Custom printed sleeve boxes and sleeves made to your size with no minimum order. Slide out sleeve and tray boxes, printed paper sleeves for soap and candles, and shrink sleeves for bottles and jars, all full color and priced to beat what you are paying now.
A clean way to wrap and brand
A sleeve is the simple band that slides over a tray, a bar, or a bottle to carry the branding while using less board than a full box. Slide out sleeve and tray boxes give a nice reveal for gifts and premium products. Printed paper sleeves dress up soap and candles for pennies. Shrink sleeves wrap a bottle or jar in full color from cap to base. Kraft, white, and full color print are all on the table.
Why order your sleeves here
No minimum order, free design help, free samples, full color printing and a fast turnaround. Tell us what the sleeve wraps and its size, and we will send a free quote.
Ready to price your sleeves? Request a free quote with no minimum, and we will match any genuine price you have been quoted.
Sleeve box FAQs
Is there a minimum order? No. Order a small run or a full line.
How much do sleeves cost? Price follows the type and quantity, so we quote your spec for free and match any genuine competitor price.
What can a sleeve wrap? A tray, a bar, a bottle, or a jar. We make slide out sleeve and tray boxes, printed paper sleeves, and shrink sleeves.
Turnaround and samples? Most orders run in about 7 to 14 business days, with free samples and design help.
Popular in this category, all made with no minimum order: Kraft Sleeve Boxes, Seal End Boxes, Kraft Tuck Top Boxes, Small Kraft Boxes, and Cosmetic Cardboard Boxes.
Related categories: soap boxes, kraft boxes, and candle boxes.
A sleeve is a printed band that slides over something else — a tray, a box, a bar of soap, a bottle. It carries all the artwork and none of the structure, which means you can change it as often as you like while the thing underneath stays exactly the same.
That is the whole argument for the format, and it is a strong one. One base structure and a rotating sleeve gives you seasonal variants, limited editions, co-branded runs and market-specific labeling without retooling a box or holding a separate inventory for each. The base is settled once; the sleeve is where the marketing happens.
A sleeve has to slide on without force and stay put without moving. Those are close together, and the gap between them is a couple of millimeters. Too tight and assembly slows to a crawl and the sleeve scuffs going on; too loose and it rides up in a carton and arrives crooked, which looks worse than no sleeve at all.
Board thickness on the base is part of that calculation, so a sleeve should be specified against the actual base it will sit on rather than against nominal dimensions. If you already have the base, send it.
A full-width sleeve hides the base entirely, which wastes the base and makes the sleeve do all the work. A narrower band shows the material underneath — kraft, black board, a texture — and the contrast usually does more for the shelf than covering everything. It also uses less material and slides on more easily.
Sleeve boxes pair a printed sleeve with a tray or an inner box, which is the standard two-part construction. Sleeve and tray candle boxes are the same idea built around a jar — more on that range in custom candle boxes.
Paper soap sleeves, custom soap sleeves and soap packaging sleeves wrap the bar directly and leave both ends open, which is what lets cold process soap keep breathing while it finishes curing. That is covered properly in custom soap boxes.
Cream and butter sleeves handle chilled dairy formats. Custom shrink sleeves are a different technology entirely: printed film that conforms to a bottle or a jar under heat, which suits shaped containers no flat sleeve can wrap.
No minimum order, which suits this format particularly well — a sleeve run for one season or one collaboration is a normal order rather than an exception. Sleeves are cut to the base they sit on. Design is free, samples are free, and shipping is free.
Snug enough not to slide under its own weight, loose enough to go on without force. That window is narrow, which is why a sleeve should be specified against the physical base rather than a drawing.
Yes, and that is the reason to choose the format. Keep one base, print new sleeves whenever the range or the season changes, and hold one structural inventory instead of several.
Usually not. Leaving some of the base visible uses less material, slides on more easily, and lets the material underneath do some of the work. A full wrap is worth it only when the base is plain and the artwork needs the room.
A paper sleeve is a flat band that slides on. A shrink sleeve is printed film applied with heat so it conforms to a shape. Flat sleeves suit boxes, trays and bars; shrink sleeves suit bottles, jars and anything curved.
Yes, and they are common on it, because the sleeve carries the branding and the legally required text while the tray underneath handles the food contact. That separation often simplifies the specification on both parts.
