Boxes

[hulign]

Hey Gang, We went thru the purchase of a Summa F1612 a short while ago (huge thanks to anyone who has posted about theirs).

One of the ways I justified the purchase is because I want to make some custom boxes for our printed projects.

We are a really small niche shop and don't need a ton of boxes so this project makes sense, esp for some of our best clients.

The box software that came with the machine is 100% not what I was hoping for and I have yet to find a box design that meets my vision for business card boxes.

It's 1/2 broken, no longer supported and from what I have seen it really doesn't work well.

We have a product that comes in boxes that the material would be great for this use and free material sounds great to me.

Does anyone make business card boxes on one of these? If so do you have a file you like that you might be willing to share the source of?

Every design I seem to run across is sized for 100 cards, not a standard size or on a site that wants a monthly subscription to access their items.

I really just want to do business card boxes, so until we have use cases for enough items to justify the cost that isn't in the cards (pun intended) right now.

Thanks for any info!

 

[JBurton]

Just a couple of ideas.
Can you carefully tear down one of your business card boxes and scan it on a flatbed, then copy the design?
E-cut for corel/illustrator has a folding box program, though it's intended for ACM, you may be able to macgyver a nice layout with it. I believe it still has a weekly free trial.

 

[Boudica]

I've used this site before to make a box template: https://www.templatemaker.nl/en/

I wanted a custom box to store printed substrate samples... Happened to have some cardboard we could print on... so I printed a design on one side, and the fold lines on the back side. It worked great.

 

[JBurton]

I wanted a custom box to store printed substrate samples..

Is that like 1mil cardboard? I wouldn't think folding without grooving would work, but those are some fine sharp corners.

 

[Boudica]

I'm not sure how thick it is, its corrugated but not very thick. I used a squeegee to make creases along the fold lines.

 

[Bonzai901]

Hey Gang, We went thru the purchase of a Summa F1612 a short while ago (huge thanks to anyone who has posted about theirs).

One of the ways I justified the purchase is because I want to make some custom boxes for our printed projects.

We are a really small niche shop and don't need a ton of boxes so this project makes sense, esp for some of our best clients.

The box software that came with the machine is 100% not what I was hoping for and I have yet to find a box design that meets my vision for business card boxes.

It's 1/2 broken, no longer supported and from what I have seen it really doesn't work well.

We have a product that comes in boxes that the material would be great for this use and free material sounds great to me.

Does anyone make business card boxes on one of these? If so do you have a file you like that you might be willing to share the source of?

Every design I seem to run across is sized for 100 cards, not a standard size or on a site that wants a monthly subscription to access their items.

I really just want to do business card boxes, so until we have use cases for enough items to justify the cost that isn't in the cards (pun intended) right now.

Thanks for any info!

We use Pacdora for templates, any size box