Printed Christmas bags for San Diego, with your name under the bow.

The real order from a market in Mira Mesa

Vinh Hung Supermarket sits at 10550 Camino Ruiz in Mira Mesa. For Christmas they didn't want a small logo in the corner. They wanted the whole front of the bag to feel like December: a red bow and silver bells up top, pine and berries along the edges, then a tree, wrapped gifts, candy canes, poinsettias and a gingerbread house across the bottom.

That's a lot of art for one bag, and it shows what the front can carry. The print area runs up to 12 × 14 in on the front, edge to edge, in full color. Their store name, street address and phone number sit right in the middle, so every shopper who walks out holding that bag is carrying their address down the street.

Shoppers carry these bags home, to the car and into a family kitchen full of people. A plain bag ends up in the recycling. A bag like this one gets noticed. If you run a kitchen nearby, our Mira Mesa takeout bag page covers the neighborhood itself.

Why the bag looks warmer than the screen

A screen makes color by shining light at you. A paper bag gives color back by bouncing light off ink and paper. The kraft is part of the picture. That's why we measured the real bag against the file instead of just saying it matches.

Here's what we found. The title red went from a cool cherry on the screen to a warmer brick red on paper. The navy word SUPERMARKET came out as a softer charcoal blue. The tan background barely moved, because that tan was the paper itself. If your design leans on a very dark navy or a pale gold, expect it to come out a step softer on kraft.

December in San Diego is a bag month

The City of San Diego expects about 350,000 people at December Nights in Balboa Park this year, on Friday, Dec. 4 from 4 to 10 p.m. and Saturday, Dec. 5 from noon to 10 p.m. The city lists more than 200 food and retail booths, a Food Truck Alley at Village Place and free museum entry in the evening.

That's one weekend. The rest of the month is office parties, family dinners, potlucks and catering trays, plus shoppers stocking up for the holidays. Every one of those orders leaves in a bag, and in December people take pictures of everything.

Source: City of San Diego, December Nights 2026 news release. General information only. Check the city's page for changes.

When to order and what to order

Boxes usually arrive 3 to 4 days after they ship, and shipping is free. Your holiday artwork still needs to be final before we print, so send your design early in December, not the week of Christmas.

Not sure how many holiday bags you'll go through? Start with the Kraft Discovery Box: 50 printed bags and 50 food tamper-evident stickers to seal each order. Busy kitchens and markets go straight to the box, 150 bags for $85 on Subscribe and Save, or the bundle, 300 bags for $152.

Every bag is 110 GSM kraft, 12″ by 7″ with 3.5″ gussets, 14″ tall and rated to 22 lb. That's enough for a holiday tray, sides and a bottle of sparkling cider. Every town we serve is on the home page for printed bags in San Diego.