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What printing methods do you recommend for printed packaging?

For despatch packaging and secondary packaging we recommend using flexo print.

Flexography (often abbreviated to flexo) uses a flexible relief plate that is suitable for printing on almost any type of substrate including plastic, metallic films, cellophane and paper.  It is widely used for printing on the non-porous substrates required for various types of food packaging (it is also well suited for printing large areas of solid colour).

In recent years, flexo print finishing has been much improved and has the potential to mirror almost lithographic print quality when required, however traditional flexo print is still very popular and is very low cost.

For large runs of high-end retail cartons, luxury goods packaging and cosmetics packaging, lithographic printing offers the best print quality. 

For extremely small print runs, digital print can be very efficient due to the very low set up cost.  It also opens up the possibilities of personalisation.

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Broad corrugated flutes such as B and C flutes or BC flute are preferred where some product cushioning or protection during transit is required.

 

Narrow flutes such as E and G flute are denser and therefore provide excellent rigidity, whilst offering the benefit of being lighter in weight than the comparable solid board or paper board grade.  Narrow flute is better suited to being laminated or mounted to a pre-printed sheet of solid board for a retail application.

 

Flute size is only part of the mix in specifying the correct corrugated medium for your end use.  Adhesives and linerboards can be varied to engineer widely differing corrugated boards with the right properties for their potential use.  Double and triple wall corrugated board can also be produced using mixed flute sizes in order to take advantage of the different benefits of large and small flute sizes.

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