Folding cartons for medicine and supplements, printed with your brand. Pill bottles, blister strips, syrups, ointment tubes, vials, we size the box to whatever you’ve got and pick tuck end or auto lock bottom to suit the weight. Plenty of clean panel space for dosage and barcodes, low minimums, free US ground shipping.
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A pill bottle, a blister strip, a syrup with a measuring cup, an ointment tube. Each one has a different shape and each one goes into a carton that carries a lot of very important small print. Custom medicine boxes are mostly about two things: a firm fit so the product doesn’t move, and a layout where the directions and warnings are easy to find and easy to read.
Our customers here include supplement brands, small pharmaceutical makers, compounding pharmacies, veterinary suppliers and medical device sellers. Most need several sizes in one family, all printed to match.
Start with the container. Tablets and capsules usually come in a round HDPE bottle or in blister strips. A bottle box is sized to the bottle with its cap, and a carton for blister strips is flat and wide. Syrups often go in with a dosing cup clipped over the cap, which adds height. Ointment and cream tubes need a long, slim box with enough length for the crimp at the end.
Our post on medicine box dimensions lists typical sizes for each of these. For small glass vials, see our vial boxes, which use a cut insert to keep each vial apart.
Most cartons on a pharmacy shelf? Reverse tuck end, where the top flap and bottom flap tuck in from opposite sides, and people pack them by hand pretty quick, so for light bottles and tubes we’d just stick with it. For heavier contents like a large syrup bottle or a pack of several bottles, an auto lock bottom box is better. The base snaps shut as you open the box, and it doesn’t pop open if someone picks it up by the top.
Material is usually SBS paperboard. It’s bright white, prints clean small text and folds without cracking. Corrugated is for the shipping cartons that hold dozens of retail boxes. Kraft suits natural supplements and herbal remedies going for a plainer look.
This is where a medicine box differs from a normal retail carton. There’s a lot of required text, and it has to be readable. Name and strength go on the front. Everything else (directions, warnings, ingredients, the barcode, a spot for lot and expiry) gets spread over the back and sides, and the wording itself should come from whoever handles regulatory stuff for you. We print what you supply exactly, and we check it fits without tiny fonts.
Leave a blank, uncoated patch for lot and expiry if you stamp or label those on the packing line. Ink jet codes don’t stick well to gloss lamination, which is a mistake we see more often than you’d think. Easy fix, go matte or leave that patch uncoated. And white space is your friend on these, cluttered medicine boxes just look untrustworthy. Inks are soy-based or water-based.
Our team sets up each dieline and lays out the artwork at no extra cost, and you’ll approve a digital proof before printing. A physical sample is available on request. Starting quantity is often around 50 boxes depending on the style, cheaper per box as you go up. After you approve, it’s 10 to 12 business days in production and then free ground shipping anywhere in the USA. For counter units see pharmaceutical display boxes, or browse all pharmaceutical packaging.
Yes. We leave an uncoated panel so your inkjet or label sticks properly on the packing line.
An auto lock bottom carton sized to the bottle plus the cup on its cap, so the base holds the weight.
Yes. We keep one layout and change the strength and color band for each version.
Plenty of customers order this alongside custom vial boxes, custom condom boxes, custom veterinary medicine boxes and custom face mask boxes. More styles are in pharmaceutical packaging, and medicine box dimensions covers the common sizes.
