How we work
Everything a box needs, under one roof
Structural drawing, printing, foiling, embossing, laminating and gluing happen in our own workshop in Tangxia, Dongguan. That is the reason a 500-unit order is workable: nothing is passed to a second supplier with a minimum of its own.
01 — Structure
The dieline comes first
A box is decided by its drawing, not by its artwork. We draw the structure from your product, so the fit is settled before anyone talks about print.
Drawn from your product
Give us the product dimensions — a bottle, a jar, a folded garment, a candle — and we build the dieline around it, including the headspace and clearance it needs.
Or refined from yours
Already have a dieline? Send it and we will work from it, or adjust the structure where it does not suit the board or your packing line.
At no charge
Structural design and the dieline are free of charge, before you commit to a production run.
02 — Print & finish
Print, then make the surface do the work
Spot colour, matched to your reference
Send the reference you already work to — a printed sample, a swatch, a colour code — and we match the ink to it. Four-colour process printing for photographic artwork.
Foil, emboss, spot UV
Metallic and coloured foils, raised or debossed relief, and gloss highlights over a matt base. These three finishes do more to change how a box feels in the hand than any others.
Six laminations
Matt, gloss, soft-touch, anti-scratch, plastic-free and starlight — chosen against the artwork and how the box will be handled.
Recyclable board options
Where the product allows it, we will quote board and laminations that keep the pack recyclable — and tell you when a finish would work against that.
03 — Before production
Nothing goes on the press unapproved
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Dieline proof
You see the structure and the dimensions first, and we change it until the fit is right.
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Sample
White sample free, out in 7 days. A printed production sample is ready in 10 days, about US$100 per structure, refunded against orders over 10,000 units; the courier is on your account. Special materials and finishes can take longer.
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Your approval
Structure, artwork, board and finish are signed off together — in writing, before the run starts.
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Production
Printed, finished, glued and packed. Production lead time is 45 days from the later of sample approval and receipt of the deposit (30% deposit, balance by T/T); schedule and shipping terms are agreed with the quote, so there is nothing left to negotiate at the end.
The workshop
What we run, and how much of it
This is a working factory, not a sales office with a supplier list. One workshop in Tangxia, five product lines, and the presses below — so a run is scheduled, not outsourced and chased.
- 11,000 m² — 7,000 m² of production and 4,000 m² of storage, in one building.
- 150 people, including a separate sampling room with its own equipment.
- Three offset presses — a 6-colour and a 5-colour Komori, plus a 2-colour press for spot work.
- Two Fengchi flute laminators — offset-printed sheet laminated to corrugated board in house, so corrugated cartons are printed here, not bought in printed.
- Peak season runs from June through January. If your launch falls in that window, book the slot early.
- Offset
- Foil
- Emboss
- Deboss
- Lamination
- Die-cutting
- V-grooving
- Gluing
- Rigid box forming
| Product | Per month |
|---|---|
| Folding cartons | 10 million pcs |
| Corrugated cartons | 1.5 million pcs |
| Rigid boxes (lid and base) | 4 million pcs |
| Book-style boxes | 1 million pcs |
| Drawer boxes | 500,000 pcs |
Rigid boxes, book-style and drawer boxes are assembled on dedicated automatic lines — eight for lid-and-base, one for book-style, one for drawers.
Sampling
What a sample costs, and how long it takes
The white sample is the low-cost check — it settles structure and fit before anyone commits to print. The printed production sample costs more, because it runs on the tooling your order will use.
| Sample type | Cost | Lead time | What it is for |
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| White sample | Free | 7 days | Structure and fit, unprinted |
| Printed production sample | about US$100 per structure — refunded against orders over 10,000 units | 10 days | Board, print and finish as they will ship |
Courier is on your account. Digital samples are cut without a die; a production sample is run on your order’s tooling.
04 — Where it is made
Dongguan Chengcai Packaging Co., Ltd.
Our workshop, on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary in Guangdong. You are dealing with the people who make the boxes — not an intermediary passing a specification along.
Dongguan Chengcai Packaging Co., Ltd.东莞市澄彩包装有限公司
Bldg 3, 1–2F, Yumingxin Industrial Park,
Tangxia, Dongguan, Guangdong, China
Visiting Dongguan, or want to see the workshop before a first order? Ask us to arrange a walkthrough.
05 — Pricing
Why there is no price list
A box's price moves with the board, the size of the run and the finishing — the same carton in matt and in soft-touch foil are two different jobs. So every quote is built from the dieline.
- Send: product dimensions, quantity, finishing you have in mind.
- Get back: the quote and the dieline, within three working days.
- Then: a white sample in 7 days, before you commit to a run.
What a quote covers
Included, and charged on top
Not knowing what else will appear on the invoice stops more first orders than the price itself. So here is the boundary before you ask.
Included
- Structural design and the dieline — at no charge.
- Printing and finishing to the specification we agree in writing.
- Gluing, and packing the boxes for shipment.
- The white sample itself — free of charge, out in 7 days.
Charged separately
- A printed production sample — about US$100 per structure, ready in 10 days, refunded against orders over 10,000 units. The fee does not include tooling.
- Tooling and plate charges, where a job needs them — listed as their own lines on the quote.
- Courier for samples — on your account.
- Freight — quoted FOB Shenzhen unless you ask for another Incoterm.
Talk to us
Questions about a structure are free
Ask before you have artwork, before you have a quantity, before you know which box you need. The dimensions and a rough idea are enough to start.