Min. 100 units · 3–5 days
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Flat Tuck Display Boxes built to your specification — your dimensions, your board, your print.
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Name, email, phone and what you are packing. Attach artwork if you have it. We reply with a specification and a written price, usually within one business day.
Tuck constructions suit light loads. Anything heavy needs a glued corner or a locking tab.
Flat Tuck Display Boxes are engineered from corrugated or paperboard with a tear-away front or open face, so the pack doubles as the shelf unit once it reaches the store.
Flat Tuck Display Boxes hold product in a tray that ships flat and tucks together without glue. That is the starting point for the specification, because tuck constructions suit light loads. Anything heavy needs a glued corner or a locking tab.
In service they are used for promotions and events where displays are assembled on site in quantity.
Flat Tuck Display Boxes are specified for promotions and events where displays are assembled on site in quantity. Tuck constructions suit light loads. Anything heavy needs a glued corner or a locking tab.
Shelf presence is decided at arm's length, not close up. Contrast, the front panel hierarchy and how the pack sits next to competitors matter more than a finish that only reads in the hand.
If flat tuck display boxes will be faced on a shelf, tell us the facing orientation so the strongest panel is the one the customer sees.
A locking tuck for light product; glued corners where the load justifies losing the flat-pack convenience.
The options we would consider for this format are below; tuck constructions suit light loads. Anything heavy needs a glued corner or a locking tab.
The tuck works loose under a full load and the tray corners splay open.
Tuck constructions suit light loads. Anything heavy needs a glued corner or a locking tab.
Shallow tray formats, with the tuck mechanism adding a small amount to the flat footprint.
Send the contents rather than a box size. A tuck construction is chosen for assembly speed without checking it holds the intended weight.
Keep print off the tuck flaps, which crease and scuff during assembly.
Finishes are costed one at a time because each is a separate operation — that way you can see which one is carrying the price.
Ask for an unprinted sample if the question is fit, or a printed prototype if the question is colour. They answer different things.
Sample costs are normally credited against the production order.
The useful starting point is the product, not the pack. Give us its measurements and the quantity, and we work the display box outward from there.
A dieline template follows, sized to your product. Prepress checks your artwork against it and issues a proof; nothing runs until you sign that off.
Reference
| Product | Flat Tuck Display Boxes |
|---|---|
| Category | Custom Display Boxes |
| Construction | Structural die-cut with tear-away face |
| Board grade | E-flute or B-flute corrugated |
| Retail ready | Yes, ships flat or pre-packed |
| Materials | E-flute corrugated, B-flute corrugated, Litho-laminated corrugated, Heavy paperboard |
| Printing | Litho-lamination, Flexography, Digital press |
| Finishes | Gloss lamination, Matte lamination, Spot UV on the header, Flood colour |
| 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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Shallow tray formats, with the tuck mechanism adding a small amount to the flat footprint.
The tuck works loose under a full load and the tray corners splay open.
Specified for promotions and events where displays are assembled on site in quantity.
Tuck constructions suit light loads. Anything heavy needs a glued corner or a locking tab.
This format sits in our custom display boxes range, alongside 15 other made-to-order formats.
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Specification, minimums and lead times for flat tuck display boxes.
Along a designed perforation, which is the hardest part of the structure to get right. Too weak and it fails in transit; too strong and store staff tear it badly. It is decided at dieline stage, and we recommend a sample before committing.
If you are supplying a grocery chain, almost certainly. Case dimensions, pallet pattern and barcode placement are usually published and non-negotiable. Send the requirement and we will design inward from it.
That is a structural calculation rather than a hope. Send the weight of a full facing and we will grade the board and add reinforcement where the load actually sits, which is usually the base and the front lip.
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 display box 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 display boxes 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 display boxes. 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 display boxes 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. Display box 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.
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Send the dimensions and quantity you need. We reply with a full specification and a written price, usually within one business day.