Custom Packaging Boxes – A Complete Buyer’s Guide

Business analysts and researchers knowns that the trend of using custom packaging is increasing with each passing day. The United States of America, Australia, and the United Kingdom are the countries where custom packaging is the daily need of people. But unfortunately, many people still don’t know how to select a good packaging company for your needs. For that purpose, we have decided to publish a good buyer guide on custom packaging. Here our aim is to find a good company that can provide custom product boxes wholesale in the USA. I am sure that this guide will help you a lot while shopping for custom boxes. So, let us jump into our main topic.

First of all, you should have basic information about the custom packaging before their shopping. Let’s start with its definition. Packaging items that are available in any shape’s dimensions and styles are known as custom packaging. There are many additional features available as well like offset printing, lamination, and other add-ons. We will discuss them a bit later.

Selection of right category of stock  

In the world of custom packaging, there is a wide choice related to the stock of the items. That’s why many people get confused while shopping. We will suggest some simple formulas that will help you for sure.

Normally cardboard, kraft, corrugated and rigid are the most widely used stock. If your product is not luxury and the budget is not fine then you can ignore the option of rigid stock. Most of the people like to go with cardboard and Kraft stock as they are available in thickness from 12pt to 24pt. Usually, retail items like candles, hair extensions, creams, etc. are packed using cardboard stock with offset printing.

You might have heard about the corrugated stock too because they are widely used for the purpose of shipping. Hence, they are also known as shipping boxes. The option of printing is also available on them as we can paste a cardboard card on them for the purpose of complete offset printing.

Offset Printing Technology with custom packaging

The main thing that has revolutionized the world of custom packaging is the offset printing technology. It means that you can print any kind of artwork on the boxes as per your requirement. Before the technology of offset printing, people were using digital printing but their results were not that great.

There are many benefits to using offset printing technology. Let us discuss the main points. So, people will get a clear idea about this technology too. The results of printing using offset technology are much fine, clear and long-lasting as compared to the previous technologies. It means you can play with different colors. Moreover, this technology is a blessing for the people who are looking for large order quantities, like the quantities higher than 500 pieces.

Nowadays, there are many companies that are also offering low order quantities for people. It means you can start with the quantity of 100 pieces and obviously that is a blessing for small and new businesses. So, just read this guide before your shopping and I am sure it will save you from having a bad experience.

Sebastian

Sebastian was born and raised in the busy city of Abbottabad. As a journalist, Saad Mushtaq has contributed to many online publications including the PAK Today and the Huffing Post. In regards to academics, Saad Mushtaq earned a degree in business from the Abbottabad UST, Havelian. Saad Mushtaq follows the money and covers all aspects of emerging tech here at The Hear Up.Thanks