Packaging & Custom Boxes
Bring your brand to life with bespoke Packaging & Custom Boxes from The Print Warehouse. Whether you're shipping products, preparing promotional kits or elevating in-store presentation, our tailored packaging solutions offer a perfect mix of style, durability, and personalisation.
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Boxes And Packaging
Promotional Boxes
Custom Mailer Boxes
Crash Lock Promotional Boxes
Pillow Boxes
Bottle Box
Promotional Boxes With Crash Lock
Packaging Accessories
Showcase Your Brand with Personalised Packaging
Your packaging says as much about your brand as the product inside. At The Print Warehouse, we offer expertly crafted custom boxes and packaging designed to create memorable unboxing experiences and boost brand recognition.
Our range includes:
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Personalised Shipping Boxes
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Custom Postal Boxes
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Printed Packaging Tape
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Crash Lock Boxes
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Packaging Pouches
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Classic Paper Bags
Designed for Practicality & Impact
Not only do our boxes look the part—they’re engineered to perform. Whether you need compact packaging for retail or sturdy shipping boxes for e-commerce, we’ve got a solution tailored to your needs. Most of our packaging is suitable for Royal Mail's small and medium parcel standards.
Why Choose The Print Warehouse for Custom Packaging?
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High-quality UK printing with rich, vivid colours
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Premium materials including gloss, matt and soft-touch laminates
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Multiple sizes and shape options to suit every product
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Fast, flat-packed delivery for easy storage and assembly
Choosing the Right Packaging for Your Product
With so many formats available, it helps to start from what you're actually shipping or selling:
- Shipping products by post: a postal box sized to Royal Mail's small or medium parcel limits keeps postage costs predictable and avoids surcharges for oversized parcels.
- Packing food items: a low-migration ink pouch is built for direct food contact, so it's the safer choice over a standard printed bag or box.
- Fast turnaround on a lot of orders: Crash Lock Boxes pop into shape without glue or tools, which saves time when you're packing at volume.
- A lighter retail item: a Classic Paper Bag works well up to around 1.5kg, beyond that a box gives more reliable support.
Not sure which packaging suits your product? Get in touch and we'll help you find the right size, material and finish.
Frequently Asked Questions
Packaging covers everything used to pack goods for sale, storage or shipping, boxes, pouches, bags, tape and tags among them. Beyond just protecting what's inside, each of these doubles as a branding opportunity, since it's often the first physical thing a customer actually touches, whether that's a shipping box arriving at their door or a paper bag handed over in store.
Yes, our packaging pouches use low-migration inks and a specific coating designed to stop ink transferring onto whatever's inside, which is what makes them suitable for direct contact with food items like sweets, coffee or protein powder. It's still worth checking the specific pouch against your product if you have particular food safety requirements, since regulations can vary depending on what you're packing.
Yes, our boxes are made from high-grade materials and can be finished with gloss or matt lamination for a more luxurious feel, which suits anything from gift packaging to a premium retail product. Lamination also adds a bit of extra durability and resistance to marking compared to an unlaminated box.
No, with 18 widths, 18 depths and 21 height options to mix and match, you can build a box sized specifically for your product rather than choosing from a short list of standard dimensions. Getting the size right also means less empty space inside, so you need less void fill and the product moves around less in transit.
Yes, tape is fully customisable, though the file needs to be vector artwork using Pantone colours rather than a standard CMYK image, since tape is printed using a pad printing process rather than digital printing. You can repeat a design along the length of the tape, but there will be a small vertical break between each repeat as part of how the tape is produced, which works well for a repeating logo or short text but isn't suitable for a seamless pattern that needs to flow continuously without any visible gap.
No glue or tools needed, Crash Lock Boxes arrive flat and pre-glued at the seams, so you just pop them open into shape and they lock into place on their own. It's one of the quickest packaging options to get from flat-packed to ready-to-use, which makes it popular for businesses packing a lot of orders quickly.
We recommend a maximum of 1.5kg, which comfortably covers lighter items like brochures, cosmetics or small accessories. For anything heavier, a box or a sturdier bag material would be the safer choice, since pushing a paper bag beyond its recommended weight risks the handles or seams giving way.
Yes, box sizes are available to fit Royal Mail's small parcel limit, up to 45 x 35 x 16cm, and medium parcel limit, up to 61 x 46 x 46cm, both under 2kg. Choosing a box within these limits before you order helps avoid your parcel being charged at a higher postage rate than expected.
A swing tag is a small printed tag attached to a product, usually with a loop of string, ribbon or a plastic fastener through a punched hole, rather than fixed flat to the item. They're commonly used to show a brand, price, size or care instructions on things like clothing, gifts or handmade products, giving you a bit of branding that doesn't need to be printed directly onto the item itself.
Most cardboard boxes, paper bags and printed tape are recyclable in the same way as standard cardboard and paper, as long as they're not contaminated with food waste or heavily laminated in a way that stops recycling. Packaging pouches vary more depending on the material used, so it's worth checking the specific product if recyclability is important for your brand.
Bespoke packaging generally needs a higher minimum order than something like flyers or business cards, since each box size and design is effectively made to order rather than printed from a standard template. If you only need a small run, it's worth checking the minimum on the specific box style you're after, as this can vary depending on the size and complexity.
Most packaging runs are printed from a single fixed design applied across the whole order, which keeps costs down and production straightforward. If you need different designs, like varying flavours or colourways on the same box style, that's usually treated as separate orders rather than one mixed run, so it's worth planning your quantities for each version accordingly.
Packaging is treated as a functional product rather than printed reading matter, so VAT normally applies in the same way it would on any other business supply. The price shown at checkout will already include whatever's applicable, so there's nothing extra to calculate yourself.