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Product Packaging

Small boxes, sleeves and cartons printed and made to fit your product – built for brands selling in tens and hundreds, not container loads.

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Tuck-end boxes, sleeves, pillow packs and custom shapes, cut and made to your product rather than to a stock size.

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Box styles

All of these arrive flat and fold up in seconds. Which one suits you depends on what is going inside, how it sits on a shelf or a counter, and whether the customer is carrying it home.

Straight tuck-end box

The everyday retail carton. Both flaps tuck in from the same side, so the front panel stays clean and unbroken for your artwork. The default for soap, cosmetics, tea and small hardware.

Reverse tuck-end box

Flaps tuck from opposite sides, which uses slightly less material and folds flat more easily. Functionally the same as a straight tuck, and marginally cheaper on longer runs.

Sleeves

A printed band that slides over a plain box, tray or jar. The cheapest way to brand packaging you already buy, and the easiest to change when a variant or price moves.

Pillow boxes

Curved ends that hold shut without glue. Good for jewellery, accessories, small favours and anything given as a gift rather than shelved.

Gable and handle boxes

A folded carry handle built into the box itself. Used for takeaway sets, gift boxes, favour boxes and hampers where the customer walks out holding it.

Custom shapes and window cut-outs

Any outline you can draw, plus open window cut-outs so the product shows through. Cutting is digital, so an unusual shape costs the same as a rectangle.

Sizes, and being straight about the limits

Packaging is where a printer’s real capacity shows, so here is ours plainly rather than after you have placed an order.

  • Small to medium boxes. The flat, unfolded blank has to fit within 329 x 483 mm. That comfortably covers soap, candles, cosmetics, tea, spices, jewellery, accessories, small electronics and confectionery. A rough guide is a finished box up to about 150 x 100 x 60 mm, though a flatter shape can be larger.
  • Card, not corrugated. We print on card up to 300gsm. That is right for retail and gift packaging, and it is not a shipping carton. If your box has to survive a courier on its own, it needs corrugated board from a box maker.
  • Sleeves are the way around both limits. Buy plain trays or boxes at any size and let us print the sleeve that brands them. It is cheaper, it looks deliberate, and you can change the sleeve without changing the box.
  • Send the product. Genuinely the fastest route. Bring or courier one unit, we measure it, build the dieline around it and make a plain sample you can fill before anything is printed.

If your packaging is larger than this, say so early and we will tell you honestly rather than take the order and disappoint you.

Packaging stocks

Everything here is card at 300gsm, which is our heaviest. Choose it for how the box has to feel in a customer’s hand and how the product needs to be presented, then let us confirm it will fold cleanly at the size you want.

300gsm matte card

Our standard packaging stock. Smooth, low glare, and it holds a crease cleanly so the folded box sits square. Prints accurately and suits almost every product on this page.

300gsm glossy card

A shiny coated face for product photography and strong colour. It is the finish that reads as retail packaging on a shelf. Note that pen and stamps will not take on it.

300gsm plain card

Untreated, so a batch number, a price or a name can be written or stamped on the box at your counter. Also the right choice if you want an understated, unprocessed look.

Kraft card

Natural brown board with visible fibre. It has become the default for soap, candle, honey and handmade ranges, and a single ink colour on it costs the same as full colour.

Coloured and textured card

Tinted and textured stocks for gift and premium ranges, where the material carries as much of the impression as the printing does.

Window cut-outs

An open window cut through a panel so the product is visible. Cut digitally at no extra cost. Note these are open cut-outs; we do not fit clear film behind them.

What goes on each panel

A box has five usable faces and most brands crowd all five equally. The ones that sell well use each panel for one job.

  • Front panel: brand name, product name and variant. That is all. It is read from a metre away on a shelf or in a photograph, and anything else on it competes with the three things that matter.
  • Back panel: the detail. Ingredients or contents, directions, weight or volume, and your contact details. This is where a customer looks once they have already picked the box up.
  • Side panels: narrow, so give them one thing each. A barcode on one, a short claim or a certification mark on the other. Do not run body text down a 25 mm panel.
  • Top and bottom flaps: the batch and date panel goes here, left as a light printed box for your stamp or coder rather than printed into the artwork.
  • Inside the box: almost nobody uses it, which is exactly why it works. A printed message, a QR code or a thank-you line on the inside of the lid costs nothing extra and is the moment a customer is most receptive.
  • Leave the glue flap clear. No artwork on the tab that gets pasted. Ink under adhesive is the most common reason a box comes apart.

If you sell a range, keep one layout and change only the variant colour and name. It makes the range recognisable on a shelf and it means the whole set can be printed together.

