ZEE Packaging offers custom cannabis packaging for dispensaries and cannabis brands, including printed boxes for pre-rolls, flower, edibles, vape cartridges and concentrates. Choose custom sizes, durable materials, protective inserts, premium printing and finishing options to create branded packaging for retail products.
If your dream packaging isn’t listed above, we’ll custom-create it just for you. Shoot us a message and our packaging wizards love a good challenge!
Nothing else we print changes rules as often as this category. A cannabis box that clears in one state can be non compliant in the next, and requirements shift while a print run is still in production. Designing for that instability is the actual skill. We produce a lot of cannabis packaging at ZEE Packaging and building in flexibility is what saves clients money over time.
A cannabis box should assume the requirements will change.
We always ask clients to confirm current wording with their own compliance contact. We lay out what you supply and never write it.
Each product type brings its own requirement.
Every cannabis box is built to your product, though these run often:
This is where cannabis packaging gets complicated and where a lot of new brands lose money on reprints. Every state writes its own rule book. What passes in Oklahoma will get you rejected in Massachusetts.
Our team builds cannabis packaging with certified child resistant structures including push and slide sleeve trays, tamper evident tuck locks and locking tab closures that require two simultaneous actions to open. We can also supply opaque board when your state requires the contents be hidden from view. On the artwork side we reserve panel space for the universal THC symbol, batch and lot numbers, harvest or manufacture date, net weight, potency percentages, license number, government warning statements and the state mandated font size minimums. Some states demand a minimum 6pt or 8pt type on warning copy, our prepress team check this before we go to plate.
QR codes are now standard on most cannabis packaging for lab result access and COA lookup. We print them at a minimum 0.75 inch square with a quiet zone around all four sides so scanners read them first time, every time. Many brand also add a second QR that pushes to loyalty signup. We can manufacture and print boxes according to your state’s requirements, but you are responsible for ensuring that the packaging complies with all applicable regulations.
Plastic reduction is where most dispensaries are focusing now, and paperboard child resistant formats have improved considerably.
What does a cannabis box cost?
Our cannabis packaging cost $0.25 to $0.80 per unit for a folding carton, $0.60 to $2.50 for a CR format and $2.40 to $6.00 for rigid at moderate quantity. Exit boxes run $0.90 to $2.40. Shipping is included in our price. This is estimate only, so ask our team for a exact quote.
Do you write the compliance wording?
No. We lay out exactly what you send, so have it approved by your own compliance contact before artwork goes in.
How do we handle several states?
One dieline with separate artwork versions per market. That costs far less than redesigning the structure each time.
Do you offer child resistant options?
Yes, mainly sliding drawer formats. Certification attaches to the tested design, so tell us which state you sell in.
Will terpene mark the carton?
On uncoated board it will over time. A coated inner face and a cradle keep the product off the print.
Print the warning or sticker it?
Print it once your wording is settled. Sticker it while rules are moving, and we leave a clean panel for that.
Can you do plastic free CR?
We can, in paperboard mechanisms. It avoids the plastic pop top entirely, which retailers increasingly ask about.
Can we start with one SKU?
That is exactly what the 100 unit minimum is there for. Run one SKU with us, confirm compliance, then extend the range.
Read More
