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How Automation Technology Helps Protect Consumer Packaged Goods Brands From Critical Errors

One particular area to which CPG brands must pay close attention is quality control. In the consumer goods industry, the quality of labels and packaging is just as important as the quality of the product inside. These types of labels and packaging components contain product-specific information and suggest critical content that is carefully written and placed in order to protect the end-users.

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February 24, 2021

How Automation Technology Helps Protect Consumer Packaged Goods Brands From Critical Errors

December 11, 2020

4 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Graphics Inspection Tool

May 4, 2020

How to Increase Customer Acquisition Through Automation

April 1, 2020

5 Common Packaging Mistakes in Pharma

August 1, 2019

The Competitive Advantage of Effective Packaging

July 22, 2019

5 Reasons “Packaging-Free” Stores Won’t Catch On

May 3, 2019

How Different Departments Help Develop and Proof Packaging

April 21, 2019

Cannabis Isn’t Immune to Faulty Packaging and Product Recalls

by Kayla Caticchio | May 4, 2020

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4 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Graphics Inspection Tool

Not many aspects of design and production are still being done manually when it comes to packaging in 2020. Despite modern advancements, many businesses are still stuck in a rut of manual proofreading. The good news is that automation technology has been increasing in popularity over recent years, especially in the areas of quality control. Of these automation innovations, graphics inspection tools are becoming widely implemented across many industries.

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How to Increase Customer Acquisition Through Automation

Companies are expanding their requirements when it comes to selecting suppliers or manufacturers for their jobs. Aside from the obvious requirements like cost and turnaround time, many companies look for the added assurance that extensive quality checks are being conducted in the production facility.

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What Is Prepress?

In spite of a whole industry dedicated to it, very few people know what prepress is. “Prepress” is used in the printing industry to refer to all of a commercial printer’s activities after they receive an order and corresponding graphics…

Pills bottles with similar packages

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…

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Proofreading, Quality

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

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

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

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…

Girl working in her office

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.…

A brain in a box linking to nose, hand, ear, eye and mouth

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…

Illustration of guides to sustainable packaging

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

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…

Print Ready files with names of different components

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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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

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

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…

BELING A Printed Proof for Every Occasion: A Guide to the Types of Pre-Press Proofs

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…

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Compliance, Proofreading

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…

Medicine package under GV digital inspection in a cartoon background

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…

Label of New Zealand Wines

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…

Package of food, bottle, medicine on a cartoon background

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

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

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…

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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…

Text inspection on globalvision on cartoon background

Proofreading, Quality

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

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 packages of cookies, hand cream and pills

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…

Digital Twins Revolution

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…

Bottles with wrong labels

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

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…

Hands holding pills bottles in cartoon background

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

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

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,…

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Company, Proofreading

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……

Packaging's Barcodes and Graphics under Inspection

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.…

Working cashier with text about misconception of barcode

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

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…

Beverage package with nutrition facts under proofreading

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,…

Doctors holding pill bottles

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…

Cans and bottles

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…

Pill bottle label under inspection

Compliance, Proofreading

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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