Tips for making a product packaging box design

As a paper packaging box manufacturer, we often find that our customers’ designs require more processing before using for their custom packaging printing production. We usually need to reconfirm some details with our customers, increasing the lead time before production. We have summarized some points we hope can help you design your product packaging boxes more efficiently.

Available file format for product packaging box printing.

The workable art. file for your product packaging is below: PDF file, adobe illustrator file, CAD file, PSD file, and high-resolution image. A high-resolution file to get a clear and quality printing effect for your custom product packaging.

Size and bleeding area for your product packaging box printing.

Two size indicators of the print file are finished size and bleed size. Many designers often ignore the bleed. In general product packaging, the bleeding size is 3mm. For corrugated product packaging box needs 5mm bleeding.

Size issues are the priority when making custom packaging, so if the size is wrong, we’d better stop and correct the design and start the following process.

Fonts for your product packaging box printing.

We may use various good-looking fonts for a beautiful product packaging box to achieve a better product packaging effect when creating the file. How to make sure the font of the printed product packaging box is the same as what you require? There are usually two ways.

1. you can create the outline for the text and then send it to us so that the document will stay the same even if we do not have the appropriate font.

2. You can also send us the fonts you use together with the drawings, and we will create the font outline from our side, and please attach a picture of the product packaging design so that we can check the content before printing.

File Links for your product packaging box printing.

We use design manuscripts to combine pictures (shapes) placed in the image in two ways: embedded and linked. Such as Word and CDR are generally embedded (the result is that the CDR file is getting larger and larger, and it takes time to open the big file, so it makes less efficient), like AI, FH, ID, QXD, etc., it is recommended to use the link to work (modified quite easily), the link is required to be sent together with Master File of your product packaging.

Non-PDF and AI documents open when prompted by the lack of links. We have to ask customers to provide the related links and do the following steps for printing your product packaging box.

Image resolution for your custom product packaging box file

Printing and publishing requirements for image resolution are 300 dpi. In principle, the picture must be required to be a high pixel, but not unlimited high, because it is necessary to take into account the file composing; too high pixel pictures lead to the host overload (such as a crash or a long time processing files, etc.). so the file meets 300dpi, or a high litter version will be okay for your product packaging printing.

Color matching for your custom product packaging box.

When we design a product packaging box, we want the color of the product packaging to be as much as possible the same as the design drawing. To achieve our expected understanding effect, the following points need special attention in the design time, which will reduce our difficulty in following the color.

1. The color type of the product packaging box design drawing.

Many drawings have bright and vivid pictures, which become very dark after being converted to CMYK color mode for printing, driving many customers crazy. The customer provides RGB color mode drawings, but the color changes significantly after converting to CMYK color mode. For graphic printing, CMYK color mode is used, so giving CMYK color mode drawing for your custom product packaging box printing is appropriate.

2. Single black color printing for your product packaging box.

If your product packaging only needs to print a single black, to make the printing smoother and the printed black more black, It’s better to make a single black mode drawing rather than color mode.

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