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Custom Folding Carton Manufacturing for
Food, Snack &
Beverage Brands
Printed, die-cut, folded, and glued in Santa Ana, California — for over 50 years. From single-unit digital prototypes to large enterprise UV offset runs, Parker Printing & Packaging is the responsive alternative to the national packaging giants.
50 + Years
CONTINUOUS OPERATION
Litho & Digital
LARGE & SMALL RUNS
2 - 4 Weeks
STANDARD PRODUCTION
California
MADE IN THE U.S.A.
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Food-Safe Paperboard
Packaging for Food,
Snack & Beverage Brands
Food and beverage packaging carries requirements that general commercial printing doesn't. Materials must be appropriate for food packaging. Coatings must resist grease and moisture. Print quality must survive the shelf, the cooler, and the checkout lane. Our paperboard stocks, aqueous coatings, and UV inks are FDA-compliant for indirect food contact, and our dual-coater press applies grease-resistant and moisture-barrier coatings engineered for frozen, chilled, and high-fat food products.
Whether you're a regional snack brand scaling into grocery, a beverage company launching a new multipack, or a food processor consolidating suppliers closer to home, we quote real specifications — not generic price tiers.
Structural Design & Prototype Samples
Every carton starts with the right structure. Our in-house structural design team provides free dieline consults and unprinted structural samples (white samples) cut from your exact substrate, so you can test fit, assembly, and shelf presence before committing to a production run. Send us your product dimensions — or your existing dieline — and we'll engineer from there.
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Flexible Scale for
Every Volume
Most carton manufacturers lock you into rigid order minimums. We've structured our production floor differently: high-speed, single-pass UV offset presses synced with an agile digital print workflow, so we can accommodate everything from early-stage market testing to enterprise regional supply — without sacrificing speed or structural integrity.
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1 + units
XEROX IRIDESSE | DIGITAL
Short Runs & Prototyping
Rapid structural samples, sales presentation mockups, and hyper-targeted test-market batches on sheets up to 13″ × 19.2″ — with no plate costs. Perfect your dieline and design before committing to full inventory.
4-Color Digital
Caliper: up to 18pt (400 gsm)
Max Sheet Size: 13" x 19"
Max Printable Area: 12.75" x 18.75"
Coatings: Specialty dry-toner effects, off-line laminations, coatings and finishing
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2,500 + units
RYOBI 925 | LED-UV PRESS
Mid-Volume Production
Our agile mid-run workhorse on a 25″ × 36″ format. Integrated LED-UV curing instantly solidifies inks and coatings — cartons come off the line completely dry and scratch-resistant, compressing turnaround.
5-Color + AQ Coater
Caliper: up to 24pt (600 gsm)
Max Sheet Size: 25" x 36"
Max Printable Area: 24.2" x 35.4"
Coatings: LED-UV Standard AQ - Inline gloss, satin, matte & soft-touch protective coatings
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10,000 + units
KBA RAPIDA 106 | UV-OFFSET
High-Volume Enterprise Runs
Maximum throughput on a 29.5″ × 41.7″ sheet. The dual-coater applies food-safe barriers and premium retail finishes in a single pass — the lowest cost-per-unit for display cartons and can carriers.
6-Color + Dual Coater
Caliper: up to 48pt (1200 gsm) - Heavy Board
Max Sheet Size: 29" x 41"
Max Printable Area: 28.5" x 40.5"
Coatings: Full UV - Aqueous (AQ) - Inline gloss, satin, matte & soft-touch, strike-through & food-barrier finishes
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Folding Carton Styles
Every product fills, ships, and sells differently — and the right carton structure follows from all three. The styles below are a few of the most requested configurations — a starting point, not a catalog. If it can be die-cut from paperboard, we can engineer and print it, and our structural design team will cut you an unprinted sample to prove it.
Also printing: gable top cartons · sleeves & trays · six-corner cartons · tuck-top auto-bottoms · custom structures
Straight Tuck & Reverse Cartons
The workhorses of retail packaging. Tuck-end cartons suit snack bars, baked goods, cosmetics, and lightweight consumer packaged goods. We print straight tuck and reverse tuck configurations in short and long runs, with options for hang tabs, die-cut windows, and interior printing.
Auto-Bottom & Snap-Lock Cartons
When your product has weight — jars, bottles, multi-unit packs — auto-bottom and snap-lock (1-2-3 bottom) constructions deliver strength with fast assembly on your packing line. Ideal for heavier food items and products filled at speed.
Retail Display Cartons
Shelf-ready packaging that works twice: it ships your product, then tears away into a countertop or shelf display. We produce perforated tear-away display cartons for granola bars, protein bars, cookies, single-serve snacks, and impulse items — engineered so the perforation opens cleanly and the display stands straight.
Beverage Carriers & Multipack Cans
Custom-printed can carriers, bottle carriers, and multipack wraps in 4-pack, 6-pack, and 12-pack configurations. Built from heavier-caliper board — up to 48 pt on our large-format UV press — with the structural integrity to hold filled cans and bottles securely.