Custom Mini Boxes with Lids
Custom mini boxes with lids from 100 — small kraft and printed boxes for samples, favors, jewelry, small electronics and gifts, built as tuck-lid mailers or two-piece lid and base, sized to the item rather than to a stock size.
Small enough for a palm, built like a full-size box
- Board
- Kraft board or SBS cardstock 18–24 pt; kraft E flute for mailer-style minis
- Styles
- Tuck-lid mailer, two-piece lid and base, hinged lid with tuck front, window
- Sizes
- From about 2 x 2 x 1 in; cut to the item
Order online
Order mini boxes with lids
Starting from $1.10 per unit
Printed to your artwork or plain, sold in runs of 100 up to 5,000 units per product online. Freight to the US, UK, Canada and Australia is inside the price.
How an online order runs
- Add the units you needThen check out with your delivery address. Add other products to the same order on the way.
- A digital proof comes backLaid on the dieline, before anything prints. Change it as often as you need.
- Pay once you approve itPay by PayPal invoice or bank transfer after you approve your digital proof, or cash on delivery in the US and Canada.
- We make it and ship it deliveredYour delivery date is confirmed with the proof, against the spec and your fill date. Freight and customs are handled on the way to you.
Another size, board or finish, or more than 5,000 units? Send the spec for a price instead. Freight by market and our terms cover delivery and remakes.
Get a price for Mini Boxes with Lids
Send the size and quantity — we reply the same working day with a price, a dieline and a date. Artwork optional at this stage.
- Free dielineThe flat drawing comes with the quote, before you commit.
- Proof before pressNothing is printed until you have seen it laid on the dieline.
- Die kept for reordersTooling is paid once. Every reorder skips straight to press.
- Quoted in four marketsUS, UK, Canada and Australia, in the delivery currency.
Three lid styles at a small size
The photos in this range show both: kraft tuck-lid minis folded from flat, and printed lid-and-base boxes with a window for small toys and favors.
| Tuck-lid mailer style | One piece; front tuck flap and dust flaps; ships flat, folds without glue |
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| Two-piece lid and base | Separate lid slides over the base; best for gifts that are opened slowly |
| Hinged lid with tuck front | Lid attached at the back; the box stays together on a counter |
Sizing a mini box to what goes in it
Measure the item at its longest, widest and deepest points and add about an eighth of an inch to each for paperboard, a little more for kraft corrugated. If something will be wrapped in tissue or sit on a card insert, measure it wrapped. Our guide on measuring the inside of a box explains why the dieline is drawn to inside dimensions.
Sizes we make often start around 2 x 2 x 1 in for rings and samples and run up to about 4 x 4 x 3 in for candles, cups of candy and small electronics.
Where small boxes get used
- Product samples and trial sizes sent with orders.
- Wedding and party favors, filled and stacked on a table.
- Jewelry, watch straps and small accessories.
- Earbuds, chargers and small tech accessories.
- Subscription box add-ins that sit inside a larger mailer.
- Soaps, bath bombs and candles in sample sizes.
Kraft for shipping, printed board for the shelf
Kraft E flute minis take the knocks of being shipped inside other parcels and keep a natural look with one-color print. Printed paperboard minis take full color, foil and a window, and suit favors and retail. Both fold from flat, so a few hundred small boxes take up little storage. Larger boxes in the same family are in our range of printed retail boxes.
A sample of the item, or its exact dimensions, gets you a mini box that holds it without rattling.
Small inserts that stop small things moving
A ring, a vial or a pair of earrings needs something to hold it in the middle of the box. A die-cut card insert with a slot, a small foam pad, or a crinkle-paper fill keeps it centered so it is the first thing seen when the lid comes off.
Mini Boxes with Lids — specification
The rows that are specific to this build first, then what applies to every job we run. Anything not listed is a question, not a limit — send the brief.
