Even if you’re a new guy to the paper packaging industry, it helps to talk like an old pro
If you’re a small business owner looking to get your paper packaging off the ground, you’ve got to know the lingo. From the box style to material, knowing how to talk to the paper packaging box vendors in their own language will ensure that you’re getting just what you need to cost-effectively protect and ship your customers’ purchases.
While this may seem daunting for new kids on the block, EastKing Packaging has you covered. Learn about these common packaging definitions, and then you’ll go ahead with the construction with the professionals.
Set Up or Rigid Box-The boxes are made from paper board, which is very strong, sturdy, durable, and non-collapsible. The setup box or rigid box is the most common packaging style. It is often associated with luxury products. If you ever purchased nice shoes or a luxury cosmetic or chocolate, they will have been in the setup or rigid box packaging.
Base and Lid-The base is the box bottom part ,it is the part to put the product inside. The Lid is the box cover ,the logo or crucial info normally printed on the box Lid.
Two-Piece Box-Two piece boxes are good packaging solutions that can work for any kind of product. The box includes a two-part, base, and lid. This style of packaging has a double-wall structure, which makes the box very strong and durable. You can use these as two-piece chocolate truffle boxes, for baby toy packaging, skincare cosmetic packaging, and much more.
3, Two Piece Box
Two-Piece Box-Two piece boxes are good packaging solutions that can work for any kind of product. The box includes a two-part, base and lid. This style of packaging has a double-wall structure, which makes the box very strong and durable. You can use these as two-piece chocolate truffle boxes, for baby toy packaging, skincare cosmetic packaging, and much more. The top lid will help you to display the products as a second tray and double your presentation space. When shipping or store the box, it is worked as flat packaging to help you to save much shipping or store cost.
Drawer box-It is not difficult to understand the drawer box. The advantage of this type of box is that it is easy to open and has a pull-out effect. Usually, this type of box is made of a rigid board, can work for any luxury product.
Flap Lid-This is the box top component ,it connected from the base to the top ,without any sides or ends.
Hinged-The method or join used to attach a lid to a base, make the box like a display box .So the hinged box also called as display box or presentation box.
Hot stamping foil-The foil stamping is often to be used on the logo to make the logo look special. The common hot stamping color is golden or silver, but also with black or blue. There are many stamping color paper, so actually, any color can be done.
Insert-The Insert is mean the inner tray of the box, which refers to the inside of the box to protect the product to prevent the product from shaking. In the gift box, generally use the three kinds of the inner tray, paper tray, plastic tray, foam tray.
Wrap-Which means using the under 200gsm paper to wrap the paper board, the outer paper also called as wrapping paper.
Die cut-Before making the box, we need to make a mold according to the die line of the box, and then use a specific machine to cut into the unfolded shape of the box. Current gift box makers generally use semi-automatic or fully automatic die-cut machines.
Laminated-Laminated is the process of laminating large pieces of paper together, directly to the laminating machine, which has the advantage of not gluing and blistering, if it is done by hand, it is easy to blister and gluing. General laminating this process has certain requirements on the thickness of the paper, generally need 200g up, otherwise, the glue will be wrinkled.
Liner-The liner is the inside part of the box, the inside part of the base box, the inside part of the lid belong to the liner, the liner is generally made of a different material from the outside, so paste the liner is often called a laminated liner.
CMYK-CMYK is a kind of color printing mode, using the principle of three-color mixing of primary colors, plus black ink, a total of four colors mixed and superimposed, forming the so-called “full-color printing”. The four standard colors are: C = Cyan, also known as ‘sky blue’ or ‘azure’ M= Magenta, Y= Yellow; K=Key( blacK), CMYK mode is the subtractive color model, and the corresponding RGB mode is the additive color model.
These four colors can reproduce thousands of other colors in print.CMYK can work out products photoes in packaging design.
Pantone-Pantone is a universal spot color card, and using Pantone to select colors makes it easier to print close to the colors you want. So the color card has three main functions: color matching, color selection, and color mixing.
If we need to match colors with a customer, we need to know the color number of the customer and then find out what kind of color they use according to the color card. For example, the designer has designed a red sofa for us, and no one can tell what kind of red it is, but if you are given the PANTONE swatch number, you can easily find the color. Then, you can give the color card number to the company that makes the sofa and ask them to find the red color you need on the card to make it.
Silk printing-Screen printing refers to the use of a screen as a plate base and the use of a photopolymer plate making method to produce a screen printing plate with graphics. Screen printing consists of five main elements: the screen printing plate, the squeegee, the ink, the printing table, and the substrate. The basic principle of screen printing is that the ink is permeable to the graphic part of the printing plate and the non-graphic part of the printing plate is not permeable to the ink. Printing in one end of the screen printing plate into the ink, with the squeegee on the screen printing plate on the ink parts to exert some pressure, while moving towards the other end of the screen printing plate at a constant speed, the ink in the movement of the squeegee from the graphic part of the mesh squeezed to the substrate
Offset printing-Offset printing is the flat printing of paper, which has the advantages of fast printing speed, relatively stable printing quality, and short cycle times throughout the printing process. Well-known brands include Heidelberg, Roland, Mitsubishi, Komori.
AI-PDF artwork-These are printed files, editable, original files that you get from a designer after you have done a graphic design. Usually, such files can be opened and used directly for printing because the pixels are clear and the colors can be seen in the file.
Bleed-Bleed (actually “first cut”) refers to the part of the print that is set aside for easy cutting in order to preserve the effective content of the image. It is a commonly used printing term. Bleeding in printing refers to the addition of graphic extensions to the outer dimensions of the product, specifically for each production process within its process tolerances to avoid white edges or cuts to the content of the finished product after cutting. The design size is always larger than the finished product size, and the larger edge is cut off after printing, the part to be printed and cut off is called bleeding or bleeding bit.
Digital printing-Digital printing is the ability to print a design directly from a computer using a digital printer, eliminating the tedious process of going to a printer. This has the advantage of cost savings and fast printing, but the fast and low cost of digital printing also creates the disadvantage of difficulty in accurately following the color.
Surface finishing-The finish is the paper, which is the process of after the paper is printed and before the die-cut. Which makes the box look more special. The most common finishes are glossy or matte, hot stamping/silver, embossed or concave, partial bright UV or matte UV, partial glitter, and partial flocking.
Die line -The die line is the unfolded drawing of the box before making the box, which contains the unfolded drawings of various materials. The cutter line drawing can help us make an initial sample to test whether the dimensions are correct, and also help us to design the box be better.
Plain sample /white sample-No printing, just a white color sample, If you are not sure the box size is fitted your product, asking to make a plain sample first to test the size is the very important process.
Printed sample-With printed graphic design printing sample.Which help you to make the conception to a real packaging box.If you don’t like that ,then change your design.
