Price guide · Office Stationery
Paper Core: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.45 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.16 at volume, on a typical 30-day lead time. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.45 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.34 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.25 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.20 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.18 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.16 |
What moves the price
For paper core, the drivers are cap material, diameter, length, wall thickness, thread type, print, inner diameter, basis weight — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published supplier listings show paper cores ranging from about $0.04 to $0.07 per piece in Indian wholesale directories, but those are typically for simpler, commodity-grade cores and local-market pricing. For US-facing custom-printed or spec-controlled cores, realistic sourcing is usually via a paper-core/tube manufacturer, a packaging converter, or an import quote landed to port; price moves most with diameter, wall thickness, crush strength, paper grade, and print/lamination complexity. The tiers above are anchored to the cheapest real published pieces and the higher-volume bulk context in the results, then adjusted upward for a mid-range custom configuration with print and tighter spec control.
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