Shelf-ready display tray
Lowered front so the product shows and can be taken from the shelf.
- Example size
- 380 × 280 × 110 mm internal
- Blank
- 603 × 503 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
Supermarket shelves, shop counters and market stalls: the tray arrives full, goes on the shelf as it is, and customers take the product out through the lowered front.
How it closes. No lid. The corners are glued like a plain tray. The opening is a notch cut down from the top of the front wall, centred, with bevelled lower corners so the cut does not tear when the wall flexes.
Worth knowing. The opening takes stiffness out of the front wall. The tool keeps the corner tabs and at least a quarter of the wall height in place, but a tray that has to be stacked full needs stronger board than one that only stands on a shelf.
Also called
shelf ready tray SRP tray retail ready packaging display tray counter display open front tray cut-out tray shelf ready srp retail ready display counter cut-out front opening
Same construction, different trade. If you came looking for one of those, this is it.
How this one is built
- Four corner tray: the walls fold up, the corner tabs swing round and glue to the inside of the long walls.
- The corner tab sits 1.5 mm inside the wall - exactly one caliper - and starts 1.5 mm above the floor so it clears the base board.
- The short walls are inset by 1.5 mm at both ends so they stand inside the long walls.
- This construction needs glue. Pick a slotted tray if there is no gluer available.
- Shelf-ready front: a 256 x 55 mm opening in the front wall, bevelled 10 mm at the lower corners. 55 mm of wall stays below it.
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
- How deep can the front opening be?
- Up to three quarters of the wall height. Below that the wall is a strip that folds over as soon as a product leans on it. The tool clamps a deeper value and says so in the notes.
- Can the opening go right to the corners?
- No. The corner tabs are glued to the inside of the front wall, so the board behind them has to stay. The opening stops one tab depth plus two board thicknesses from each end.
- 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, 6 more behind advanced settings.
- Dimension mode
- Length (L)
- Width (W)
- Height (H)
- Board caliper (t)
- Front wall
- Opening width
- Opening depth