A range of printed paper shopping bags in different colours and handle styles
Custom paper bag factory · China

Custom Paper Bag Manufacturer: 99.8% On-Time Delivery, Reinforced Handles That Hold

Commercial-grade custom paper bags with reinforced handle joins and AQL 1.0 inspection to reduce handle pull-out and bottom failure. A signed print reference keeps the tenth run sitting beside the first.

  • 500 units to start
  • 4–6 weeks artwork to pallet
  • 10+ years in paper
  • FSC® certified board
  • ISO 9001 certified
  • FSC certified
  • BRCGS certified
  • BSCI audited
  • Sedex member
The range

Nine Custom Paper Bag Styles, Cut to Order

Each style answers a different counter question — what your item weighs, how far it is carried, and what the bag says before a word is read.

A yellow paper tote bag with rope handles printed with a tropical resort logo01

Euro Tote Bags

Rigid board and rope handles, for a boutique where the bag is carried open.

A plain brown kraft paper shopping bag with twisted paper handles02

Kraft Paper Shopping Bags

Unbleached brown stock under a single spot colour.

A kraft bag with an integrated die-cut handle and a printed fashion logo03

Die-Cut Handle Bags

The handle is cut in the same pass as the bag itself.

A cream gift bag tied with a wide brown ribbon bow04

Gift Bags

A structured body with a ribbon, for the counter where a purchase becomes a present.

A white paper bag with deep side gussets printed with a burger restaurant logo05

Wide Gusset Bags

A deep gusset for boxed goods and folded garments.

A kraft carrier bag with twisted handles printed with a botanical illustration06

Paper Carrier Bags

The glued block bottom that stacks flat and opens at the till.

Three kraft bottle bags of different sizes lying beside each other07

Wine & Liquor Bags

A reinforced base sized to the bottle.

A stack of printed paper bags in black, red, green and kraft with loop handles08

Recycled Paper Event Bags

Post-consumer stock in a single colour, priced for volume.

A kraft bag printed with a colourful illustrative design and the words your design goes here09

Printed Paper Bags

Full-surface print up to eight colours with a spot varnish.

Why LeelinePackage

What Changes When One Factory Holds the Order

A bag passes through four pairs of hands before it reaches a customer. Keeping all four on the same floor removes the hand-offs where a brief starts to drift.

  • Design Included

    The dieline is drawn as part of the order rather than billed as a separate service, which turns a structural change into a conversation instead of an invoice.

  • One Contact, One Record

    A named coordinator answers from brief to delivery. Nothing is passed to a second vendor, which means nothing is explained twice.

  • Inspected Against the Sample

    Colour is checked against the approved reference, and each batch is signed off against that sample before it is strapped.

  • Freight Decided Early

    Bags ship flat and counted, and the packing pattern is drawn around the container — which is where a large share of the landed cost is set.

Free quote

Send the Item, Get a Bag Built Around It

Dimensions in, a bag spec out — board, handle and print costed together rather than guessed apart. Once the item is measured, the rest of the spec follows from it.

Handles

A Loaded Bag Fails at the Handle, Never the Board

The attachment is picked for the weight it will take rather than the way it photographs. Six options, each paired with the carrier it suits.

A macramé rope handle knotted through the punched hole of a paper bag

Macramé Handles

Knotted rope with a hand-made texture, tied through a punched hole — for a carrier meant to look made rather than milled.

Best forBoutiques, high-end retail

A ribbed grosgrain ribbon handle fitted through the top edge of a printed bag

Grosgrain Polyester

Ribbed ribbon with a firm grip that stays on a wrist through a crowded street.

Best forGift bags, formal packaging

A soft woven cotton tape handle attached to a cream paper bag

Cotton Handles

Woven tape that spreads the weight across the palm — the choice when a customer carries the bag for more than a block.

Best forHeavier items, sustainable brands

Twisted paper cord handles in a kraft tone on a plain brown bag

Twisted Paper

Rolled paper cord colour-matched to the bag, so the handle disappears into the print and the whole unit recycles together.