Urdu and bilingual packaging

For anything sold in the local market this is a commercial decision rather than a stylistic one. A customer who cannot read the directions is a customer who puts the box back.

  • Directions, ingredients and warnings in Urdu reach a far wider share of the market than English alone, particularly on food, household and personal care products.
  • Keep numerals standard. Weight, volume, price, batch and dates are read by distributors, retailers and inspectors, and mixed numeral systems cause problems all the way down the chain.
  • Give each language its own panel. Urdu runs right to left, so put English on the back and Urdu on a side panel rather than interleaving lines on one small face.
  • Do not translate the brand name. It is an identifier. A product that appears under two names confuses repeat purchase.
  • Send Urdu as outlines or a print-ready PDF with fonts embedded. Nastaliq letters join and reshape, and on a small panel a broken join is not obvious until hundreds are printed.
  • Working in InPage? Export to PDF and send that rather than the .inp file. If you only have the InPage layout, send it and we will rebuild it as a print file.
  • Do not set Urdu below about 6 pt. Below that Nastaliq loses its joins and becomes a grey line rather than words.

Sindhi and Pashto follow the same rules.

Why brands print their packaging with Zarvex

Packaging goes wrong in ways flat print never does, so these are the things we check before anything is printed.

A plain sample before the run

We make an unprinted sample of your box first, so you can put the product in it and check it fits, closes and stands up. Finding that out on a folded blank costs nothing; finding it out on a printed run costs the whole order.

Dielines built from your product

Send us the actual item and we measure it, allowing for the thickness of the card and the room a product needs to slide in and out without tearing the flaps.

A whole range in one order

Several variants printed together, so a set of six boxes costs far less than six separate jobs and the colour stays consistent across the range.

An honest answer about size

If your box is bigger than we can make well, or it needs corrugated board, we will tell you at the enquiry rather than after you have paid. Quotes are in PKR.

How ordering works

01. Send the product

Bring or courier one unit, or send its measurements. That decides the box style, the size and the stock.

02. Check a plain sample

We build the dieline and make an unprinted sample. Fill it, close it, stand it up and make sure it works.

03. Approve the artwork

Your design is laid out on the confirmed dieline and sent as a proof. Check the panels, the barcode and the coding box.

04. Printed and delivered

Boxes arrive flat, ready to fold, delivered in Karachi or couriered nationwide. Dielines stay on record for reorders.

Getting your artwork press-ready

Packaging artwork is laid out flat on a dieline and only becomes a box afterwards, which is where most supplied files come unstuck.

  • Build on the dieline we send you, with the cut path on its own layer in a spot colour named CutContour and the crease lines on a second layer, both set to overprint and not printing.
  • Bleed 3 mm past every cut edge, including the flaps, and keep text and logos at least 5 mm inside any crease.
  • Nothing on the glue flap. Leave that tab completely clear of ink.
  • Mind which way up each panel sits. On a folded box the back panel is often upside down on the flat sheet. Work on the dieline rather than designing panels separately and hoping.
  • Barcodes as vector, never scaled from an image, with the quiet zone clear, printed dark on light and away from a crease. Test a printed sample with a real scanner before approving.
  • Leave a coding panel in a light flat colour for batch and expiry, so your stamp or coder prints onto it legibly.
  • 300 DPI at final size, CMYK, rich black at C40 M30 Y30 K100 for large dark panels, and fonts outlined or embedded.
  • Files: print-ready PDF, AI or EPS suit packaging best. We also accept CDR from CorelDRAW and layered PSD with the dieline supplied separately.

No dieline and no artwork? Send the product, your logo and the text that has to appear, and our design team will build both before anything goes to proof.

Packaging by product

What goes inside decides the size and the stock, and how it is sold decides how much the box has to do on its own.

Soap, candle and handmade brands

Kraft or plain card with a single ink colour, often with a window cut-out so the product shows. Short runs suit a maker testing a range before committing to one.

Cosmetics and skincare

Small tuck-end cartons for tubes, jars and bottles, with a back panel carrying directions and a side panel for the barcode. Coding box left clear for batch and expiry.

Bakeries and sweet shops

Boxes and sleeves for cakes, brownies, chocolates and gift sets. For anything touching food directly, use a liner or wrap inside the box.

Tea, spices and dry goods

Cartons and sleeves for pouches and jars, with room on the back panel for ingredients, weight and storage instructions in both languages.

Jewellery and accessories

Pillow boxes and small tuck-ends where the packaging is part of the gift. Textured or coloured stock does more here than printing does.

Online sellers

Branded boxes and sleeves that go inside the courier bag rather than replacing it. It is the cheapest way to make an unboxing look considered.

