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Box Printing
How Can Box Printing From Colour Waves Enhance Your Product Packaging and Branding?
Eye-catching, creative packaging can be one of the most powerful branding tools for companies selling physical products. With the rise of e-commerce and the highly visual nature of modern shopping, the quality and appeal of your product packaging may determine whether a customer notices your brand on a crowded website or retail shelf. This makes customized box printing an invaluable investment for anyone selling goods to consumers.
But with so many options for packaging printing and design, how do you know where to start? What kinds of printed boxes work best for your specific product, brand, and target audience? And what should you look for in a box printing partner?
Let us take you through, How Colour Waves can level up your packaging, branding, and customer experience:
– The many benefits of custom printed boxes and packaging
– Major types of box printing options to consider
– Key factors when selecting materials and finishes
– How to optimize branding with box printing
– Creative ways to stand out on shelves and sites
– The Colour Waves difference and printing process
– Frequently asked questions about box printing
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The Powerful Benefits of Professionally Printed Boxes
Stunning printed boxes don’t just look nice – they can directly support sales, branding, unboxing experiences, sustainability initiatives, and more. Some of the top reasons companies invest in custom box printing include:
Support Brand Recognition and Recall
Packaging accounts for the first impression consumers will have of your physical product. And in an increasingly crowded marketplace, making your brand instantly recognizable at-a-glance can pay major dividends. Printed elements like logos, fonts, imagery, and colors establish branding and identity that set you apart. Distinct, consistent packaging also trains customers to recognize your products faster. This promotes brand recall that drives repeat purchases.
Attract Customer Attention
No matter how ingenious your product, it likely won’t sell itself in today’s chaotic retail environments. Carefully printed boxes allow you to catch the customer’s eye with enticing photos, minimalist designs, premium textures, special coatings and finishes, smart product positioning, and other features tailored to your offering. You only have a split second to capture interest – compelling printed boxes tip the scales in your favor.
Reinforce Positioning and Messaging
From eco-friendly messages to value positioning, printed boxes enable brands to reinforce key messages at the moment of truth. When customers view your packaging, subtle design cues can remind them exactly why they should buy from you over alternatives without needing overt messaging. Reinforce sustainability, quality, luxury, innovation and other differentiators.
Inspire Confidence and Perceived Value
Packaging has an outsized influence over consumer perceptions of quality and value. Premium unboxing experiences signal high-end components and craftsmanship on the inside. Even simple, clean printed boxes boost confidence in purchasing compared to plain cardboard. Unique shapes, finishes, typography and imagery prints communicate quality and attention to detail most buyers find reassuring.
Stand Out on Shelves and Sites
Shoppers browsing retail shelves – whether physical or digital – exhibit “banner blindness” causing all products to blur together. Tactical printed packaging elements slice through the clutter to differentiate your products. Emphasize selling points, positioning, imagery, and branding in ways proven to attract focus in crowded environments. Printed boxes also photograph beautifully to catch eyes on e-commerce sites.
Protect Products in Transit
While branding and presentation take center stage, never overlook core functional requirements of safeguarding products through complex supply chains until they safely reach the end consumer. Printed corrugated cardboard and other rigid materials provide superb protection with custom size, shape and structural design possible. Durability and security are essential.
Build Excitement and Emotional Connections
At its best, remarkable packaging transcends function to actually spark joy, excitement and emotional connections with shoppers. Apple famously sets the bar with exquisite unboxing experiences, but even modest businesses can leverage printed boxes to surprise, delight and reward buyers. The rewards continue post-purchase as customers enjoy branded keepsake packaging.
Support Sustainability Initiatives
Eco-conscious companies can promote sustainability commitments right on their printed boxes. Whether made from recycled materials, optimized for efficient transport, or designed to replace less responsible alternatives, boxes present a free opportunity to reinforce values important to your customers. They also drive awareness of green innovations happening behind the scenes.
Boost Customer Lifetime Value
Pleasant unboxing and usage experiences courtesy of appealing printed boxes drive positive brand affinity and sentiment. Research confirms customers who connect emotionally with packaging perceive better product quality and feel greater loyalty. This directly increases lifetime customer value through improved retention and advocacy. Box printing is rarely seen as a shortcut to loyalty, but data doesn’t lie.
