Our packaging design consultants help you be a better green business and avoid mistakes that will add cost to every package you ship. How to Be a Better Green Business With Earth Day approaching (April 22nd), it is a good time to explore new ways to minimize...
Internal Packaging Solutions for DTC Products This post reminds me of one of my favorite movie lines of all time. It comes from the 1967 classic movie, Cool Hand Luke, when Captain, played by Strother Martin proclaims, “What we have here…is a failure to communicate”. Our trade...
It is so difficult to believe it has been fifteen years since my wife Lenora and I started our packaging products company. So much has happened since 2007. The first few years were tough (the economic depression of 2007), but we survived that as well...
This is one of the most common questions we’re asked when designing e-commerce boxes. In some cases, the decision has been made well in advance, usually when the graphics are developed. On other projects, the board or substrate color can go either way. The below...
It Starts With Your Packaging Needs We have been making outstanding e-commerce packaging for over 13 years and can promise you that what is most important to us is whatever is most important to you. For example, if your product and packaging weight is hovering around...
Custom Design for Eco-Friendly Product Regular readers of this Salazar Packaging blog know I often say one of the best things about being in our business and doing what we do is seeing new ideas and products before they are available to the public. Eddi is...
Salazar Packaging – the originator of white ink on brown boxes? There it is again. I am watching TV and a commercial for a pet food company comes on. Sure enough, they are using brown (kraft) boxes and printing their copy with white ink. I...
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...
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...
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...