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Add a personal touch to your packaging with our Custom Printed Packing Tape. Whether you’re looking to add branding to your packages or preparing to ship your corporate gifts, our custom packing tape comes in either PVC/Vinyl or an eco-friendly paper-based option. The tapes are printed in PANTONE® colour rather than CMYK, so make sure to choose your colours from the PANTONE® Coated Library to guarantee your perfect prints!
Pro Tip: There is approximately a 7mm vertical gap between each printed panel so we do not recommend having any solid colour backgrounds in your design, as you will notice this gap on your final tape
Combine this with our fab packaging options:
Bespoke Printed Boxes | Book Wraps | Bottle Boxes | Printed Paper Bags | Crash Lock Boxes | Printed Mailer Boxes | Printed Pillow Boxes | Postal Boxes | Custom Pouch Packaging | Custom Printed Boxes | Printed Shipping Boxes
Fast, Reliable Delivery
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Over 300+ Products Catalogue
Free Online Design Tools
White Label Shipping
Bespoke Quotes
There’s nothing better than getting a package, even finding a little failed delivery slip through the letterbox puts a spring in your step! With custom-printed packing tape, your brand will be the first thing your customers see when they receive their gift.
Our PVC/Vinyl branded packing tape comes 48mm in width and 66 metres in length, or you can select a more eco-friendly printed packing tape with our paper-based option which comes in two widths - either 48mm x 50 metres or 36mm x 50 metres. It looks a little like masking tape, but it’s got a permanent strong adhesive to keep your gifts secure!
The paper-based option comes in light brown or white, and the PVC and Vinyl options are available in Transparent, White or Clear with up to 3 spot colours on the single-sided print. All options come in boxes of 36 rolls of custom-printed tape, simply upload your design and choose your colours from this PANTONE® Coated Library to ensure your design prints as you expected.
Choosing the right tape and adhesive:
Hot Melt Polypropylene Tape - Ideal for general use and cost-effective. This tape has a hot melt adhesive which sticks when pressure is applied. Perfect for use in packaging, bundling and sealing cardboard cartons or boxes. It's also suitable for use in standard tape guns.
Vinyl Tape - A very high-quality tape and the best choice if your design has multiple colours that need to be closely registered. We recommend using a standard tape dispenser as the tape is durable and more difficult to tear by hand.
High Tack Acryllic - A pressure-sensitive adhesive which requires pressing down firmly to ensure a good bond, perfect for long-term adhesion, for example, if boxes are going to be stored un-opened for long periods of time.
Polypropylene Solvent Tape - A high-quality tape that's best used if you require adhesion for long periods of time. Solvent tape performs well in cold environments.
Kraft Paper - The most environmentally considerate tape option. If applied to a cardboard box, it can be recycled.
For optimum performance, the tapes should be stored in temperatures between 15°c to 25°c, in a cool, clean environment.
Please note that when printed, there will be a gap between printed impressions on the tape and we do not print edge to edge, so a 27mm gap will be between the edge of the tape and the printed impression.
We recommend you create your artwork in Adobe InDesign or Adobe Illustrator (or any other vector-based programme) and supply your file as a print-ready PDF, using the PDF profile PDF/X-1a:2001. Please submit your files as 1 layer without transparencies.
• There is approximately a 7mm gap between each printed panel so we do not recommend having any solid colour backgrounds in your design, as you will notice this gap on your final tape
• Your artwork must be vectorised without any overlapping paths or bitmap images.
• Fonts must be outlined or embedded within your file.
• The printable area is the same size as the format size to be submitted. Please ensure the full design is included within the printable area. You do not have to supply bleed or use crop marks on your artwork.
• Colours should be used from the Pantone® Coated Library only. We cannot accept CMYK, RGB or unnamed spots. To print in black or white, please use the colours Pantone Black C and Pantone White (you can create a swatch named PANTONE White within your swatch palette). Our Illustrator and Indesign templates contain this spot colour within the swatches panel.
• If printing in PANTONE White, please represent the tape colour within your artwork in CMYK which can be found within our templates.
• Artwork must be supplied as solid closed vector shapes without any gradients or transparencies, we cannot replicate these effects using this printing process.
• We recommend line-work has a minimum weight of 1.5pt (points) (3pt for reversed-out lines).
• Fonts should be at least 8pt (10pt for light and decorative fonts).
• Please download our templates to assist with setting up your artwork.
• Please note that when printed, there will be a gap between printed impressions on the tape and we do not print edge to edge, so a 27mm gap will be between the edge of the tape and the printed impression.
For a step-by-step guide on how to set up your packaging tape design, please see our help centre for more information.
Ordered Roll Size Artwork Size
48mm x 50m 273mm x 44mm
48mm x 66m 273mm x 44mm
36mm x 50m 273mm x 32mm
We are working hard to mitigate our environmental impact and are following an emissions reduction program to lower our direct and indirect emissions which will lead us to Net Zero by 2040.
We are working hard to introduce more environmentally credible products in our range and we encourage you to consider using more of those products.
Tradeprint supports Two Sides, the print and paper advocacy group that aims to dispel myths around greenwashing and promote paper as a truly sustainable product.
We are committed to reducing waste and in particular aiming to eliminate problematic plastics from our printing and fulfilment operation.
Read full Environmental policy here.
