Choose the Right Rigid Box Pinting Company in Malaysia
Whether you are are selling watches, jewellery, fine chocolates, packaging box are a must to compliment your product. The best packaging box to showcase that your product is exclusive are rigid boxes.
Consumer will feel the value of your product by just touching, feeling the premium material and mechanism of the rigid box, and sometimes a nicely design and well made rigid box can influence the consumer’s decision to buy the product.
One of the best example is iPhone rigid box. Consumers was so mesmerized by the packaging that they want to show the unboxing experience of iphone in youtube.
The iphone rigid box is solid, design is simple and easy to open. The famous rigid box have inspired many luxury brands to use rigid box for their product packaging.
Types of rigid boxes
If you have decided to use rigid box for your product packaging. You need to determined what type of rigid box best suit you product. Attached some popular choices:
- Telescope lid rigid box
- Partial telescope lid rigid box
- Classic shoebox
- Tray with sleeve or slipcase
- Neck box or shouldred box
- Hinged lid rigid box
- Flip top or cigar box
- Book style
- Clamshell box
- Round shaped
Partial telescope lid
Tray with sleeve or slipcase
Clamshell box
Round shaped
A one stop rigid box printing company
If you opt for custom rigid box for your product packaging. It will probably involved designer, structural engineering, printing and assembling to produce the rigid box.
Rather than involve too many people, we would advice you to find a one-stop rigid box printing company to handles everything under one roof. Our experience tell us that, if you give part of the job to another party and did not monitor it property, there will be problem with the quality. Avoid any unneccesary risk by engaging only one company to do everything in-house.
End of the day, by engaging one-stop printing campany to do the rigid box, not only the quallity will be consistent, the pricing will be less. Having one bill instead of a few will improve your company expenses.
Find a printing company that actually makes rigid boxes
In Malaysia, if you ask any printer, they will say that they can do it.
Not because of the slogan ‘MALAYSIA BOLEH’ (Malaysia can do it) coined by our former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir that inspire all Malaysian will say ‘can’. But sorry to say that most printer in Malaysia just want to do everything and this is not very professional.
A lot of packaging box manufacturers in Malaysia are actually folding carton manufacturers. When they get the job, they will outsource to different suppliers. You will not know the difference if you don’t ask.
Doing carton box manufacturing is quite straight forward. You just need to print, die-cut and fold. But making rigid boxes are much more complicating and time-consuming because rigid box is made of thicker material, many parts need to be assembled by hand and involved many manpower. It is so complicated that some are unwilling to manufacture rigid box.
Find a printing company that actually make rigid box will not only save you time and money, but the quality and finishing will be better.
Ask for rigid box samples
One of the best way in choosing rigid box printing company is to request for samples that they have done. So you can check their printing, box quality, finishing etc to determine whether they are capable to do it.
Visit their factory and find out whether they have designer, structural engineer, offset printing machine, and workers to assemble the rigid box. So that you will have a piece of mind everything is done under the same company.
A lot of times most rigid box printing company will fall short of your expectations. Eventually your printed rigid box will have quality issue and delayed in delivery.
Experinece is very important
Rigid box printing company should have the experience to produce rigid box because they have been doing it for many years. They will be able to advice you on the design, structurel engineering, material to use and finishing for your rigid box. Most client have no idea what to use. So this is very impotant.
If you keep on getting proofs with mistake, there is a sign that your printing company is lack of experience. This will cause unnecessary delay and expenses.
Work with those with experience in rigid box production and many problems can be avoided.
Final thoughts
Treat your rigid box printing company like a business partner, not a ‘BOLEH’ man. Advice them to explore all possibilities to make your rigid box unique.
Make your rigid box truly special and your customer will put the ‘unboxing experience’ in the net. Customers will not only want to buy your product but need to keep the rigid box.