Major Printed Box Types, Shapes and Styles
Before exploring the custom printing process for boxes and packaging, let’s examine popular options. Colour Waves offers printing across endless box types, shapes, sizes, and styles. While categories blur between various materials, common options include:
- Folding Cartons – Constructed from folding laminated paperboard/cardstock printed flexographically with potential for special treatments. Think cereal boxes.
- Corrugated Boxes – Rugged corrugated cardboard boxes featuring offset or digital printing well-suited for shipping and e-commerce. These include regular slotted cartons and die-cut boxes.
- Rigid Boxes – Sturdy paperboard boxes used to showcase and sell premium retail products. Expect higher print quality with embellishments.
- Mailer Boxes – These direct mail packages printed with branding combine envelopes and boxes for multi-channel campaigns.
- Gift Boxes – Decorative rigid boxes for gifting products and merchandise to customers and prospects. Popular for retail paired with tissue paper, ribbon and other enclosures.
- Presentation Packaging – Elaborate hinged boxes, sleeves, trays, frames and other creative solutions showcasing products in the best possible light.
- Limited Edition Packaging – Produced in small batches, these special printed boxes commemorate occasions like product launches and anniversaries or target specific audiences.
Within each category, printing can be applied to standard or fully custom box sizes, shapes, depths, specialty die-cut designs, extension styles, interior segmentation options and materials from sustainable paperboard to rigid plastics. This empowers complete flexibility for your product, brand and presentation requirements.
Selecting the Right Materials and Finishes
Beyond dimensions and construction, box printing quality and capabilities vary widely depending on material selection and special finishes. Key considerations include:
Paperboard Types and Grades – From virgin and recycled paperboard to specialist options like bright white and kraft, material choice impacts cost, print quality, environmental friendliness and durability.
Corrugated Board – Fluted corrugated board sandwiches paper between rippled layers providing cushioning and compression resistance ideal for shipping.
Coatings and Lamination – Gloss, matte and soft-touch coatings protect branding print quality and feel. Lamination fuses paperboard with ultra-thin polymer sheets adding shine, moisture protection and more.
Foiling – Metallic hot stamping foils in colors like silver, gold, copper and holographic add luxury tactile accents during printing. Embossing and debossing complement foiling with raised/recessed effects.
Spot UV – Gloss ultraviolet varnish intensifies colors/contrast in specific box print areas for emphasis and vibrancy.
Textures and Liners – For soft touch or friction boxes, printable textured liners adhere during fabrication bringing fabrics and other materials into play.
Die-Cut Windows – Strategic cutouts spotlight contents without compromising structural integrity. These “try me” windows facilitate consumer inspection pre-purchase.
Assembly and Closure – Glue, magnets, Velcro dots, flaps, tucks, slide-locks and other sealed closure or resealable opening options impact convenience, perceived quality and display.
By balancing all of these printed box considerations against priorities like positioning, cost parameters and sustainability goals, we arrive at packaging solutions uniquely matched to product and brand. Our expertise navigates these nuances on your behalf.
Printed Boxes to Support Branding and Messaging
For all their functional benefits, printed boxes arguably make their biggest impact driving branding, positioning and messaging at the moment of truth. Imagery, fonts, iconography, taglines and other elements reinforce identity on shelves and convey what sets your brand apart. Think beyond basic logos and web URLs to more strategic opportunities.
Here are some of our favorite box printing techniques for making lasting brand impressions:
Delivering striking prints that withstand everyday use requires implementing quality checks across vital printing parameters:
Packaging Photography and Imagery – Full-bleed photographic prints enable evocative lifestyle scenes tying products to aspirational branding themes and emotions. Main hero images or repeating patterns work.
Mascots and Illustrated Characters – Original illustrated mascots and characters on boxes charm consumers while personifying brand values on a relatable level. These printed icons build recognition and affinity over time.
Taglines and Slogans – Succinct memorable slogans printed on boxes trigger key associations. Famous examples include “Think Different” or “Because You’re Worth It”. Reinforce positioning!
Environmental and Social Messaging – Printed boxes present eco-conscious companies an outlet to promote sustainability commitments, processes and materials right where customers engage.
Artisan Branding Cues – Details like logo embossing, handwritten-style fonts and decorative embellishments make products from small CPG companies feel crafted and special.
Product Explanations – Clear, appetizing descriptions, instructions and ingredients build confidence and help consumers imagine possibilities. Appetizing food photography propels impulse buying.
Promotional Coupons/Offers – Transactional box printing drives action with coupons, contests, QR codes to digital rewards and other conditional offers printed inside packaging or labels/sleeves.
