Explore our comprehensive packaging guide. Discover expert tips on custom rigid box styles, sustainable materials, and unboxing design trends for your brand.
Learn how to choose canvas fabric for bags, including cotton canvas, duck canvas, GSM, oz, fabric weight, printing, shrinkage and bag applications.
Compare the best fabrics for bags, including cotton, canvas, linen, satin, velvet, polyester and nylon. Learn how GSM, weave, printing and use affect material selection.
Learn how shelf ready packaging is designed for retail, including SRP types, materials, perforations, shelf sizing, testing and custom packaging requirements.
Learn the minimum line width and minimum font size for foil stamping from our production tests, including 0.09 mm lines, 4–5 pt text, dies and paper factors.
Explore specialty packaging processes including die cutting, flocking, laser engraving, holographic effects and 3D lenticular printing, with applications and comparisons.
Compare packaging printing methods including offset, digital, flexographic and screen printing. Learn which process suits your material, quantity, artwork and packaging project.
Learn gold and silver metallic paper printing, including CMYK, white ink, colored metallic effects, artwork, costs and metallic paper vs foil stamping.
Learn how flexographic printing works for packaging, including flexo plates, anilox rollers, inks, kraft, corrugated and films, costs, applications and comparisons.
Learn how digital printing for packaging works, including short runs, variable data, CMYK, white ink, UV digital printing, materials, costs and digital vs offset printing.
Learn how offset printing for packaging works, including CMYK, Pantone colors, paper materials, metallic card printing, costs, artwork, finishes and offset vs digital printing.
See how we optimized 80 gsm white kraft tissue paper with metallic silver printing by comparing offset and screen printing before using 80 gsm MG paper with flexographic silver.
Learn how we solved fold-line cracking in a corrugated box project and how creasing, moisture, board construction and fiber quality can help prevent cracking.
