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Combating Counterfeit Packaging Through Effective Customer Communication
While counterfeiting is usually associated with money, actual consumer products can be copied too… right down to the packaging. It’s an issue about which brand companies are ever-vigilant, leading to the development of several…

All the Popular Printing Methods from Letterpress to Digital
The invention of the printing press is often understated in terms of its importance, with the advent of the digital age in which we now live. It’s true that, these days, people can go entire days without reading something that’s…

Making Cannabis Even Greener Through Sustainable Packaging
While the legalization of cannabis in Canada and parts of the United States is seen as incredibly forward-thinking, the movement has a long way forward still to go… at the very least in terms of packaging. The Great Cannabis Packaging…

5 Ways to Make Your Packaging Child-Resistant
There are several reasons why parents tend to keep their medicine stored away in a cabinet that’s too high for their children to reach. The main reason is simple: Some pills are dangerous for children to ingest and can cause serious…

Trend Alert: Single-Serve Packaging
Have you ever gone to buy food from your favorite take-out place only later to realize there is no way you’ll be able to finish the entire thing? You’re not the only one. Many brands understand consumers do not want to waste their money…

10 Ways to Improve Your Barcodes
It’s a bit of a conundrum in our technologically advanced day and age, but, without barcodes to scan, the retail world would effectively grind to a halt. The dependency is understandable though, as barcodes are just that much more effective…

Why Error-Free Packaging, Labeling Is a Must
Pristine, error-free packaging and labeling undeniably looks good, but it’s more than that. It’s a necessity… regardless of the industry in question. It of course conveys brand strength, but, more importantly, it’s about respecting…

The Plain Packaging Dilemma of Legalized Cannabis in Canada
There’s still a lot of work to do before cannabis gets legalized in Canada on October 17. Compliance with the Cannabis Act One of the highest items on producers’ priority lists will undeniably be ensuring compliance with…

Going Beyond Sustainable Packaging to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Every minute, 1 million plastic bottles are being bought all over the planet. It’s fair to say each one won’t end up being recycled either. In fact, 91% won’t be, leading to a lot of unneeded plastic clogging up the eco-system. To…

Pharmaceutical Trade Tips for the Printing Industry
Printing leaders aren’t just at the top of their industry. In many ways, they also need to be experts of the domains in which they do business. Printers take different approaches to cater to specific clients, like in the pharmaceutical…

How Can Printed Manuals Improve Your Staff Training?
Date: August 28, 2018 | Category: Proofreading | Author: Ryan Stevens Digitization is inevitable, as we all know. Nonetheless, printed manuals offer specific advantages over digital texts that businesses use for their staff training.…

The 5 Ways Sensory Packaging Separates You from Competitors
Chances are you’ve come across sensory packaging before. It’s not a new trend by any stretch, but it definitely isn’t a strategy every manufacturer takes advantage of, at least not to its fullest extent. This isn’t simply in…

A Beginner’s Guide to Sustainable Packaging
Going green may be something to be proud of in this day and age. In the world of packaging and design though, it’s not necessarily going far enough. It’s all about being “sustainable” instead. What Is Sustainable Packaging? While…

Myths versus Facts: Dispelling 4 Myths about Using Sustainable Packaging in a Business
Packaging plays a crucial role in influencing the customer buying behavior, yet unsustainable packaging can damage the reputation of the firm, causing customers to switch to other brands that employ environment-friendly material and…

Understanding Print Ready Files
While some experienced graphic designers might be very familiar with print-ready work, this concept still represents a terrifying and intimidating aspect of graphic design for many newcomers. For those of you that don’t know what it is,…

How a Label Error Can Ruin a Great Package Design
While the branding of a label on a package is of high importance for any industry manufacturer, overdoing it with branding design and not taking care of the crucial info can cause small to huge errors which can ruin a great package design.…

The Pressing Need to Scan Cylinder Packaging
Stop to think about it and the various goods we consume for a second: How much of your grocery list is made up of bottles, cans, tins, and tubes? That’s just for starters. It might not be obvious, but cylinders are all around us, especially…

