Custom Packaging, Made to Your Spec Rather Than Bought In

Custom packaging is packaging made to your own specification: your dimensions, your material, your artwork and your finish, rather than a stock item bought in a fixed size. Half Price Packaging produces it to order for UK brands across boxes, bags, labels and retail display, quoting each job against the brief you send. The range is arranged into nine sector groups, so most buyers start from the product they sell rather than from a box style. This page sets out what sits inside custom packaging, how the ranges are organised, and what a supplier needs from you before a quote means anything at all.

What counts as custom packaging

Custom means two things at once: made to your measurements, and printed with your artwork. Either one on its own is only half the job. A plain box in a bespoke size still leaves the shelf blank and the courier label doing all the talking. A printed box in the wrong size still has to be padded out, which costs you on volume and looks careless when it is opened. Custom packaging is the pack designed around the product from the dieline up, which is why it is quoted to specification instead of listed at a fixed figure.

Nine ranges, arranged by sector

The catalogue is grouped by who buys rather than by box shape: automotive and hardware, bakery, food and beverage, beauty and cosmetics, business essentials, material style and shape, CBD and tobacco, fashion retail and electronics, healthcare and pharma, and CBD custom packaging. If you know your sector but not your format, start there. If you already know the format you want, the material, style and shape range is the faster route in.

Boxes are only part of it

Alongside cartons and mailers the range covers paper bags, mylar bags, take out and togo bags, ziplock paper bags and tshirt bags, plus labels, stickers, tags, roll labels, waterproof labels and table tents. Marketing material and stationery sit in the same catalogue. A brand refreshing its look can keep the carton, the label and the printed insert consistent instead of sourcing them from three suppliers and hoping the colours agree.

Bespoke against buying stock

Stock packaging wins on simplicity when a standard size genuinely fits the product. Custom wins when the fit is wrong, when the pack has to carry branding, or when oversized cartons and void fill are quietly costing you on every despatch. The trade off is that custom is quoted per job, so what you pay depends on the size, the board, the print coverage, the finish and the quantity you specify. There is no list to read off, and a supplier who gives you a figure before seeing the brief is guessing.

Getting from an idea to a quote

Send the product dimensions in millimetres, the format you have in mind, the material and finish, the quantity you are planning and your delivery postcode. Free design support covers the dieline if you have no artwork ready yet. A digital proof is approved before production starts. Costs, delivery and turnaround are confirmed on your quote, and the enquiry is handled by the Uxbridge team.