Journal
Notes from the press
What we tell clients when they ask — about cost, artwork, board, finishes and regulated packaging. Written to be useful whether or not you print with us.
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Process Corporate gifts people keep: how to choose, brand and pack them A corporate gift is kept when it is useful, well made and branded with restraint, and it arrives looking like a gift.…
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Materials Paper, vinyl, clear, silver or holographic: choosing a sticker material Three questions decide a sticker material: where it will live, what it sticks to, and how it should look. Where paper, vinyl,…
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Packaging Tube sticker pasting: professional tubes from 100 pieces, in Pakistan A printed tube needs a run in the thousands. A machine-applied, laminated label does not — and done properly it looks printed.…
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Materials Choosing board and GSM for your packaging box Board decides cost, print quality and whether the box survives — usually more than the artwork does. How to choose the type,…
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Artwork How to prepare artwork for print: a 10-point checklist Ten checks, in the order prepress runs them. Get these right and the file goes straight to plate; miss one and it…
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Finishing Matte or gloss lamination? A practical guide to print finishes Gloss makes colour vivid and shrugs off handling; matte looks premium and shows every scuff. What each finish actually does, what it…
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Process Offset vs digital printing: which is cheaper for your quantity? Offset carries a fixed set-up cost that digital does not, so the cheaper process depends entirely on how many you need. Here…
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Regulated Pakistan’s 2D barcode rules: what pharma packaging buyers need to know What SRO 470(I)/2017 requires, where the DataMatrix goes, what it must encode, and the part nobody covers: why print quality decides whether…
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Packaging What custom packaging actually costs in Pakistan — and what moves the price There is no price per box, because six variables decide it. Here is what each one does to the number, and why…
Resources
Useful whether or not you print with us
Printing glossary
Spot UV, matte lamination, dieline, GSM, bleed — every term explained in plain English.
Browse the glossary about Printing glossaryFree dieline templates
Print-ready AI and PDF dielines for every standard box style, drawn to real board caliper.
Get the templates about Free dieline templatesDRAP labelling guide
What must appear on a pharmaceutical carton in Pakistan, written for packaging and regulatory teams.
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