Rigid setup boxes where we print your artwork on the wrap paper itself, so a photo or a pattern can run over the lid, down the sides and even inside. Matte, gloss or soft-touch on top. Then foil or spot UV or embossing if you want it, and we set up the artwork free and proof it digitally first.
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Plain black rigid boxes with a foil logo are everywhere now. Custom printed rigid boxes go the other way, with ink over the entire wrap, so your pattern can tumble over the lid edge and down the sides, or a product shot can sit on top like a book cover. We see a lot of fashion labels doing it. Beauty too, and tech accessories, and anyone building a launch kit for influencers.
What keeps people up at night? Cost, really. It’s a heavy box finished by hand and not cheap, so you want the print lined up and the color on brand and no cracks at the corners.
We don’t print on the board at all. We print a thin sheet of paper while it’s lying flat, then glue it round the chipboard and fold it over the edges and tuck it inside, which is how you get full-bleed photos and fine detail, and also (here’s the catch) why your file needs extra bleed, since the paper rolls over the top edge and about 15mm into the box, and if your image stops short there’s a white strip inside the rim staring at your customer.
Watch the corners. A dark solid color can crack a little right along the fold, so on dark designs we’d almost always put matte or soft-touch film on, it holds the ink together as the paper bends.
A few rules we pass on to every customer:
Our team sets up the dieline and lays out the files at no charge, and checks for low resolution images or RGB colors that will shift on press. Then you get a digital proof. A physical sample is available on request, and for printed rigid work it’s usually money well spent.
Because the wrap is already busy with print, finishes work best when each one has a single job. So maybe spot UV on just the logo, over matte print, or gold foil on the name and nothing else, or one raised bit of the pattern you can feel with a fingertip, but we’d honestly never pile all of them onto one lid. Too much. On custom printed rigid boxes with a dark, busy wrap, silver or gold foil usually reads better than spot UV, because shine on shine gets lost under shop lights.
If you’d rather go minimal, our luxury rigid boxes lean on colored paper and foil instead of full print. The wider rigid box range covers drawers, magnetic boxes and two-piece styles, and the custom rigid boxes page explains the structures side by side. For board, print methods and cost in general, the custom packaging guide goes deeper.
Most get very close, since we mix them from four process inks. If yours is make-or-break, send the Pantone number and grab a physical sample to check in daylight.
Usually a little, since the wrap paper goes through a printing step. On bigger runs the gap narrows, because the price per box drops as quantity goes up.
Sure thing. People put a pattern in the tray, a little note under the lid, care instructions, whatever you like.
Similar options include collapsible magnetic boxes, rigid drawer boxes, custom magnetic closure boxes and two piece rigid boxes. Browse all of them in luxury & rigid packaging boxes. For measurements, see how to choose rigid boxes.
