A die cut box is cut to an outline drawn for your product and nothing else, so nothing rattles inside and you stop paying to ship air. The free generator below draws that same flat for you in your own dimensions.
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Type your three dimensions into the generator above and select your board to design your own packaging flat in minutes. The dieline redraws itself as you type and exports as an AI, PDF or SVG file in seconds with no watermark on it.
You pay to ship air inside the carton when a stock box does not fit your product exactly. The alternative is worse because you end up packing a fragile item into a shape designed for a different product.
We make packaging boxes in Neptune, New Jersey rather than passing your job to a broker. No order we take carries a setup fee or a tooling charge of any kind.
The generator holds 40 structures and every one of them is listed below in its own family. Press Customize this dieline on any card and the generator above opens that structure at its default size for your own dimensions.
Red lines on each card show the cut and dashed blue lines show the crease in the same colors the generator uses on your flat.
A die cut box is cut with a steel rule die built for one outline. That is why die cut packaging comes off the press at the same shape every time. Strips of sharpened steel sit in a plywood die board and every carton matches the next to within a fraction of a millimeter. A stock box is cut from a die that already exists so its shape is whatever the supplier happened to tool.
The die is worth it as soon as fit starts costing you money. A carton with 15 mm of empty space on each side needs void fill that costs more per order than the difference in board. Odd shapes are the other trigger because a curved panel or a window or a tear strip only exists when a die cuts it.
Caliper follows the weight and the panel size rather than preference. A 50 g cosmetic carton holds its shape on 14pt board while a 500 g supplement jar needs 18pt or 24pt before the panels stop bowing. Anything heavier than about 1.5 kg belongs on corrugated board instead of folding carton board.
| Item | What we run |
|---|---|
| Folding carton board | 12pt, 14pt, 16pt, 18pt and 24pt SBS, plus 18pt kraft |
| Corrugated board | E flute at 1.5 mm and B flute at 3 mm |
| Printing | Offset CMYK and Pantone spot colors, digital on runs under 1,000 |
| Finishing | Gloss or matte lamination, soft touch, spot UV, foil stamping, embossing |
| Artwork | Vector PDF or AI on our dieline, 3 mm bleed, Pantone colors identified |
| Setup and tooling | No charge. The die and the printing plates sit inside the unit price on every order |
| Minimum order | 100 boxes per size and per design, lower on rigid, corrugated and larger sizes |
| Production | 8 to 10 business days after dieline approval |
| Samples | Plain structural 3 to 5 business days, printed pre production 7 to 10 |
| Price breaks | At 500 units and again at 1,000 units on the same artwork |
| Shipping | Free across the US. Export orders quoted separately |
Send vector artwork as a PDF or AI file on our dieline with 3 mm of bleed. Measure that bleed outward from the cut line rather than from the nearest fold. Name your Pantone colors instead of leaving them as unnamed swatches because a converted build picks its own colors and the result shifts on press.
Keep the dieline on a layer of its own and set that layer not to print. A dieline left in as ordinary artwork comes back as a carton with cut and crease marks printed across the panels. Our design team fixes any of this for free from a small correction to your own file up to a full design built from scratch.
The die costs you nothing at all because we do not charge a setup fee or a tooling fee on any order. The die and the printing plates sit inside the unit price on the first order and on every reorder after it. There is no tooling cost to avoid on a reorder because you never paid one in the first place.
What does change your unit price is the color count and the quantity. Every extra offset color adds a plate and a pass so four colors cost more than one until the gap narrows on digital runs under 1,000 units. The price steps down at 500 units and again at 1,000 units on the same artwork.
The clock starts at dieline approval and that is what makes the free generator above worth ten minutes of your time. Approving a flat you have already drawn and checked removes the longest delay in the whole process.
The answers below cover the questions the sections above leave open. Send us your three dimensions if your own question is not here and we will answer it directly.