Best forKraft ranges, value retail

A paper bag with a handle cut directly from its own top panel

Die-Cut Handles

Cut from the bag’s own board, which removes a component, an assembly step and a line from the quote.

Best forLightweight items, promotions

A satin-finish flat nylon cord handle with a reinforced anchor on a kraft bag

Flat Nylon Cord

A satin cord on a reinforced anchor, for the weight of a boxed set or a single bottle.

Best forLuxury retail, bottle sets

Print

Four Presses, One Colour Reference

Run length and the detail inside the artwork pick the press. Colour is a separate decision: a reference is signed off on the proof and checked on the first sheet, which is what keeps a reorder two years later sitting beside the bag it matches. Artwork can be prepared for you if none is drawn yet.

A sheet-fed offset printing press running a large printed sheet
01

Offset Printing

For long runs where the last sheet has to match the first, because that is what a reorder is measured against.

Best on 5,000+
A wide-format digital press printing a full-colour banner
02

Digital Printing

For short runs and fine artwork a plate would flatten, including variable data, letting each bag carry a different name.

Best on 500–2,000
Printed colour swatch charts fanned out after a flexographic run
03

Flexography

For a plain spot-colour job at the lowest unit price, on kraft where a coating would only add cost.

Best on 10,000+
A printed sheet curing under UV lamps on a press
04

UV Printing

Ink set the instant it lands, so the print resists scuffing and water on a carrier used more than once.

Best for reuse
Paper & finish

The Sheet Decides How the Bag Feels

Four surfaces cover most briefs. Each is quoted at the same size, so the difference in price sits right next to the difference in the hand.

A smooth cream coated paper surface in raking light

Gloss Art Paper

A coated surface that holds a photographic print, so colour lands on the bag the way it did on the proof.

A sheet of natural uncoated kraft paper with visible fibre

Uncoated Kraft

Raw brown stock: plastic-free, recyclable, and the cheapest board to carry a single-colour stamp.

A gold foil surface reflecting a soft gradient of light

Metallic & Holographic

A foil-bearing sheet that throws light back, for a launch that has to be spotted from across a room.

A white sheet with a floral pattern embossed into its surface

Soft-Touch & Embossed

A matte laminate with a pattern raised under the finger — the finish that makes a bag feel more considered than it cost.

Fit

Any Size, Drawn to the Item

A stock bag forces a product into the nearest available size. The dieline follows the item instead — the drawings below are the ones the press is set to.

A size chart showing five paper bag codes with their width, height and gusset dimensions in centimetres
Stock codes
Five sizes, from a boutique bag to an oversized tote, dimensioned across width, height and gusset
Custom sizes
Any size in between, measured to the item rather than picked from a list
A technical drawing of a paper bag showing the front, back, side, long, width and high measurements with four handle fixing types
Handle fixings
Blocked string, glued twisted paper, embossed, die-cut
Panels
Front, back and two gussets — quoted Long × Width × High
By trade

Five Trades, Five Different Bags

The same questions come up behind every counter — what the item weighs, how it leaves the shop, and what the carrier has to say on the way out. Pick a trade for the build that answers them.

A pink printed carrier bag on a marble tray beside folded tissue paper

Retail & Boutique

Recommended build
BagEuro tote, 210 gsm
PaperGloss art, laminated
HandleCotton rope, 60 cm
Size250 × 320 × 100 mm

A bag carried open down a high street is a sign that keeps moving. Lamination holds the print through a full day of handling, and a rope handle reads as a brand rather than a shop.

Two printed kraft carrier bags on a counter beside takeaway coffee cups and pastries

Food & Drink

Recommended build
BagCarrier, grease-resistant
PaperUncoated kraft, 130 gsm
HandleTwisted paper
Size220 × 280 × 120 mm

Grease and moisture sit against the board rather than soaking through it. Kraft takes a one-colour stamp without a coating, which keeps the whole unit in the paper stream with the wrappers.

