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Custom Packaging Inserts
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Booklet Boxes with Inserts built to your specification — your dimensions, your board, your print.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing and how it ships. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Give the booklet its own retained slot. Loose printed matter creases and looks careless on opening.
Booklet Boxes with Inserts are die-cut from board or routed from foam to hold each item in a fixed position, so nothing shifts between the packing bench and the customer.
Booklet Boxes with Inserts hold printed material alongside a product, where the booklet must not slide around. That is the starting point for the specification, because give the booklet its own retained slot. Loose printed matter creases and looks careless on opening.
In service they are used for product launches, kits and regulated goods where documentation ships with the item.
Booklet Boxes with Inserts are specified for product launches, kits and regulated goods where documentation ships with the item. Give the booklet its own retained slot. Loose printed matter creases and looks careless on opening.
Where a product needs to be held still, a fitted insert cut to its profile does more for damage rates than a heavier outer board. It usually costs less too, because you can drop a grade on the outer.
A board tray with a dedicated booklet channel or retaining tab alongside the product cavity.
The options we would consider for this format are below; give the booklet its own retained slot. Loose printed matter creases and looks careless on opening.
The booklet slides over the product and creases at the corners, arriving looking second-hand.
Give the booklet its own retained slot. Loose printed matter creases and looks careless on opening.
Sized to the booklet footprint plus the product cavity, usually flat and shallow.
Send the contents rather than a box size. The booklet is treated as filler placed on top, when it needs its own retained position.
The insert can carry instructions directly, which sometimes removes the need for a separate booklet entirely.
Each finish below is a separate pass on the press or the finishing line, which is why they are quoted individually rather than bundled.
A plain structural sample is the cheapest way to find a fit problem — far cheaper than finding it across a full run.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
Start with dimensions and quantity. If you already run something similar, a physical sample tells us more in a minute than a specification does in a page.
You approve the quote, we send the dieline, prepress proofs it, and production follows. The proof stage is where changes are still free.
Reference
| Product | Booklet Boxes with Inserts |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Packaging Inserts |
| Construction | Packaging insert |
| Material | Corrugated, chipboard, moulded pulp or foam |
| Tolerance | 1 mm – 2 mm around each cavity |
| Assembly | Drop-in, no adhesive required |
| Materials | E-flute corrugated, Chipboard, Moulded pulp, EVA foam |
| Printing | Flexography, Digital press, Unprinted natural |
| Finishes | Unprinted kraft, Flood colour, Matte lamination, Fabric wrap |
| Minimum order | Minimum order is 100 units on any format, and unit cost falls sharply as the quantity rises. |
| Lead time | 3 to 5 business days after artwork approval |
| Shipping | Across the US, UK, Canada and Australia |
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Sized to the booklet footprint plus the product cavity, usually flat and shallow.
The booklet slides over the product and creases at the corners, arriving looking second-hand.
Specified for product launches, kits and regulated goods where documentation ships with the item.
Give the booklet its own retained slot. Loose printed matter creases and looks careless on opening.
This format sits in our custom packaging inserts range, alongside 20 other made-to-order formats.
Answers
Specification, minimums and lead times for booklet boxes with inserts.
Only if boxes are arriving crushed. If they arrive intact with damaged contents, the product is moving inside and a heavier outer changes nothing. A fitted insert solves that case, usually at lower cost.
Yes, and for booklet boxes with inserts we prefer to specify both together. A cavity that holds the contents still often lets us drop a grade on the outer, so the pair can cost less than an over-specified box alone.
Board is cheapest and suits light or regular shapes. Foam holds irregular and fragile items better and absorbs shock. Moulded pulp sits between them and is the more recyclable of the cushioning options. Send the item and we will recommend.
3 to 5 business days after artwork approval, plus freight. Packaging insert runs with applied finishes can take longer because each finish is a separate pass, and we confirm a firm date in writing with the quote.
Prices start from $0.30 per piece for large-volume orders. For this format the biggest levers are quantity, print route, board grade and how many finishing passes are involved. We quote each element separately so you can see where the money is going. An insert often lowers the total rather than raising it, because holding the contents still lets us drop a grade on the outer.
Yes. We can send a plain unprinted sample so you can check the fit and structure, or a printed prototype for colour and finish. Sample costs are normally credited against the production order. On booklet boxes with inserts the thing to check is whether the contents still sit tight once the pack is closed, because movement inside is what causes damage rather than the board grade.
Send the current specification or a physical sample and we will quote to match it rather than proposing an alternative you would then have to re-approve internally. A physical sample tells us more than a specification sheet — board caliper and coating are usually described loosely and measured exactly.
All 50 US states, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, on the same timeline everywhere: 3 to 5 business days of production after artwork approval, then 5 to 7 business days in transit. Every run is made to order and shipped directly to your address rather than pulled from stock, so you receive current production rather than whatever has been sitting in a warehouse. Freight is costed separately by weight, volume and destination. Tell us at quoting if the delivery point cannot take a pallet, and we will break the consignment into cartons instead.
Every run is cut to your dimensions — there are no stock sizes here. Send the product measurements rather than a box size and we will build the packaging insert around them, then send a dieline template you can design onto.
We issue a dieline template sized to your product, prepress checks your artwork against it, and a proof comes back for sign-off. Nothing runs until you approve that proof, and packaging inserts then take 3 to 5 business days.
Yes. Once a first run is approved we hold the board, structure, dimensions, print method and finishes against your account, so a reorder references the same specification exactly rather than being re-derived. It also means a reorder can be priced against a larger quantity without re-opening the specification.
Recycled grades are available across most of the substrates we run for packaging inserts. Recycled content, kerbside recyclability and certified compostability are three different claims though, so tell us which one you intend to print.
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Send the dimensions, the quantity and how it ships. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.