The Psychology of Our White Boxes: Why They Stand Out
When white comes to mind, the first thing that comes to it is purity and cleanliness. If your target audience is more concerned about simplicity and hygiene without compromise on quality, use our white boxes in all sizes, shapes, designs, and styles. Just print the name of your brand or any primary feature of the product while keeping all the boxes clutter free. Your customers will get the idea about your product at first glance, and the clarity of the boxes will give them confidence to know exactly about the product. Our white boxes provide a premium feel and sophistication, leading to the development of trust and transparency for your brand.
Understand Your Product Packaging Needs for White Packaging
The base of exceptional packaging comes from proper planning. Our packaging experts help to pinpoint the product features and other aspects. Some of them are:
Product Characteristics
Size
Weight
Fragility
Types of Product
Cosmetics
Electronics
Apparel
Food
Brand Identity & Message
Clean
Luxury
Minimalist
Eco Friendly
Modern
Target Audience
Premium Feel
Luxury
Sustainability
Affordability
When you go through our given parameters, it will provide you with clarity about what sort of white boxes you should buy. After understanding your product, brand, and audience, our customization will give you more leverage to have the custom white boxes you desire.
Key Considerations for White Shipping Boxes
Versatility in Packaging Material Selection
Whether you need white boxes for your e-commerce business or electronics products, material selection is the first step of concern. We offer cardboards that are smooth and have a bright white surface. They are the right option for lighter products. Our corrugated cardboard is stronger, better for shipping, and provides cushioning due to multi-layered structures and flutes. Our Rigid boxes with lids offer a premium unboxing experience to your customers.
Adaptability to Various Sizes, Designs, and Styles
You have a diverse product line with specific needs, but our white boxes fulfill them all. They come in all sizes and styles. Our functional designs for white boxes include
Standard Tuck End Boxes
White Mailer Boxes
Magnetic Closure Boxes
Pillow Boxes
Two Piece Boxes
Custom Die Cut Boxes
You can enhance the aesthetic appeal of white boxes with our printing and finishing options. Use our matte coating, gloss coating, aqueous coating, and more. Print your brand name with a logo on white boxes through our innovative printing techniques, such as CMYK printing, digital printing, and offset printing. Go for our inserts or ribbon to make your white boxes gift worthy.
Sustainable Storytelling
Most brands are looking for eco-friendly packaging. Our white shipping boxes are made of paper-based material and leave no harmful effect at the end of their life cycle. You can showcase your sustainability commitment with our white boxes to your customers.
Cost-Effective Custom Packaging Solution
From material to finishes, white boxes are the most cost-effective packaging solution. They don’t need multi-color printing, which helps you to save money. White boxes keep your packaging within your budget constraints.
Important Types of Our White Boxes
White Shipping Boxes
When it comes to safe shipping, use our white shipping boxes. They are made of corrugated cardboard with a white outer layer and offer a clean, professional, and premium appearance.
Characteristics: They offer durability and protection during transit, similar to their brown counterparts. The white surface provides an excellent surface for printing branding, labels, and shipping information, making it easy to read.
Uses: Commonly used by e-commerce businesses, retailers, and individuals for mailing, moving, and storing a wide range of products that require a clean or branded presentation.
White Gift Boxes with Lids
Our White Gift Boxes with lid are decorative boxes, usually made from paperboard or rigid cardboard, that come with a separate or attached lid. We design them for presenting gifts elegantly.
Characteristics:With neat, orderly, and often luxurious appearance, white gift boxes come in various sizes and styles (e.g., nesting sets, square, rectangular, apparel boxes). The white surface makes them versatile for customization with ribbons, tissue paper, or stickers.
Uses: Perfect for gifting on various occasions (birthdays, holidays, weddings, anniversaries), packaging high-end retail items, creating bridesmaid proposal boxes, or even for stylish storage.
White Mailer Boxes
Our white mailer boxes are corrugated boxes with an interlocking design that typically doesn’t require tape or glue for assembly. They feature a white exterior, providing a clean and presentable look, especially for direct-to-consumer shipping.