This build
- Board
- Kraft board or SBS cardstock 18–24 pt; kraft E flute for mailer-style minis
- Styles
- Tuck-lid mailer, two-piece lid and base, hinged lid with tuck front, window
- Sizes
- From about 2 x 2 x 1 in; cut to the item
- Full color on white board, 1–2 colors on kraft, foil and spot UV
- Inserts
- Card slots, foam pads or paper fill to center small items
- Minimum
- 100 boxes per size and design
On every job
- Print process
- Digital below about a thousand, offset above it. One side or both, with spot colors where a match has to hold.
- Color
- CMYK as standard. Uncoated and kraft stocks print lighter and warmer; a spot color is the only exact match.
- Tolerance
- Cutting plus or minus 1 mm, creasing plus or minus 0.5 mm, confirmed on a plain sample before the run.
- Tooling
- A cutting die per size, made once and kept. Foil and emboss dies per artwork, also kept.
- Food contact
- Food-grade board and inks where the carton touches food, with the interior left plain.
- Sustainability
- Mono-material board wherever the product allows; recycled-content and FSC stocks; no claim printed the pack does not earn.
- Artwork
- Vector PDF or AI, 3 mm bleed, 4 mm safe area, fonts outlined. We check every file and send a proof before press.
- Dieline
- Supplied free with the quote, before you commit. Yours whether or not you order.
- Sample
- A plain unprinted sample at the finished size on request, for fit and construction.
- Reorders
- Skip the tooling and go straight to press at a lower unit price.
- Lead time
- Quoted with the price against your fill date rather than promised before we have seen the spec.
- Markets
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia — priced in the delivery currency, freight included.
Boards and films we build mini boxes with lids on
A folding carton is one sheet of board, so the board is the product. These are the stocks we run for cartons, what each is good at, and where it lets you down.
Natural kraft
Unbleached folding board. Warm, hides marks, costs least. Mutes color — one or two flat colors print well, photographs do not.
250–350gsm sleeves; 14–24pt cartonsWhite SBS
Solid bleached sulfate: bright, coated, the retail carton standard. Takes accurate color and every finish. Shows scuffs sooner than kraft.
14–24ptWhite lined chipboard
A recycled gray core under a white printing face. Cheaper than SBS and slightly duller; the back of the sheet stays gray.
16–24ptKraft-look coated
A kraft face over a coated inner. The natural look with a barrier behind it — the answer where oil, grease or moisture would mark plain kraft.
14–20ptRecycled-content board
Post-consumer fiber with a gray-brown cast. Right for outers and inner components; poor for bright whites and photography.
16–22ptMicro-flute E and F
A fine corrugated layer where a carton needs structure it cannot get from board — a large panel, a heavy product, a box that ships alone.
E 1.5 mm; F 0.8 mmUncoated and textured
No clay coat, or a linen or laid grain. Print reads softer and warmer; a deboss goes deeper. Photographs do not sit well on it.
280–350gsmMetalized and pearlescent
A metallic or pearl face for a shelf that needs to catch light. Costly, and it fights a photograph — a mark or a pattern suits it better.
16–20ptNot sure which? Say what goes in it and where it is sold — the material follows from that. Our notes on recycled, recyclable and compostable cover which claims each stock can honestly carry.
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Send what you have
A dimension, a photograph beside a ruler, or the product itself. No technical drawing needed — that part is ours.
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We quote and draw
A price, a dieline and a date come back together. If a different build would suit the product better, that is in the reply too.
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Approve the dieline
The flat drawing is yours to check: which panel is the front, where the folds fall, how deep the cavity really is.
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Artwork on the dieline
You place your design on the flat we sent, or we place it for you, and you see a proof before anything goes to press.
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A sample if you want one
A plain unprinted sample at the finished size shows fit and construction — the things a drawing cannot.
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Cut, printed, shipped
The die is cut once and kept, so every reorder skips the tooling and goes straight to press at a lower unit price.
Format
Vector PDF or AI where possible. Raster artwork at 300dpi at final size, in CMYK.
Bleed
3 mm past every trim line, so a fraction of drift on the cutter never leaves a white edge.
Safe area
Keep type and anything important 4 mm inside the cut and away from every fold.
