The new year is well underway, and we have already seen some amazing designs from a variety of our customers that are looking for ways to differentiate themselves and their packaging in crowded and competitive DTC ecommerce markets. We love to post about the trends...
Ecommerce and DTC (direct to consumer) businesses are becoming increasingly necessary, and the recent boom in demand for these services have led many people to be first time buyers of branded packaging. This is great news for people in our industry, but it also...
The truth is that many flexographic box printers have a hard time printing white ink on kraft (brown) board. Some will do it, but produce poor results with washed out whites lacking in pop, or something that ends up looking gray. Others will upcharge you, typically...
About 3 months ago we wrote a blog post on unique and memorable custom-shaped die cut boxes. That post, which can be read here, we believe, was in many ways a trailblazer for countless more unique and interesting concepts in the DTC packaging world. When it comes...
We’ve used the term “flexo-friendly” in a number of blog posts to describe ways of designing and rendering your artwork so that it both looks great and can be printable with print plates (instead of a digital, offset or litho label alternative printing method)....
Back in April we announced the exciting news of inside printing available due to new equipment capabilities on RSC boxes. We’ve been very encouraged by the amount of interest and feedback we’ve received, and we think the news will continue to spread about this...
About a year ago, we updated our main website, Salazarpackaging.com to include a variety of new “products and services” pages. These feature several photos and information to highlight our (structural) design capabilities and experience. Our “Internal Packaging and...
We’re seeing a lot of unique and interesting skincare, health, beauty and personal care companies that are all trying to stand out from one another to provide their customers with a memorable and lasting unboxing experience. Because their products are typically...
One of the great joys of being in this industry, is the opportunity to work with hundreds of startup businesses and watch them learn, grow and evolve over the years. Many of our customers come to us admitting that while they are experts and very knowledgeable about...
It’s an often visited topic among our blogs—for good reason—as every year it is important that we try to encourage our customers to beat the holiday rush and order packaging well in advance of the end of the year. But it has never been more important to emphasize...