Custom Printed Cardboard Packaging Services

We’re specialists in printing cardboard. It’s what we do all day, every day. We have invested in the best technologies for wide format printing onto cardboard.

We specialise in printing onto cardboard using various methods:

  • Digital printing onto cardboard
  • Screen printing onto cardboard
  • Flexographic printing onto cardboard
  • Lithographic printing onto cardboard

Cardboard’s eco-friendly properties make it a consumer favourite. We can print on white or brown corrugated cardboard, with white ink under CMY colours for vibrant results.

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Cardboard Printing Services

Both you and your customers will be delighted with our cardboard printing services. Superb quality print, cut and creased if required, neatly and safely packed, delivered on schedule.

Whether you want cardboard signs, standees, other promotional material or packaging, we have the knowledge and machinery in house to deliver fantastic results. Because everything we make is completely customised, you can have whatever you like, subject to the minimum order value.

Custom Printing and Cutting Services

Our services are completely customised, offering superb quality prints, cuts, and creases, delivered on schedule. Whether for packaging or display, we ensure fantastic results tailored to your needs.

We are renowned for high-quality results, excellent colour reproduction, and quick turnarounds. Our approachable sales team and excellent customer service ensure a seamless experience.

Our Printing Services

Wide Format Printing Services

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We offer comprehensive wide format printing services to businesses, charities, and institutions throughout the UK and Europe.

Large Format Printing Services

Large Format Printing Services uk

We provide extensive large format printing services to businesses, charities, and institutions across the UK and Europe.

Specialised Printing Services

Specialised Printing Services UK

For all of the bespoke corrugated cardboard packaging and display units we supply to customers on a daily basis in our factory.

Types of printing we offer

Digital

Key Features

  • Full Colour: extending design possibilities.
  • Ink Types: Colour Matching time is reduced
  • Speed: Known for high-speed production capabilities.
  • High Added Value

Screen

Key Features

  • Versatile: The freedom to create different designs.
  • Vibrant: Colours, particularly in multiple colour designs, display beautifully..
  • Exceptional Speed: One of the fastest ways to print.

Flexographic

Key Features

  • Printing Plates: Uses flexible, raised-image plates.
  • Ink Types: Utilises fast-drying inks, often water-based or UV-curable.
  • Speed: Known for high-speed production capabilities.
  • Substrates: Can print on a wide variety of substrates including paper, corrugated board, plastic, and metallic films.

Lithographic

Key Features

  • Versatile: Printing Plates: Uses flat plates that transfer the image to a rubber blanket before it reaches the substrate.
  • Ink Types: Utilises oil-based or UV-curable inks.
  • Quality: Known for producing high-resolution, detailed, and consistent images.
  • Substrates: Primarily used on flat, smooth surfaces such as paper and cardstock.

Digital Advantages

  • High Quality Printing: Ideal for large production runs due to its high-speed operation.
  • Plates not required: Ink layers applied to the Surface.
  • Small Projects: Great for smaller projects with less need for a large print run.
  • Customisation: Our Printers allow for different sized boxes and displays.

Screen Advantages

  • Durable: With the heavy use of ink, the resulting finished product is able to withstand the elements more.
  • Cost-Effective: Easy to print high volume.
  • Versatility: Capable of printing on various materials, making it suitable for diverse applications.

Flexo Advantages

  • Efficiency: Ideal for large production runs due to its high-speed operation.
  • Cost-Effective: More economical for high-volume orders as the cost per unit decreases with increased quantity.
  • Versatility: Capable of printing on various materials, making it suitable for diverse applications.
  • Durability: Produces prints that are robust and can withstand handling and shipping.

Litho Advantages

  • High Quality: Delivers superior image quality with fine detail and color accuracy.
  • Consistency: Maintains consistent quality throughout the print run, making it ideal for projects requiring precise color matching and sharp detail.
  • Cost Efficiency for Medium Runs: More economical for medium to large runs compared to digital printing, but setup costs can be higher than flexo for very large runs.

Digital Applications

  • Packaging: Great for Flexible packaging requirments.
  • Unique Designs: Where our design skills transfer into great finished product.

