We are all familiar with that person who refuses to throw away package boxes because it is 'just too beautiful to throw away.' They lovingly caress the box gushing about how sleek and lavish it looks.

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Well, you want your packaging to evoke a similar emotion. The customer must fall in love with the product before they even open it. There are lots of custom packaging companies that can give that and more. From simple merchandise bags to high-end fabric bags and gourmet creations that exude sophistication and style. Custom boxes ensure your products arrive in style.

While many use the word 'box' to describe custom packaging, it is by no means only restricted to a box. There are many options for the typical 'box.' Customizing packaging usually involves picking up a shape unique to your brand, custom boxes adding a design or logo. Some brands even go as far as adding a name for their exclusive clients.

There are three printing methods normally used printing custom packaging

• Flexographic Printing: This works like a really big rubber stamp- a printing plate with your packaging's design acts a huge ink pad that picks up ink and then stamps it onto your box. It is the cheaper of the two options

• Digital Printing: Digital printing is usually used for smaller sized orders. It is similar to the laser jet printer you use at home. It mixes the inks and then directly applies color and the design onto the custom box

• Litho Label Printing: Derived from lithography, it provides a much cleaner, greater resolution printing. Here the printing happens onto a paper sheet, treated, cut, and then attached to the box with an adhesive.

Custom boxes come in various sizes including but not limited to;

• 5-13/16" X 5-3/4" X 1-15/16" - ideal for jewelry and other small items

• 7" X 7-1/8" X 2-1/4" a great size for pharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals and packaging for shipping

• 9" X 6-1/2" X 2-3/4" - a very popular size for subscription boxes of all types

• 12-1/4" X 9-1/4" X 4" - our new large capacity lock front, ideal for shipping anything from full size snack foods to pet toys.

Custom boxes are made from different kinds of materials including Eco-friendly and renewable resources; if that sort of thing matters to you. Most suppliers are happy to add trimmings such as crinkle-cut fillers, tissue paper, ribbons, bow and much more to complete the whole look.

Have an uncommon design? Have no fear. There are companies that are always on the lookout for unique designs to add to their ever-growing collection of cutting die and stock mailer inventory. You just have to spend a little more time looking for them.

If you have a cause you care about, there a lot of room on a custom box to highlight that cause. Customers love brands with a conscience. Only add a little message on what you stand for to side or top. It could be a story, poem or paragraph; it doesn't matter, as long as it passes on your message.

So, go forth; get an impressive custom box to give your product an upper edge.

At Home DIY

The economy is in a downfall right now. If you are like me and not living in the 1% that can afford to throw their money around then you try to save money as best you can. DIYs are "do it yourself"s that help save money yet receive quality results. One DIY that helps young entrepreneurs who are also cost efficient are Homemade Custom product boxes. If you look online, you will see many DIYS with different ideas about how to create your custom product box. On Pinterest alone just typing the words "custom boxes" will get you hundreds to thousands of results. Some of them even have free templates to download just to help you make it easier. But make no mistake, making your custom box is not as easy as it seems unless you have a good background in crafts. Hopefully, this article can help you.

Supplies

- Box cutter

- Decorations

- Measurer

- Cardboard or material to make box

- Packing tape

Steps

- Take the cardboard and box cutter and open up the cardboard so you can shape the cardboard into whatever shape you want

- Take the object you are going to send and use that to measure the dimensions if the box and cut accordingly

- Fold the box, so it fits well around the product.

- Make finishing touches to the box, so it looks nice, and so the item does not fall out or break. Then use the packing tape to seal up the box. If the object is fragile, then I suggest insulating the box with materials such as bubble wrap, tissue paper or packing peanuts, etc.

- Finally, decorate by adding a company logo or just make it pretty, however, you would like.

Alternatives

If you are not the creative type to imagine a particular type of custom box, then do not worry. There is a wide variety of custom box templates to choose from. Some include

- an oven shaped template for baked goods

- Footlocker boxes for shoes

- Premade candy boxes

- Etc.

Question and Answer

One of the questions I hear a lot that revolve DIY Custom boxes are how are they better than just buying premade custom boxes made by professionals. Well in the case of DIYs:

- They are usually cheaper than going through a manufacture

- you get to have a lot more control over how the process is done

- Sometimes manufacturers do not let you add an addition that you want

- Sometimes the manufacturers around your area do not have a particular material that you need or want.

In support of buying it from a store some might say:

- When building, you lose time which can lead to you losing money and nobody wants to lose money

- There isn't a warranty on homemade products so in the occasion where your box breaks you would have to start over and waste more money

- There is a questionable quality to handmade items such as boxes.

The choice is up to you, as an entrepreneur or just a creative artisans it up to you to make some tough decisions considering your products and the boxes you use.