Custom Folding Carton Boxes
A popular choice for packing high-end products such as perfume, cosmetics, self-care products, and personal electronics, folding carton boxes — often called paperboard boxes, folding cartons, or custom product boxes — are a beautiful, practical, and fully customizable solution to your packaging needs.
Common Box Styles Instant Quotes
Reverse Tuck End Box
Reverse Tuck End Box with Hang Tab
Tuck Top Snap Lock Bottom Box
Tuck Top Auto Bottom Box
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Explore the styles below to access box guides, material options, and online pricing for each box type.
Cardstock Choices
We offer a wide range of premium cardstock options for folding cartons, engineered for strength and shelf appeal. Choose from coated, colored, textured, metallic, soft-touch, or pearlescent cardstock, each designed to protect your product and elevate its presentation.
Classic Cardstock
C1S Cardstock
This coated cardstock provides a smooth finish, excellent for vibrant printing and detailed graphics.
| Weight (gsm) | Thickness (mm) | Thickness (pt) |
|---|---|---|
| 250 | 0.35 | 14 |
| 300 | 0.41 | 16 |
| 350 | 0.50 | 20 |
| 400 | 0.56 | 22 |
Textured Cardstock
Choose from White or Off-White Linen, Oxford, and Blanket textures.
Each features a subtle, tactile pattern and comes in sturdy weights — around 350gsm (17pt / 0.435mm) — adding a luxurious, high-end feel to your packaging.
Metallic Cardstock
Gold Metallic Cardstock
A luxurious gold finish that shines and stands out. Available in 250gsm, 300gsm, and 350gsm for different levels of rigidity.
Silver Metallic Cardstock
Sleek, polished silver for premium packaging. Available in 250gsm, 300gsm, and 350gsm
Holographic Metallic Cardstock
Dynamic holographic shimmer for a high-end, eye-catching look. Available in 250gsm, 300gsm, and 350gsm
Luxury Cardstock
Plain Cardstock
Solid-color cardstocks in black, dark gray, off-white, white, brown, navy, red, and other colors weigh approximately 330gsm and are about 17pt (0.43mm) thick, offering a smooth, sturdy surface for minimalist or bold packaging designs.
Soft-Touch Cardstock
Velvety soft-touch cardstocks in black, warm gray, white, brown, navy, red, and other colors weigh around 290gsm and 350gsm. Their soft, luxurious feel enhances the premium quality of your boxes.
Pearlescent Cardstock
White Pearlescent Cardstock
Bright white with a subtle shimmer, adding elegance to any box. Available in 350gsm.
Off-White Pearlescent Cardstock
A warm pearly glow with a soft, refined look. Available in 370gsm.
Cream Pearlescent Cardstock
Delicate cream tone with a gentle shimmer. Available in 315gsm.
A Wide Range of Custom Finishes
Add a premium touch with finishes like gloss or matte lamination, soft-touch coating, embossing, debossing, foil stamping, or spot UV. Each finish enhances your packaging and helps your brand stand out on the shelf.
Lamination and Varnish Options
Gloss Lamination
Creates a shiny, reflective surface that makes colors appear more vibrant.
Matte Lamination
Provides a smooth, non-glossy finish with an elegant and modern look.
Soft Touch Lamination
Adds a velvety, silky texture for a premium, tactile experience.
Scratch-Resistant Gloss Lamination
Combines a glossy shine with long-lasting scratch protection.
Scratch-Resistant Matte Lamination
Maintains a refined matte look while offering extra resistance to scratches.
Gloss Varnish
A clear coating that enhances brightness and gives your packaging a glossy finish while providing light protection.
Matte Varnish
A subtle, low-sheen coating that protects while keeping a classic matte appearance.
Sand Varnish
Available with UV offset printing; adds a fine, sand-like matte texture.
Special Finishes
Foil Stamping
Foil stamping adds metallic accents to your packaging, giving a luxurious and eye-catching look. Perfect for logos, brand names, or decorative elements.
You can choose from our common colors here, or explore more options on our foil stamping page.
Spot UV
Applies a glossy coating to specific areas of your design, creating contrast and highlighting key details.
Sand UV
A textured UV finish that provides a tactile, matte-like effect with subtle shine.
Debossing
Impresses your design into the paper, creating an elegant, recessed effect.
Embossing
Raises elements of your design above the surface for a sophisticated 3D effect.
Textured Finish
Adds a unique tactile surface to the paper, enhancing the sensory experience and premium feel of the packaging.
Printing Options
We tailor the printing method to your folding carton’s cardstock surface and color to achieve the best results, including CMYK offset, Pantone spot colors, metallic inks, UV printing, screen printing, and other advanced techniques.
CMYK Printing
Standard full-color printing for vivid images and smooth gradients.
Pantone Color Printing
Pantone spot colors ensure exact color matching for logos or brand elements.
Metallic Pantone Color Printing
Pantone metallic inks add a shiny, reflective effect to your design. Great for luxury packaging.
UV CMYK Printing
Combines a glossy shine with long-lasting scratch protection.
White Ink Printing
Prints solid white ink on colored surfaces, often used as a base layer or for standout white designs.
Spot Color Screen Printing
Spot Color Screen Printing delivers thick, vibrant ink with excellent opacity and tactile depth.