Type your three dimensions into the generator above and select your board to design your own packaging flat in minutes. The dieline redraws itself as you type and exports as an AI, PDF or SVG file in seconds with no watermark on it.
You pay to ship air inside the carton when a stock box does not fit your product exactly. The alternative is worse because you end up packing a fragile item into a shape designed for a different product.
We make packaging boxes in Neptune, New Jersey rather than passing your job to a broker. No order we take carries a setup fee or a tooling charge of any kind.
The generator holds 44 structures and every one of them is listed below in its own family. Press Customize this dieline on any card and the generator above opens that structure at its default size for your own dimensions.
Red lines on each card show the cut and dashed blue lines show the crease in the same colors the generator uses on your flat.
A die cut box is cut with a steel rule die built for one outline. That is why die cut packaging comes off the press at the same shape every time. Strips of sharpened steel sit in a plywood die board and every carton matches the next to within a fraction of a millimeter. A stock box is cut from a die that already exists so its shape is whatever the supplier happened to tool.
The die is worth it as soon as fit starts costing you money. A carton with 15 mm of empty space on each side needs void fill that costs more per order than the difference in board. Odd shapes are the other trigger because a curved panel or a window or a tear strip only exists when a die cuts it.
Caliper follows the weight and the panel size rather than preference. A 50 g cosmetic carton holds its shape on 14pt board while a 500 g supplement jar needs 18pt or 24pt before the panels stop bowing. Anything heavier than about 1.5 kg belongs on corrugated board instead of folding carton board.
| Item | What we run |
|---|---|
| Folding carton board | 12pt, 14pt, 16pt, 18pt and 24pt SBS, plus 18pt kraft |
| Corrugated board | E flute at 1.5 mm and B flute at 3 mm |
| Printing | Offset CMYK and Pantone spot colors, digital on runs under 1,000 |
| Finishing | Gloss or matte lamination, soft touch, spot UV, foil stamping, embossing |
| Artwork | Vector PDF or AI on our dieline, 3 mm bleed, Pantone colors identified |
| Setup and tooling | No charge. The die and the printing plates sit inside the unit price on every order |
| Minimum order | 100 boxes per size and per design, lower on rigid, corrugated and larger sizes |
| Production | 8 to 10 business days after dieline approval |
| Samples | Plain structural 3 to 5 business days, printed pre production 7 to 10 |
| Price breaks | At 500 units and again at 1,000 units on the same artwork |
| Shipping | Free across the US. Export orders quoted separately |
Send vector artwork as a PDF or AI file on our dieline with 3 mm of bleed. Measure that bleed outward from the cut line rather than from the nearest fold. Name your Pantone colors instead of leaving them as unnamed swatches because a converted build picks its own colors and the result shifts on press.
Keep the dieline on a layer of its own and set that layer not to print. A dieline left in as ordinary artwork comes back as a carton with cut and crease marks printed across the panels. Our design team fixes any of this for free from a small correction to your own file up to a full design built from scratch.
The die costs you nothing at all because we do not charge a setup fee or a tooling fee on any order. The die and the printing plates sit inside the unit price on the first order and on every reorder after it. There is no tooling cost to avoid on a reorder because you never paid one in the first place.
What does change your unit price is the color count and the quantity. Every extra offset color adds a plate and a pass so four colors cost more than one until the gap narrows on digital runs under 1,000 units. The price steps down at 500 units and again at 1,000 units on the same artwork.
The clock starts at dieline approval and that is what makes the free generator above worth ten minutes of your time. Approving a flat you have already drawn and checked removes the longest delay in the whole process.
The answers below cover the questions the sections above leave open. Send us your three dimensions if your own question is not here and we will answer it directly.
Send your three dimensions with your quantity and your board, and we will come back with a unit price and a production date. Download the dieline from the generator above first because a quote against a flat you have already approved moves straight into production. Call +1 703 350 4739 or email sales@thecustomizedboxes.com, or request a quote online at any hour.
