Printed loaf pan liners carry your logo on the outside wall, so the loaf comes out of the oven already packaged. Bake in it, cool in it, bag it and sell it, with no label to apply.
From $0.30 a liner. Written quote in one business day and a free design proof; the exact number depends on size, ink count and quantity.
From $0.30 a liner. Exact price on the written quote.
| Form | Pre-formed loaf cup, pleated walls, print on the outer face |
|---|---|
| Base sheet | Natural kraft or bleached white greaseproof |
| Typical weight | About 35–40 lb |
| 1–4 food-safe soy and water-based ink colors, Pantone solid-coated matches | |
| Heat | Oven-safe grades to 400°F (typical), ink included |
| Typical sizes (base) | Mini 5.75 × 3 in up to large 9 × 5 in, four loaf sizes |
A printed loaf pan liner is the same pre-formed greaseproof loaf cup as our plain liner, with your artwork printed on the outer face of the walls before forming. The bakery name travels with the loaf from pan to counter to the customer's kitchen.
| Format | Typical size | Typical use |
|---|---|---|
| Liner | 5.75 × 3 in (mini) | Mini loaf, gift size |
| Liner | 7.5 × 3.5 in (small) | Small loaf |
| Liner | 8.5 × 4.5 in (standard) | Standard loaf pan |
| Liner | 9 × 5 in (large) | Large loaf pan |
Sizes are typical starting points. Any other size is a custom cut; ask on the quote. Full sheet and roll size chart.
Choose a sheet from this paper's photos, place your logo and send the mock with your quote request.
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A printed loaf liner turns the baking vessel into the packaging. The loaf never leaves the paper, so the first thing a customer sees at the counter is your name on a pleated kraft or white wall.
That suits bakeries that sell banana bread by the loaf, cafés with a grab-and-go shelf, farmers market stalls and anyone shipping gift loaves in a box. It also cuts a step: no sticker, no band, no re-wrapping a warm loaf.
The photos show the bare stock before printing, white nested over kraft and a stack of kraft forms. The flat band of the wall below the pleats is where most of the print lands.
If you only need the bake-and-release part with no branding, our plain loaf pan liners are the same forms without print. This page is about the version that does the selling.
The liner is printed flat as a blank and then pressed into shape, so some of the sheet ends up folded into pleats. Artwork has to respect that.
| Zone | What prints well | What to avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Long walls, lower band | Logo, bakery name, a short tagline | Fine serif text under 7 pt |
| Long walls, pleated rim | Repeat patterns, solid color, dots | A single logo (it breaks across pleats) |
| Short ends | Pattern only | Any wording; the ends are all pleat |
| Base | Nothing | Anything; it is hidden and sits on the pan |
On a standard 8.5 × 4.5 in liner the clean band on each long wall is roughly 7 in wide and a little over 1 in tall. Design the logo to fit that window and it reads straight on at the counter.
One color, and a dark one. Black, deep brown, bottle green or a navy sit well on natural kraft and hold their edge after baking. Pale inks sink into the brown fiber and disappear.
If your brand color is a coral or a sky blue, print on the white stock, where a Pantone solid-coated match comes out true. White takes up to four colors cleanly; kraft is best kept to one or two.
All inks are food-safe soy and water-based and go on the outer face only. The inside of the liner, where the batter sits, stays unprinted. Read our notes on printing greaseproof paper before you pick a palette.
A step-and-repeat pattern is the forgiving choice. Small marks every inch or so survive the pleating, and nothing lines up badly because nothing was meant to line up.
A single logo looks sharper but has to be placed inside the flat band on each long wall, which we do on the proof. Many bakeries combine the two: a repeat pattern over the whole blank and the name once, centered, on each long side.
For the mini 5.75 × 3 in size the flat band is small, so a wordmark on its own usually beats a logo with a wordmark underneath.
Whichever you choose, keep the pattern density low. Kraft with a heavy all-over print looks like wrapping paper, and the loaf should still be the thing you notice.
