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The Difference Between CMYK Printing and Pantone Printing

When we talk about color printing, you may hear Pantone colors or CMYK colors, but there is a difference between the two, and that’s about how to get the best packaging way for yours. Now, followed Forests Packaging Group to learn more about Pantone printing and CMYK printing. We know color consistency is a key to brand identity, so printed colors of the package become very important, a better understanding of CMYK printing and Pantone printing will help you to choose the suitable packaging printing. CMYK Colors CMYK is one of the popular and common printing colors in our daily life, it is the most used in home printers and commercial printers, such as magazines and newspapers, they are printed in CMYK color. CMYK, commonly known as "four-color printing", as its name suggests, they used four colors: Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (The K stands for the “Key” color, which is typically black ink).  The printer defined four separate plates, through dot composition a complete ...

What is the difference between Offset and Flexo printing

Offset printing and Flexo printing become the common printing technology in daily life, they provide the best combination for quality, production, and flexibility. But do you know what is different between offset and flexo printing, and how was it working, this article will introduce you to offset printing and flexo printing. Hopefully, it will help you confidently to choose the best printing technology for you. Flexo Printing Flexo printing is not a new technology, but it has grown up through all kinds of innovation, this development makes flexo printing becomes the most popular printing technology. In the past, people used printing plates made of rubbers, but now, everybody uses flexible photopolymer printing plates, because it has flexible enough to wrap around the printing cylinder. Flexo printing is unique, it not only can adapt all kinds of printing materials, such as thin paper, cardboard, paper, corrugated, soft packaging, and more, but it also can use extensive oil-based inks,...

Ultimate Corrugated Box Thickness and Material Selection Guide

Paper packaging is very popular in our daily life, such as corrugated boxes and cardboard boxes. But somebody don't know how to choose suitable boxes for thickness. This article is a ultimate corrugated box thickness and material selection guide. With the beginning of the ban on plastics, packaging methods are also changing, and more and more people choose degradable packaging methods. Therefore corrugated boxes or cardboard boxes have become best choice for packaging. For the vast majority of people, corrugated box packaging can be reused, This is closely related to the multi-layer lining of the box。 If you can't tell the difference from cardboard boxes and corrugated boxes, here is an article introduction different between two,  please click here .  This article mainly introduces how to choose the thickness and material for corrugated boxes. Because of each product is different in size, weights and volume, so we need according to different product to choose suitable c...

Unique shaped-boxes_Special shaped-boxes

Do you know what is unique shaped box? How can we divided these.  Today, we important to introduction special shaped boxes, now you can learn what is packaging.  The packaging divided two types, one is normal shape packaging, other one is special-shaped packaging.  Now let's distinguish the difference between ordinary packaging and special-shaped packaging. The following are examples of paper packaging boxes. Corrugated normal box Just like some corrugated boxes we usually see, such as mailer box, food box, household box, gift box and more. It suitable for packaging various, including chocol ate packaging, fruit packaging, clothes packaging, etc. Special-shaped corrugated box The shape of the special-shaped box is variable, and there is no fixed standard shape. Sometimes we all call unique shaped-boxes. Today, we mainly introduce two kinds of special-shaped boxes, one of which is visible to the naked eye, and the other is commonly used for fruit packaging. Shaped-boxes ...

Difference between cardboard box and corrugated box

Do you know the difference between cardboard boxes and corrugated boxes? Usually we see various of cartons in our daily life, they look similar and complete the same task, so most of people think they are a type of cartons. But in fact, they are different of the material and the applicable scenes. Cardboard box Cardboard boxes are made of thick paper stock or heavy paper-pulp. It is generally used for the packaging and transportation of household boxes or small boxes. cardboaed box Cardboard boxes are common in our daily life, such as candy box es , household box es , food boxes  and more. When you are shopping at the market, you will see a lot of bags or boxes made of cardboard. biscuit cardboard box Because of the material is soft, so make it fit the product better on the premise of reducing the weight of the box itself. So this type of box is suitable for daily use, instead of direct shipping. household box Corrugated box When it comes to corrugated boxes, some people will mis...