Packaging for what you actually sell

It changes real things. Food needs grease resistant coatings and food safe inks. Soap and bath products fight oils and moisture, so a coated stock outlasts an uncoated one. Candles are heavy and breakable, so the insert matters more than the print. CBD needs room on the panel for copy the law requires. The format may be the same, the spec is not.

Almost certainly. A box does not know what is inside it. The eleven listed are the ones we are asked for most, not the only ones we print for. Pet treats, hardware, stationery, coffee gear, all the same formats and the same prices.

Jewelry, then premium beauty and tech. In all three the box is genuinely part of the product and gets kept, so the cost per unit stops being the right measure. On a $15 product a rigid box is usually money that would have done more work as a better insert.

A printed mailer, in one size, in the biggest run your cash flow allows. Consistency is worth more than variety here, and the unit price on a repeat mailer at 1,000 is a very different business from the same box at 100. Keep the sleeve or a sticker as the thing that changes seasonally.

Yes. Supplement facts, ingredient lists, batch codes, QR codes, warning copy and barcodes all get laid out as part of the free design work. Send us the copy you are legally required to carry and we will make it fit without it swamping the brand.

Usually. Send us the box you are using now, or a photo with a ruler in it, and we will match the size. If you have the original dieline, even better. Matching a colour is closer to a good approximation than a copy, so tell us if a specific Pantone matters.

Usually one printed box and one plain one. A folding carton that works on a shelf travels fine inside a stock shipper, and a printed mailer that looks right on a doorstep looks lost on a shelf. Two custom runs is the expensive way to solve that, and it is rarely the right call on a first order.

The inks and coatings cost a little more and it is a small part of the total. What actually moves the price is the barrier you need: grease resistance for anything oily, a moisture barrier for anything going near a fridge. Tell us what touches the board and what temperature it lives at, because condensation changes the answer more than the recipe does.

A folding carton for the unit, a printed mailer for the shipper, and an insert wherever there is glass. Rigid tends to come later, with a gift set or a launch. The common first order mistake is buying rigid because it photographs well, then finding the freight on a small run of assembled boxes costs more than the boxes did.

We lay the copy out, we do not write it or approve it. Supplement facts, CBD panels, warnings and country of origin all get set properly as part of the free design work, at a size that stays legible. Whether the wording itself is compliant is your call or your lawyer’s, and we would rather draw that line plainly than let it blur.