Custom Retail Paper Boxes
Branding and visibility are everything in today’s hyper-competitive and crowded marketplace. Whether you retail online, offline, or both, you need to make your brand memorable, your products eye-catching, and your storage and packaging solutions economical. Our retail paper boxes are the solution. Not only that, but we guarantee to offer you the best prices on retail packaging solutions that you’ll find anywhere.
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Custom Retail Paper Box Styles
Choose from these eight different styles of retail paper boxes.
We make these tuck end boxes with a front face, a back, two side panels, and openings at both ends. The openings close with flaps which fold over one another and “tuck in”.
As the straight tuck end box, but with the addition of a handy hang tab which allows the boxes to be hung up or suspended on a suitable stand, hook, or other display system. Functional and attractive, these boxes are very popular in several retail contexts.
The bottom of this box style is designed to automatically fold and close for rapid assembly. The lid is hinged and folds to tuck in on one side of the top of the box. Flat-packed for shipping and needing no special skills or equipment to assemble, these are a very effective and economical packaging solution.
Seal end boxes, as their name suggests, have sealable, sticky flaps for extra security. Otherwise, they are very similar to other tuck end boxes. The high-security closure makes them especially popular in the pharmaceutical and food industries, for example, although they have a wide range of uses.
Bag boxes fold up like a packet tapering to a top-end handle for easy carrying. Our bag boxes are very popular with food, cosmetics, gift, and other retailers. They’re cost-effective, handy, and good-looking. They can also be flat-packed for transit.
Gable top boxes with an auto bottom are widely used in the food and catering industries as well as making beautiful gift boxes, for example. The complex folds—which need hand assembly—result in a robust carrier box complete with a handle above the top of the box. Despite the complexity of the design, they’re easy to put together and can be stored and transported flat.
Box sleeves, also called “wraps” and “belly bands” are a simple but highly-effective solution to branding and upgrading your basic packaging without the investment of a fully customized box. A single sheet of printed paper, made to measure, that wraps around all or part of your product or product package, they add instant appeal and attraction to any item.
A one-piece box—as the name implies—is a box that builds up from a single piece, usually with a hinged lid which folds over the top of the box and with two sets of flaps which tuck in to secure the lid in position. These are great, versatile little boxes and because they’re printed and cut in a single sheet, inexpensive to produce.
Custom Retail Paper Box Prices
Typical retail box prices are shown in the chart below. For an exact price specific to your project, get in touch by telephone, email, Skype, or our online contact form.
Custom Retail Paper Box Prices Chart (Tuck End with Hang Tab Box)
All prices listed in USD
| Quantity | 500pcs | 1000pcs | 2000pcs | 5000pcs | 7000pcs | 9000pcs | ||||||
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- Please note that all prices are EXW our facility and do not include shipping costs.
- 350 gsm C1S paper, gloss lamination, full color printing
Custom Retail Paper Box Materials
We can make retail paper boxes in a wide variety of different materials to suit your needs:
C1S paper—this has a protective layer of gloss or matte coating on one side
Brown kraft paper—made from chemical pulp, this paper is tough, resistant, and durable
Black kraft paper—same as above, but black, with a slick, professional look
Corrugated paper—a robust solution with two or more layers filled with fluted inserts
Colored paperboard—paperboard in a variety of attractive colors and shades
Soft-touch paper—this has a scuff-resistant, velvety coating
Textured paper—attractive paper with a textile-like finish
These are great choices for retail boxes. They’re high-quality stocks with excellent properties for print, durability, and precision cutting — all important factors for making an effective retail box.
Retail Paper Box Printing Options
At QinPrinting, we use eco-friendly soy ink for colors of unmatched brightness and vibrancy. Box printing options are:
CMYK offset printing — which uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black to create the whole spectrum, and is the most cost-effective, popular, and practical solution for most retail box color printing needs.
Pantone color printing—also a form of offset printing, but used to obtain 100% faithfulness in color reproduction. A little more expensive than CMYK.
Silk printing—not suitable for photographs but ideal for printing logos, text, and simple graphics on black or colored paper.
Custom Retail Paper Box Special Finishes
We print all our retail paper boxes with your custom branding, logo, product images and information, and so on. But we can customize them further with a range of specialized techniques.
Gloss lamination adds a shiny, smooth look that elevates the vibrancy and color of your carton’s printed surface.
Matte lamination gives your boxes a charming, more subtle finish than gloss. It also tends to soften the colors on your printed surface, which can be the perfect effect for certain products.
Soft touch lamination is a relatively new technique. The result is similar to matte lamination, but the surface has a delightful, almost velvet feel which speaks of quality and luxury.
Varnishing your carton adds a transparent, tough, protective surface. It looks great and is a good option for boxes that will be in storage for longer periods or spend more time in transit.
Foil stamping adds a metallic effect to lettering or other design elements. Gold, silver and bronze are the most popular choices, but we can use pigments to create a foil stamp in almost any color you’d like.
Embossing is a process by which we raise the surface of an area of the box to make it literally stand out.
Like embossing, only the surface is pressed inward to creative a concave impression rather than standing out.
Rather than coating the whole box, you can highlight a specific area with spot UV. We apply a clear polymer coat to the specified area — which could be a product name, a logo, or an image — which really makes it “pop” and catch the eye. Suitable only for surfaces treated with matte or soft-touch lamination.
This is state-of-the-art technology. Using lasers, we can adhere and build metal foil on the surface of your box, creating a stunning, metallic effect on lettering, logos, or other design elements — or even the whole box!
Retail Paper Box Design Tips and Templates
We strongly recommend that you ask us for our pre-made box design template to make the process easier and more reliable. It’s completely free.
Export your files as vectors in PDF format for the best results. Our recommended software option for box design is Adobe Illustrator. Convert your color space from RGB to CMYK.
If you can’t deliver vectors — say, if you’re exporting bitmaps from Photoshop — then make sure the resolution of all graphics is at least 300 DPI. With vectors, you needn’t worry about resolution, but all other images must have a high definition to tolerate resizing without becoming fuzzy and “pixilated”. All images must be embedded and correctly sized.
You’ll need to add a “bleed zone” of 3 mm around all your dielines—the limits at which your box will be cut. A bleed is an extended zone at the periphery of your photo, artwork, or other image, which falls outside the area that your finished panel will cover. Once we’ve printed your cartons, we’ll cut them to the exact size needed for your chosen format. This “bit extra” gets cut off and makes sure that the finished image fills the sheet with none of it being lost.
If you’ve chosen special finishes such as foil stamping, spot UV, or embossing and debossing, you’ll need to create separate layers for each process as they are done separately to printing.
To learn more about preparing your artwork and layouts for printing, please check out our Prepress Artwork information page.
Our Environmental Commitment
We actively encourage reuse and recycling of all our products. We can use recycled or FSC-certified materials on request. FSC-certified means materials from responsibly managed, sustainable forests.
Let’s Talk!
If you’re ready to explore your options for creating retail boxes at a price to suit your budget, we should talk. Get in touch to discuss your needs or ask us for a no-obligation quote.