Custom Gift Boxes in Dubai: The Magnet Goes In Before the Paper
What separates a gift box from a plain rigid box is the closure and what sits inside it. Custom gift boxes in Dubai are built as a book style case with magnets buried in the flap, and the sequence on the bench is what decides whether it closes with a satisfying snap or a dull knock.
Quantity: 100 boxes · Finish: Matt lamination · Extras: None
An estimator replies with a firm, VAT-inclusive price and a production date.From your file to the finished job.
Six steps happen between the brief and the finished job. Here they are, in the order they happen on our floor in Dubai South.
Magnets Are Pocketed Into the Board
Two small discs go into recesses cut in the flap and two matching ones into the front wall, before any printed paper goes on. They are glued in with the poles checked, then wrapped over, so from the outside there is no sign of them at all.
Pole Orientation Gets Checked by Hand
A magnet fitted the wrong way round repels the flap open. Each pair is tested against its partner before gluing, which sounds obvious and is exactly the step a rushed production line skips.
The Flap Hinge Is a Scored Channel
The lid folds on a scored line in the greyboard with the wrap continuing across it unbroken. That hinge opens thousands of times, so the paper over it has to be flexible enough not to crack at the fold within a week.
A Ribbon Pull Is Threaded Before Closing
Where the product sits in a deep well, a fabric ribbon is laid under the insert with both ends emerging at the sides, so lifting them raises the product out. The ribbon goes in before the insert is fixed and cannot be added later.
The Insert Is Cut to the Product
Foam, moulded pulp or folded card, routed or die cut to hold each item in place. This is what stops contents sliding, and it is the part that makes opening the box feel designed instead of accidental.
Closed and Opened Fifty Times
We work the flap on a sample repeatedly and check the hinge and the magnet seating, since a closure that loosens is the complaint this product actually generates.
Where hand work shows is consistency. These boxes are assembled individually, so across three hundred units there will be small variation in how the paper sits at a corner or how firmly the magnet seats. It is normal for the process and worth knowing before you inspect a pallet closely.
Compare with rigid boxes, corporate gift sets, and boxes built to order.
What you get.
- Finish
- Matt lamination · Gloss lamination · Soft-touch lamination
- Extras
- None · Foil stamping · Spot UV · Embossing
- Quantities
- 100 · 250 · 500 · 1,000 boxes, or any other number
- Turnaround
- Usually 7–12 working days
- Proof
- A digital proof before anything prints
- Delivery
- All seven emirates, or collect from Dubai South
What every order includes
- A free prepress check on your file
- A digital proof before anything prints
- One VAT-inclusive quote with a production date
- Delivery to all seven emirates, or collection from Dubai South
Setting up your file.
- 01Start from the dielineEvery box is drawn flat first. Ask us for the dieline for your size and place the artwork on it.
- 02Add 3 mm bleed past every cutColour and images run past each cut line, so no raw board shows at the edges.
- 03Keep key artwork off foldsLogos and text that cross a crease or sit on a glue flap get split or hidden once the box is made.
- 04Send a print-ready PDFCMYK, fonts outlined, with the dieline on its own layer so it never prints.
Complete the order.
Quick answers.
No. They are pocketed in and wrapped over.
No. It is threaded before the insert is fixed.
The wrap paper was too stiff for the fold.