Quantities, pricing and reorders

Cost per box falls as the run grows. Quotes are in PKR and cover the card, printing, cutting, creasing and gluing, supplied flat and ready to fold.

QuantityCost per box
Small first batchHighest per box, and worth doing anyway
A few hundredNoticeably lower
Five hundred and upBest value on most jobs
Larger runsQuoted per job

Packaging rewards planning more than most print, because the box has to keep working as the product changes.

  • Print a small batch first, always. Fill them, close them, put them in a bag and carry them around for a week. Packaging fails in ways you only find by using it, and finding out on fifty boxes is cheap.
  • Order the whole range together. Variants printed in one job cost far less than separate orders, and the colour matches across the set, which is very hard to achieve across runs printed months apart.
  • Keep the price off the box. Print it on a sticker or leave it to the shelf. Prices move faster than packaging stock does, and a printed price turns a full carton into waste.
  • Keep batch and expiry off the artwork too, and code them on your own line. Otherwise the boxes have a shelf life before the product does.
  • Store them flat, dry and out of direct heat. Card takes up humidity, and boxes stored badly will not fold square.

Reorders are simple. Your artwork and dieline stay on record, so a repeat run needs no new sample and no new proof unless something has changed.

Packaging printing FAQs

Smaller than most box makers will take. We are set up for short runs, so a first batch for a market stall, a gift range or a product test is a normal order here rather than something we turn away. Tell us the quantity you have in mind and we will confirm it with your quote.

The flat, unfolded blank has to fit within 329 x 483 mm, which covers most retail and gift packaging: soap, candles, cosmetics, tea, spices, jewellery, accessories and confectionery. As a rough guide that is a finished box up to around 150 x 100 x 60 mm, though a flatter shape can be larger. Send us the product and we will confirm exactly.

No. We print on card up to 300gsm, which is retail and gift packaging rather than a courier carton. A box that has to survive shipping on its own needs corrugated board from a box maker. What works well instead is a printed box or sleeve that goes inside the courier bag, which is how most online sellers do it anyway.

Yes, and this is the usual situation. Send us the product itself, or its measurements, and we build the dieline around it, allowing for the thickness of the card and the room the product needs to slide in without tearing the flaps. You get a plain sample to check before anything is printed.

Yes, and you should insist on it. We make an unprinted sample of your box so you can fill it, close it and stand it up. Packaging fails in ways that are obvious the moment you hold it and invisible on a screen.

Yes, as an open cut-out, cut digitally at no extra cost and in any shape you draw. We do not fit clear film behind the window, so the opening is genuinely open. On kraft and plain stock that reads as deliberate, and for soap, candles and baked goods it works well.

Treat the printed card as outer packaging rather than a food-contact surface. For anything touching food directly, use a liner, wrap or bag inside the box, which is standard practice for bakery and confectionery packaging anyway. Tell us what is going inside and we will advise on the construction.

They arrive flat with the creases already made and the side seam glued, so folding one up takes a few seconds by hand. Flat is also how you should store them: they take a fraction of the space and they do not get crushed.

Yes, and it is often the smarter option. A printed sleeve brands a plain box, tray or jar at a fraction of the cost of a custom box, works at sizes beyond what we can make, and lets you change a variant or a claim without replacing the packaging itself.

Yes, and for the local market it usually helps the product sell. Put directions, ingredients and warnings in Urdu, keep numerals standard, and give each language its own panel rather than interleaving lines. Send Urdu as outlines or a print-ready PDF, and keep it at 6 pt or larger.

Print-ready PDF, AI or EPS built on the dieline we supply, with the cut path and crease lines on separate layers in spot colours, 3 mm bleed past every cut edge and fonts outlined. We also accept CDR from CorelDRAW and layered PSD with the dieline supplied separately.

Across most small-batch and retail categories, and the list keeps growing. The packaging we print regularly goes to soap, candle and handmade brands, cosmetics and skincare, bakeries and sweet shops, tea, spices and dry goods, jewellery and accessories, and online sellers.

The product matters less than its size and what has to be declared on the box. If your line of work is not named above, tell us what you are packing and how it is sold, and we will tell you what suits it.

Yes. Orders are couriered anywhere in Pakistan, including Lahore, Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Faisalabad, Multan, Peshawar, Hyderabad and Quetta, and delivery within Karachi can be arranged directly. Boxes travel flat, so they arrive without crushed corners.

Pick a product from the range above and order on the site, or send your requirement on WhatsApp with a photo of what you are packing, the rough size and the quantity. Sending the actual product is the fastest route to an accurate quote in PKR.

Ready to package your product?

Send us a photo of what you are packing on WhatsApp, or bring one unit in. We will come back with box styles, stock options and a quote in PKR.