Min. 100 units · 3–5 days
Ice Cream Cone Sleeves
Custom Sleeves
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Made-to-order cake Cone Sleeves in uncoated kraft board, printed to your artwork and cut to your dimensions.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing and the volumes you run. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Custom Cake Cone Sleeves hold a cake cone, which is flat-bottomed and sits differently from a rolled sugar cone. That is the starting point for the specification, because cake cones are straight-sided; sugar cones taper. A sleeve made for one does not fit the other.
In service they are used for ice cream service where cake cones are offered alongside sugar cones.
Custom Cake Cone Sleeves are specified for ice cream service where cake cones are offered alongside sugar cones. Cake cones are straight-sided; sugar cones taper. A sleeve made for one does not fit the other.
Poly or wax-lined board, cut straight-sided to match the cone profile.
The options we would consider for this format are below; cake cones are straight-sided; sugar cones taper. A sleeve made for one does not fit the other.
A larger printable band than a tapered sleeve, because the straight side gives a consistent width.
Offset lithography, Flexography, Digital press are all available for this format. Run length usually decides which is cheapest: digital removes the plate cost on short quantities, offset and flexo overtake it at volume.
A larger printable band than a tapered sleeve, because the straight side gives a consistent width.
Each finish below is a separate pass on the press or the finishing line, which is why they are quoted individually rather than bundled.
Straight-sided rather than tapered, because a cake cone is a cylinder rather than a cone.
Send the contents rather than a box size. Cone sleeves are treated as one product, but cake and sugar cones have genuinely different geometry.
Four things drive a quote more than anything else: the quantity, the print route, the board grade and the number of finishing passes. Dimensions matter too, but usually through how efficiently the shape nests on the press sheet.
Prices start from $0.30 per piece for large-volume orders. If a cheaper route exists we say so at quoting rather than after the invoice.
A tapered sleeve is used on a straight-sided cone and either falls off or crumples.
Paperboard also absorbs moisture from the air until it equalises with its surroundings. If stock sits more than about six weeks in unconditioned space, a moisture-resistant coating is worth its small premium.
Measure the circumference of the filled product, not the empty one, and add 10 mm for the glue lap.
Supply a print-ready PDF or vector file with fonts outlined and images at 300 dpi. Our prepress team checks every file before a proof is issued. The check that catches most files is type sitting too close to a crease, which is easier to move at layout than at proof.
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.
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.
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| Product | Custom Cake Cone Sleeves |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Sleeves |
| Construction | Wrapped band, glued or flat-supplied |
| Fit | Sized to filled product circumference |
| Ships as | Flat, banded bundles |
| Materials | Uncoated kraft board, C1S paperboard, Corrugated E-flute, Greaseproof paper |
| Printing | Offset lithography, Flexography, Digital press |
| Finishes | Matte lamination, Uncoated natural, Spot UV, Foil stamping, Emboss |
| 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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Straight-sided rather than tapered, because a cake cone is a cylinder rather than a cone.
A tapered sleeve is used on a straight-sided cone and either falls off or crumples.
Specified for ice cream service where cake cones are offered alongside sugar cones.
Cake cones are straight-sided; sugar cones taper. A sleeve made for one does not fit the other.
This format sits in our custom sleeves range, alongside 23 other made-to-order formats.
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Specification, minimums and lead times for custom cake cone sleeves.
We specify food-contact compliant boards and inks where the pack touches food directly. Tell us whether contact is direct or through a liner for custom cake cone sleeves, because it changes which stocks are available to you.
A grease-resistant coating or a greaseproof liner. Untreated board will always strike through eventually with hot, oily food — that is a property of the material rather than a quality fault, and it is inexpensive to design out.
On offset and flexo we hold the ink formulation, which gives a tight match run to run. Digital has a wider tolerance. If exact consistency across repeat runs matters more than short-run economics, we will quote the litho route.
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. That includes the ink formulation, which is what keeps a brand colour consistent between runs rather than drifting a shade each time.
Recycled grades are available across most of the substrates we run for sleeves. Recycled content, kerbside recyclability and certified compostability are three different claims though, so tell us which one you intend to print.
A print-ready PDF or a vector file, with fonts outlined and any raster images at 300 dpi at final size. We supply the dieline to design onto, and prepress checks bleed, safe area and crease clearance before issuing a proof. The dieline we supply carries the crease positions, so keeping type clear of a crease is easier to solve at layout than at proof.
A flat 100 units on any format. Most sleeves in this range are quoted from 100 units upward because unit cost falls sharply above that, but the minimum exists so you can validate a structure first.
3 to 5 business days after artwork approval, plus freight. Sleeve 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. Finishing passes are the lever buyers most often underestimate: each one is a separate run through the line.
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. Worth running a few through your actual line rather than checking them by hand: fill speed and hot contents find fit problems that a desk check does not.
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. Tell us the coating on the pack you are matching too. Grease and moisture resistance are not visible in a sample and they change which stocks we can quote.
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. If stock is going into a kitchen or a service counter rather than a warehouse, tell us — case sizes that a single person can lift and store matter more there than pallet efficiency.
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Send the fill size and the volumes you run. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.