Where Can I Buy 250 Custom Printed Tissue Paper Sheets in the UK? (2026 Guide)

Right, straight answer first, because that's what you came for: you can buy 250 custom printed tissue paper sheets in the UK from Big Tissue for £300, printed here, delivered in 7 working days to the UK mainland or Ireland. No hidden plate fees, no "sorry, our minimum is 5,000", and a human actually opens your artwork before it goes anywhere near a press.

Now the useful bit.

I've been around printed tissue for the better part of two decades — started on hand-fed platens, watched the industry swing from 5,000-sheet minimums down to what small brands can actually stomach — and 250 sheets is the number I'd point a first-time buyer at nine times out of ten. Not because it's the cheapest per sheet (it isn't, not even close), but because it's the first quantity where the maths stops laughing at you and you're not sat on a pallet of stock for the next three years.

Why 250, and why you'll struggle to find less

People ask me all the time why they can't just order 50 sheets to "try it". Fair question. The honest answer is that a print run — any print run — has a fixed cost before the first sheet comes off. You've got a plate to make, an ink to mix and match, a press to wash down from whatever job ran before you, and a roll of tissue that has to be loaded and tensioned properly or the print walks all over the place. That setup is the same whether you're doing 50 sheets or 5,000. On 50, it's ruinous. On 250, it starts to make sense. On 1,000+, it's genuinely cheap per sheet.

That's why the UK has more or less settled at 250 as the floor. The bigger trade printers won't touch you under 500 or 1,000 — the setup time eats their margin. We hold the line at 250 because most of our customers are indie brands doing their first proper packaging run, and telling someone they need to commit £700 upfront just to try branded tissue is how you kill a small business before it starts.

What you're actually paying for

250 sheets lands at £300 all-in — that's 50 × 70cm sheets, one colour of ink on natural 17gsm tissue, artwork checked by a real person before we press go, and tracked delivery included. No plate fee bolted on afterwards, no VAT surprise at checkout.

The thing worth knowing before you order: the per-sheet cost drops sharply the moment you scale up, because that fixed setup gets spread thinner. Doubling or quadrupling the quantity doesn't double or quadruple the price — nothing like it. So if you already know you'll get through the stock, ordering more in one go is genuinely better value. If you're not sure yet, 250 is the sensible toe in the water and you can always come back for a bigger run once you know it works. Live pricing for every tier is on the Quick Order page and updates as you change the quantity in the Builder.

Before you order, three things

You don't need much, but you do need these:

Artwork you can actually print from. Vector is best — .ai, .eps, or a proper vector PDF. If it's a raster file, 300dpi at print size is the bar. What doesn't work: a logo you dragged off your Instagram bio, or a JPEG that's been screenshotted twice. If yours is a bit ropey, don't panic — we flag it and tell you before anything gets printed. I've turned back plenty of files over the years; nobody's ever been cross about not receiving a blurry logo.
A colour. One Pantone-matched ink on natural tissue is what 90% of our customers order and it's what most of the "luxury" tissue you've unwrapped from an online boutique actually is. If you need full-colour or an all-over pattern, that's the Builder — but for a first order, one colour done well beats three colours done wobbly, every time.
A weight. 17gsm is the classic — thin, drapes properly, what Selfridges and the fashion houses use. 30gsm is chunkier and slightly opaque, better if you're wrapping something with sharp edges or you want it to feel more "gift" than "wrap". If you're on the fence, and honestly most people are, get the £20 sample pack before you spend £300. You'll feel the difference the second you pick them up.

Turnaround, delivery, all that

7 working days from the moment you approve the artwork proof.
Tracked courier to UK mainland and the Republic of Ireland, included in the price.
Need it faster? A 5-day rush is doable — ask when you order.

Everything's printed in the UK. Nothing sits on a boat. Order Monday with clean artwork, you're unwrapping it the following week.

How to actually place the order

Two ways in:

Quick Order — for exactly this job. Pick the 250-sheet option, drop your logo in, pay, done. Fixed size, fixed colour.
Builder — if you want a non-standard sheet size, more than one ink colour, or 30gsm stock. You get a live preview and pricing updates as you go. Same 250 minimum.

If your logo's a single colour and you're happy with a 50×70cm sheet, Quick Order will save you ten minutes and a phone call.

The questions I get asked every week

Is 250 sheets enough? For a boutique packing ten orders a day, roughly a month. For a launch, a market weekend, or wedding favours, easily. If you're doing 30+ parcels a day, honestly, skip 250 and go straight to a thousand — you'll thank me in six weeks.

Can I reorder the same artwork? Yes, and you should. We keep your file on record so a repeat order skips the artwork check and moves quicker.

Do you actually deliver to Ireland? Yes — north and south, price included. It's not an afterthought; a good chunk of our regulars are Irish brands.

My logo isn't print-ready. Now what? We'll email you before anything happens. Nine times out of ten it's a five-minute fix on your end (send us the vector, or a bigger version). If it needs proper rebuilding for print, that's a £20 artwork check and we handle it.

Can I see samples before I spend £300? Yes, and I'd encourage it. The Sample Pack is £20 with free UK and Ireland shipping, and it's actual printed tissue in both 17gsm and 30gsm so you can feel what you're buying instead of guessing off a screen.

The honest sign-off

If you've got a logo and you know the ink colour you want, Quick Order will have your 250 sheets moving inside a working day. If you want to talk it through — heavier stock, custom size, an unusual colour, a rush — request a quote and you'll hear back the same working day, usually within a couple of hours.