Can One Company Print My Packaging AND Ship It?

Quick answer: Yes. One company can print your custom packaging and ship it to your customers. Teal Packaging is a US custom printed packaging manufacturer that also runs kitting, pick-pack, and ship-to-recipient fulfillment from its West Chicago, Illinois fulfillment center. You approve one proof, Teal makes the boxes, and the same team kits and ships them to individual addresses under a single quote.

Most brands assume this takes two vendors: a printer to make the box and a separate fulfillment partner to store and ship it. That split is where cost, delays, and finger-pointing creep in. Below is how a combined print-plus-fulfill model works and when it makes sense for a growing brand.

Can one company really print my packaging and ship it to my customers?

Yes, and it is more common than it used to be. The traditional path was a packaging manufacturer on one side and a third-party logistics (3PL) provider on the other. You would order boxes, freight them to the 3PL, and hope the counts matched. When something went wrong, the printer blamed the warehouse and the warehouse blamed the printer.

Teal collapses that into one relationship. Because Teal prints the box, it already has your artwork, your dielines, and your specs on file. The same operation then handles kitting and assembly, packs each order, and ships to the recipient list you provide. One vendor, one point of contact, one quote.

What does print plus fulfill actually include?

A combined packaging and fulfillment engagement usually covers five stages, the same vocabulary a standalone 3PL uses so you can compare like for like:

• Manufacturing: Teal prints your custom boxes, mailers, or rigid packaging to spec, with free dieline design and a proof before anything runs.
• Warehousing and storage: finished packaging and any inserts are held in the West Chicago fulfillment center until you are ready to ship.
• Kitting and assembly: the branded box is built out with inserts, tissue, products, or promo items into a finished kit.
• Pick-pack: each order is picked, packed, and labeled for its destination.
• Ship to recipient: parcels go out to individual customer or employee addresses with carrier rate-shopping.

You can use all five stages or just the ones you need. A brand that already warehouses its own product might only need custom boxes shipped to recipients, while a subscription brand may want the full stack.

Why does using one vendor for both matter?

Three reasons a single vendor tends to beat a printer-plus-3PL split for small and mid-size brands:

• No inbound freight between vendors. When the printer and the fulfillment center are the same operation, your boxes do not have to be trucked from a factory to a separate warehouse and reconciled on arrival.
• One count, one accountability. The team that printed 5,000 boxes is the team that stores and ships them, so unit counts and quality are owned end to end.
• One invoice and one quote. You are not stitching together a per-box price, an inbound freight bill, a storage fee, and a pick-pack rate from three companies.

What counts as kitting and assembly here?

Kitting is the step where individual items become one ready-to-ship unit. For a packaging-led brand that often means placing a product, an insert card, tissue, and a promo item into your printed custom mailer box, then sealing and labeling it. Because Teal already prints the outer box, the kit is assembled around packaging that is on-brand from the first touch. See the dedicated kitting services page for how kit specs are documented and quoted.

Who is a good fit for print plus fulfillment?

This model tends to fit brands where the packaging matters and the shipping is a chore:

• DTC and ecommerce brands that want a consistent branded unboxing on every order.
• Subscription boxes that ship the same printed box filled with rotating contents each cycle.
• Corporate gifting and swag programs sending kits to many individual addresses.
• Product launches, PR sends, and influencer mailers that need boxes assembled and shipped to a list.

What does Teal need to quote print plus fulfillment?

To turn this into one quote, it helps to share a few things up front:

• Box specs. Style, size, material, and print, or just your artwork and Teal will build the dieline for free.
• Kit contents. What goes inside each box, including any inserts, tissue, or products you will supply.
• Quantities. How many boxes, and whether this is a one-time run or a recurring program.
• Destinations. A single warehouse, or a list of individual recipient addresses.

With those four inputs, Teal can scope the print run and the kitting and shipping together instead of quoting them as disconnected jobs.

Does combining print and fulfillment lock me in?

No. You can start with a single print-plus-ship project and decide later whether to run more through the same team. Because the packaging and the fulfillment are quoted per project, there is no long-term storage commitment baked into a first order. Many brands begin with one send (a launch, a gifting campaign, or a PR mailer), see how the single-vendor workflow feels, and expand from there.

Where does Teal fulfill orders from?

Teal kits, packs, and ships from its fulfillment center in West Chicago, Illinois. A central-US location shortens transit zones to much of the country compared with a coast-only footprint, which can lower parcel cost and days in transit for a nationwide recipient list. Fulfillment is scoped and quoted per project rather than sold as a fixed shelf price.

How long does production take?

Printing runs from about 7 business days after proof approval, with complex or high-volume orders taking longer. Kitting and shipping timelines are set per project in your quote, because a 100-unit gift kit and a 10,000-unit monthly subscription run move on very different schedules. Teal does not publish blanket delivery-date promises, since real timelines depend on artwork approval, kit complexity, and carrier transit.

How much does custom box fulfillment and kitting cost?

Fulfillment is quote-based, not an instant checkout price. Custom printed packaging starts at a 50-unit minimum order (100 or more for specialty rigid boxes) and from about $0.44 per unit at higher volumes, with free dieline design and free US shipping on custom packaging orders. Kitting, storage, and pick-pack are quoted on top based on kit complexity, order volume, and destinations. Because every kit spec is different, the honest answer is that you get a real number from a quote, not a shelf price.

How do I get started?

Send your box specs, your kit contents, and roughly how many recipients you need to reach. Teal will scope the print run and the fulfillment together and return one quote. Request a fulfillment quote to get your custom packaging printed, kitted, and shipped to your customers under a single point of contact.