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Packaging Fundamentals
Start here if you are new to custom packaging. These guides explain how a box is specified, how to measure for it, what a minimum order means and what happens between your enquiry and delivery.
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Packaging Fundamentals
Choosing the Right Packaging for Your Product
Choose packaging by working through five questions in order: what the product needs (size, weight, fragility), how it reaches the customer (shelf, post or hand), what the…
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The Complete Guide to Custom Packaging in the UK
Custom packaging is packaging made to your product's dimensions and printed with your design, rather than bought from stock. In the UK it usually means rigid boxes,…
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How Custom Packaging Is Manufactured: From Brief to Delivery
Custom packaging is made in five stages: enquiry and specification, dieline and artwork, proof approval, production and delivery. In production, board is printed as flat…
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How to Measure a Box Correctly (L × W × D)
Measure a custom box by its internal dimensions, written as length × width × depth in millimetres. Length and width describe the opening, with length the longer side, and…
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Internal vs External Box Dimensions
Internal dimensions are the usable space inside a box; external dimensions are its overall size including the board. Custom packaging is specified by internal dimensions,…
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MOQ Explained: Why Minimum Orders Exist and How Short Runs Work
A minimum order quantity (MOQ) is the smallest run a packaging supplier will produce for one specification. It exists because every job carries fixed setup work, such as…
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Packaging Terminology Glossary
This glossary defines the terms you meet when specifying, quoting and approving custom printed packaging in the UK: board grades and flutes, box styles and their parts,…
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How to Write a Packaging Specification (with Template)
A packaging specification is a written record of exactly what you are buying: the box style, internal dimensions, board, print, finishes, inserts, quantity, artwork and…
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