Design & printing · Free with every box

Free dielines and templates for your box.

A dieline is the flat map of your box: every panel, fold and flap, at its real size. We make one for your exact box, free, so your artwork lands where it should once the box is folded.

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A dieline for your box

Drawn for your box style and size - not a stock template you have to stretch.

We draw the dieline from your box style and the size your product needs. It shows where the board is cut, where it folds, and which panel becomes the front, the lid and the inside once the box is made up.

Because it is drawn for your box, panels are the right size and in the right place, so you design straight onto it rather than guessing.

Drawn for your style and size
Every panel, fold and flap
Free with your box

Bleed and safe areas marked

Where colour must run past the edge, and where text must stay well inside it.

The template marks the bleed - colour carried past the cut line, so no thin white edge shows if the cut moves slightly - and the safe area, a margin inside each fold and edge where text and logos stay clear.

Keep important details away from folds and glue flaps, and the box reads cleanly from every side.

Bleed past every cut line
Safe margins for text and logos
Folds and glue flaps shown

Inserts drawn with the box

A fitted insert gets its own dieline, sized to sit inside your box.

If your box has an insert, we draw its dieline alongside the box, so the two fit each other as well as your product. A printed insert is designed on its own flat template in the same way.

Dielines, in detail

What is a dieline?

A dieline is the flat outline of a box before it is cut and folded, with the cut lines, fold lines and panels marked.

Box makers cut boxes from flat sheets with a steel die shaped like this outline, which is where the name comes from. Your artwork is placed on the flat layout, printed, then cut and folded into the finished box.

Different lines mean different things - usually a solid line for a cut and a dashed line for a fold - and the template's key explains them.

The box laid out flat
Cut lines and fold lines
Artwork goes on top

How do I use a dieline?

Open it in your design software as its own layer, place your artwork on the panels, then hide or delete the dieline layer before you send the file.

Keep the artwork in CMYK, name any Pantone colours, and extend background colour into the bleed. Check each panel the right way up: on a flat layout some panels are upside down so they read correctly once folded.

When you send it back, we check it against the dieline before you see your proof.

Why not use a free template from the internet?

Because a template only fits the box it was drawn for, and boxes differ in board thickness, flap design and size.

A template that is even a few millimetres out shifts artwork onto folds and flaps. A dieline drawn for your exact box and board avoids that, and costs you nothing here.

With every order

A dieline drawn for your box
Bleed and safe areas marked
Insert dielines too
Artwork checked against it

Popular for

Custom-sized boxes
First-time packaging
Designers new to packaging
Matching inserts to a box

How to order

Request a quote for your box with the size your product needs. We draw your dieline and send it for your artwork - or send us your artwork and we place it for you.

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Goes with

Mailer Boxes

Folding Cartons

Inserts

Next steps for your artwork

Digital ProofsYour artwork on your dieline, to approve before printing.PrintingCMYK, Pantone and white ink, outside and inside the box.Artwork guidelinesSet your file up once, set it up right.