Characteristics: They are lightweight yet durable, making them ideal for shipping smaller, often flatter items like apparel, accessories, books, or subscription box contents. They offer easy assembly and a professional unboxing experience.
Uses: Popular for e-commerce, subscription services, promotional kits, and sending gifts, where brand presentation upon arrival is crucial.
White Gift Boxes
This is a broad category referring to any box designed for gift-giving, primarily featuring a white color. It can encompass various styles and materials, including folding cartons, rigid boxes, and even pillow boxes, as long as their primary purpose is gifting.
Characteristics: They emphasize aesthetics and presentation, while best for custom branding, festive decorations, or a minimalist look. They vary widely in durability depending on the material (paperboard for lighter items, rigid for luxury).
Uses: General gift wrapping, retail product presentation, party favors, wedding favors, and packaging for special occasions.
White Card Boxes
This term typically refers to boxes made from “cardboard” or “paperboard” (a type of thick paper stock) that are white in color. They are often folding cartons, rather than corrugated, making them suitable for lighter items.
Characteristics: Known for their smooth, printable surface. They can be lightweight and are often used for inner product packaging. The white color ensures vibrant print quality.
Uses: Commonly used for packaging cosmetics, small consumer goods, pharmaceutical products, food items (like bakery goods), and as inner cartons within larger shipping boxes. They might also refer to boxes specifically designed for greeting cards or small stationery items.
White Rigid Boxes
Our white rigid boxes are highly durable, non-collapsible boxes made from thick paperboard (chipboard) wrapped with a white paper or material. They are considered a premium packaging option.
Characteristics: They offer exceptional strength and a luxurious feel. They are often more expensive due to their construction, which involves gluing a paper wrap around a solid board. They often feature magnetic closures, lifted lids, or unique opening mechanisms.
Uses: Ideal for high-value items, luxury goods, electronics, jewelry, cosmetics, premium gift sets, and anything requiring superior protection and an elevated unboxing experience.
White Gable Boxes
Our white Gable boxes are one-piece boxes characterized by a unique “gable” or “barn roof” shaped handle at the top. They are white in color, providing a clean and customizable appearance.
Characteristics: Easy to assemble and transport due to their integrated handle. White gable boxes have high functionality due to the handle on top.
Uses: Popular as giveaway boxes, retail product display, party favor boxes, food service (e.g., lunch boxes, pastry boxes), and gift packaging.
White Kraft Boxes
These are boxes made from kraft paper that has been bleached to achieve a white color. While traditional Kraft is brown, white Kraft offers the natural strength and eco-friendly appeal of Kraft with a brighter, cleaner aesthetic.
Characteristics: They combine good strength and durability with a clean, smooth white surface that is excellent for printing. They maintain some of the natural, rustic feel of Kraft but with a more polished look.
Uses: Suitable for environmentally conscious brands, food and beverage packaging, e-commerce mailers, and gift boxes where a blend of natural appeal and refined branding is desired.
White Paper Bags
Our shopping or merchandise bags are made from white kraft paper or other white paper stock. They can come with various handle types (twisted, flat, cut-out.
Characteristics: Retail carry-out will be easy with our white paper bags that are generally reusable and recyclable. The white surface is excellent for vibrant logo printing and branding.
Uses: Retail shopping bags, gift bags, promotional giveaways, food service take-out, and packaging for events.
White Label Packaging
Our white label packaging helps the distributor or any third-party brand to label a product and customize it according to your needs.
Characteristics: Having a plan surface means they are easily customizable to any design.
Uses: Common for startups, small businesses, or brands looking to test new products without high initial investment in custom manufacturing. It applies to various product types, where the packaging is generic until the brand applies its label.
White Corrugated Boxes
These are boxes made from corrugated cardboard (multiple layers of paperboard with a fluted layer in between for strength) that feature a white outer liner.
