Custom Poly Mailer Bags: The First Thing a Customer Sees

What is a Poly Mailer?

Poly mailers are double-layered, laminated shipping bags that are lighter and cheaper to ship than corrugated boxes and are easily customizable through printing.

There are at least a dozen different types of poly mailer bags including seven or eight different standard polyethylene thicknesses depending on the application and shipping requirements. You can tuck gussets into the bag, either into the side or into the bottom of the bag to make the bag more three dimensional.

Poly mailer bags can come with seven or eight different styles of handles depending on the customer’s budget and needs, and whether it’s a shipping bag or merchandise retail bag.

Additionally, companies that do a lot of product shipping note that storing poly mailer bags takes up a lot less room than storing the same number of corrugated cardboard boxes.

What Advantages do Poly Mailer Bags Offer?

Custom printed poly mailers, up to four colors, allow companies to extend their brand all the way to home delivery and are typically less expensive than custom printing on corrugated cardboard boxes because the tooling costs are less for poly mailers.

Higher quality printing results are obtained with poly mailers than corrugated cardboard boxes. Poly mailers start out white and accept ink better than cardboard, which means colors come out more vivid than a box that starts out brown. Graphics and text printed on poly mailers is crisper and cleaner than printing on brown cardboard boxes.

Can Poly Mailers be Custom Printed?

Poly mailers can come a wider range of options than cardboard boxes. Poly mailer bags can have different kinds of handles or no handles, can be drawstring bags, t-shirt bags, have gussets added for a more three-dimensional appearance, and so on.

Primary Reasons Customers Choose Poly Mailers?

Many customers choose poly mailers over boxes or other more rigid forms of packaging because they are lighter and reduce shipping costs. They are especially good for items that are less susceptible to damage while also typically costing less per bag than the cost per box including products such as apparel, jewelry, and other small items.

Environmentally conscious companies know that poly mailers take up less room on transportation vehicles than boxes, meaning each vehicle can carry more items, resulting in a net decrease in carbon emissions from transportation.

What are Minimum Quantities When Custom Printing Poly Bags?

Minimum quantities for custom printed poly bags are going to vary by supplier as well as by printing specs (complexity of artwork, number of colors, and so on). With one-color printing and simple, small artwork, a minimum quantity of 1,000 bags is possible. Larger, more complex artwork and more than one color may require a minimum order of 5,000 bags. With three or more colors, the minimum quantity may increase to 10,000. More colors, larger artwork, and more complex artwork drives minimum quantities higher.

Changing with the Technology of the World

Now imagine how you can design artwork to be printed on this packaging – your company’s logo, your website, a special message to the customer, a QR code that sends them to a landing page of your website with a special offer or discount, a hashtag that leads them to social media campaigns, contests, and offers – the possibilities are endless!

The Importance of a Reliable Source for Poly Mailer Bags

Having a source for poly mailer bags like Brown & Pratt means you can rely on your packaging to uphold your standards and give you precisely what you want. Brown & Pratt has been providing custom printed packaging since 1954. We offer top-quality packaging material at an exceptional value! You want your brand to ensure scalability. With our reliable printed packaging services, we can scale with you & provide the number of custom printed poly mailer bags that you need promptly. For this reason, a wide variety of industries count on us to provide them with their packaging and shipping supplies—we’re reliable! 

Our co-extruded poly mailer bags are the go-to packaging when shipping to customers. Not only are the poly mailer bags lightweight, ensuring lower shipping costs, but they are extremely durable and water-resistant. This allows you to be at ease when using our bags to ship all over the world. You don’t have to worry about the customer being disappointed when their package shows up with a tear or water damage. Each bag has a tape strip closure to ensure proper sealing during transit. We also offer a “duo tape strip” option that includes 2 tape strips and a perforation.  This feature is ideal for providing your customer with the proper packaging for easy returns or a “second use” option. As your brand and company grow, you may also consider adding a bubble lining to your poly mailer envelopes for increased protection. With durability, as well as your custom branded design, the customer will be entirely satisfied.

Brown & Pratt is also adaptable! We fully understand the value of keeping your brand fresh.  Over the years, many of our clients have made multiple branding or print changes. These artwork changes also affect the look of your packaging! Do you want to change the design of the bag? Make a custom hashtag? You’ve recently changed the brand’s slogan? No problem! We specialize in making these changes as seamless and easy as possible. We can sometimes even find ways for you to save money on the costs associated with the new artwork. Let us see your new ideas and artwork, and we will go to work! We want to nurture our relationship with our customers, so we are always here to listen and hear what you have to say. We want to help make your packaging visions come to life, and we will try our best to make them happen.     

The Detail Brown & Pratt Offers

Brown & Pratt can custom print up to eight colors at one time. That means you can have up to eight colors on one or both sides of the packaging. Our poly mailer bags have a white base color which allows your brand’s colors to pop without any distraction or taking away from your custom design. We can print a simple one-color artwork in as few as 500 bags with pricing breaks at 1000, 3000, and 5,000 bags.  When printing in 2 or more colors, a full production run is required and the bags must be printed in line.  For orders of two-color printed bags, a minimum of 3,000 bags must be ordered and the minimum for 3 color printing is 5,000 bags.  We offer price breaks on orders of 5,000, 10,000, and 15,000 bags. In regard to lead time, we always do our best to provide you with a solid timeframe of when your bags will be ready. Due to the care and detail, we put into making your packaging precisely what you want, the timeframes can sometimes vary week to week. We will always be highly communicative, ensuring that you always know how long it will take us to get your bags printed perfectly and on their way to you.  

While what is on the package itself is of utmost importance, the size of the package also needs to be perfect. That’s why at Brown & Pratt, we offer a variety of bag size options. Our standard bag size options are:

Duo Tape Strip with Perforation 

• 6″ x 8.75″ + 2.5″
• 7″ x 9.75″ + 2.5″
• 9″ x 11.75″ + 2.5″
• 12″ x 8.75″ + 2.5″ 
• 10″ x 12.75″ + 2″ 
• 13″ x 9.75″ + 2″
• 10″ x 15.25″ + 2″
• 12″ x 15.25″ + 2″
• 14″ x 16.75″ + 2″
• 14″ x 18.75″ + 2″
• 19″ x 23.75″ + 2″
• 24″ x 23.75″ + 2″ 

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