Shanghai Box Packaging is a professional and reliable China rigid box manufacturers, located in Shanghai. Rigid box or rigid set up boxes is a kind of paper packaging box made from high quality cardboard material, a good apperance and ablity to secure well your products. The custom rigid boxes enable you print your brand on the boxes inside and outside, add value to your products. Moreover, if your products with high value, we are able to add foam protection insert or cardboard insert into the rigid boxes. 
Design for rigid set up box
Some customers asked, how can i get start with the box design? We have a solution of the box design for you, just follow our box designer’s idea and guidance, you will turn your idea into reality! Anyway, it’s simple to run this design under our help. 
Common box shape of custom rigid boxes
There are around 89 box shapes in rigid boxes only, however only 3 types are mainly used, Box Packing Solution team figure them out as below:
- Flip Top rigid boxes. This box you can see them around the market to pack wine, electronic products and jewel market niche.
- Lift-off lid rigid boxes. Iphone packaging box style, rigid and durable.
- Tray with sleeve rigid boxes. an elegant open style, most level secure your products.
Printing finish on Rigid box
Printing finish is the last way to make your box more eye-catching after printing. Below we make a conclusion of common printing finish method for your reference. You can visit our printing finish topic page to check all method.
Oil varnish
The cheapest way to protect your printing contents, add a small effect on your printing work.
Plastic lamination
The most economical way to make the box shiny or matt full-over.
Foil Stamping
Make your logo or text spot colored with colorful metallic pigment varnished, very shiny under light, eye-catching.
UV varnish
Water based material, enable your logo or text with touch feeling and easy recognized, cheaper than foil stamping.
Embossing
Make an area outbonding than other area, easy to feel when you touch on.
Soft-touch film lamination
expensive but luxury plastic lamination, matt and soft touch feel, always used in luxury packaging boxes and rigid present boxmanufacturing.
Mimimum order of Soft-touch film lamination
As this kind of material not common ones, we could not ensure enough stock, so we always buying them based on order from soft-touch film factory, we request miminum order quantity of 500 pieces custom rigid boxes. 
How can you save shipping costs on Rigid box | Rigid set up boxes
It is a shame when customers cancel the order since the shipping costs are way too high. the reason is that the box are not foldable and master carton too big. To solve this problem, we have 3 solutions:
- Make the box foldable. Do you know that rigid set up boxes can be foldable? just check our foldable gift boxes archive, also called collapsible rigid boxes. Surely the unit price would be higher, but it seems good choice regarding much more shipping costs.
- Choose the correct master carton size. We checked a lot customer’s complain regarding their importing experience. We found that there is a lot of room wasted in the master box and container. This request professional packaging experience and professional packing boxes into containers. Try to think, if a container load more boxes by us, you will save some costs, right?
- Try to add some quantity. The unit costs mainly comes from printing and material, if you order 500 pieces or less, the average set up costs will seems crazy. However, if you add quantity to 2000 pieces, the unit cost should be 35-45% off! Stock the boxes is a problem? no worries, we can make stock for you and ship them out by several times.