Tips When Ordering Custom Boxes for Your Promotional Marketing Needs

Many companies ordering custom boxes to house information and announcements about new products, to package software, CD / DVD and other electronic media, or have a more flyers option, pouches and workbooks. This article will help you understand your vast options when requesting custom boxes.

Some typical types of boxes include:

- Corrugated

- Plastic

- Turned edge,

- Established boxes

- Aluminium

- SBS

- Wood

Most people are familiar with the shipping boxes in thick brown (or kraft) C-flute corrugated. E-flute corrugated is only 1 / 16th "thick, much thinner than the C-flute mentioned above. In certain circumstances, F-flute corrugated or B-flute can be used. F-flute is very thin ( even thinner than the E-flute) and is used for very small boxes or boxes that require complex and scoring cut. Surprisingly, B-flute is thinner than C-flute but thicker than E-flute. Brown, Oyster white, white.
Oyster on bleached Kraft or Kraft are common. Usually the corrugated portion of the corrugated cardboard is Kraft.

Wavy cardboard decoration

Litho lam: Many customers prefer their corrugated boxes has printed graphics on paper litho # 80, which may be a film, laminated and mounted on corrugated cardboard. (We call this labeling). Laminating film seals the printing and allows the hinge housing to be bent without cracking. The label is attached to the corrugated cardboard before cutting and creasing. The coating can be glossy or matte (also called-Gloss). The label usually covers the whole box.

Flexo printing: Imagine a large rubber stamp and you now have a good idea of ​​flexographic printing. If printing process four colors complex is unnecessary, flexographic printing can be an alternative to consider. Because the flexo printing is not sophisticated, you can not expect the quality of a 65-line display. The cost the most effective type of flexographic printing is a flood layer (full coverage) of a color. The printing plates can be used to place the color on the map. However, if graphics or type is needed to reverse the solid ground where you want to have the type or positive graphics, a custom printing plate must be made. Flexo plates are priced per square inch. Most graphics or type, the most expensive.

Silkscreen: For quantities too small to create expensive flexo plates, printing of the screen can be a profitable alternative. Modern technology has made silk screen almost as sharp and clear as offset printing. The screen or art (for a positive film) is exposed to light for a few minutes. Black blocks of hardened emulsion art. The positive film is removed from the screen and the screen is washed with a water jet at high speed. The screen is mounted on a press and a squeegee pushes specialty inks through the screen on the material for your box.
We silk fabric in many different colors and color matching materials Pantone mixed hand will be different when it is placed in the other colors than white.

Boxes and turned edge boxes set up: Considering corrugated boxes have "rough edges" where you can see waving, turned edge differ because the board is covered by the envelope. Instead of using corrugated cardboard, smart card use different weights. In small quantities, these boxes are handmade. In larger quantities, box making machines are used. Tours tip boxes tend to cost more than corrugated boxes, but they have a more finished look. As chip card is used, these boxes tend to weigh more than equivalent corrugated box. Set boxes are in the category of tour potheads. These boxes are commonly called gift boxes and jewelry boxes. The two boxes turned edge and set up can be involved in a variety of coatings, laminates printed paper film, linens, the fancy paper stocks.

Plastic boxes:
 

Plastic boxes are generally available in injection molded plastic or die cut plastic sheet. The most commonly used plastic sheet is polyethylene and polypropylene. Sonic welded boxes to ship already assembled client. Tuck guide boxes can be shipped flat and assembled by the customer. The most popular thickness is 35 to 55 gauge polyethylene and 30 gauge and 55 gauge for polypropylene. Polypropylene is sometimes preferred by customers seeking clear boxes because it can be clear. Polypropylene tends to be more expensive than polyethylene and has a greater tendency to show scratches and marks with use. Clear polypropylene can also come with color shades.
As plastic boxes are flat sheets that are relatively easy to decorate.

Plastic decoration

Screen printing is the most popular technique used in polyethylene and polypropylene. Both materials have very smooth, non-porous, ideal for screen printing. With modern screening methods, a variety of tones, graduated screens and printing process can be performed at a reasonable price. Small to moderate quantities of product with complex printing, lends itself to screen printing. See screen printing details above.

Litho printing (offset) can be realized in a lighter material spacing in large quantities. Quality can be as good as in the coated paper stock.

Hot stamping: This is the transfer of a color (generally metallic silver or gold) mounted on a plastic cylinder on polyethylene with a heated metal mold. The colored film on the roll is transferred to the material in the form of their art in the mold. Width multiplied by the height of the print to the square inch of leaf area. Often you can combine several decoration methods such as screen printing and stamping.

The aluminum cases: One relatively new option buttons are made of aluminum or of a combination of aluminum and plexiglass. The boxes can be built in the style of packaging box, two pieces of game box style or as cases of CD / DVD. Many customers choose to decorate the silk screen in their boxes, but the most interesting options such as laser etching, anodizing and powder coating are also available.

SBS or paper boxes:

paper options boxes could fill a textbook for themselves. Sales Packaging has produced many options for customers. Most of the time, take 20 to 24 point SBS (single bleached sulfite) whiteboard, lithographic printing and lam movie before I die cut into a variety of products. Popular items are VHS boxes and sleeves, bags, product samples boxes, CD bags and direct marketing to name a few options.

Wooden boxes: When a certain elegance is required, wood crates fit the bill. Boxes of the type of cigar highly lacquered with natural finished wood boxes.

Hopefully this has shed some light on the custom boxes for promotional marketing.