Custom Filter Tips for Pre-Rolls

Pre-rolls are the fastest-growing category in the cannabis industry, with more competition than ever before.

And with customers telling us that Brand is the third-most important factor when deciding what to buy, branding your pre-rolls is more important than ever. The easiest way to brand your pre-rolls, so that everyone in the circle knows exactly what brand’s high-quality pre-rolls they are enjoying, is with custom filter tips.

But there are myriad options for customizing your filter tips, everything from size, shape and material to custom printing and overwrap options that put your brand front and center.

So what’s the best custom filter tips for your pre-roll brand? Read on. The Pre-Roll Experts have the answers.

Custom Filter Tip Materials

The first choice to make when it comes to custom filter tips for your pre-rolls is deciding what material to use. It’s an easy way to help your pre-rolls stand apart from the rest of the crowd.

This decision is an aesthetic and branding choice, since all of the materials can be customized in some way with your logo, if you choose.

Paper Filter Tips

The most common filter tip for pre-rolls is made from paper. It’s a higher weight, thicker paper than rolling papers, but still familiar to pre-roll smokers the world over. Plus, it is the easiest to print on and provides a clean, blank canvas for branding and messaging.

Wood Filter Tips

Wood filter tips are a simple upgrade that most pre-roll smokers are familiar with. The natural feel of wood on the lips gives these pre-rolls a familiar, if enhanced feel that still prevents particles and resin from getting through.

Glass Filter Tips

Smooth, cool and light, glass filter tips are an easy way to take your pre-rolls to the next level. Glass provides a more premium feel on the lips and adds a cooling power that allows for bigger, smoother hits and an overall better smoking experience. Plus, there are multiple shapes, styles and colors available to help your pre-rolls stand out.

Ceramic Filter Tips

Ceramic filter tips are the height of pre-roll luxury. The additional weight and smooth feel of the filter tip immediately signify a premium product, and the natural cooling power of ceramic drastically reduces harshness to provide the coolest, most flavorful hits in the industry, guaranteed to have customers coming back.

Shapes and Styles for Custom Filter Tips

Once you’ve selected material or materials for your custom filter tips, the next decision is about shape, which again comes down to preference, since all are fully customizable.

Paper “W” Tips

This is the industry standard pre-roll filter for a reason. It is familiar, inexpensive and versatile, and consumers have come to expect to see a classic folded paper filter tip in their pre-rolls.

Paper Spiral

The paper spiral tip takes the lightweight simplicity of the W tip to the next level, adding additional surface area to trap even more particles, oils and resins from getting to your customers’ lips. The paper spiral also adds structure to the end of the preroll, making it sturdier and much less likely to crush between fingertips while it is being passed around.

Wood Flat Mouth Tips

Designed like a classic cigarette holder, the wood flat mouth filter tip is instantly recognizable to any smoker. The wood flat mouth filter tip provides a comfortable shape, while maintaining a natural feel on the lips and blocking particles and resin for a more pleasant smoking experience.

Wood Cylinder

The wood cylinder filter tip is an easy upgrade, keeping the natural feel of wood while changing up the shape for a different smoking experience. Most wood cylinder tips will come with a dual filter option, providing a small paper spiral inside the wood cylinder tip for additional filtering purposes.

Glass Pinch Tips

Cylindrical in shape, but with a built-in pinch at the center to help trap particles, the glass pinch filter tip is an all-in-one filtering powerhouse that uses the cooling power of glass to allow your customers to take bigger hits.

Glass Cone

With the same smooth feel and cooling power of the pinched glass, but a shape more conducive to pre-rolled cones – especially smaller ones – the glass cone filter tip is a drastic improvement over the paper W while maintaining the recognizable feel and shape of a classic pre-roll.

Glass Bullet Tips

The glass bullet is a bit of a unique filter tip that brings the cooling power of a glass cylinder, but adds a rounded shape on the end that fits nicely against the lips for a memorable smoking experience.

Glass Helix

Easily the most eye-catching of all pre-roll filter tips, the glass helix filter tip is a striking visual punch on the end of a pre-roll. With multiple swirling channels extending through the smooth, glass filter – as well as a common center channel – the glass helix filter tip doesn’t just block particles and cool the smoke, it really looks good doing it and will get people talking.

