Use custom printed labels until your monthly volumes get bigger. For custom printing or custom shapes, its best to work through a packaging broker or the manufacturer themselves as you’ll need design/engineering help and a custom sample.īased on the quantity alone I don’t think you would require anything custom made, so potentially it can cost several hundred dollars for stock items. A lot of these types of packaging can also be stock items found on websites like for small volumes and stock (readily available) items. If it depends on the price breaks, that’s fair enough, but each different type of packaging will have different volume price breaks.Īll of these questions, unless you are working with a packaging broker, are different manufacturers. How many will you order at one time? This is important because I’m not interest in what you will order in the future or what you hope to order, I need to know your initial order. What is the size of each bottle (if different) and what would the packaging size need to be based on the bottles size? (can’t go by fluid oz as the shapes can be different). Will you require an insert of some kind to hold items in place during shipment, if so what type? How many bottles are you shipping at one time? What type of packaging? A box or plastic mailer? I need a lot more information as my mind can run wild with potential ideas, but mainly these are the questions I or anyone would need in order to better help answer your question: This spectrum ranges from simple plastic bags to rigid boxes and is based on quantities of around 10,000.
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It is designed to give buyers, at a glance, a rough idea of how much packaging costs. If you do not have a budget that fits any of this, your product’s volume may not be ready for custom packaging.Īlso, check out my Packaging Price Spectrum. The charts reflects USA manufacturing only.Īny add-ons to enhance the packaging will shift all of these numbers, from 10% and up to 50% or more.
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The last and most significant factor is where the box is being produced, North America (USA, Canada, Mexico) or Asia (China, Taiwan, India). So a larger folding carton cutting die can cut out a greater number of boxes with each motion. Larger machines have larger tooling costs, however, these costs usually mean a smaller total unit cost because you can fit more units on a larger piece of tooling, if that makes sense. Smaller machines require smaller, less expensive tooling.
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Besides the number of colors printed, materials, volume, and size of your packaging, another major factor that affects unit cost is the size of the machinery.