Buyer Guides for Custom Paper Packaging
The questions we answer every week by email — how to judge a factory, what MOQ really means, which paper grade or box structure fits your product, what has to appear on a care label, and whether paper bags are actually the cheaper choice. Written from the production floor in Dongguan, not by an agency.
How to Choose a Custom Paper Bag Manufacturer in China
Eight things that separate a real factory from a middleman, the six questions worth asking on the first call, and the red flags that show up before money changes hands.
Read the guide → Industry MapWhere Paper Packaging Is Made in China: The Main Clusters
What the Pearl River Delta, Wenzhou, Yiwu and Hebei clusters are actually good at, how to match your product to the right region, and why "region" is not the same as "factory".
Read the guide → MOQ & CostMOQ for Custom Paper Bags: What to Expect
Typical minimums by bag construction, why the number exists at all, five legitimate ways to lower it, and how unit cost moves as quantity doubles.
Read the guide → Handles & FinishingPaper Bag Handles Compared: Twisted, Flat, Die-Cut, Rope and Ribbon
Load ratings, relative cost and recyclability for five handle types — plus the four numbers that decide whether a handle tears out on the first carry.
Read the guide → Printing & ColourFlexo vs Offset vs Digital: Which Printing Method for Your Packaging
How run length, colour count and substrate decide the press — plus why a gradient bands on a bag but not on a box.
Read the guide → MaterialsKraft vs Art Paper vs Coated: Which Paper for Your Bags
How each grade prints, wears and recycles — with the three questions that decide the choice before you ever look at a price sheet.
Read the guide → Cost & CompliancePaper Bags vs Plastic Bags: Real Cost Comparison
Paper costs more at the till and less in regulation, brand and reuse. Where the crossover point sits, and when plastic still legitimately wins.
Read the guide → Cost & PricingCustom Packaging Cost Breakdown: What You Pay For
The seven cost lines behind one unit price — paper, print setup, converting, finishing, packing and margin — and how to tell a fair quotation from a cheap one.
Read the guide → Box StructuresRigid vs Folding Carton vs Corrugated: Which Box?
Hand-made, machine-glued or built for a courier. How the three structures differ in cost, MOQ, protection — and which one your product actually needs.
Read the guide → Garment TrimsHang Tags, Woven Labels and Care Labels: A Buyer's Guide
What 50D and 75D mean on a woven label, which fold suits which seam, and what a care label has to say by law in the EU and the US.
Read the guide → Sizes & SpecsPaper Bag Size Guide: Standard Sizes and Paper Weight
Ten retail sizes in mm and inches, the paper weight each one needs, and how to measure a bag you already like before you order.
Read the guide → Artwork & PrepressHow to Prepare Artwork for Custom Packaging: Dielines, Bleed and Colour
Dieline layers, 3 mm bleed, CMYK versus Pantone, ink coverage limits — and the five file errors that force a reprint.
Read the guide →Quick answers
The numbers buyers ask for most, before reading anything else.
- MOQ
- 1,000 pcs per design — trial orders for new customers welcome
- Sampling
- Digital mockup in 24 h · physical sample 3–5 days
- Production
- 10–20 days after sample approval
- Capacity
- 50M+ pieces a year · 40+ countries served
- Port
- Shenzhen / Guangzhou · FOB, CIF or door-to-door
- Payment
- T/T 30% deposit, balance before shipment
Have a spec in hand already?
Send size, paper weight, printing and quantity — we reply within 12 hours with a costed quotation and a free die-line.