Inside Sustainable and Branded Packaging

11 May 2021 Three Great Reasons to Print Your Boxes Rather than Use Labels for E-commerce Branding

Posted at 15:31h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

Why Box Printing is a Better Option To be fair, there are some situations when labels are the best option, but it truly is rare. If you are considering changing your brand, or perhaps you are using several different names and graphics for the same products...

07 May 2021 Our Semi-Custom Solution for E-Commerce DTC Boxes

Posted at 09:21h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

Semi custom e-commerce DTC boxes an ideal packaging solution Almost a decade ago at the beginning surge of businesses getting into e-commerce and custom printed boxes, we introduced the term, “semi-custom” branded boxes. Even back then, we recognized that the cost of a custom size cutting...

29 Apr 2021 Black Ink on a Kraft Board or Paper Still a Classic!

Posted at 13:14h in Information Center, Sustainable Products by Dennis Salazar

Over the course of our 13 years in business and millions of e-commerce boxes produced annually, very few looks have remained as popular as our classic black on Kraft. Check out our gallery and you will see more. Even though we have printed just about every...

22 Apr 2021 Earth Day Message: Sustainable Packaging – The Forgotten “R”

Posted at 15:41h in Inside Sustainable Packaging by Dennis Salazar

Earth Day always seems like a good day to review what we have all accomplished to minimize waste and make what we do as eco-friendly as possible. The fact is that we have been officially working at this since we started our company in 2007...

06 Apr 2021 E-commerce packaging: the difference between structural designers and graphic designers’ work

Posted at 15:26h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

If you are planning to create a DTC box for your new or existing e-commerce business, you will likely utilize a graphic designer as well as a structural designer to produce a great looking and effective, e-commerce shipping container. Graphic Designers for Shippable Packaging Some of...

29 Mar 2021 Packaging Sale! 15% Off on New Padded Paper Mailer Envelopes

Posted at 06:59h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

One of the most popular new products for e-commerce is paper padded mailer envelopes. Not the old-style paper envelopes filled with shredded paper that are heavy (mail cost) and messy when ripped. We are talking about the new style that is clean, light, and already...

18 Mar 2021 How a New Box Design Can Help You Minimize the Impact of Corrugated Price Increase

Posted at 09:44h in Information Center, Salazar News by Dennis Salazar

How to Reduce the Impact of Corrugated Price Increases In my mind there is no way to justify substantial back-to-back industry price increases. One in December 2020 and now another that is sure to happen within the next 30 to 60 days. We cannot explain it...

08 Mar 2021 Glass Product Packaging for E-commerce– nobody does it better

Posted at 15:35h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

Presentation and Protection for Glass Product Packaging If you are a Carly Simon fan, you may recall her Grammy award winning 1977 song titled, “Nobody Does it Better”. Most Boomers like me also remember it is the theme song for the classic James Bond movie, “The...

24 Feb 2021 2021 E-commerce Packaging Graphic Design Trends for Boxes

Posted at 14:41h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

Design Trend Forecast One of the pleasures of being a leading producer of DTC branded packaging boxes is seeing what is hot and what is not in graphic designs. For example, for a while everyone was using Chevron designs. Later, pastel colors were in demand, so...

15 Feb 2021 Wooden Boxes for Sustainable Packaging, E-commerce Applications?

Posted at 13:48h in Information Center by Dennis Salazar

Would You Use Wooden Packaging? Occasionally, we receive an inquiry for wooden boxes. Usually it is for primary display packaging, rather than secondary shipping packaging. In other words, the “inner” box that is designed to be kept by the consumer, rather than the corrugated shipping box...