Even though two pieces of paperboard may appear to be the same, they may respond differently to being folded. Bend one way and the paperboard will follow the crease smoothly. Rotate the sample 90 degrees and the fold may be…
A completed folding carton conceals most of the effort that went into making it. The printed panels line up, the folds are natural, and the glue joint is easy to miss. But the package started as a flat packaging substrate…
Put a folding carton, a shipping box made of corrugated board, and a flexible film package side by side. Each one is a piece of packaging, but they have very different properties before they become a completed product. Paperboard is…
Understanding a basic dieline does not require you to differentiate every line by name. What a dieline includes might seem confusing at first. It can include outlines for cuts, dashed lines for folds, bleed areas, panel boundaries, flaps, and a…