If you have spent any time on our Salazar Packaging website, or reading this blog, you may have stumbled across a term we use quite commonly, “Semi-Custom packaging.” Our first two related posts below cover this term quite extensively, but semi-custom essentially...
There is no shortage of suppliers of packaging for the Chicagoland area. But we pride ourselves on being top dog. While our office is about an hour southwest of Chicago, we do have a number of plants spread across the country, including the west coast and down...
We love to post about the branded packaging trends we’re seeing, —both old and new, as a way of featuring some of our favorite colors, prints, patterns and structural designs. The new year is well underway, and we have already seen some amazing designs from a...
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 concepts in DTC packaging. When it comes to packaging, there is...
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)....
DTC glass bottle packaging is booming. 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...
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...
Our DTC packaging gallery has always served as a sort of packaging time capsule in that you can see the trends in terms of what styles, colors, designs and features have been most popular with our customers over the years. Of the 84 images you will find on our...
It’s not a stretch to say that many first-time inquirers find their way to us after an unsatisfied experience with another custom packaging supplier who did not meet their expectations for one reason or another. We see it almost every day where someone is...
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...