Hi,
I was trying to find red or pink bakery boxes that are reasonable. Has anyone seen them on a favorite website? If so, could you share that site?

Also, what sizes do you guys get most frequently? I was thinking about a 10' or 12' box. What are your thoughts?

Thanks so much for your help!

Brpboxshop has some boxes in pink: http://www.brpboxshop.com/cake_boxes.html

Papermart has pink:
http://www.papermart.com/Templates/85-0-10.htm#GO_85010

thanks!!

Hubert also has some, not sure if they are reasonable though, I haven't shopped around much!

Thats awesome.. Just now checked out the websites. I will have to start ordering me some pink boxes!!!! I love pink!

You can get pink ones at www.instawares.com
Carrie

We have a 10" cake box but not a 12"...yet.

Does anyone know how difficult it is to capture the true pinkness of an object via digital photography and Photoshop? OK, let me rephrase - Do you know how hard that is if you are a boxmaker and not a professional photographer who works for the Pepto Bismal company?

Anyway...DelightsByE, your signature is intense. If we ever do something to prompt that kind of response from a customer, I hope someone clocks me with a pan.

More and more folks are ordering pink boxes. I'm now glad that our company didn't go with my suggestion and produce Olive Drab baking boxes as our first go at the colored stuff.

Good luck finding suppliers! That's interesting that Wal-Mart would have the best prices on some of the things a bakery would need.

-Kip

Kip,
Any chances of doing a black box? I do love the idea of using a nice glossy black box and changing the ribbon for the event.

Do you guys do special runs for a special order color? Is there a 1000 box min or something? Not that I could use that many ~ but I could find others that may want them...

Especially with the holidays approaching, that would be great.

Many Thanks for your reply.

I just have to say...SPOOKY!

Weird! I just had a conversation about black boxes with the president of Big River Packaging (that's our company, we are by the Big River), and 1000 boxes is the minimum run for boxes with color.

One thousand boxes is a lot for some people, but doing the coop thing is a cool idea.

So...YES! There is a chance. We would fire up the printing press and go glossy and dark!

Let me know what boxes you are interested in covering with blackness.

We love making things happen where we can.

Thanks!

-Kip

Oh - and I will stick with basic white until you come up with a purple box...

Gonna have to check out your site!! Sounds great!

DelightsByE, I would agree! I have looked and looked for purple boxes!! Pretty hard to find! We'll have to keep each other update!!

I like purple!

http://minneapolis.metblogs.com/archives/images/2006/11/princesymbol.gif

For 1000 boxes, we could do any color in the Pantone book (http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/index.aspx)!

Or, you could send us an object and our ink company can match it (no more live reptiles, please).

Thanks for the customer service kudos. This is a fun place to work and I get to work with cool people. We get a lot of positive feedback from people, little comments they leave when they order or nice things said on the phone. We hear that stuff and we feel like we just won the Superbowl or World Cup or something. It charges us up and really has an impact.

So...thank you again to all of you who have helped us, not only come up with better ways to serve the 'sweet community', but for thanking us on top of it when we do.

No...YOU GUYS rock!

-Kip

"Dontcha just love Prince....." - Julia Roberts
"More than life itself." - Richard Gere


Kip you crack me up.

What would you charge for a 1000 box order for 10x3 square 1-piece cake boxes in purple (I have to consult a Pantone for the number....)

You've just earned a customer for life, by the way

Hi Kip,

Are you in Minneapolis? Can we pick up from you instead of shipping?

I'll find out tomorrow what the cost would be.

What time zone are you in?! It's 10 here. I'll work late at the office like this and it astounds me that the phone will ring at 9:45 PM on a Sunday night. I never pick up. I don't want to hear someone on the other line with his mouth way to close to the handset,

"Are you the box maker? Do you know what I like to put in your boxes? Box makers!" *Cue Psycho Score*

I'll get back to you on the price. It's nice of Pantone to make a book that makes color universal. Our pressman told me that the books are officially good for one year. Years ago he was with another company and was getting complaints from a customer that he wasn't hitting the color. Come to find out, they had a tattered Pantone book that was found with the Dead Sea Scrolls or something.

