From the course: Print Production: Packaging
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Checking the mockup
Once you've printed out the carton that you're working on, and you've cut it out, folded it up, and taped it together, then it's time to take a real close look at it and make sure that everything is as you want it to be. Of course you want to make sure that the dimensions are correct, so make sure that your front and back panels, your side panels, the top and bottom, are the correct width and height. If there are glue flaps or tuck flaps, make sure that they are the right size. If it's a tuck flap, make sure it goes all the way over and tucks in, you know, as it should. If there's a glue flap, make sure that it's wide enough to hold enough glue to keep the package together. And the little tuck tabs, those are the little pieces that go underneath a flap, make sure that they're the right size and need to be long enough to hold that package together. And then check the mechanical aspects. Glue flaps should have bevels on them and that's partly because of the machine that's going to…
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