box and Packaging

Box design and printing

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Box design and printing

If you are looking for a way to store and pack your goods, we suggest you to use the box. In the dictionary it is written that the box used to mean the arc or archery holder. In Moien lexicon, it is said that the box means a quiver, a burst, a can, a box, a musical instrument. Boxes are made in many different types, the boxes are as small as a matchbox to as large as the transport cartons of different types of goods. Boxes are in different types including cardboard, wood, metal, glass and so on. There are various factors involved in the preparation and printing of the box but before that the purpose of making the box should be specified.

 

Box design and printing

 

If the purpose of the box is to prevent impact and mechanical impact, a box that is resistant to impact should be used. Fancy boxes should be used if the purpose is to use a decorative box. Nowadays, the art of packaging has become a specialty, but in foreign countries packaging is a must for any business. Therefore, box making and its techniques are the most basic knowledge required for packaging. To print the box, simply use the ink and transfer it to a variety of formats using tools such as stereotypes, templates, plates, and so on.

As the methods of printing on different sheets or objects divided to all kinds of silkscreen, letterpress, flexography, lithography, ordinary offset, dry offset, gravure, electrophotography, ionography, magnetic printing, inker printing, thermal printing, photography etc. depending on your purpose, all these methods are used to print the box.

 

Box design and printing

 

If you intend to use a cardboard box, the choice of cardboard printing method depends on the stiffness of the box. Some factors determine the method of printing, such as beneath or backward, flexibility hardness, angle hardness, flexural rigidity, consolidation, rattler, angle strength against pressures causes by loads and thus preventing the cambering and convexity of  boxes walls, the ability to pass through converters and wrappers machines to prevent arching, creasing and ripening and preventing or slowing down the speed on converters and wrappers. 

There are a variety of ways to emboss or inlaying in the box making and printing. The first method, known as simple embossing, involves a method that uses inlaying on the work. The second method is cryptic embossing, which involves a method that has a emboss surface with no inlaying. Adjusted embossing is the third method, in which we emboss the desired surface and then adjust the inlay on it. The latest is the combination method of  embossing and inlaying box simultaneously.