These are strange times with a lot of uncertainty and confusion regarding the status of many businesses across the country and even on a global scale. As the Federal government extends their guidelines through the end of April, and many state governments have...
We’ve written a number of blog posts about the comparisons between custom printed RSC boxes and die cut mailers. Many of these speak to the benefits and drawbacks of each, both from a cost and design standpoint. Previously, one of the greatest benefits that die cut...
It’s not a stretch to say that many first-time inquirers find their way to us after an unsatisfied experience with another supplier who did not meet their expectations for one reason or another. We see it almost every day where someone is disappointed with their...
As we often say, at Salazar Packaging, we have well over 200 cutting dies available to accommodate just about any product and size requirement needed for a die cut mailer. Of these cutting dies, the vast majority are either standard lock front mailers, or top tuck...
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...
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...
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...
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)....
As a pioneer and industry leader in sustainable and eco-friendly packaging, it is always more than a little disheartening when a package arrives to our office resembling the one in the photograph below. For the sake of anonymity and not calling out any specific...
Packaging, like anything else, goes through trends where certain structural or graphic designs go in or out of style/fashion depending on what is “hot.” In many cases, this is a direct result of a viral YouTube video or Instagram unboxing photo that sets off a...