Auto-lock Bottom Gable Boxes.

The base flaps are pre-glued at our end, so the floor locks into shape as soon as the flat box is pushed open. The folded panels hook into each other and the whole base panel carries the load, where a tuck flap only holds by friction.

Nobody hand-folds a base at the bench. One motion squares the box and it's ready to fill, which counts for a lot when a counter is building hundreds of them during a busy lunch.

A gable box can fail at the handle or at the base, and strengthening only one of them moves the failure to the other. A heavy-duty handle over a tuck bottom lets the floor push open mid-carry. A locked floor under a thin handle cut invites tear-out at the peak.

So on this style we cut the reinforced handle die and the pre-glued base as a pair, and we'd advise ordering both together.

We'd move to the auto-lock floor once your filled weight gets close to two pounds. Glass bottles, a box of cupcakes and packed gift bundles all reach that point sooner than most people guess.

A tuck bottom often survives being lifted and set straight back down. The trouble starts when someone walks off with the box swinging from its handle, and the bouncing load pushes the tuck flap out.

We print CMYK on natural kraft or white coated board, and add a grease-resistant coating for food work. Kraft takes a bold one- or two-colour design well, and white coated board is the better base for photos and soft colours.

For bakery and catering orders we can also run a food-safe PE coating or a grease-proof liner inside, which keeps butter and frosting from bleeding through to the printed outside.

Give us the length, width and height of the box body, and say whether that height includes the handle. Two common sizes on this style are 6 x 3.5 x 7 inches and 10 x 5 x 9 inches, though we cut any size.

Measure the contents as they will actually be packed, including any tray or wrap, and allow some room at the shoulders where the roof panels fold inward. The dieline proof then lists body height and overall height together.

Yes, the run starts at 500 boxes. The pre-glued base does not raise that minimum, and the same tooling carries you up to 100,000 pieces if a single shop turns into several.

Dieline and artwork help costs nothing at any quantity, and finished boxes ship to any address in the USA.

A sample takes 5 to 7 business days, and the full run follows in 7 to 10 business days once you approve it. If a date is tight, rush production brings that down to 5 to 7 business days. The fee for the gable box sample is credited back once the full run is ordered.

Use the sample properly. Load it to your real weight, lift it by the handle and walk it around the room, since the motion is what makes a weak base give way.

Yes, we offer a compostable version on sugarcane board as well as recyclable kraft and coated stock. Plain kraft goes into the household paper bin without any trouble.

A PE food-safe coating keeps grease in check but can make recycling harder depending on the local facility. If disposal matters more to you than grease hold-out, ask us to sample the sugarcane board next to the coated kraft and compare them loaded.