ZEE Packaging offers high-quality custom boxes tailored to your business needs. Order custom printed mailer boxes, folding cartons, corrugated boxes, and luxury rigid boxes in custom sizes, materials, and finishes. Enjoy wholesale pricing, low minimum orders, premium printing, and fast turnaround for your branded packaging needs.
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!
Ask ten brands what they want from packaging and you get ten different answers. That is basically our job. We make custom boxes at ZEE Packaging for people selling candles, supplements, sneakers, hot sauce, soap, phone cases, pretty much everything. No two briefs look the same, and honestly, that is the fun bit.
A custom box is not just a container. It is the first physical thing your buyer touches, and it sells harder than most people give it credit for.
The word gets thrown around a lot, so let us be straight about what we change:
Change one of those and you have a custom packaging box. Change all of them and you have personalized boxes that no competing brand can copy.
Every branded box gets built around what goes in it, but here is what comes through our door most often:
Send your product dimensions with any cap or lid height, and we will build the custom box dieline around it.
As a rough rule, if the custom-branded box is holding glass, don't go under 20 pt.
We produce custom-printed boxes on offset, digital, flexo, and screen presses.
Color is CMYK plus Pantone spot. Ink can be soy-based, water-based, or oil-based. Most of our custom-printed boxes run soy ink by default.
A soft-touch custom box with one foil logo beats a fully printed glossy one nearly every time. Restraint works in this category.
Honestly, everyone orders from us, but here is the pattern we see:
Uncoated custom-printed boxes go straight into curbside recycling, which customers actually notice now.
What is the pricing for custom boxes?
Our estimated prices range from $0.25 to $1.95 per unit for folding cartons, $0.60 to $6.40 for mailer boxes, and $1.80 to $8.00 for rigid boxes at moderate quantities. Foil and window patching add to the cost. Shipping is included in our price. This is estimate only, so ask our team for an exact quote.
Can I order just 100 personalized boxes?
Yes, that is our minimum, and plenty of brands start right there. Test the design, see how it performs, then scale up.
Do you charge for the dieline?
No. Our designer builds it for free with your order. If you already have one, send it over, and we will check it against our tooling.
How long does a custom box take?
Urgent is 5 to 8 business days after artwork approval. Express 10 to 15, Standard 20 to 30, Economy 40 to 60.
Can you do custom-printed boxes with no print outside?
Sure. Plenty of clients want plain kraft outside and full color inside. It looks understated, and it costs less too.
Will my Pantone match exactly?
Give us the code, and our press team matches it. Without a code, we match to a physical sample you mail in. Kraft board shifts color, so we always flag that up front.
Whats the difference between a custom box and a stock box?
A stock box comes in an off-the-shelf size, with no print and no choice. A custom box is your size, your board, your print. Stock costs less per unit, but it rarely fits right, and it does nothing for your brand.
Can you make a box in an unusual shape?
We do. Hexagon, pillow pack, pyramid, curved edge, all possible. Custom die tooling gets made once, and then it is yours for repeat orders. Odd-shaped personalized boxes cost more up front, but they get remembered.
Is a custom packaging box worth it for a small brand?
We think so. A plain box gets thrown out; personalized boxes get photographed. At 100 units, the risk is small enough to just try it.
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