Packaging
Custom packaging boxes and cartons
Every box starts as a dieline drawn to your product’s real dimensions and the caliper of the board. Choose by construction, by material or by what you are packing — and you will hold a physical sample before we produce a single thousand.
By style
Choose by construction
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Mono cartons
Folding carton, tuck or glued — the standard retail secondary pack
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Rigid boxes
Wrapped greyboard, hand-assembled — premium, and a longer lead time
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Corrugated mailers
E or B flute, crash-lock or roll-end — built for transit
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Kraft boxes
Uncoated kraft board — natural finish, one or two spot colours
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Sleeve boxes
Printed sleeve over a tray — opens like a drawer
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Window boxes
Die-cut aperture with clear film patch — the product sells itself
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Tuck-end boxes
Straight or reverse tuck — the most economical folding carton
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Shopping bags
Laminated or kraft paper bags with rope or ribbon handles
By material
Choose by board
Board decides cost, print quality and how the pack survives handling — usually more than the artwork does.
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Duplex board
Coated white one side, grey reverse — the economical retail workhorse
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SBS / art card
White throughout, so it prints well inside and out
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Kraft board
Uncoated and natural — best with one or two spot colours
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Corrugated
E, B and F flute for anything that ships on its own
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Greyboard
The rigid core inside a wrapped box
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Laminated art paper
For bags that carry weight and resist moisture
By industry
Choose by what you are packing
- Pharmaceutical Cartons, inserts, outserts and labels printed to your approved artwork, with the version control,…
- Food & beverage Food-grade substrates and inks, grease-resistant options, and structural designs that survive delivery rather than…
- Cosmetics & personal care Rigid boxes, soft-touch lamination, foiling and embossing — the finishes that decide whether a…
- Retail & e-commerce Mailer boxes, branded shippers, tape, tags and inserts that make unboxing part of the…
- Corporate Company profiles, annual reports, catalogues, stationery systems and gifting programmes — printed to one…
How your job runs
Design, sampling, production
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01
Design
Nothing is cut until the dieline is right.
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Sampling
Nothing is printed until you approve the sample.
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Production
Nothing ships until QC signs the batch.
See detail of the Production stage
Free download
Dieline templates for every standard style
Print-ready templates with cut, crease and glue areas marked, drawn to real board caliper. Give them to your designer and the artwork will fit the box first time.
Questions
Questions about packaging
Anything not answered here, ask us directly — we would rather talk it through than have you guess.
Mono cartons and folding boxes, rigid and magnetic-closure boxes, corrugated mailers, kraft boxes, sleeve boxes, window boxes, tuck-end boxes and printed paper bags. Each is drawn to its own dieline for your product.
Function first. A folding carton ships flat and erects on a line. A rigid box feels premium but is hand-assembled and takes far longer. A corrugated mailer exists to survive a courier network. Tell us the product, the sales channel and the deadline and we will recommend the construction.
The flat engineering drawing of the box: cut lines, crease lines, glue flaps, bleed and safety margin. It is drawn to your product dimensions and to the caliper of the board, because board thickness changes the geometry. Free templates for standard styles are in our dieline library.
Duplex is the economical retail workhorse. SBS or art card is white throughout, so it prints better inside and out. Kraft is natural but mutes CMYK. Corrugated is for anything that ships on its own. Greyboard is the rigid core inside a wrapped box.
Yes. A structural mock-up is cut and creased in the actual production board on your actual dieline, so you can check product fit, rigidity and the opening action before anything is printed.
Yes — nationwide, and we produce export orders with packing specified for the destination market.
Send us your artwork. We’ll quote today.
Quantity, size, substrate, colours and finishing — with those five details most jobs are quoted the same working day.
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