Printed Sleeves
Board sleeves that wrap a tray, box or bundle. The most economical way to run variants without retooling the pack.
A sleeve is a printed band of paperboard that slides over a tray, box or grouped units. Because the sleeve carries the artwork while the base pack stays constant, it is the cheapest route to multiple SKUs, seasonal editions and promotional bundles.
Typical applications
Where this format is used
- Variant and flavour differentiation on a shared base pack
- Festive and limited-edition runs
- Multi-pack and combo bundling
- Ready meal and food tray banding
- Minimalist premium packaging for D2C
Industries: FMCG & Food · Cosmetics & Personal Care · D2C Brands · Retail & Lifestyle
Customisation
What you can specify
- Format
- Full wrap, partial band, open-ended and belly-band constructions
- Full-colour offset, or restrained single-colour work on uncoated stock
- Finish
- Matte, soft-touch, spot UV and foil accents
- Board
- Lightweight to heavy grades depending on grip and rigidity needed
- Detailing
- Thumb cuts, die-cut apertures and perforated tear strips
Why the specification matters
What this decision actually costs you if it goes wrong
Run more SKUs without more tooling
One base pack plus several printed sleeves lets you carry variants, languages or regional editions while amortising a single die across all of them.
Change the campaign, not the pack
Seasonal and promotional artwork can move on the sleeve alone, so a campaign refresh does not mean writing off existing carton stock.
Material efficiency reads as restraint
A sleeve uses noticeably less board than a full secondary carton. For brands making a sustainability argument, it is a reduction that customers can actually see.
Next step
Send us the specification
For printed sleeves, these are the details that let us quote in one round rather than three:
- Dimensions of the item the sleeve will wrap
- Full wrap or partial band
- Number of artwork variants in the run
- Finish preference
- Quantity per variant
Do not have all of it? Send what you have — most first enquiries arrive incomplete, and working the gaps out is part of the job.
Or call us and talk it through.
Also manufactured here
Monocartons
The workhorse retail carton. Offset-printed folding cartons in a single paperboard piece, die-cut and glued to your structure.
Corrugated Boxes
Shippers, master cartons and e-commerce mailers. Engineered for stacking strength and transit survival, printed to stay on brand.
Window Boxes
Cartons with a die-cut aperture and clear film patch, so the product sells itself through the pack.