ANYWAY...I look forward to seeing what purple you have in mind.

-Kip

OMG you are too funny.

I'm in EDT, and I wouldn't dream of calling this late to order boxes no matter WHAT I intended to put in them hahahahaha

BUT I don't have any trouble being up this late chatting casually with the box maker anyway!

I'm glad you said that about live lizards....if you hadn't, who knows WHAT I would have sent for color-matching

We're all about customer service, but I had to say that about the reptiles because some prankster sent us a chameleon for color matching. It took me 4 days and $8.95 worth of live crickets for me to realize what was going on.

See...that would have been a great opportunity for you to say, "I won't show up and put parts of you on display behind one of your 'wavy windows'." But you didn't. Well, at least you are a time zone away.

-Kip

I've been interested in some coloured boxes but live in Canada does anyone have any advice?

We actually ship lots of boxes to Canada. Jill has to check how much the extra freight will be and all of the other fun taxes and stuff and get back to you after she finds out what the order is. But I asked a few weeks ago and she said that she has never had a customer say no to the little bit more it costs to get boxes and pads that extra distance.

We currently have pink boxes. And white and natural kraft (brown) boxes. People are really starting to dig those because they look like they are made for people who enjoy confections and drive vehicles that rely on biodiesel. The colored boxes would have to be a min order of 1000. Again, I'll have to check on the cost. And bigger boxes would of course be more than smaller ones as far as coverage/cost.

But yeah, we send our stuff...we've sent boxes to Australia and all over teh world. We had a big fat order to England two weeks ago and the shipping was HUGE, but they love the boxes. ...the boxes are kind of like that school kid buddy, Flat Stanley, except no one eats cake out of Stanley's insides and we never get photos.

Our factory is right on the banks of the Mississippi (that was fun to type) here in Iowa. If you look at a map of Iowa...and you see the pumps on the right that the river makes, there is a big bump, and right under it there is a smaller bump. We're in the smaller bump.

The widest point in the Mississippi river is here. I fish in the river at night before I go to bed nearly every night. The other night I was cold and made a little fire right there and felt like a hobo. If I would have had a harmonica, I'm sure someone who had to work the next day would have called the cops on me.

So, lchristi27, we're CLOSE! Adjacent even. If you wanted to swing by, we'd love to see you. But I'm guessing you won't take me up on it.

-Kip

Hey, it might be feasible for me to pick up the boxes. Where are you in IA? I'm in MN...did you say there is a minimum? I'd maybe be able to round up a few friends.......... what's your site? Thanks! So glad I popped on here tonight.

PS--I've had MAJOR headaches with instawares. NEVER will deal with them again. They sent me the wrong thing and expected me to pay the shipping back on their mistake. Nope-nothing from them EVER again.

Well Kip,
You might as well give me a price on some black cartons - 10 inch square 1 pc - 4 or 5 inches tall. If you post it here or PM me I will put out my feelers on my other sites. I think I can split them out relatively easily.

I don't have a stock color chart but black would do me. Can't get any more basic than that can you? Well, then again there are a zillion tones I am sure.
Glossy or flat, pinstriped or plain, which ever one is easier - (translated - cheaper one wins...)


Well.... if the price is right.

Thanks so much and looking forward to the price.

Big River Packaging (that's what the brp stands for)
823 South 3rd Street
Clinton, Iowa
52732

I'll talk to the big guys in a few hours and hit them up for all kinds of pricing.

Thanks,

-Kip

ok, I checked out the link - took a little figuring out...

Pirate Black 19-4305 TPX if it is helpful - I found a black one...

If anyone else is interested in the gad-zillion colors out there - go to http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/colorfinder.aspx

If it doesn't take you to the "color Finder" that's what you need - select North America - then Paper - then in the box where you type in the color code - enter a "1".

Hit enter and the gad-zillion shows up... a wonderful display if I do say so myself.

Thanks again Kip.

Thanks Kip, I was down that way last year..shoot, wish I would of known!