Tuck End Boxes
Litho-printed SBS paperboard carton, glued and shipped flat. The workhorse of retail packaging. 14pt to 24pt, minimum 250 units.
Per unit, ex works, for stock board with full colour print on the outside and matte lamination. Includes the dieline and one digital proof. Kraft board, heavier calipers, window patching, foil and inserts change the rate — those specs are quoted on request.
Any size, no tooling charge
Stock dies cut to your inside dimensions, so a custom footprint costs the same as a catalogue size.
Dieline and blank sample free
You approve a layered dieline and, on request, hold an unprinted box before the run.
Priced in one business day
Send the spec and a specialist comes back with a firm number, including a cheaper construction if one fits.
What tuck end boxes is, and when it is the right call
Folding cartons are what most people mean by “a box” in a retail context: printed paperboard, glued at one seam, shipped flat, folded and filled on a line. Offset litho printing on coated SBS gives you the sharpest reproduction available on any packaging substrate, which is why cosmetics and pharmaceutical packaging lives here.
Board weight is the main decision. 14pt suits sachets and light single units; 18pt is the general-purpose choice; 24pt is for anything with real weight or where the carton needs to feel substantial in the hand. Going a step heavier than necessary is a common and expensive mistake.
All finishes available — matte and gloss lamination, soft touch, spot UV, foil, emboss. Minimum 250 units, seven to ten working days. Send artwork as a PDF against our dieline template. Heavier contents want crash lock bottom boxes; add a window without affecting the base — see window boxes. For a tactile finish, soft touch boxes. Worth quoting alongside tuck box with window cutout and top tuck boxes on the same artwork sheet. The whole tuck boxes range is here, with sector notes under food and beverage.
Buyers often compare this against reverse tuck end boxes and tuck box with window cutout, and every tuck carton we make sits on the tuck boxes page. Specified most often for food and beverage and cosmetic and beauty packaging. Shop Tuck Boxes quotes this carton in any size you need, with a free dieline and an unprinted blank sample before you commit.
Specification
- Category
- Cosmetic Packaging
- Stock sizes
- 2 x 1 x 4 in | 3 x 2 x 5 in | 4 x 3 x 6 in | 5 x 4 x 8 in
- Boards
- SBS 14–24pt, natural kraft, white kraft, recycled CRB
- Offset or digital, up to 6 colours plus spot
- Finishes
- Matte or gloss lamination, soft touch, spot UV, foil, emboss
- Add-ons
- Window patch, foil, emboss, board insert, hang hole
- Lead time
- 10–14 business days from artwork approval
- Ships
- Flat, banded, palletised
- SKU
- BX-TUC-003
Notes from the floor
Board weight decides more than the product category does. Most boxes we are asked to quote are specified one step heavier than they need to be, and that shows up on every unit.
Where a product sits near the limit of a construction, ask for both options to be quoted. The difference is usually a cent or two a unit and the decision becomes obvious.
Send the product dimensions and weight. Our structural team will name the construction that fits — including when it is a cheaper one than this.
Ask a structural engineerFrom dieline to pallet in four stages
Everything you can specify on this die
Questions about this product
Artwork, tolerances, board weights and minimums. Anything else, a specialist will answer on the phone in a minute.
Ask about this productYes, and that is most of our work. Give inside dimensions in inches, or the product measurements, and we work the box back from it. Any footprint inside the die family is cut at stock pricing with no tooling charge.
A print-ready PDF or packaged AI file placed on our dieline, CMYK, fonts outlined, 1/8" bleed. Name any Pantone in the file and we match it on press rather than converting it.
From 100 units on rigid and tuck styles, 250 to 500 on litho-printed cartons and bags. The minimum for this product is in the short description at the top of the page.
Ten to fourteen business days from artwork approval, plus transit. Foil, lamination and inserts add two to four days.
Always. A digital proof against your dieline, and on request a printed proof on the actual board before the run.
An unprinted box in your exact size and board, posted within three business days. No card, no obligation.
Also available in these constructions
Hold the box before you order 5,000 of them.
Shop Tuck Boxes will post an unprinted box in your exact size and board within three business days. No card, no obligation.