What is printed packaging?
Simply put: printing first onto materials such as paper, plastic, cardboard, pit paper, PET, coated paper, and other materials, followed by processes such as die-cutting, hot stamping, lamination, framing, stringing, and gluing to create finished product packaging and label tags, collectively referred to as printed packaging.
Two major sectors
(1) Printing
- Offset printing: color printing on color boxes, brochures, posters, and hang signs
- Round-pressed round / letterpress / flexograph: self-adhesive labels, roll labels, anti-counterfeiting labels
- Screen printing, hot stamping, UV, and elevation: Special processes enhance texture
(2) Post-packaging (the equipment category you often work with)
- ✅ Die-cutting: flat pressing, round pressing, cutting into box shapes and hang tag shapes
- ✅ Labeling: single-head / multi-head labeling machines
- ✅ Tag processing: labeling, punching corns, stringing machines
- ✅ Paper mounting, double mounting, surface covering, lamination, box gluing, box folding, material collection manipulator
- ✅ Color boxes, gift boxes, tote bags, card trays, cardboards, self-adhesive labels, hang cards, manuals
Common products
- Color boxes, gift boxes, pit cartons, tote bags
- Self-adhesive labels, anti-counterfeiting labels, roll labels
- Garment tags, cards, certificates of conformity, manuals
- Envelopes, card holders, card holders, gift cards, card sets
In short
Printing is responsible for printing patterns and text, packaging is responsible for shaping, reinforcement, and beautification—the entire industry chain is the printing and packaging industry.
