Kraft Tuck Top Boxes.

Unbleached kraft keeps its long fibres, and those make it stiffer and stronger at the same caliper. Bleached board gives up some of that strength, so kraft has a real structural edge on top of how it looks.

Recycled kraft has shorter fibres again. When a customer wants recycled kraft, we usually step the caliper up one grade to win the stiffness back.

Yes, full colour prints on kraft, but the brown shifts every ink. Colours come out warmer and more muted than on white, and there is no white at all unless we lay down a white underprint first. Photography loses a lot on this board.

One or two colours, bold marks and line work reproduce best. Earth tones, botanical drawings and strong typography look right on brown, while bright whites and neons are the ones to avoid.

Aqueous coating, deboss and hot foil are the finishes that suit an uncoated brown sheet. Foil on kraft gives some of the strongest contrast you can get on any carton. A deboss presses clean relief into the board and keeps the surface natural.

Lamination is available, but a plastic film over kraft works against a recyclability claim. If the natural board is the point of the box, we'd go with aqueous.

Kraft signals natural materials and a brand that prefers substance to polish. It works hardest for food, wellness, personal care and lifestyle brands, where that message helps the sale. The print limits of brown board now read as intentional to most shoppers.

White coated board still wins where the design depends on photography or bright colour. Kraft-back whiteface gives you a white print face with a brown reverse if you want some of both.

Every kraft tuck carton is made to order, so the size is whatever your product needs. Give us the inside length, width and depth, and allow a few millimetres of clearance so the product slides in easily.

Larger or heavier cartons call for a heavier caliper, and with recycled kraft we go one grade heavier again. The sample will show you whether the big panels stay flat once the box is filled.

Yes, recycled kraft board is available, with the recycled content stated. Recycled kraft is the other route if post-consumer content is the claim you want to make, and we can print a recycled content mark on the box to state it.

Tell us at quote stage which claim you plan to print, so the board we order matches the mark that ends up on the panel.

A kraft tuck order begins at 500 boxes. Kraft doesn't need a special production process, so the minimum matches our white tuck cartons, and orders can run up to 100,000.

If your range is still growing, we can hold the die after the first run, which means a reorder of the same size comes back without new tooling.

Sample first, because ink on brown board is hard to judge on a screen. A printed sample on the actual kraft takes 5 to 7 business days and shows you how each colour shifts. Production follows in 7 to 10 business days after approval.

If a launch date is tight, rush production takes 5 to 7 business days. Its cost is taken off the production bill once you order.