Coca-Cola: New Year, New Look
The Coca-Cola Company seems to have taken part in the ever-growing #NewYearNewMe movement by rebranding Diet Coke, a classic favorite. The updated look comes with new flavors and a new campaign. But not to worry; The original taste of Diet…

The Emerging Cannabis Industry Explained
At GlobalVision’s first-ever seminar on Packaging Compliance in the Emerging Cannabis Industry, panelists spoke about the Cannabis Act that will come into effect this summer and how those in packaging will be affected. Although Health…

The Canadian Government Imposes Strict Guidelines on Cannabis Packaging
It’s no secret that cannabis-or marijuana as some prefer-has become a hot topic of conversation. With the legalization of cannabis in Canada only months away, there has been some talk about how the substance will be packaged. With a quick…

26 Experts Share Ideas on 2018 Packing Trends and Sustainable Packaging
For years, the shift towards sustainability has been top of mind in the packaging industry. To keep up, businesses have had to adapt at an incredible rate to please a more educated and savvy consumer. Staying on top of the trends and changes can be a tough task on its own, so we asked experts of the packaging world to forecast where the industry is going.

How to Start Integrating Sustainable Packaging
Sustainable packaging continues to generate headlines all over the world: the latest food waste prevention, biobased packaging materials, and the recent adoption of eco-friendly labels to encourage consumers to recycle packaging. But if…

Tricks of the Food Trade for the Printing Industry
Printing leaders aren’t just at the top of their industry. In many ways, they also need to be experts of the domains in which they do business. Printers take different approaches to cater to specific clients, like in the food industry, for…

A Printed Proof for Every Occasion: A Guide to the Types of Pre-Press Proofs
If you’ve spent enough time in the packaging and labelling industry, you probably understand what a printing proof is and how they are used. For those of you who are new to the industry, welcome! There are different kinds of printing proofs…

FDA Break-Down: What is the FDA, FDA 21 CFR and How Do You Stay Compliant?
What is the FDA? The Food and Drug Administration is a government agency that operates under the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible for protecting and ensuring public health in…

What Is a Dieline in Printing and Packaging?
In the packaging and printing industry, the term “dieline” refers to a template needed to ensure the correct layout of a final physical package. This template serves as a diagram that marks all the folds and cut lines of a package…

Understanding the Impacts of a Great Label in Marketing
In a world where consumers have become more discerning of the products they buy, we can’t emphasize enough the importance of labels in marketing. Shopping is a process that every business owner needs to understand and the discovery of…

Devil in the Detail: Why Color Management is so Important for Brand Identity
Have you ever felt that your product wasn’t getting enough attention? That clients are choosing a similar product over yours? Often this choice comes down to the smallest of details. Some of these details are as simple as the shade of…

The Role of Packaging in Supply Chain Management
The packaging industry is evolving. We now know that packaging no longer refers to a box or a carton, but rather to a coordinated system of preparing goods for safe, cost-effective, and efficient movement throughout the whole supply…

How Your Business Can Benefit from the Sustainable Working Methods that are Changing the Packaging Industry Landscape
As the packaging industry moves towards more responsible ways of working, our team at Bonus Trading, a packaging supplier based in the UK, decided to interview one of the leaders in our industry, UPM Raflatac.
UPM Raflatac works hard…

How Modern Prepress Software Is Changing the Packaging Industry
When flipping through a brochure or any sort of packaging, you probably think that to get a design printed all you have to do is press the print button. The truth is there are plenty of steps in between before that design becomes ink on paper. Pre-press…

How Automated Proofreading Is Replacing Obsolete Diff Checker Tools
Packaging serves as the face that products show to the world. That’s why colorful and well-thought-out designs are meant to grab customers’ attention. Packaging is also supposed to convey a message that is associated with…