Overt Brand Comparisons – While less common without clinical trial backup, printed packaging can make direct product quality comparisons your brand comes out favorably on.
What truly sets Colour Waves apart as a custom box printing partner?
Beyond our passionate drive for customer success, wide capabilities and responsible values, we take special pride in our communicative process, technical expertise and service-first approach. Let’s explore why printing with Colour Waves feels different.
The Colour Waves Difference
Streamlined Experience with One Partner
Rather than forcing you to coordinate printing with separate vendors for design, pre-press, manufacturing, finishing and fulfilment, Colour Waves consolidates the entire packaging process under one roof for seamless execution. Our extensive capabilities allow us to guide stunning projects from concept to shelf without work leaving our facilities.
We realize no two brands share the same goals and definitions of success. Building printed boxes able to advance your specific business KPIs matters most. Uncover the potential of packaging.
Streamlined Experience with One Partner
Rather than forcing you to coordinate printing with separate vendors for design, pre-press, manufacturing, finishing and fulfilment, Colour Waves consolidates the entire packaging process under one roof for seamless execution. Our extensive capabilities allow us to guide stunning projects from concept to shelf without work leaving our facilities.
We realize no two brands share the same goals and definitions of success. Building printed boxes able to advance your specific business KPIs matters most. Uncover the potential of packaging.
Uncompromising Print Quality
Our advanced printing presses and technologies churn out packaging with staggering fidelity, colors and details using offset, digital and flexographic printing. Meticulous color management ensures perfect uniformity across production runs. Despite growing order volumes, we refuse to cut corners that might jeopardize premium aesthetics that help your products stand apart.
Structural Design and Engineering
To guarantee boxes arrive intact, our structural design team leverages leading computing power to professionally engineer packaging capable of surviving intact through complex logistical gauntlets. No more worrying about accidents or harsh shipping/handling practices damaging merchandise. We’ve got you covered!
Sustainable Materials and Production
Colour Waves prioritizes environmental stewardship across selection of sustainable materials, responsible printing methods free of hazardous chemicals, and technologies that minimize paper/ink waste even during short runs. Many components used in production are recycled. We take pride in shrinking the environmental footprint of packaging with prudent practices.
Simple, Smart Procurement
We make the process of budgeting and ordering custom printed boxes refreshingly simple with online instant quotes, design mockups, helpful templates, handy cost calculators and other handy resources to take the guesswork out of planning. Our procurement tools make box printing almost fun!
Frequently Asked Questions About Custom Box Printing
We get plenty of great questions from brands exploring box printing for the first time. Here are quick answers to some of the FAQs around ordering and production.
Turnaround speeds fluctuate based on order sizes, design complexity, finishing needs and material types. Typical production requires 5-12 business days plus shipping transit. For volume orders, conversations often start 4+ weeks out from order deadlines.
Digital printing shines when fewer than 1,000 boxes get produced without significant added setup costs. Build box samples economically.
From metalized cardstock and rigid plastics to recycled paperboard and corrugated options, Colour Waves prints on virtually any substrate. If it can physically pass through presses, we can print on it!
The maximum dimensions of printed boxes depend on the type of printing process and drying/curing limitations of inks, but we regularly produce extra-large boxes exceeding 40 inches in length/width for oversized products.
Absolutely! Digital printing empowers custom variable data like serialized QR codes, barcodes and numbers printed on every individual box without added costs for personalization.
We leverage environmentally responsible water-based and UV-cured inks approved for food packaging alongside special varnishes, aqueous coatings and other finishes to achieve stunning results.
Overprint varnishes make printed graphics more durable and rub-resistant compared to uncoated box prints, while lamination fuses protective transparent barriers securing every color and design feature.
Many paper-based boxes cleanly process through standard cardboard recycling streams after use. Some brands encourage consumers to reuse boxes as storage containers extending service life.
For sensitive box printing jobs, Colour Waves can individually wrap finished boxes before bundling orders to prevent scratches/scuffs. We also pack inside corrugated cardboard or durable crates
Absolutely! For an added per-box fee, Colour Waves handles professional fulfilment services like inventory storage, order processing, packing printed boxes with products/enclosures and drop shipping.
We hope this detailed overview better explains the impressive benefits custom printed boxes can unlock for your product packaging, branding, presentations, and customer experiences. Thanks for considering Colour Waves as your box printing partner