When you enter the supermarket and look around, you can still see a variety of gifts in a dazzling array of colors and shapes. The first thing that catches our eye is the packaging of these gifts. Therefore, major merchants are digging their brains into the packaging to make their products stand out among many competitors. Here, XQC Printing introduces the classification, common structures, and manufacturing processes of paper gift boxes.
XQC printing factories usually use three types of pasting fabrics: paper, leather, and fabric. Paper products include gold and silver cardstock, pearlescent paper, and various art papers; Leather materials include genuine leather, simulated leather PU fabrics, etc; There are various fabrics with cotton and linen textures.
In terms of market demand, XQC printing factory paper gift boxes are mainly used for cosmetics and perfume; Baijiu, red wine and various foreign wines; Chocolate and health foods; High end premium cigarettes;
Wine Paper Box; Packaging for mobile phones and tablets; Jewelry packaging
Paper Box etc.
Structurally classified paper gift boxes include:
Tian Di Box: Composed of a lid box and a bottom box, it is usually used with a large top and a small bottom buckle.
Book box: composed of an outer shell and an inner box, with the shell surrounding the inner box. The bottom of the inner box is bonded to the back wall on both sides of the shell, and the non bonded upper cover can be opened, resembling a hardcover book in appearance.
Double door box: composed of a left outer box and a right outer box, with an inner box on the inner side and symmetrical left and right outer boxes.
Heart shaped box: The box is shaped like a heart, often with a structure of a heaven and earth lid.
Drawer Paper Box: A box type with drawer function, which can be easily opened by pulling out the drawer box when in use.
Circular box: The box shape is a perfect circle or ellipse, often with a top and bottom lid structure.
Hexagonal, octagonal, and polygonal boxes: The box shape is hexagonal, octagonal, or polygonal, mostly with a sky and earth cover structure.
Window box: Open the required window on one or more sides of the box, and paste transparent PET or other materials on the inside to fully display the information of the contents.
Folding Paper Box: Grey board is used as the skeleton, pasted with copperplate paper or other paper, and a certain distance space is left at the bent part of the grey board. When used, it supports the whole in a three-dimensional shape. It can be folded freely without affecting its appearance after molding, and can save packaging and logistics costs after folding. It is a very practical box type.
Flip cover box: The back of the box is pasted with tissue paper, which is a combination of the top and bottom cover box and the inserted edge top and bottom cover box, and can be freely flipped back and forth to open and close.
The general production process of paper gift boxes in XQC printing factories includes design, sampling, printing, surface finishing, gray board die-cutting, gray board slotting, gray board forming, external material pasting, assembly, inspection, and packaging.
XQC printing factory will make quality and craftsmanship choices for customers when making paper gift boxes, so that exquisite and beautiful gift boxes can be displayed in front of everyone. For example, when choosing paper, it is necessary to consider the thickness of the paper. Note that the paper should not be too thick, as thick pasting can easily wrinkle, and it should not be too thin, otherwise the embossing effect cannot be reflected. Therefore, choose 157g copperplate paper, art paper, or pearlescent paper for construction. Gray board is produced from a type of recycled waste paper, mainly divided into single ash, double ash, full ash, and high gloss, depending on the customer's requirements for surface flatness. Gray paper belongs to environmentally friendly packaging materials, and in special cases, there is no upper limit. Usually, qualified gray boards are selected according to the gift box specifications.
The printing process includes polishing; Covering film, matte film, tactile film, scratch resistant film; Hot stamping, red gold, bonus, silver, laser gold; Local UV; Pressing bumps and depressions; Embossing and other techniques are used to highlight the high-end of the product.
XQC printing factory also pays great attention to the quality of die-cutting, slotting, and pasting in the post-processing of paper gift boxes. The paper gift box has high technical requirements for die-cutting, and the accuracy and precision of die-cutting directly affect the processing quality of subsequent processes, which will also directly determine the quality of the product. Slotting is a key step in the production of gift boxes, which involves using a slotting machine to create a V-shaped groove on a gray board with a thickness of 1-4mm. Generally, a connecting layer of about 0.25mm is retained. The V-shaped groove has an angle, usually 90 degrees or 120 degrees, and other angles can be selected according to the product structure, but it must be straight on the outside and square on the inside after the gray board is bent, with clear edges and precise matching of the four corners. According to different product requirements, copperplate paper, art paper, velvet cloth, leather materials, etc. are glued or sprayed with glue by a glue machine and tightly adhered to the gray board, making the two into one.
The general packaging box is first pasted and then die cut, but the pasted gift box is first die cut and then pasted. The purpose of this is to avoid contaminating the outer packaging material and affecting its appearance; The second is that the gift box emphasizes the harmony of the overall effect, and only after pasting can the support be completely covered, so that the gray of the gray board is wrapped in a creatively designed outer packaging material, presenting us with a beautiful artwork; Thirdly, some complex box shapes still require manual pasting, which cannot be replaced by machines.
