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I've been searching to get custom boxes with my logo and I I've gotten quotes of 1000$ + for 10 boxes (as I need them for a Kickstarter campaign) and intend to buy industrial quantities later. Does anyone know where to contact for small quantity custom boxes?
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Depending on the specs of your boxes, there are many different great options out there for custom printed boxes, at reasonable prices.
From my experience working with online retailers, here's some of the best that I've come across:
https://packlane.com/
https://pakible.com/
https://www.boxup.com/
https://packhelp.com/
https://www.companybox.com/
http://brandincolor.com/
Some specialty suppliers:
https://www.ecoenclose.com/ - eco-friendly
http://www.instabox.com/ - Canada
http://www.glbc.com/ - Canada + US
https://www.packqueen.com.au/ - Australia
Hope that helps and gives you some options to consider!
Custom packaging is an important part in building a great brand, so it's smart to be looking into this.
If you need any advice around creating an eCommerce brand and driving online retail sales, schedule a call with me and we can dig into it!
Depends where you are from. Check your nearest industrial areas where you can propose to them that you are seeing that you will be buying an X amount of boxes per year and see if they are willing to do a sample just for you to check.
Bana Boxes does good work.
They can print multi-color or black anything on boxes.
I tend to print on all 4 sides of box, in black, so only one plate is required + printing all 4 sides only increases box cost by 1 penny, usually.
As I recall, last time we did a plate change the cost was $400 USD/plate... so Black will by $400 + color will by $1600 ($400 for each of 4 plates required to print color).
After plate cost, a 12inch box will run around $0.60 when purchased by the palette, which will be between 1000-1200 boxes, depending on box size.
So Bana would be roughly $600 USD/1000 boxes.
A bit less than $1000/10 boxes.
817-919-3589 is their phone number.
You can PM me to visit about boxes. We ship product all over the world + have had to become box experts.
You'd think boxes are simple. What you ship + how boxes will be stored... well... there a many factors.
If this is your first rodeo (with boxes), feel free to be in touch.
Hi, you can get the most reasonable price from China. the total fee you should pay will include the fee for a diecut (if it will be a new layout) and material cost.
if your manufacturing base is also in China, you can directly send the boxes to your factory, otherwise you can ship them to any country out of China.
in both cases, the total cost shouldn't be that high.
Are you looking to have the box itself to be designed/customized or are you looking for the design ON the box to me customized? If you’re looking for the box itself to be designed I can most certainly help you out with that for a reasonable price. As far as manufacturing them, once we have the final design, we can find a manufacturing company for reasonable prices. If this sounds like something you might be interested in please let me know!
One can find many companies when looking for custom packaging boxes.
But picking the right service provider is complicated.
Things to consider:
>> Print & Paper Quality
>> Mini Order
>> On Time Delivery
>> Hidden/Delivery Charges
>> Service Support
>> Production Status etc
Most of the customers didn't find the difference between the actual printing company and a print broker. It's always good to have proper research on TrustPilot reviews, Website, and Google reviews.
These are the actual printing websites I had used before, and I am satisfied with the print quality & service both in US & Canada.
https://www.newprint.com/
http://moo.com/
https://www.newprint.ca/
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