Pink and black printed gift bags arranged with cosmetics and a mirror

Cosmetics & Beauty

Recommended build
BagGift bag, bow closure
PaperSoft-touch matte, 210 gsm
HandleGrosgrain ribbon
Size180 × 230 × 90 mm

The bag has to feel like the product it holds. A soft-touch laminate and a ribbon handle carry the price point past the till and into the photograph.

White printed bags with green ribbon handles held by staff at an event

Events & Trade Shows

Recommended build
BagRecycled event bag
Paper100% post-consumer, 150 gsm
HandleDie-cut, integrated
Size300 × 400 × 130 mm

Volume against a short window. An integrated handle removes an assembly step, letting a thousand units print, cut and pack in the same run without a rush premium.

Two kraft bottle bags standing beside wine glasses and a bottle

Wine & Spirits

Recommended build
BagBottle bag, doubled base
PaperRigid board, 300 gsm
HandleFlat nylon cord
Size120 × 380 × 120 mm

A bottle is the heaviest single item a carrier ever takes. Two layers of board in the base and a nylon anchor hold the load where a standard bag opens up.

In use

Where a Printed Carrier Actually Ends Up

A printed carrier travels further than the product inside it — out of the shop, into a car boot and onto a kitchen table. Six of the places it gets used.

A man loading a paper grocery bag into the open boot of a car
Into the boot at the supermarket
A woman sitting on a sofa with several kraft paper bags around her
Sorted at home after the shop
Two children walking outdoors, each carrying a paper bag
Carried back on the walk home
A man carrying a paper bag through a car park beside a trolley
Out of the trolley, into the car
A woman carrying several shopping bags along a street
A full shop in one pair of hands
A woman placing a wine bottle into a kraft paper bag at a shop counter
Bagged at the wine counter
After the first run

Two Buyers on Their First Full Run

A young brand is normally priced out of a printed bag before the first order. Starting at 500 meant the kraft carrier with cotton handles could be ordered at the same quantity as the first production run of the product itself.

The handle was the part worth paying for. It spreads the load across the palm, so somebody carrying two jars does not feel a cord edge by the time they reach the car.

Feedback came back naming the bag before the product, which is not an outcome a small brand budgets for.

Portrait of David Ramirez
David RamirezFounder, Verde Mercado · United States

Three suppliers had tried our spice artwork and lost the linework in the pattern every time. The digital sample came back with the detail intact at 180 mm tall, which is the size where a carrier stops being a bag and starts being a label.

A trade show needed 2,000 units inside three weeks. The rush arrived without a surcharge attached to it, and the pallet landed with two days to spare.

The file was set up once. The second order reprinted from it without a colour drifting, which is the whole reason for staying with a single supplier.

Portrait of Marcus Williams
Marcus WilliamsBrand Manager, Summit Spice Co. · Canada
Before you commit

Questions Buyers Ask Before Ordering

01What file should the artwork arrive in?

A vector file with the dieline on its own layer, or a print-ready PDF at 300 dpi with 3 mm of bleed. Keeping the cut file separate from the design means a size change never means redrawing the artwork.

02How are the payment terms set?

A deposit confirms the order and the balance clears before the goods leave the plant. T/T and L/C are both accepted, and the split is written into the price rather than agreed at the end.

03Who books the freight, and what terms does the price use?

Carriage is quoted against the destination port on FOB, CIF or DDP, whichever the buying team works in, and the term is named on the quote. Air is priced separately when a launch cannot wait on a sailing.

04Will you sign an NDA before we share the design?

Yes. A confidentiality agreement is signed before a design file is opened, and a brand’s artwork is never reused as a sample for another client.

05Does a reorder start at the same minimum as a first run?

No. The minimum applies to a first run of a new design; a reorder that reuses the same die and plates starts lower, because the tooling is already made and only board and press time are being bought.

Itemised quote

Approve One Sample, Print the Whole Run

Send the item’s dimensions and the artwork. What returns is a bag price split into board, print, handle and freight, quoted at each quantity break so the volume worth aiming for is obvious before anything is ordered.

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