Can’t find exactly what you want? Contact us and our team will help you produce custom paper boxes tailored to your product. Let’s create the perfect packaging together!
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Custom Folding Carton Boxes
Our custom-made folding carton boxes are the ideal packaging and presentation solutions for lighter items and they’re also cost-effective for shipping. At the same time, they look fantastic, giving your products a real sense of luxury and class, which is sure to appeal to customers in search of something with that special magic.
Custom Cosmetics Boxes
Cosmetics are all about looking and feeling good. From the everyday products we wear at home and work to those luxurious items made to bring out the best for a special occasion or a great night out, your cosmetics deserve a boxing solution which communicates luxury and beauty to your customers. Whatever your brand, we guarantee that our stunning, custom-made cosmetics boxes will turn heads.
Custom Retail Boxes
Retail paper boxes are an economical but attractive option for packing a wide range of items. Available in at least eight basic styles, including tuck end boxes—with or without hang tabs—bag boxes, sleeves, and more, you’re bound to find a great boxing solution for your products. Printed with your chosen colors, graphics, and logo, even the least expensive retail paper box becomes a powerful ambassador for your brand.
Custom Medical Boxes
Our medical paper boxes are designed, printed, and assembled with the needs of the health and pharmaceutical industries in mind. While they’re also stylish and cost-effective, our priority is safety and proper conservation of the products. You’ll also find plenty of print space both on the box, tabs, and a leaflet insert, to give your customers full instructions for the proper storage and use of any medicines and other important safety information.
Custom Display Boxes
Paper and cardboard display boxes are an ideal solution for presenting small goods—such as toys and gifts, cosmetics, snacks, candies, stationary, pocket-sized electronics, accessories and more—in both countertop or free-standing contexts. They’re a great way to get your products seen at the point of sale or other strategic locations. Robust, practical, branded, and attractive, let them do the selling for you!
Custom Packaging Sleeves
Also known as “belly bands” or “wraps”, packaging sleeves are an effective and inexpensive way to upgrade your custom box, tray, or any other regular-shaped container with branded packaging that’s lightweight, practical, and eye-catching. You can also use a sleeve on its own to wrap products like smaller clothes, towels, stationery, and more. Each sleeve can be printed on one or both sides and offers fantastic opportunities for branding and adding marketing messages.
Custom Kraft Boxes
Kraft boxes are robust, flexible, and fully customizable. We’ll create Kraft boxes to fit your products, using your own designs and adding inserts, branded printing and more as you require. Our kraft boxes are popular for a wide range of packaging applications; they look good, do a great job, and won’t break your budget.
Why Work with QinPrinting?
Competitive Pricing
We offer cost-effective packaging solutions while maintaining consistent, reliable quality.
Fully Customized
Every box is made to your exact specifications — size, structure, materials, and finishes tailored to your brand.
Free Dieline Templates
We provide free dielines for easy artwork setup, helping you speed up the design process.
Dependable Support
Our team offers clear communication, careful file checks, and guidance throughout your project to ensure a smooth experience.
Our Environmental Commitment
We make our folding carton boxes using a sheet of paper coated on one side which we cut and fold to create the carton. We actively encourage reuse and recycling of all our products. We can use recycled or FSC-certified materials on request.
FSC-certified means materials from responsibly managed, sustainable forests. We believe that responsible forest management is critical for our environmental, social, and economic futures. We also use exclusively soy-based inks, which are harmless to the water supply and fully biodegradable while giving truly beautiful, vibrant, and durable prints.
We also constantly review our printing processes to make them more energy efficient and to make sure that we close as many loops as possible, for example in how we manage our water supplies and minimize the environmental impact of shipping by choosing the most efficient options, packing full containers, and carbon offsetting.
FAQs
What is your minimum order quantity (MOQ)?
Our MOQ for folding carton boxes is 300 units.
What is the turnaround time?
Production typically takes 10–20 days after proof approval, plus shipping time.
Do you offer custom box styles?
Yes, we offer various box styles, and you can get pricing online. You can also contact us to customize other styles.
Do you provide dieline templates for boxes?
Yes. Standard templates are available for download under our online quote tool or on our template page. For custom box shapes, contact us and we’ll prepare a personalized dieline.
Which file types can I send?
For printing purposes, we require artwork in high-resolution PDF format, which includes 0.125 inches / 3 mm bleed.
Can I add foil stamping to my boxes?
Yes, you can choose to foil stamp with various colors of metallic foil. Additionally, you can select embossing, debossing, spot UV, and other special effects.
Can I use eco-friendly materials?
Yes, sustainable options like FSC-certified stock are available. Many clients choose eco-friendly custom boxes to highlight their brand’s commitment to sustainability.
Can you print with white ink or Pantone color?
Yes, we can.
Do you provide samples before mass production?
Of course. We offer hard proofs, digital proofs, and finished samples so you can check colors, finishes, and materials before full production.
Do you ship worldwide?
Yes, we ship globally via sea and air freight, ensuring safe delivery to your destination.
Do you offer design services?
We don’t provide design services. However, we do offer a free artwork check to ensure your files meet printing requirements.
What file formats do you accept for artwork?
Please provide PDF files with 3 mm bleed, CMYK colors, embedded fonts, and high-resolution images.
QinPrinting Reviews
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