Top 13 Paper Material For Custom Paper Boxes
Paper for boxes is the common and frequencely used paper material to make the paperback boxes and custom rigid boxes.Here we show you the information of different material, include name, manufacture,function..etc. Also we link the material to the products we made to help you understand. The more materials have not listed, please consult via the form on bottom.
Card Stock Paper For Boxes
Card stock paper is also called card paper or pasteboard. In order to make the paper strong enough to shape the paper box (such as kraft paper box) or strong enough for book cover, the paper factory produce the paper as more thicker than common to make it more durable enough. So there are more options for card paper, thickness is free to custom and also it have different surface to born new papers, such as gold and silver card stock paper.
White Card Stock Paper
The surface have white glossy cotation to be printed, and the opposite side without cotation. The weight is 200gsm at least. Depends on different size of box, the weight is required from 200gsm to 400gsm.
Gold Card Stock Paper
Gold card stock paper for boxes is the common card stock paper pasted on thick gold layer.The best golden feeling of paper is from gold card stock paper, which is better than gold foil. Especial when you need whole the box looks gold shiny.
Silver Card Stock Paper
Adding thick silver coated layer on card stock paper to produce a new silver feeling paper, which is strong enough to shape the card paper box. Also it could thin enough to pasted on fiberboard to make rigid box.
Kraft Paper For Boxes
Kraft paper or kraft is paper or paperboard (cardboard) produced from chemical pulp produced in the kraft process.Sack kraft paper, or just sack paper, is a porous kraft paper with high elasticity and high tear resistance, designed for packaging products with high demands for strength and durability. (From wikipedia)
Advantage of kraft paper: it could be used no printing, and also enough strength to shape the boxes. It could be for paper inlay.
Disadvantage: it is not printed perfectly, especialy for brown kraft paper and black kraft paper.
Brown Kraft Paper
Brown kraft paper is most used for cardboard paper box, paper tube, which could be printed simply, such as black or other no complex color.
Black Kraft Paper
Black kraft paper is best for screen white color, and mostly no printing on it. Best for book cover or paper stock box and paper inlay.
White Kraft Paper
It’s most common to be color printed on paperboard boxes. It’s strength well and durable than card stock paper.
Coated Paper For Boxes
Coated paper is paper that have coated layer, which have smooth surface and also absorb printing ink perfectly. So it’s best for high quality printing.
Due to the thickness of coated paper is not enough thick to shape the box, it need to be pasted with fiberboard or card stock paper together to build the boxes. Such as right pictures show.
Specialty Paper For Boxes
Specialty paper is the general calling to distinguish it between many papers such as card stock paper,coated paper, kraft paper..etc. It is made by a mixture of many materials or a polymer to creat a new paper, which could be made to simulate other materials with lower cost, or make the paper have different feelings to attract more eyes. More better it’s more suit to be pasted on fiberboard to build the box.
Art Paper
Art paper is the paper with many different finishing to make it have art finishing. For example, paper looks with pearls on, or soft color feeling..etc
Leather Paper
Leather paper is a specialty paper produced as similar as leather, which have same texture and same feeling of leather with much lower cost.
Textured Paper
Texture paper is the specialty paper with variety of textures, which texture could be touch feeling and not easy to fade.
Paperboard For Boxes
Paperboard is a kind of thick paper material, which is casted and pressed by pulp into thickness. It’s rough and not suited to be printed. Nomarlly, it is used with printed coated paper together to build box. It is strong enough to hold the shape.
High Density Fiberboard
High density fiberboard, also called hardboard, it is a kind of wood board. Nomarlly, we use the thinner board since 2mm-4mm for box , with printed coated paper pasted on. The advantage of this board is much more strong and durable than paperboard. It’s the best choice when the size of box is too big. The disadvantage is expensive than others.
Corrugated Fiberboard
Corrugated fiberboard is a material consisting of a fluted corrugated sheet and one or two flat linerboards. It is made on “flute lamination machines” or “corrugators” and is used for making cardboard boxes. The corrugated medium sheet and the linerboard(s) are made of kraft containerboard, a paperboard material usually over 0.01 inches (0.25 mm) thick. Corrugated fiberboard is sometimes called corrugated cardboard, although cardboard might be any heavy paper-pulp based board.(from wikipedia)
The corrugated paper is the most important part for packaging box, and it can’t be used for box directly. Normally, it need to be pasted with kraft paper together, then got the corrugated fiberboard boxes. As the above picture, you could use different assemble of corrugated paper and kraft paper.
Different Combination
- 2 layers: one corruagated papers with one sheet of kraft papers
- 3 layers: one corruagated paper with 2 sheets of kraft papers
- 5 layers: 2 corruagated papers with 3 sheets of kraft papers
- 7 layers: 3 corruagated papers with 4 sheets of kraft papers
Thickness of corrugated paper
- A FLUTE – 5mm – A – used for die-cut boxes
- B FLUTE – 3mm – B – Good puncture resistance + Most
- C FLUTE – 4mm – C – Good stacking and protection + Very Common Grade
- D Flute – 2mm
- E FLUTE – 1.5mm – E – Lightweight fine flute
- F FLUTE – 1mm – F – Extra thin
- G FLUTE – 0.5mm
What material should we use for our box?
This questions need we analysis your real requirements one step by step.
- Firstly, as per the materials, the box have 3 big categories, rigid box, corrugated box, and card paper box. You could choose these styles by click the top title of our site.
- Secondly, checking your size of products. It’s best to use card paper box when it’s too small, and too big size should choose corrugated boxes. Not sure if your size is big or small, you could share it to us via the form as below. Then we will suggest for you.
- Thirdly, confirm your budget. Different material and structure leads to different cost. Our professional sales respresentives could suggest the most suit styles to you based on your budget.
Still not sure how to choose, or the materials you want is out of these material we introduced. Contact us via the form as below to get perfect help.