Color
Convert to CMYK before sending. Uncoated stock prints lighter; a spot color is the only exact match.
Fonts
Outline them or supply the files. A missing font substitutes silently and the proof will not match.
Barcodes
On a light, matte, unvarnished patch with the quiet zone clear — a code on gloss fails the scanner.
Not set up that way? Send it anyway — fixing a file is a short conversation, and we check every one before press. Our guide to preparing print files covers each point.
Every finish here is a decision about light on a shelf, not about luxury.
Matte lamination
Reads considered, hides marks, takes a ballpoint.
Gloss lamination
Lifts color; glares under shop lighting.
Soft-touch
Velvet in the hand; shows fingerprints in a bag.
Hot foil
Real metal leaf — the most reliable premium signal.
Emboss / deboss
Shape with no ink; works in the dark.
Spot UV
Gloss shapes on a matte field.
Uncoated kraft
Warm, natural, mutes color.
Textured stock
Texture in the paper; cannot scuff off.
Not sure which suits the shelf it sells from? Say where the product is sold and we suggest one — our notes on specialty finishes show them on real boxes.
Sizing a folding carton so the die comes out right: mini boxes with lids
Measure the product, not the box it is in now. A carton is built around what has to fit inside it, assembled — cap on, lid fitted, folded if it folds — at its widest point in each direction. Send those three numbers and say which is which.
- Length x width x height
- Internal, always. External dimensions include the board and are what the carrier measures, not what the product needs.
- Clearance
- 2–3 mm a side for a snug fit; more where an insert or void fill goes in. A carton cut exactly to the product is slow to pack and transmits every knock.
- Board thickness
- Heavier board takes internal space from the product. It matters most on small boxes, where four walls of 24pt is a real share of the cavity.
- Varies between batches?
- Glass, textiles, molded parts and cured soap all do. Measure several and build to the largest.
- Cutting tolerance
- Plus or minus 1 mm on folding board. Confirmed on a plain sample before the run.
- Units
- Metric or imperial, as long as you say which. Mixing them in one spec is where mistakes happen.
Not sure your numbers are right? Send the product dimensions rather than the box dimensions and we work the box out — the full method is in our guide to measuring for a box.
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Build your Mini Boxes with Lids in 3D
Pick a shape, type a size, choose a board and a finish. The preview on the left redraws as you go, and the spec lands with us exactly as you set it.
Frequently asked questions
Got a question about mini boxes with lids? The answers below cover what we get asked most. If yours is not here, send it with a brief, message us on WhatsApp, or call +1 503-461-4788 — we reply the same working day.
How small can mini boxes with lids be?
From about 2 x 2 x 1 inches, which suits rings, samples and small favors. Each one is cut to the item.
Do mini boxes with lids come in one piece or two?
Both. Tuck-lid minis fold from one piece; two-piece minis have a separate lid that slides over the base.
Are kraft mini boxes strong enough to ship?
Yes in kraft E flute, which handles being packed inside other parcels. Paperboard minis are better for favors and shelves.
Can mini boxes with lids have a window?
Yes. A small die-cut window with clear film shows a toy, a candy or a sample through the lid.
Can mini boxes hold jewelry securely?
Yes. A card insert with a slit or a small foam pad holds a ring or earrings in the center of the box.
Are mini boxes printed inside as well?
They can be. Printing inside the lid of a mini box shows a message or a logo the moment it opens.
Can I use mini boxes as wedding favors?
Yes. Small lid-and-base or tuck boxes are printed with names and a date and filled with candy or a keepsake.
Do mini boxes with lids ship flat?
Tuck-lid and hinged styles ship flat and fold by hand. Two-piece boxes can ship flat or set up, depending on the build.
How do I size a mini box?
Measure the item at its longest, widest and deepest points and add about an eighth of an inch. We draw the dieline from that.
Can mini boxes have foil printing?
Yes. Foil on a small lid works well for a logo or a monogram; keep fine lines no thinner than about half a point.
Can I order mini boxes in several sizes?
Yes. Each size is its own die; the minimum is 100 boxes per size and design.
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