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...
Whether you have been an avid reader of our blog since 2009, or are just finding us now, welcome to the new home for the DTC Packaging Resource Center at our renovated and improved webstore, Globe Guard Products! We have migrated our blog (formerly on Green...
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...
Our stock online webstore Globe Guard® Products has long provided green, eco-friendly packaging options and solutions to a variety of consumers. Among our most popular offerings are the unpadded paper mailer envelopes. While green and fully recyclable, the PCW...
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...
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...
Many of our previous paperboard blogs have focused on cartons, specifically, because they happen to be one of our custom products that we also offer in a variety of stock sizes that do not require tooling costs. Standard cartons—whether in stock sizes or custom...