Hello,
I don't know if what you'll see on the attachment will work for you but if so, please get in touch. It is a customizeable heavy paper bar wrap that will accommodate a bar measuring 3" x 6" x 1/4" thick. They can be produced in full color and in short run quantities.
Hello,
If you haven't found exactly what you're looking for just yet, you may find a small local print shop that can produce sleeves using a color laser printer and an affordable cutting die.
Applying transfer tape to the long edge of the sleeve will allow you to easily construct the sleeve on an as-needed basis. Doing your packaging in this way will allow you to keep your costs very low, allow you to produce multiple designs at once AND give you the ability to create the perfect design (including full color).
Marc
It looks custom. Most packaging is. Depending on how it's closed, it could be an affordable alternative to a traditional box. Do you have a sample box?
Hi All,
As many of you will already know, producing short run bar boxes can be an expensive endeavor. While 1000 may seem like a lot of bar boxes, it's only the number 1 to print shops, and more importantly, to the processes involved in printing, folding and gluing boxes. I'd be interested (as would a fellow Chocolate Life member) in hearing from others who may wish to collaborate on a group run of bar boxes.
Be well!
Marc
Aloha Sean!
Congratulations on your first client! We have a strong history in supporting "fledgling" companies and will be happy to help you in any way we can. Please contact me either by phone 717-747-5895 or email marc@marclaucks.com and we'll discuss your needs in greater detail. Yes, we do make boxes with clear film windows.
Best,
Marc
Yes indeed. Great insight Dirke!
Digital printing is ideal in many cases. We get excellent results with producing chocolate keys, inserts and other short run color jobs digitally. The problem is often with toner-based digital printing on heavier stocks (like that used for boxes)----depending on the design, cracking can appear along areas where a score/fold runs against the paper grain. This is why it's best to work with someone with experience and someone you feel you can trust.
Hi Kelly,
A typical press sheet used to trim out various packaging products is fairly large in size. By way of example, our gang run business cards are run "64 up" meaning that 64 different people from all over the country have their cards produced on the same press sheet. This is why they're so affordable.
Before the days of "gang run printing" a box of full color business cards could easily cost $1000, today they're less than $60. 
You can see from the embedded image how a press sheet is utilized to print several different packaging items...there's a bar box and a few different sized sleeves and trays. Assuming several different buyers agree on a quantity, it's easy for everyone to save since only one set of printing plates and one press run is used to produce items for multiple people. Feel free to contact me directly if I can provide more information!
I have a customer who buys several thousand plain white boxes but they have a tuck flap on the top and bottom.
We can run them with or without a window.
If you'll provide some information on how many you have a need for and the size of the bars, I'll get back to you with some information. Typically, what we do in this case is aggregate several orders together, run a large production run and then drop ship to each location. This allows everyone to "gang" their orders together and saves a lot of money over each person buying a small quantity on their own. There are affordable options to print the boxes as well. Marc
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