Custom Printed Butcher Paper

What is custom printed butcher paper?

Custom printed butcher paper is ordinary 40 lb butcher paper with your own artwork printed across it. We run it on brown kraft, white or pink stock, then cut it to sheets or wind it onto rolls.

BBQ joints wrap brisket by the pound in it and line trays with it. Burger counters fold it around a sandwich so the bag opens on a logo. Butcher shops and delis pull it off a counter roll under every cut.

The stock is the same as our plain sheets, so the wrap, the fold and the tear feel exactly as your crew expects. Only the face of the paper changes.

Which sheet size fits what you serve?

Four typical sizes cover most printed sheet orders. The table shows what each one wraps and how the print lands on it. Any other size is a custom cut; write it on the quote and we cut to it.

If you order one size, make it 18 x 24 in. It closes around a sub, lines a basket and folds over a half rack with no seam.

How does the print hold up against hot meat?

Soy and water-based inks dry down into the fiber instead of sitting on top as a film. A brisket coming off the pit does not lift a dry print, and rendered fat does not smear it.

The paper itself acts like plain stock. Uncoated kraft and pink let steam escape, so the bark stays firm through a rest. Grease darkens the sheet where the meat sits, and on kraft that patch hardly shows.

We print the outside face only. The inside face against the food stays blank, which is the standard way a printed food wrap is run.

Repeat pattern or a single centered logo?

A repeat pattern tiles your logo or icons across the sheet at a fixed spacing. We usually set the gap at 3 in or 5 in between marks. Tight spacing suits small icons; a 5 in gap suits a wordmark that is 2 in wide.

A single centered logo works on a sheet served flat, such as a tray liner or a basket sheet. Once that sheet is wrapped around a burger, the logo ends up under the fold. A repeat shows wherever the wrap lands.

Repeats need no bleed. The pattern runs off every edge, and the cut can drift an eighth of an inch without anyone noticing. A single logo near an edge needs a quarter inch of clearance.

Our opinion: a one-color repeat on kraft is the print that looks right on the most sheets.

Kraft, white or pink: which stock takes the print?

Brown kraft takes one dark ink well: black, deep brown, navy or a brick red. Light inks on kraft go muddy because the brown shows through them. Print one color on kraft; a second rarely earns its cost.

White stock shows every color as drawn, so Pantone solid-coated matches hold true on it. If your logo is a specific orange or teal, white is the stock to print it on. The white we use for printed sheets is uncoated.

Pink prints much like kraft. Dark inks sit well on it, and the peach tone warms a black mark. Smokehouses that already wrap in pink often add a print to the same paper rather than switching stock. The brown kraft butcher paper page covers the kraft stock on its own.

What artwork files should you send?

Send vector files when you have them: AI, PDF or SVG. Vector art scales to any sheet size and prints with clean edges on a 3 in or a 5 in repeat.

If all you have is a PNG, send it at 300 dpi at the size it will print. A 72 dpi web logo looks soft once it is blown up to 4 in across. Convert text to outlines, or send the font with the file.

• A vector logo (AI, PDF or SVG) with text outlined
• Pantone solid-coated numbers for each ink, or a note to match the PNG
• The sheet size, and whether you want a repeat or one logo
• The spacing you prefer, or leave it to us at 3 in or 5 in
• Any extra copy, such as a phone number or a social handle, as plain text

No art yet? Design Your Butcher Paper online lays a logo out on a sheet so you see the spacing before the proof.

Are the inks fine next to food?

We print with food-safe soy and water-based inks in one to four colors. They carry no solvent smell, which matters when a hot sandwich sits in its wrap for twenty minutes.

One color is the cleanest print and the cheapest to run. Two colors give a logo plus an accent. Four colors cover a full-color design on white stock. Each extra color is another pass, so the quote reflects the count.

Pantone solid-coated is the reference for every match. Kraft pulls every ink a shade darker, so pick a Pantone one step lighter than the shade you want to see on the sheet.

Mistakes to avoid on a first printed run

• Printing fine lines under a quarter inch; they fill in on kraft
• Ordering 12 x 12 in for a full sandwich; it will not close
• Choosing a pale ink on brown kraft and expecting it to read
• Sending a screenshot of the logo instead of the original file
• Guessing the sheet size instead of wrapping a test item in plain paper first
• Putting a date or a seasonal line on paper you will use all year

The proof catches most of these. Reading the list first still saves a round of edits.

How does a custom printed order run?

The minimum is 1,000 sheets or 1 roll. Cut sheets start from $0.30 a sheet, and the written quote with the exact figure arrives within one business day.

1. Ask for a quote with the stock, sheet size, color count and quantity.
2. Send your artwork. We build a free proof and edit it until you sign off.
3. Approve the proof. Printing and cutting take 4 to 6 business days from that approval.
4. We ship with free tracked delivery to any US address in 2 to 3 business days.
5. Open the carton on arrival. Report a misprint or damage within 10 days, with photos, for a reprint or refund.

Printed rolls instead of sheets

The same artwork goes onto a roll. Rolls are priced by the roll on the written quote and come in the widths of our plain roll range; 18, 24 and 36 in are the usual picks.

A printed roll sits in a standard counter dispenser because the core is the same. A repeat pattern is the only sensible layout for a roll, since the tear point moves with every pull and a single logo would land anywhere.

Counters that tear paper all day are better served by printed meat counter paper rolls, which are set up for exactly that.