We send a free proof before anything prints, with as many edits as you need. The proof arrives faster if the file is right the first time.
Yes. The inks cure into the sheet and bake at the same temperatures the paper does, up to 400°F on oven-safe grades. Soy and water-based inks do not give off a smell in the oven.
Kraft darkens a shade at the pleat tips on a long, hot bake, and a dark ink on kraft darkens with it. On white the color stays as proofed. Butter rising up the wall can leave a faint shadow behind the ink but does not lift it.
If the loaf is glazed after baking, keep the glaze off the printed wall. Sugar syrup on a printed band looks sticky and attracts dust in the case.
Once cool, the liner and loaf go into a clear bag or a sleeve and the print shows through. The liner becomes the label, so put the things a shopper reads on it.
A loaf that sells in its liner also travels better. The pleated walls take the knocks inside a delivery box, and the paper keeps crumbs off the bag so the print stays visible.
Most printed liner jobs that disappoint were designed on a flat rectangle and never checked against the folded shape.
The usual slips: a logo centered on the sheet that lands in a pleat; two colors on kraft that look muddy under case lighting; text running vertically up a wall nobody tilts their head for; and a liner size ordered to the rim of the pan, so the print band sits above the pan edge and folds over.
One more: do not plan to apply the print after baking. The art goes on the blank before forming, so quantities and sizes are set at the quote stage.
Tell us the loaf sizes, the stock, how many colors and the quantity. The minimum is 1,000 liners, and you will have a written quote within one business day.
You can mock up the placement first in Design Your Custom Loaf Pan Liners, then we turn that into a proof. Approve it and production takes 4–6 business days.
Delivery to US addresses is free and tracked, usually 2–3 business days. If a carton of liners arrives crushed or the print is wrong, send photos within 10 days and we reprint the run or refund it.
What buyers ask before a first order. Type a word to filter the cards, or open one to read the full answer.
The print goes on the flat blank before pleating, so a pattern runs across the pleats fine but a single logo belongs in the flat lower band.
The print goes on the flat blank before pleating, so a pattern runs across the pleats fine but a single logo belongs in the flat lower band. The proof shades the pleat zones so you can see where art will crease.
The long side, centered in the lower band. The short ends are pleated edge to edge and only carry a repeat pattern cleanly.
No. The soy and water-based inks are cured into the sheet and give off no odor in a 350°F oven.
No. The soy and water-based inks are cured into the sheet and give off no odor in a 350°F oven. They bake at the same temperature the paper does.
One to four. We suggest one dark color on kraft and up to four on white stock, where Pantone solid-coated matches print true.
Yes, as long as it is clearly darker than the paper. A chocolate brown or black reads well; a tan or caramel brown sinks into the kraft and looks like a shadow.
No. Print goes on the outer face only, and the inside surface that touches the batter stays plain greaseproof paper.
Yes. Each size is its own run with the logo rescaled to its flat band, so quote both sizes together and we will proof each one separately.
It can, but small text on a pleated wall is hard to read and changes by batch.
It can, but small text on a pleated wall is hard to read and changes by batch. Most bakeries keep ingredients on a bag sticker and leave the liner for the brand.
As a flat die line with the pleat zones shaded. Your artwork is placed on it so you can see what sits in the flat band and what will fold.
On white stock a Pantone solid-coated match is close enough to sit next to a box.
On white stock a Pantone solid-coated match is close enough to sit next to a box. On kraft the brown paper shifts every ink warmer and darker, so the match is approximate.
Yes, that is the usual way. Cool the loaf fully in the liner, slide both into a clear bag or sleeve, and the print shows through as the label.
75 pt on white and 1 pt on kraft. Thinner strokes break up in the paper fiber, and hairline serifs vanish on the pleated rim.
About 0.75 pt on white and 1 pt on kraft. Thinner strokes break up in the paper fiber, and hairline serifs vanish on the pleated rim.
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