Are Spelling Errors Lethal? When It Comes to Medical Packaging, You Bet
What’s at stake with a product misspelling? For any other type of business, it would mean a complete recall – costly, but maybe otherwise harmless– but, when it comes to the pharma industry, a whole other set of issues…

New Technologies Every Pharmaceutical Packaging Company Should Consider
Nowadays, pharmaceutical packaging companies are experiencing big market growth. Reaching a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.5% per year worldwide, the market is witnessing particularly quick development in the BRIC countries and throughout…

Product Labels: Your Secret Weapon During Sampling Events
What you see is what you get. At least to the human mind, that’s how it works. Human beings rely heavily on our sight as our main way of perceiving and understanding the world around us. For this reason, brands focus a lot of energy…

What the Digital Twins Revolution Means for Packaging
Digital twins are in the midst of taking over, with Gartner predicting the existence of billions of them within three to five years. It’s probably best at this point to shake that image that’s likely in your head of a group of…

Harmonizing Medical Device Package Labeling Across Markets
A picture is worth a thousand words. This is especially true in the Medical Device Packaging and Labeling industry. Symbols are an important tool to harmonize medical device packaging labels across markets worldwide, save valuable space while…

5 Ways to Minimize Issues While Preparing Artwork for Box Packaging
The process of preparing artwork is essential for box packaging. There is a considerable amount of detail that goes into preparation, but it doesn’t have to be a frustrating ordeal. PakFactory has put together a series of practices…

How to Avoid Complete Medicine Recalls due to Labeling Errors
The Pharma industry, is by far, the most demanding industry when it comes to quality control of packaging. The processes, rules, and regulations are complex and must be adhered to. Unfortunately, because many companies still implement…

Track and Trace with Smartphones and Tablets
Barcodes are often used to track and trace the flow of goods and materials inventory from origin to destination – and sometimes back again. Why use smartphones and tablets to scan?
Because they are relatively inexpensive,…

How a Little Error Can Ruin a Great Design
Our world is growing at a rapid pace and so is the consumer market. The space between the market and the consumer’s home has drastically shrunk in the recent times, with online marketplaces as the next big thing. Customers can easily book,…

14 Typos That Will Make You Cringe
With autocorrect and spell-check as commonplace as it is today, typos should be nearing extinction. However, even with today’s helpful technology and auto-correct-capable word-processing software, errors still slip through the cracks……

6 Tips for Creating Error-Free Packaging
Mastering Print Inspection for your business Creating error-free packaging is a daunting task. With so many parties involved from brands, marketing agencies, pre-press, and print suppliers, ensuring no errors go by can be challenging.…

Managing Barcodes in Packaging Quality Control
Every product in every store all over the world has a barcode on it. As consumers, we cannot read barcodes, and really don’t care much about them.We identify products by their name, by their color, by the brand name and logos. However,…

Canadian Health Product Labeling – The Product Facts Table
Label content pertaining to non-prescription healthcare products is of great concern to the government of Canada. Not only what appears on the label but also the wording, how it appears and how easy it is to understand are all of vital concern. Canadian…

The Nutrition Facts: Food Label Confusion
Learn More about How a Label Error Can Ruin a Great Package Design Food Labels are Confusing Plain and Simple! Everyone Knows it, But No One Knows Exactly How, to Fix It. The Nutrition Facts label, introduced 20 years ago,…

Changes to the Opioid Labeling Regulation
The statistics on opioid abuse in the United States is grim. In 2014, Opioids were responsible for 28,648 deaths according to the CDC. In fact, more people died of drug abuse that year than did of motor vehicle accidents. Worldwide the statistics…

How do you inspect packaging of bottles, cans and cylinders
Packaging and labelling are driven by a number of factors. First, you have the ergonomics of the package, ensuring that the object is packaged properly ensuring protection, convenience, and the proper message is communicated. Another…

Having to Rework Label Artwork Again and Again to Stay in Compliance?
No matter what industry you are in there are always new regulations which impact the way you create labelling artwork. Staying in compliance with regulatory labeling obligations is a complex undertaking that if done wrong may result in undesired…
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