Boxes for blank 510 carts that go out to brands and labs and dispensaries, one at a time, in 5 packs, or by the tray. We use paperboard or kraft, plus a die-cut insert that keeps each cart standing so tips don’t snap and the glass stays clean till it’s filled.
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Empty carts are fiddly little things. You’ve got the tank (glass or plastic), a metal base, the ceramic coil, and a mouthpiece that half the time ships on its own, and if you just dump a hundred of them in a bag you open it to scratched glass and bent threads and loose tips rolling around at the bottom. Not ideal. Empty vape cartridge packaging keeps every cart apart and standing up, with a label on it, all the way from the supplier’s bench to whoever’s filling them.
We see two types of buyer. Hardware suppliers selling blank carts to brands and labs mostly want plain and tidy, SKU and capacity on the side, done. Then there are brands selling empties straight to the end customer, and they want it closer to a retail box with a logo and maybe a window. We do both. Really the only difference is the print and how the insert is laid out.
It’s the insert that matters. We make a paperboard tray with a row of holes that grabs each cart by its base, so the tank floats off the bottom of the box and never touches the one next to it. Tips already on? Then the box gets tall enough that the mouthpiece clears the lid. Shipping them loose? We add a little side pocket and they all go in there.
Small brands usually do singles or 5 and 10 packs, wholesale goes to trays of 50 or 100. And check your capacity. A half ml and a full 1ml cart look almost the same until you stand them side by side and the 1ml is clearly taller, so we’d measure your exact model before the dieline gets made.
For singles and small packs we’d nearly always say SBS paperboard. Bright white, crisp print, and that matters when you’re fitting tiny text like coil type and thread size on a box the size of a lighter. Kraft? It’s plainer, more natural looking, and honestly perfect for bulk hardware boxes where you’re barely printing anything.
Wholesale orders go one step further, the small boxes ride inside a corrugated outer. Glass in a fitted insert handles a short drop okay. A heavy carton landing on its corner off a loading dock is a whole other story, and that’s what our vape accessories shipping boxes are for.
Most of what you print here is just info. Model, capacity and coil, the intake hole size, thread type. Then a batch number and a barcode. If your batch numbers change every week, don’t reprint boxes each time, leave a blank spot for a sticker (way cheaper).
Retail-facing? Cut a small window over the cart so buyers can see the tank and tip style. Matte hides fingerprints. A little foil on the logo is nice if you want it. There are more styles in vape boxes and packaging, or compare with our filled vape cartridge packaging. First custom order ever? Our guide to ordering with a low MOQ walks you through how small runs work.
It can, if we size for the taller 1ml. The half ml carts just sit low and look a bit lost in there, so if you sell lots of both, two heights is cleaner.
Plenty of suppliers send tips separately so the filler caps them after. If that’s you, we put a side pocket in the insert for them.
Not many. Often around 50 boxes depending on the style, and the price per box goes down as you order more. Figure 10 to 12 business days after you approve the proof, and ground shipping in the USA is free.
Brands ordering these often look at dank vape boxes and vape cartridge packaging as well. You can see the full range in custom vape boxes & packaging, and our guide to CBD packaging compliance helps with sizing.
