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Sample pack

See it before you order.

Not sure how your brand will look on a box? Get a free sample pack. We’ll send you real printed board and finishes so you can see and feel the quality before you commit to a run.

It’s the cheapest way for both of us to find out that a box is an eighth of an inch too tight.

  • Feel the real thing

    Real printed board and finishes, flat in an envelope. Thickness and texture look nothing like they do on a screen.

  • Compare your options

    See kraft next to white, matte next to soft touch, so you can pick with confidence.

  • Picked for what you sell

    Tell us your product and we’ll build the pack around the boards and finishes that suit it, rather than a generic set.

  • The pack is free

    It ships for a flat $9.95, paid by an emailed invoice when we reply, and that comes off your first order. No card needed to ask for one.

Fields marked * are required. Two of them. We build a small pack around what you sell and email you a $9.95 shipping invoice, anywhere in the lower 48.

About you

Couriers ask for one.

We will ask where to send it next. Send this first, then create an account or sign in to save the address. That way it is already there for the next one.

What are you most likely to order?

Optional. It just helps us pick the right boards for your pack. Tell us more in the box below and we’ll build it around what you sell.

The pack is free and there is no card. Shipping is $9.95 flat, invoiced by email and credited on your first order, and we confirm it with you when we reply. We only use your address to send the pack and, if you save it, to fill in your next order. See our privacy policy.

The pack

Free

$9.95 flat, credited on your first order.

Arrives in

Under a week

Once shipping is arranged, to most addresses in the lower 48.

Commitment

None

No card, and no follow up sequence you did not ask for.

While you wait

Two things worth doing first

The pack answers what the board feels like. These answer the two questions that come straight after it, and both are free.

Check your product actually fits

Free dieline generator. Put in your dimensions, print at 100 percent, and fold the box out of paper before you order it.

Open the dieline tool →

Work out what a run will cost

Real prices by quantity, what pushes the number up, and the easiest places to spend less on a first order.

Read the cost guide →

Already know the size and quantity you want? Ask for a quote instead and we’ll send a price with a free design mockup, usually the same working day.

Straight answers

Questions about the sample pack

Everything people ask before sending an address to a company they have not bought from yet.

Ask us anything

Is the sample pack actually free?

The pack itself is free and asking for one takes no card. Shipping is a flat $9.95, which we invoice by email when we reply, and we take it off your first order if you go ahead. We send them because the fastest way to lose an order is somebody guessing at board thickness from a photograph and being disappointed.

Will the samples have my logo on them?

No. These are our own printed boxes, so you can judge the board, the print and the finishes. A printed sample of your own artwork means a real press setup, which is a paid one off. What you get before that is a digital proof, and it is free.

How long does the pack take to arrive?

We reply within a working day with the $9.95 shipping invoice, post it once that's paid, and most US addresses see it within a week of that. If you are up against a deadline, say so in the form and we will tell you honestly whether it will make it.

Can I ask for a specific board or finish?

Please do. There is a notes field on the form, and if you say you are packing a candle or a soap bar we will build the pack around the formats that suit it rather than a generic selection.

What happens after the samples arrive?

Nothing, unless you want it to. There is no sequence of follow up emails and no sales call. If you like what turned up, ask for a quote. If you do not, tell us why and it genuinely helps us.

Do you send samples outside the US?

Not at the moment. Our partners and our shipping are set up for the lower 48. If you are elsewhere, email us and we will tell you straight whether we can help yet.

What is actually in the pack?

A small set of printed board and finish samples, chosen around what you tell us you sell. The format chips on the form steer it, and if you tick nothing we pick a sensible selection. It all arrives flat, so it is a large envelope rather than a parcel, with a card saying what each board is and what it usually gets used for.

Is this the same board my order would be printed on?

Yes. Same board grades, same coatings, same print process. What a sample cannot tell you is whether your product fits, and that is what the free dieline tool is for: put in your dimensions, print the flat layout at full size and fold it up around the real thing.

Can I ask for more than one pack?

One per business as a rule, which keeps the pack free for the people who genuinely need one. If a co founder in another city needs to hold one too, say so in the notes and a second one goes out.

What should I look at when it arrives?

Three things. Press a thumbnail into the board and see how far it dents, because that is most of the difference between a box that arrives square and one that does not. Look at the print in daylight rather than under a warm bulb, which flatters everything. And fold a flat sample back up, because how easily it assembles is what your packing table lives with every day.