Print Specifications
Give your custom carton that extra look of professionalism with your logo or unique artwork design printed onto the outside. Our printing options and services include:
Flexographic
‘Flexo’ is a relatively cheap print method, suitable for producing single-colour, medium-quality images on corrugated cardboard. Often used on for shipping boxes, it can give a resolution down to around 1mm.
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Screen Printing
Screen Printing produces a sharper, more detailed image. It is often used to brand die cut boxes for presentation or shipping. It is suitable for 1 or 2 colour printing. Halftones can be used to create different shades of these colours.
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Digital Printing
Full colour digital printing is available, but because of cost, tends to be limited to very high end applications.
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Graphics Design
We can put you in touch with reasonably priced, professional graphic artists who can assist you with the development of your artwork.
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Run Size
We have a minimum printing run of 200 sheets.
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File formats
• Print files need to be in eps or ai vector file formats.
• PDF are acceptable if they contain high resolution vector graphics and not embedded images.
• JPEG, PNG and Bitmap formats can sometimes be used to create a quote. However they are not acceptable for final print preparation.
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Colours
We carry black ink in stock. Other colours will be at the customer’s expense.
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Registration
• Screen Printing print registration is repeatable within +/-2mm
• Flexo print registration is repeatable within +/-5mm.
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Max print size
• Screen Printing 1300mm x 850mm
• Flexographic 765mm x 990mm with a minimum of 200mm between repeats.
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Signoff process
We will provide a pdf of the packaging with artwork positioned on it. This needs to be signed off by the customer before we can create print stereos or screens.