Fillers can be either lanky or short; high filler uses whole leaves and is of a exceeding quality, while short filler, also called "mixed," uses chopped leaves, stems, and other bits. Recently some manufacturers have come onstage what they title "medium filler" cigars. They use less than pieces of leaf than brief filler without stems, and are of finer quality than abbreviate filler cigars. Short filler cigars are easy to identify when smoked since they often burn hotter and tend to release bits of leaf into the smoker's mouth. Also accessible is a filler called "Sandwich" (sometimes "Cuban Sandwich") which is a cigar made by rolling short leaf inside elongate outer leaf.

Habanos SA and Cubatabaco between them do all the industry relating to Cuban cigars, including manufacture, quality control, promotion and distribution, and export. Cuba produces both handmade Cigar and machine made cigars. All boxes and labels are salient Hecho en Cuba (made in Cuba). Machine-bunched cigars finished by hand count Hecho a mano, while fully hand-made cigars say Totalmente a mano in script text. Some cigars show a TC or Tripa Corta, meaning that abbreviated filler and cuttings were hand-me-down in the hand-rolling process.
The label on Hand-made Cuban cigars—"Made in Cuba, completely by hand"
The label on Hand-made Cuban cigars—"Made in Cuba, completely by hand"