From the course: Print Production: Packaging
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Combining packaging materials: Complex packaging
From the course: Print Production: Packaging
Combining packaging materials: Complex packaging
Sometimes, packages are made out of multiple pieces and those would require multiple processes, perhaps even in different plants. For example, this promotional piece which looks like a gigantic book of matches, is a folding carton and it involves some dye cutting and then inside they've places sales material. It's a very attractive piece, immediately catches the eye, and it's a showcase for the kinds of printing and finishing this company can do. This little tea holder sort of serves as its own lid. So its all one package, but when we flip the lid open we can get the tea out and then when you go to close it that little tongue that hangs out the front, the little tab, slips into the little slot in the roof of that cap. And then it makes close neatly. This is another combination package, and it's a sales piece that gives a pocket folder effect on the left, and then on the right, there was sales material and a sample, and it's even a carton within a carton, if you want to think of it…
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