Free Cigarette Box Dieline

A king size pack of 20 is about 55 mm wide, 22 mm deep and 88 mm tall outside, the cigarettes in three rows of seven, six and seven. A 100s pack is taller and a little thinner, about 55 × 20 × 98 mm, and a slim pack narrower, about 45 × 15 × 100 mm. Each cigarette box template here opens at those outside sizes on SBS 14 pt board.

To size a pack from what goes in it, open Size from contents: 20 cigarettes 7.8 mm across and 84 mm long in rows of seven, six and seven need an inside of 56.8 × 22.2 × 84.5 mm to sit without pressing, the frame’s board and clearance and 0.5 mm of room included. Outside, the tool adds four boards across and in height and two front to back, because the sides, the top and the bottom are two layers. The table gives the outside, inside and flat size of each ready flip-top pack in millimeters and inches.

A flip-top pack is two pieces. The shell is one long blank: the lid flap, lid front, lid top and lid back, the hinge, then the box back, bottom and front, all one width, with the side panels on both edges. The inner side panels hang on the back panels and the outer ones on the front panels, and glued together they make a double side wall. A cut across the front and a slanted cut on each side part the lid from the box, so the lid opens on the hinge across the back.

The inner frame is the second piece: a front with a round cut-out and two side walls, glued inside the box front and sides and standing above the cut. When the lid closes it goes over the frame and holds. Without the frame the same shell is ECMA F60.11, the one-piece hinge-lid pack; switch the frame off under Lid and frame.

Hinge-lid packs are made from folding boxboard about 0.25 to 0.40 mm thick, so this page starts on SBS 14 pt, 0.36 mm. Pick another board under Board, or type its caliper, and every line moves with it: the panels crease to crease, the front and back two boards wider than the inside and the sides one board deeper, the flaps clear of the front, the frame a board plus 1 mm narrower than the inside.

The lid front comes down 30% of the height and the side cut rises 30° from the front to the back, the proportions hinge-lid packs commonly use. Both change under Lid and frame, and the frame’s rise above the cut follows the lid front so it always sits under the lid top. For a model folded by hand, 110 lb card stock is about as thick as SBS 14 pt, so the sizes hold.

The production PDF is drawn at 1:1 with the cut, crease, bleed and safe lines on separate layers in spot colors set to overprint, plus a notes page with the board and every allowance. SVG and DXF carry the same lines for a cutting table or a design file, and PNG gives a picture of the dieline. In Illustrator, keep the cut and crease layers on top and place your artwork on a layer under them, out to the bleed line.

To print a cigarette box template at home, choose Print. The king size pack fits one Letter or A4 page with the frame beside the shell. The 100s and slim shells are taller than a Letter page holds, so they print on one A4 page, or across two Letter pages with corner marks to tape together.

In the United States a cigarette package holds at least 20 cigarettes (21 CFR 1140.16(b)) and bears one of the required health warnings (15 U.S.C. 1333). Anyone who repackages or relabels a tobacco product counts as a tobacco product manufacturer (21 U.S.C. 387(20)).

In the European Union a unit packet of cigarettes is a cuboid holding at least 20, and a flip-top lid is hinged only at the back of the packet (Directive 2014/40/EU, Article 14), as the lid of this pack is. Canada asks for a slide and shell package (SOR/2019-107, section 40), for king size cigarettes 84 to 89 mm high, 81 to 106 mm wide and 15 to 18 mm deep when closed (section 41); the slide and shell pack here closes at 86.4 × 81.9 × 17.9 mm.

A hinge-lid pack makes a handy box for anything long and slim: a set of crayons or colored pencils, a deck of cards, business cards or a small gift. Size from contents takes crayons and pencils as well: set how many sit in a row and their size, and the shell and frame are drawn around them.

The Design section puts a box color, text and a logo on the panels, upright on every face, and they print with the files. For a tuck end box or a box with a lid in the same board, open the dieline generator or browse all box templates.