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If your product speaks for itself and can convince customers on its own, then custom kraft packaging boxes with a viewing window is the right choice for you! Ultimately, it comes down to inner values.
Ordering and production of the custom kraft boxes with viewing window
How is packaging with a viewing window created? The manufacturing process for packaging with a viewing window does not differ noticeably from the packaging without a viewing window. The packaging with viewing window goes through the following stages on its way of creation:
First, you order the packaging with a viewing window in an online shop. Currently, you can only select the folding box as standard packaging with a viewing window. Here you already have the option of entering the dimensions of the viewing window in the configurator. For another packaging with a viewing window, you can send an individual email too.
How do box packaging companies make kraft boxes?
The paper sheets for custom kraft boxes in bulk are either placed in digital printing machines or in offset printing machines. In these machines, the sheets of, for example, grass cardboard for your packaging with windows are printed.
The next step in the manufacturing process for your packaging with a viewing window is the punching machine. Here, the finished printed packaging with a viewing window is released from the sheet. In concrete terms, this means that cutting dies to cut your individual box from the sheets.
This creation process of your packaging with a viewing window is shown in a very simplified way. Of course, our process steps differ in terms of different types of finishing and other options, which you can select when placing your order in an online shop.
What are the advantages of kraft packaging with inbuilt windows?
Have you already heard of the so-called regret? With the help of custom kraft boxes in bulk, this term will soon be a thing of the past. Thanks to the packaging with a window, your customer can see exactly which product he is Ordering.
The colors are not only conveyed through a picture or perhaps even falsified; the customer can create his own picture of the product. The customer can feel your product, he can even smell it. That already appeals to a large part of the different types of customers. If your product is a hygiene article, you always have the option of having a thin plastic film stuck behind your viewing window.
Design Emotions sell better with customized kraft boxes
By now, almost every marketing professional knows that emotions sell better. Design custom kraft box packaging with a viewing window that suits your brand. Follow the storytelling with your packaging. Carry on the stories from your TV or online advertising campaigns on your packaging.
Make your product remembered longer than your competitor’s. You can create such emotions and experiences, for example, through various finishes or an unusual shape of your packaging with a window.
Unique selling point thanks to packaging:
Window packaging has another advantage. Your printed folding box catches the eye through a viewing window and stands out from the competition. For you, this means that you can achieve an inexpensive but effective advertising impact.
Customer proximity thanks to folding box:
Custom kraft boxes with logo mean you are even closer to your customers. Inhibitions can be broken down and emotions can be generated at the same time. See the viewing window as a vote of confidence. You have nothing to hide behind a thick layer of cardboard. Instead, you create visually positive emotions.
Also read: Custom Packaging for Small Business
What materials can wholesale kraft packaging be made of?
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Chromo board GC1 white:
Suitable for creative minds. The white-coated side can be perfectly printed and offers you the opportunity to let off steam creatively. A viewing window can be inserted very well into the print image. -
Chromo board GC1 natural side:
No great achievement – but very elegant. The matt side makes your packaging with a viewing window look high-quality and more elegant. -
Natural cardboard / kraft cardboard
Custom kraft boxes are firm, robust, and almost rough. Thanks to these properties, natural-side kraft cardboard is ideal as the packaging with a viewing window. Printing is also possible – but this appears more matt and darker than on a chromo board GC1 white. -
Black natural cardboard:
perfect elegance , high-quality design and the view of a high-quality product thanks to packaging with a viewing window. -
Grass cardboard, sustainable cardboard:
The cardboard, which consists of up to 25% grass fibers, naturally impresses with its sustainable concept. Despite its rough, natural surface, your print motif will also look very good here. Many customers can be won over by a viewing window, especially with sustainable products.
Always choose the finest printing option for custom boxes
Cardboard custom kraft boxes packaging is especially beautiful when it is printed or alternatively – or additionally – refined. Because a box is particularly impressive when it comes to the interplay of printing and material as product packaging or gift packaging.
1) Why have the packaging printed?
No question about it: an unprinted box is stable, of high quality and protects or presents your product or your products. However, with strong printing you can address your customers directly and in a targeted manner.
Depending on the type of box, you can print the most suitable area of the packaging – with a hinged box, for example, the inside of the lid is a good option for printing. In this way, you address the customer at the moment when he sees the product in front of him – he connects your written message with the product.
In the case of presentation packaging or gift packaging, you should ideally always print the packaging!
How is packaging printed?
Professional box packaging companies usually print your packaging either using offset printing or digital printing. Here we summarize the advantages for you at a glance:
Printing the packaging using digital printing
· Dry toner
· no printing plates, therefore no setup costs like in offset printing
· well suited for small editions and sample series as well as personalized customer gifts
· Changes possible at short notice
· good quality, good print image
Alternative or supplement: Have packaging printed and refined!
In the case of packaging for gifts or high-quality products, in particular, we recommend that you do not just have the packaging printed – a combination of printing and finishing is definitely more impressive! In some cases it can even make sense to forego printing entirely and only have the boxes refined.
Especially with custom kraft boxes made from black natural cardboard, hot foil stamping can be sufficient to achieve a stunning effect.
What is the function of UV coating in customized box printing?
If refinement is to be used in addition to the printing, a partial UV coating can highlight individually printed Custom kraft boxes motifs or individual elements in the logo can be highlighted using hot foil stamping. The finishes often have a haptic component so that the customer can experience the packaging with several senses.
Finishes that can protect the print:
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Painting
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Foil lamination
Refinements that can put the print image even more in scene:
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partial UV coating
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Hot foil stamping
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Blind embossing
Printing options have been expanded! Print packaging in special colors!
In addition to four-color printing, in which the desired color is mixed from the colors blue, magenta, yellow and black by printing the individual colors one after the other on the print sheet, packaging can also be printed with a single full-tone or special color. These special colors are also best for other types of packaging boxes, for instance custom pizza boxes, or custom display boxes.
Where and why is sustainable packaging used?
Kraft boxes with a logo are used for packaging any product: for example, souvenirs, clothes, accessories, perfumes. They are popular with brands in shopping malls, boutiques, beauty salons, and the food industry. Are you planning a corporate party? Kraft boxes will be a good solution for packing presents for employees.
What kind of kraft packaging to choose?
There are two most famous environmentally friendly custom kraft boxes packaging:
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white craft
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brown craft
Dimension:
Sizes can be different: vertical, horizontal, square, and bottle. Generally, it depends majorly on the size and customization of the kraft box. You can also order printing on a craft box: with or without a transparent lid. Keep in mind that bags are a more practical option due to the comfortable handle. It provides easy transportation. The box has its own advantages – reliable protection of products from mechanical damage.
Printing method:
Image printing is applied in several ways: offset printing, silk screen printing, or embossing. For printing on custom kraft packaging, the silk-screening method is most often used – the image will turn out to be bright and colorful, as well as resistant to abrasion.