Ceramic Flat Mouth Tips

Ceramic filter tips are the ultimate in pre-roll luxury, with a cooling power, smooth feel and additional weight that can only come from a high-end item, and ceramic flat mouth is perhaps the most familiar feeling ceramic filter tip. Shaped like a cigarette holder, these beauties fit snugly on the lip and always provide a smooth hit.

Ceramic Conical

Like the glass cones, ceramic cone filter tips combine the cooling power of ceramic and the conical shape everyone knows, allowing for premium versions of smaller cones that still work in your standard cone-filling machines.

Ceramic Cylinder Tips

For an unparalleled smoke, the ceramic cylinder filter tip is the go-to. With additional weight and a smooth outside, they are instantly recognizable as a premium upgrade. Plus, the natural cooling power of ceramic helps these ceramic filter tips provide the biggest, smoothest and most flavorful hits available in the industry.

Custom Branded Filter Tips and Direct Printing

Here is where the rubber meets the road. Once you’ve chosen your filter tip shape and style, it’s time to talk full customization, putting your logo or messaging directly onto the filter tip itself so even when your pre-rolls are out of their packaging, your brand remains front and center.

All of the different filter tip types and shapes are customizable, but not all in the same way.

Paper filter tips, whether the classic “W” or a paper spiral, are the easiest to customize because you can direct print onto the paper filter itself. Custom Cones USA offers full color CMYK printing with Pantone Matching, to ensure that your pre-rolls are the exact colors for your brand.

For glass custom branded filter tips and ceramic filter tips, there are two different methods that can be employed to customize your pre-roll filters. You can choose 4-color pad printing to place your logo onto the filter tip, or you can use what’s known as the sticker bake-on method, in which a sticker is designed and permanently baked directly onto the filter tip.

Now, for a custom wood filter tip you have to do things a little differently, as you can’t really print on wood. But what you can do is laser engrave your logo directly into the wood for a stylish, natural look that’s going to draw eyes and comments.

And if you love that engraved look but want to upgrade to a more premium tip option, you can always engrave your logo onto our glass and ceramic filter tips as well.

Finally, for companies looking for something a little different, Custom Cones USA offers a customized dual filter option with a full color printed paper filter embedded inside a glass filter tip to provide both the look you want with the cooling power of glass.

You can also order your glass and ceramic filter tips in custom colors, whether you direct print or not.

Custom Branded Cigar Bands

Another way to customize your filter tips, particularly pre-rolled blunt cones or tubes where the wrap is not see-through, is with a custom cigar band sticker.

A cigar band is a sticker that wraps around the top of your filter on the outside of your pre-roll. It can be customized with 4-color offset printing (included standard) with premium foil and spot UV finishes also available. The cigar bands also come in an array of shapes, widths, styles and colors, but you can also create custom die line to get exactly what you are looking for.

Custom External Wrap

One final way to customize your filter tips is with a custom external wrap. Like a cigar band but stretching the length of the full filter tip, custom external wraps are a next-level branding option guaranteed to stand out and get noticed.

External wraps are perfect for non-transparent cones, like pre-rolled blunts, or as an extra bit of branding that really pops on any pre-rolled cone.

Like cigar bands, 4-color printing, spot UV and premium foil finishes are all available.

Custom Branded Blunk Filters for Automated Machines

Companies using automated rolling machines like the RollPros Blackbird™ can also customize their bulk filter tips.

Custom Cones USA offers bulk filter tips in a variety of diameters, as well as custom sizing, all of which can be customized with your choice of “W” or spiral style, and full custom printing directly onto the bulk filter tips themselves.

Custom Cones USA Design Team

Whatever your customization vision is for your pre-roll line, Custom Cones USA is ready to help! Our Pre-Roll Expert Design Team can help you bring your vision to life.

Whether you are printing custom filter tips, custom cigar bands or custom external wraps, our team of experts will make sure you get exactly what you are looking for to make your pre-roll brand jump off dispensary shelves.

Contact the Pre-Roll Experts today to see how custom filter tips can help take your brand to the next level.