Custom Printed Regular Slotted Cases
The conventional corrugated transit case, specified around units per case, stacking, the journey and the information the shipper must carry.
- Transit Case Format
Overview
The regular slotted case is the workhorse outer carton: a rectangular corrugated case whose closing flaps meet to form the top and bottom. Its value is efficiency and predictability, but the useful specification still begins with the contents — product dimensions, units per case, total load and the route the packed case will travel.
Because an RSC is usually a transport surface before it is a retail surface, direct print is commonly used for brand, batch, storage and handling information. Where the case will also be seen by the customer, the print decision can be reviewed against the more presentation-led litho-laminated formats in the same family.
What to decide for this format
Case Count & Internal Size
Fix how many units travel together and their orientation before calculating the case dimensions.
Transit Information
Define the brand, batch, storage, handling and shipping-mark information that must remain legible through distribution.
Board & material options
Natural Brown Kraft
Unbleached brown fibre, the recycled-content standard.
The lowest-processing option we stock. Remember that the brown ground shifts every ink laid over it — colours need proofing on the actual stock, not on white.
White Kraft
Strong uncoated white fibre with a natural surface.
Reads honest rather than glossy, and takes one or two spot colours well. Recycled and FSC-certified grades are available where a materials policy applies.
Recycled Content Board
Post-consumer fibre, visible in the surface.
The speckle is the point — it reads as recycled without a label saying so. Colour varies between batches, which has to be accepted up front.
Coated One Side (C1S)
Coated on the printing face, uncoated on the reverse.
The default carton and wrap board. You are paying for coating only where the print goes, so it is the economical choice whenever the inside face is not seen.
Finishing options
Die Cutting
Custom shapes, windows and cut-outs.
Windows, shaped lids, handle apertures and label outlines. A window can be left open or patched with clear film depending on whether the product needs protecting.
Aqueous Coating
A water-based protective coat applied in-line.
The low-cost seal on cartons and shippers. Water-based, so it stays inside a recyclable mono-material specification.
Spot UV
Gloss varnish applied to selected artwork elements.
Highest contrast over a matte or soft-touch base. On a gloss laminate it barely reads — the base finish decides whether spot UV is worth paying for.
Anti-Scuff Lamination
A matte film formulated to resist marking.
Ordinary matte film scuffs on dark artwork in transit. This is what you specify when the pack is dark and ships a long way.
Materials
Single-Wall Corrugated
The default for retail packs and lighter e-commerce goods, balancing strength against cube and cost.
Double-Wall Corrugated
For heavier products, tall stacking and long export transit where a single wall would crush.
Kraft Liners
Brown or white kraft outer liners, printed direct where one or two colours is all the job needs.
Recycled & FSC-Certified Board
Recycled-content and certified board with water-based inks — corrugated is the easiest part of a pack to make genuinely circular.
Printing & Finishes
Flexo Printing
Direct printing on the liner using our six-colour flexo and water-based equipment. Economical for transit cases and high volumes.
What you can customise
- Internal dimensions calculated from the product and how many go in a case
- Board grade and wall construction against stacking and transit
- Print method — litho-laminated, flexo, or plain
- Shipping marks, carton counts and pallet configuration
Specifications
| Minimum order quantity | Standard cartons from 1,000 units |
|---|---|
| Production lead time | 15–20 working days after artwork approval |
| Converting line | Fully automated line integrating printing, laminating and gluing |
| Print processes | Offset litho-lamination on the Rapida 106; six-colour flexo and water-based printing for direct liner print |
Terms for this specification
- Sampling
- Presentation-quality sample in 5–7 working days. The sample cost is credited against your first approved production order.
- Colour matching
- Pantone references and physical samples are used where the selected print process supports them. The approval method follows the substrate, artwork and process.
- Certifications
- ISO 9001, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 45001 and China Environmental Labelling (Ten-Ring). ISO 22000 applies to eligible food-contact work.
- Sustainable options
- FSC-certified or recycled-content paper and board, water-based inks and adhesives, and fibre-based fitments are available where the selected construction supports them.
What drives the cost
We do not publish a price list, because no two specifications are alike. The levers that decide a quote are consistent, though.
Quantity
Most of the cost of a print job is set-up — plates, dies, make-ready, the first good sheet. Doubling a run rarely doubles the price, which is why it is worth asking for two or three volumes on the same quote.
Structure
A rigid box is formed, wrapped and often assembled by hand; a folding carton is die-cut and glued in one pass. Structure is usually the single biggest difference between two otherwise identical packs.
Material
Board grade and wrap stock. Specialty and textured papers cost more per sheet, but can replace a finishing pass — sometimes the cheaper route to the same effect.
Finishing passes
Each of foil, emboss, spot UV and lamination is a separate pass through a machine. Two effects cost roughly twice one, so the question is always which effect earns its place.
Tooling
Dies, emboss plates and foil blocks are one-off costs carried by the first order and reused on every repeat. Repeat runs of an approved specification are materially cheaper than the first.
Design & artwork
From an artwork check, through a dimensioned dieline and print-ready files, to a full concept package across a range — done by the factory that will make it.
Applications
Spirits & Beverage
Printed cases for bottled products, including the multi-brand case work in our portfolio.
Pharmaceutical & Industrial
Transit cases carrying batch, storage and handling information for regulated products.
How it is made
Product, load & transit review
Weight, fragility, units per case, stacking height and journey decide board grade before anything is drawn.
Structure & cube optimisation
Internal dimensions set against pallet and container fit — the difference between shipping product and shipping air.
Print method decision
Litho-lamination where shelf quality is needed, flexo where the case is transit only.
Sampling
Samples in 5–7 working days, loaded with the actual product wherever possible.
Printing, laminating & gluing
The integrated line runs print, lamination and gluing in sequence, then die cutting and perforation.
Inspection & dispatch
Dimensional, glue and print inspection against the approved sample, then palletising and shipping marks.
Why Yuan Packaging
- Fully automated line integrating printing, laminating and gluing — serving publicly listed companies
- Litho-lamination and flexo under one roof, so print method follows the job rather than the equipment
- Corrugated made where the retail pack inside it is made — one specification for the whole shipment
- Recycled and FSC-certified board with water-based inks for mono-material recyclable packs
Frequently asked questions
What information should be supplied before the RSC is drawn?
Provide the product dimensions, weight, units per case, packing orientation, stacking conditions and journey. Those inputs determine the case size and the board recommendation before artwork or shipping marks are placed.
Can the outer case match the packaging inside it?
Yes. The corrugated case and the retail packaging inside it are produced on the same site, so dimensions, carton count, colour references and shipping information can be reviewed as one specification.