast notes above.

The person ordering for two locations. If your group spans more than one site, keep it as one count for the shipping tier, then divide the box once it is in front of you.

Questions people in this area ask

Our Westbury office wants 40 of the 3 inch button. What does that come to? $99.60 for the buttons at $2.49 each, plus $9.99 flat shipping, so $109.59 before tax.

If our Westbury order doubles, does the price per button drop? No. Ninety of the 3 inch is $2.49 each and 250 of the same size is $1.87 each, because 250 lands in the 250 to 499 band. The only figure that can move is the shipping tier, and everything up to 100 buttons sits at $9.99.

The count for our Westbury awareness month has landed just over 100. What changes? Shipping steps from $9.99 to $14.99, since the tiers go by total buttons on the order. The per button price is unaffected. If you can trim back to 100 you stay in the lower tier.

We are ordering for people in Westbury and Carle Place. One order or two? One. A single order totals all the buttons for the shipping tier and carries one flat shipping charge, where two orders carry two. Separate them into groups after they arrive.

Can we mix the five sizes on one Westbury order? Yes. Each size is charged at its own rate, on its own count, $1.49, $1.69, $1.89, $1.99 or $2.49 each, and the combined button count is what sets the shipping tier.