Custom Folding Boxes.

They're printed and glued as flat blanks and only become a box at your packing bench, so a pallet holds many times more units than the same boxes erected. That saving on freight and warehouse space is the reason the format took over retail packaging. A rigid box ships at full volume every time.

Collapsible rigid builds bring some of that flat logistics to the luxury end of the range.

The carton erects out of square, leaning into a rhomboid instead of standing with straight corners. Score lines do most of the work in a folding box, and a shallow or misplaced crease lets the board fold wherever it wants. On a shelf that shows as a row of boxes leaning the same way.

We match the crease tooling to the board caliper and check squareness on the first sheets off the press.

Choose a tuck bottom for light products and an auto-bottom once the weight would push a tuck open. A tuck bottom is cheaper and folds by hand. An auto-bottom is pre-glued, so it snaps into a locked floor in one squeeze and carries far more weight.

On a busy packing line the auto-bottom also saves seconds on every box, which adds up faster than the small difference in unit cost.

Every panel can be printed, including the flaps, the tucks and the inside, because the blank goes through the press flat. Buyers are often surprised by how many printable faces a simple carton has. Litho gives the sharpest carton print, with foil, embossing, spot UV and soft-touch lamination available on top.

Inside print needs a second pass, so we'd put it where the customer actually looks, such as the underside of the lid.

Keep them flat and dry, with nothing heavy stacked on top of the cases. Blanks often sit in a warehouse for months, and crushed or damp stock won't erect square later. A pallet left in a humid corner can pick up enough moisture to curl.

Leave the cartons in the shipping cases they arrived in until you need them, since those cases are the crush protection.

Give us the inside length, width and depth in that order, with length and width describing the opening. That's the standard carton convention, and it tells us which panels carry the tuck flaps. We add allowance for the board thickness when drawing the dieline.

Folding boxes are fully custom, so there's no stock size to squeeze into. We size to the product and any insert that goes with it.

We quote folding cartons from 500 units up, and a single order can go to 100,000. Litho carton print is efficient in volume, so the unit cost drops noticeably as quantity rises. Flat blanks also mean a large order doesn't need a large storeroom.

If you have several products in similar sizes, one shared structure with different print can bring the cost down further.

Standard turnaround is 7 to 10 business days after you sign off the proof, and a rush slot runs 5 to 7. Samples come back in 5 to 7 business days, which is the time to check squareness and the base with the product loaded. Free dieline help is included.

Your sample fee is credited back once the carton run is confirmed.