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Supplier matching

custom printed kraft shopping bags

This page covers how we turn a custom printed kraft shopping bags request into one comparable factory brief. The service matches factories to a written shopping-bag specification. We do not run a press, own plates, or promise a printed unit cost before construction and quantity are written.

Request Factory Quotes

Two checks every comparable shopping-bag quote must include

Packhelp quote and wholesale pages, observed 2026-09-15, show a brief-first path: the buyer writes format, quantity and artwork before a coordinator returns options. That is a process reference, not this site's factory network, plate shop or lead-time clock. ISO ICS 55.020 supplies unit vocabulary only.

Requirements on the bag object

Confirm format, size in millimetres, kraft grade, basis weight and handle. A custom printed kraft shopping bags line that only says brown shopper cannot be sent to more than one factory without silent substitutions. Twisted-handle, flat-handle and die-cut handle patches change converting and print wrap. Name the handle attachment and whether ink crosses a fold or a patch.

Write pieces per artwork, not a mixed total across SKUs. If four store marks share one ask, factories will average plate wear and hide the expensive artwork. Destination US state or postal code belongs on the same line so freight can be compared later.

Costs that stay outside the piece price

Ask each factory to quote bag converting, then list flexographic printing plates, extra colors, varnish and plate storage as exclusions. Digital print may drop plate cost on short SKUs; it is not automatically cheaper once color matching and run length are named. Die-line redraws when the handle, gusset or window changes are a new tooling row.

Freight to the named destination, pallet or carton upgrades, and product documents such as food-contact statements or chain-of-custody files stay outside the bag unit. Preference for high-end, mid-range or budget converting is a buyer choice about registration, paper grade and document depth. It is not a rating we have verified.

Questions buyers ask before we send the brief

The same format, gsm or lb, ply, handle, print process, color count, quantity unit and ship-to. A reply that changes ply or handle without saying so is a different object. Sample bags and lot files, if required for the fill, sit as gates rather than as a homepage badge.

New or revised flexographic printing plates, cylinder engraving, die-line redraws, freight, pallet upgrades, and lot-specific food-contact or post-consumer recycled content files. Digital print still has setup and color-matching time. Those rows should be listed so a later artwork change does not look like a bag-price increase.

No. Optional budget and supplier preference can wait. Write construction, quantity and destination first. A sent form is a request for comparison, not an order, and we will not advertise a reply-time clock. Review inquiry options if you still need to split constructions.

A mixed shopper ask versus a comparable brief

Incomplete shopping-bag brief with mixed SKUs and missing handle type
Incomplete: four artworks in one cell, handle unnamed, destination missing.
Complete shopping-bag brief with pieces per artwork, handle and US state
Complete: construction, pieces per artwork and ship-to on one line.

When an alternative construction is offered, verify format, gsm, ply, handle and print process against the original line before you accept it. Continue on the artwork and sample path if the die line is still open.

Send the shopping-bag matching brief

Include handle type, print colors, quantity unit and destination. Optional budget and supplier preference can be added. We will not invent a street address or a discount to close the form.

Write format, material, size and print; quantity with unit (pieces, cartons, rolls or kg); destination state or postal code and requested delivery / lead time; required product documents and sample needs. Optional target budget with currency and unit or whole-order basis; optional supplier preference. Artwork files can be sent after we reply; this form has no upload field.