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Custom Shape Folders

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Description

Custom Shape Folders

Create a presentation folder shaped around your brand, documents, or promotional inserts. Better Printing prints, die-cuts, and creases each folder to order, using your chosen dimensions and the outline defined in your supplied artwork or template.

Custom Shaped Folder Printing Options

Enter your custom size when ordering, then supply artwork or a template showing your required shape. From oversized document folders to distinctive branded designs, you can customise the outline and pocket details to suit what goes inside. Popular options include shaped pockets, punched holes, and rounded corners.

Choose single-sided or double-sided printing in full colour (CMYK), black only, Pantone, or CMYK with an additional Pantone colour. Pantone printing helps maintain consistent brand colours across logos and corporate materials.

Our standard stock is premium 350gsm silk, with other materials and finishes available:

  • Materials: box board, silk, gloss, uncoated, kraft, and recycled stock
  • Lamination: matt, gloss, silk, soft touch matt, and anti-scuff matt
  • Finishing: spot UV, embossing, debossing, and foiling in 10 colours

Uncoated stock is easy to write on, making it useful for folders that double as workbooks or event packs. Anti-scuff matt lamination helps resist surface marks on folders that are handled frequently.

⚠️ PLEASE NOTE: Folders with solid colour coverage to the outside must be gloss or matt laminated to avoid cracking and marking!

Choose how your folders arrive

  • Die-cut and creased for assembly
  • Taped and supplied flat
  • Taped and fully assembled, ready to fill.

How to Order Your Custom Shape Folders

  1. Choose your specification: enter your dimensions, then select your material, print colours, lamination, assembly option, and finishing.
  2. Supply your artwork or template: upload it at checkout or send it later by email. Your supplied file defines the folder’s custom outline.
  3. Get design support if needed: our design team can help create your folder artwork.
  4. Select your delivery option: free standard shipping is available, alongside a five-day express option for orders placed before 10am.

If you have a fixed deadline, contact us to confirm the schedule for your specification and artwork.

Choose your size, supply your shape, and create a folder finished to suit your brand.

Artwork Templates

Specification

Styles/Sizes:
See individual diagrams for specific measurements and styles.
Colour:

  • 4 (full) colour CMYK
  • 5 colour (4 colour CMYK + 1 pantone colour)
  • 6 colour (4 colour CMYK + 2 pantone colours)
  • Pantone colours (upto 5)
  • Black throughout

Material:

  • Silk paper (250-450gsm)
  • Gloss paper (250-400gsm)
  • Uncoated paper (250-450gsm)
  • Premium Uncoated paper (250-450gsm)
  • 100% Recycled paper (250-350gsm)
  • Kraft Paper (280gsm)

Lamination:

  • Matt Lamination
  • Gloss Lamination
  • Silk Lamination
  • Soft Touch Lamination

Finishing:

  • Die cut to final size
  • Flat packed ready for assembly (interlocking)
  • Taped and supplied flat
  • Taped and made up

Additional options:

  • Foiling (choose from 10 colours)
  • Spot UV (Matt or Gloss)
  • Embossing / Debossing Raised / Indent effect

FAQs

What’s the difference between interlocking and glued?
This refers to the way pockets are secured to the folders.
Glued have a strip of tape on a flap that is then folded and stuck to the back page to make the pocket.
Interlocking has a slotted mechanism that requires no tape to form the pocket.
Glued is a more secure finish but has a longer production time and higher cost due to the extra process.
What shapes are available?

The shape of your custom folders is completely up to you – but if you’re stuck for inspiration, Better Printing can also provide popular die-cutter shapes for a reduced price. Call us for more information!

How large are custom shape folders?

The exact dimensions of your finished folders will depend on your design. Standard folders are printed across a total flat area of 440mm by 630mm size, then folded and die-cut to your chosen shape.

Other sizes can be provided upon request – get in touch for more details!

How many pages can be stored inside the folder pocket?

Each folder can be supplied with a small margin at the pocket edges and folder spine, giving more room to store sheets inside.

Our capacity options range from 0mm margin (which can store up to 10 standard 100gsm sheets) to 10mm margin (up to 70 sheets). Sheet capacity will vary slightly depending on the thickness of your paper sheets.

For more information on our capacity options, call us on 023 8087 8037 or email info@betterprinting.co.uk.

What does ‘single sided’ mean?

With single sided folders, your design is printed onto the outer panels of the folder; this includes the folder pocket, which is fastened to the inside cover after printing. The inside panels of your folders are supplied blank.

What does ‘double sided’ mean?

With double sided folders, your design is printed across all sides of the folder; the inside panels as well as the outer panels and folder pocket.

How are custom folders printed?

Each custom folder is printed in high definition using modern litho press technology – or you can opt for digital printing methods instead depending on your requirements. Call us to find out more!

What materials are custom folders printed on?

All custom folders are printed on sturdy 350gsm silk cardstock by default. Other paper stocks can be provided upon request – just give us a call!

What does capacity and non-capacity mean?
Capacity relates to how deep the spine is on the folder.  For more information about which capacity you need, visit our “Capacity of Presentation Folders” Guide.
How do I layout my artwork on the template? 
As you look at the template, the right hand panel will be the front cover of the folder and the left hand panel which has the pocket beneath will be the back cover – the cover folds up and sticks to the inside of the back page.
If you’re folder will be double sided you’ll need to flip the template over so that the pocket is now below the right hand panel. This will be the inside of the back page and the left hand panel will be the inside of the front cover.
How do I get in touch?
Should you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us or call on 023 8087 8037.

Additional Info

Why Choose Better Printing for Bespoke Folders?

Better Printing is part of the InPrint Group, a family-run design and print company based in Southampton since 1986. Our 20,000-square-foot facility brings together more than 50 designers, press operators, and print finishers to manage production from artwork to dispatch.

Keeping design, printing, and finishing in-house allows us to check the details that matter on custom folders: accurate cutting, clean creasing, and consistent colour. Our presses run 24 hours a day, six days a week, giving us the production capacity to support time-sensitive orders.

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