Screen Applications

  • Colour Resistant: Great at resisting temperature or sunlight changes.
  • Large Scale Projects: Challenge us to screen print your large or wide format printing needs.

Flexo Applications

  • Packaging: Widely used for packaging materials such as corrugated boxes, labels, and flexible packaging.
  • Large Runs: Best suited for long production runs where uniformity and speed are critical.

Litho Applications

  • Commercial Printing: Frequently used for printing brochures, magazines, posters, and high-end packaging.
  • High-Quality Packaging: Ideal for premium packaging that requires detailed and vibrant images.

Digital

Key Features

  • Full Colour: extending design possibilities.
  • Ink Types: Colour Matching time is reduced
  • Speed: Known for high-speed production capabilities.
  • High Added Value

Advantages

  • High Quality Printing: Ideal for large production runs due to its high-speed operation.
  • Plates not required: Ink layers applied to the Surface.
  • Small Projects: Great for smaller projects with less need for a large print run.
  • Customisation: Our Printers allow for different sized boxes and displays.

Applications

  • Packaging: Great for Flexible packaging requirments.
  • Unique Designs: Where our design skills transfer into great finished product.

Screen

Key Features

  • Versatile: The freedom to create different designs.
  • Vibrant: Colours, particularly in multiple colour designs, display beautifully..
  • Exceptional Speed: One of the fastest ways to print.

Advantages

  • Durable: With the heavy use of ink, the resulting finished product is able to withstand the elements more.
  • Cost-Effective: Easy to print high volume.
  • Versatility: Capable of printing on various materials, making it suitable for diverse applications.

Applications

  • Colour Resistant: Great at resisting temperature or sunlight changes.
  • Large Scale Projects: Challenge us to screen print your large or wide format printing needs.

Flexographic

Key Features

  • Printing Plates: Uses flexible, raised-image plates.
  • Ink Types: Utilises fast-drying inks, often water-based or UV-curable.
  • Speed: Known for high-speed production capabilities.
  • Substrates: Can print on a wide variety of substrates including paper, corrugated board, plastic, and metallic films.

Advantages

  • Efficiency: Ideal for large production runs due to its high-speed operation.
  • Cost-Effective: More economical for high-volume orders as the cost per unit decreases with increased quantity.
  • Versatility: Capable of printing on various materials, making it suitable for diverse applications.
  • Durability: Produces prints that are robust and can withstand handling and shipping.

Applications

  • Packaging: Widely used for packaging materials such as corrugated boxes, labels, and flexible packaging.
  • Large Runs: Best suited for long production runs where uniformity and speed are critical.

Lithographic

Key Features

  • Versatile: Printing Plates: Uses flat plates that transfer the image to a rubber blanket before it reaches the substrate.
  • Ink Types: Utilises oil-based or UV-curable inks.
  • Quality: Known for producing high-resolution, detailed, and consistent images.
  • Substrates: Primarily used on flat, smooth surfaces such as paper and cardstock.

Advantages

  • High Quality: Delivers superior image quality with fine detail and color accuracy.
  • Consistency: Maintains consistent quality throughout the print run, making it ideal for projects requiring precise color matching and sharp detail.
  • Cost Efficiency for Medium Runs: More economical for medium to large runs compared to digital printing, but setup costs can be higher than flexo for very large runs.

Applications

  • Commercial Printing: Frequently used for printing brochures, magazines, posters, and high-end packaging.
  • High-Quality Packaging: Ideal for premium packaging that requires detailed and vibrant images.

Wide Format Printing Services UK

We have invested in the best wide format digital printing technology; you’ll be amazed at the near-offset print quality we can achieve with our digital printer.

Our Swiss Q Print Nyala 3 wide format digital printer has a huge flat bed for printing large sheets of material.

The bed measures 3.2m x 2m which suits most large sheet materials. We are able to print many smaller sheets at once, or one or two large sheets.

Our extensive range of manufacturing equipment means that our services include:

  • wide format digital printing
  • wide format screen printing
  • wide format flexographic printing
  • wide format lithographic printing

Large Format Printing Services UK

For large format digital printing services, our flatbed Swiss Q Nyala 3 digital printer takes sheets up to 3.2m x 2m with a clearance height of 50mm for those thicker sheet materials.