Characteristics: Highly durable and designed to protect contents during shipping, mailing, moving, and storage. The white surface provides a clean, professional appearance and a superior background for printing. They are often made from recycled content.
Uses: Widely used across various industries for shipping goods, e-commerce packaging, subscription boxes, and retail packaging, where product protection and a strong visual brand presentation are key. They are essentially a type of white shipping box, but “corrugated” specifies the material construction.
White Mailer Boxes vs Printed Mailer Boxes: Which One is Best?
We discuss the pros and cons of both plain white boxes and printed mailer boxes. Both of them are essential boxes for brands, while having different properties. Choose the one based on your needs.
White Mailer Boxes (Plain White)
Pros
Clean & Professional Aesthetic: Our plain white box inherently conveys a sense of cleanliness, simplicity, and professionalism. This can be particularly effective for brands in health, beauty, food, or luxury sectors.
Cost-Effective (for smaller runs): If you’re not doing full-color, complex designs, our plain white boxes are generally more affordable, especially for smaller order quantities, as they don’t incur printing plate costs or extensive setup fees.
Versatile: If you plan to add branding elements like custom stickers, stamps, or labels yourself, white allows your chosen colors and graphics to pop without interference from the box’s color.
Easy to Write On/Label: The smooth white surface makes it easy to apply shipping labels, write addresses, or add handwritten notes.
Perceived Premium Feel: While not explicitly “luxury,” our clean white boxes look can improve the perceived quality of your product compared to a standard brown kraft box.
Cons
Less Direct Branding: Without printing, you miss out on the opportunity for immediate, integrated brand messaging on the exterior of the box.
Shows Marks More Easily: White surfaces can show dirt, scuffs, and fingerprints more prominently during transit compared to brown kraft or fully printed boxes.
Limited Customization (without external additions): To truly brand it, you’ll need additional elements like stickers, custom tape, or inserts.
Printed Mailer Boxes (Custom Printed)
These are mailer boxes with custom graphics, logos, and designs printed directly onto the corrugated material (either white or kraft).
Pros
Maximum Brand Impact: A fully printed mailer box acts as an immediate and powerful brand ambassador from the moment it arrives. It creates a memorable “unboxing experience.”
Stronger Brand Recognition: Consistent branding across all touchpoints, including the outer packaging, reinforces your brand identity and makes you instantly recognizable.
Full-Color & Complex Designs: Allows for vibrant, true-to-color printing, intricate patterns, and full-bleed designs that might not be achievable with simpler branding methods.
Professionalism & Sophistication: Conveys a high level of professionalism and attention to detail, suggesting a premium product inside.
Marketing Opportunity: The entire box becomes a marketing billboard, conveying your brand story, benefits, and call to actions.
Hides Imperfections: A full-coverage print can help disguise minor scuffs or dirt picked up during shipping.
Cons
Higher Upfront Costs: Custom printing often involves setup fees for printing plates (flexography) or higher per-unit costs (digital printing), especially for smaller runs.
Minimum Order Quantities (MOQs): Many printers have MOQs for custom printed boxes, which can be a barrier for very small businesses.
Longer Lead Times: The design and printing process takes more time compared to ordering plain boxes.
White Boxes in a Nutshell
Choose the best material for your white boxes based on their use.
Pick the right dimension and style of boxes aligned with your product needs.
Print your brand name with a minimalist design.
You can improve the grace of white boxes with our finishing and add on options.
Make your white boxes gift worthy through ribbon and inserts.
Make them cost effective options for your product packaging.
Pick The Packaging World as a Manufacturer and Supplier of your custom white boxes.
Where to Buy Cheap White Boxes?
The Packaging World is your go-to option for getting the best and high-quality custom boxes. Our white boxes come in all sizes, shapes, and styles to make them an ideal choice for various brands. Our fast turnaround time will provide you with an edge to get your boxes out while without compromising on quality. Our free shipping and free design assistance make shipping boxes more affordable for all brands. Begin your packaging journey by ordering at [email protected].
