Book wrap with overlapping lids
Lids meet in the middle with an overlap: less board for an A4 book or a stack of prints.
- Example size
- 310 × 225 × 25 mm internal
- Blank
- 511 × 548 mm
- Pieces
- 1 blank
- Board choices
- 12 boards, 0.45 to 7 mm
Free to design and to check in 3D. €2.50 for the PDF, €3.50 for the DXF or SVG.
What this box is, in other words
Books, LPs, calendars, framed prints and anything else flat. The blank is cut to the product, so nothing moves inside and no filler is needed.
How it closes. The back lid folds over the product, the front lid over the back lid, and the two end walls fold up outside the long walls with their flaps over both lids. A strip of tape over each end flap holds it shut. No glue.
Worth knowing. Enter the thickness of the product, not of the stack of board around it: the walls step up one board per layer by themselves. On 7 mm double wall a 12 mm record wrap has walls under 30 mm, and the tool warns that they get hard to fold.
Also called
book wrap book fold bookfold mailer book mailer wrap-around folder record mailer one-piece folder book a4 documents prints folder economy
Same construction, different trade. If you came looking for one of those, this is it.
How this one is built
- Book wrap: lay the product on the base, fold the back wall and lid over it, then the front wall and lid, then both end walls with their flaps over the lids. Tape each end flap down.
- The lids overlap by 40 mm in the middle; tape the seam or the end flaps hold it.
- Walls step up one board per layer: back 26.5, front 28.0, ends 29.5 mm for an inside height of 25.0 mm.
- End flaps 70 mm. The long walls are 1.5 mm short at each end so the end walls fold outside them.
Board options
The drawing changes when you change the board: thickness compensation is built into every fold, so a 4 mm C-flute blank is not the same shape as a 0.45 mm carton blank.
- F-flute corrugated (0.8 mm)
- E-flute corrugated (1.5 mm)
- B-flute corrugated (3.0 mm)
- C-flute corrugated (4.0 mm)
- EB double wall (4.5 mm)
- BC double wall (7.0 mm)
- SBS / GC1 board 350 gsm (0.45 mm)
- FBB / GC2 board 400 gsm (0.55 mm)
- Kraft / GD2 board 400 gsm (0.50 mm)
- Greyboard 1.0 mm (rigid)
- Prototype board 1.0 mm
- Prototype board 2.0 mm
Questions about this box
- What FEFCO code is a book wrap?
- It belongs to the FEFCO 04 group, folders and trays made from one piece. The numbers in that group differ in where the flaps sit and in which order they fold, and none matches this order exactly, so the drawing names the group and not a number.
- Full lids or overlapping lids?
- Full lids put two layers of board over the whole top, which protects corners and spines better. Overlapping lids each cover half plus the overlap and use less board; the seam needs tape or the end flaps to hold it.
- Is this dieline free?
- Designing it and folding it in 3D are free and need no account. Downloading it is paid: €2.50 for the PDF to print and measure on paper, and €3.50 for a production file - DXF or SVG - because those are the ones that go to a cutting table.
- What is a dieline?
- The flat drawing a box is cut from. It shows where the knife cuts, where the board is creased to fold, and where it is perforated. A die maker turns it into a steel rule die; a plotter or laser cuts it directly. It is also written as "die line" or "die cut template".
- What file format does a die maker need?
- DXF, almost always. Ours is R12 DXF at 1:1 in millimetres with cut, crease, reverse crease and perforation each on their own layer, which is what a cutting table expects. The SVG is the same geometry for Illustrator, Affinity, Inkscape and laser software.
- Can I use it commercially?
- Yes. The files are yours: modify them, print them, make any number of boxes from them. No attribution and no licence fee, ever.
What you can change
8 parameters on the first screen, 3 more behind advanced settings.
- Dimension mode
- Length (L)
- Width (W)
- Thickness (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Lids
- Lid overlap
- End flap depth