We use LED UV-cured ink for long lasting bright colours. Along with CMYK inks, we also have white ink and varnish for more special, highly specified jobs. White ink is great for large format printing jobs on darker media.

We find that white ink looks really stylish on our brown corrugated cardboard, and it’s fabulous on coloured paper, cardstock and Foamex.

  • large format digital printing
  • large format screen printing
  • large format flexographic printing
  • large format lithographic printing

Large Format Printing for Artists and Photographers

Our Swiss Q Print Nyala 3 Digital printer has the capability to print photos with fine colour gradations.

We are able to print with smaller droplets of just 9 picolitres, which offers smooth gradients and uniform expanses of colour when combined with high resolution.

Because we couldn’t put it better ourselves, feel free to read more about our fine art printing with a visual print resolution up to 2160 dpi here on the printer manufacturer’s website.

Large Format Printing For Museums

As a temporary display manufacturer we work with museums, galleries and institutions to print large, self-supporting structures to advertise temporary and semi-permanent exhibitions. We have the benefit over most print companies of having a team of in-house cardboard engineers capable of designing completely customised structures from corrugated cardboard and honeycomb cardboard – a fabulous recycled and recyclable material. However, we also use various different materials for a range of effects and uses.

We understand the importance of high quality print and millimetre perfect results when we offer our large format printing for museums. We also work with institutions such as universities, galleries and private companies to create large printed panels for temporary display and semi-permanent use.

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Specialised Printing Services

We design bespoke cardboard packaging and displays units for all types of businesses in the UK and abroad. For example, influencer boxes, presentation boxes, free standing display units, countertop display units, and more.

We design, print, cut, finish and deliver these within the UK.

When it comes to printing for packaging and various other applications, different methods often come into play: digital, screen, flexographic (flexo) and lithographic (offset) printing.

Each method has its unique advantages and is suited to different types of projects:

Printing FAQ’s

We advise international customers to arrange collection as it saves on cost and time for them to handle their own import.

This varies depending on what we have scheduled into production, for example right now it’s 3 – 4 weeks from approval to print. With sampling taking up to 1 week.

Up to 20,000 runs

We typically flat pack on pallets (unless requested otherwise) and then send on overnight carrier. So, 24 hr delivery – it is possible for you to pay extra for dedicated door to door same day deliveries, or if you need a specific AM delivery, just please let us know at the time of purchase.

Printing onto Cardboard

Printing onto cardboard is a fantastic method to add colour, branding, logos etc. to a simple but strong material.

Cardboard’s eco-friendly properties make it a consumer favourite, too, as it’s so easy to recycle. Corrugated cardboard is available from the paper mill in white or brown. When we print onto cardboard, it can be any colour you like. White cardboard makes colours pop and is ideal for full colour printing and a high-end look.

Brown board though can be stylish and looks great with a strong one or two colour print. Naturally brown board can be printed full colour but we usually recommend white ink under the CMY colours, so that the colours remain vibrant like they appear on screen, but it really depends what look you’re going for.

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Retail Gift Packaging for Gin
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Cardboard Printing and Cutting

As a manufacturer of packaging and point of sale materials, with years of experience, we know cardboard – trust us with your cardboard printing and cutting jobs. We offer a range of corrugated cardboard sheets in stock, of different thicknesses and sizes. For example, we offer F flute, E flute, B flute, C flute, EE flute, EB flute and BC flute corrugated board. We print directly to the board and cut accurately to register with the print. For longer production runs we use die cutting, we make a set tool from CAD drawings – it’s a really quick way of cutting multiple copies.

Printing on Thick Cardboard

Our digital printer is huge and the flat bed measures 3.2m x 2m. So it’s perfect for printing large sheets and thick cardboard sheets up to 50mm, as our print head clearance is 50mm. We use our digital printer for printing on thick cardboard all day, every day – usually for thicknesses between 1.5mm to 7mm. However we also use it for 10mm, 16mm and 18mm thick structural/Falcon/Honeycomb board. We can also screen print and flexo print thick cardboard for a different look.  Furthermore, we cut and crease thick cardboard once it is printed, with a truly customised service, whether you’re looking for packaging or display.

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