Questions to Ask When Hiring A Packaging Box Printing Company in Malaysia
Food grade paper should be used for food packaging box printing. If you are printing packaging box for medical products, what kind of lamination you should used? Using the wrong finishing can be disastrous to your business.
Printing company in Malaysia will print everything. From leaflet, brochure, catalogue, bunting to banner. They don’t specialise in doing packaging box printing only.
If you are a new company looking for packaging box printing company in Malaysia, It would be good to find out more before you select the packaging box printing company for your business.
Asking the Right Questions
Before you choose the right packaging box printing company, make sure you ask these questions to gain a clearer picture of how each packaging box printing company operates and what you can expect.
1. How long have you been in the packaging box printing business?
Experience is important. If the packaging box printing company have been operating for many years and they have done different kind of packaging box printing. They would be able to advice you on the correct materials and finishing to use for your packaging box printing.
Look at their portfolio in the website. Check out what clientele they have. Make sure that the packaging box printing company is not involved the same industry. Avoid company that are doing the same product because you don’t want your competitors to know what you are doing.
2. Have you worked with my industry before?
If you find that the packaging box printing company have been printing something similar to your industry, it would be an advantage.
Why do I say that? For example you want to use Eva foam to hold your product inside. In time the Eva foam will turn yellowish and that will make your product look very bad. You should cover the Eva foam with paper so you product presentation will always look exclusive.
Experience to handle the packaging box printing you require is important. So that you can have peace of mind after printing.
3. Do you have a graphic designer?
When you pass the artwork to the packaging box printing company. They should have a graphic designer to check your artwork. Is your artwork in CMYK format? Are the lines too thin? Any lines below 0.3 pt is not advisable.
Especially nowadays, digital colour proof are used for colour proofing and you might overlook the RGB issue. Fine line lower than 0.1 pt can be printed with digital colour proof but will not appear during actual offset printing.
Human can make mistake. It would be good if the packaging box printing company have designers to filter the artwork. So that your printing will be smooth and extra printing cost can be avoided.
4. Do you have a packaging box structural engineer
Good designers will take risk and do something very different in order to make your packaging box stand out on the shelf. Sometimes the packaging box design they came out with are creative but it might not be practical to produce.
Uniquelink have encountered these problem several times whereby the artwork done by the designers are too complicated. Not tho mention, expensive to produce, especially for custom made rigid box packaging.
Our packaging box structural engineer have always find a way to get the packaging box right without losing the essence of the packaging design.
6. What is the scope of your manufacturing?
It is normal that you will try to look for a big printing company because you have more confident in their production capacity and printing quality.
But if your printing quantity is not huge. These big printing company will put less effort on your business. They will normally focus on business with huge printing order.
So you should consider the volume of your packaging box before choosing a packaging box printing company.
7. What about your lead time?
Every company need to do planning. Where to keep the packaging materials? When to pack my stock? When to do shipment?
Check the lead time of the packaging box printing company so that the packaging materials will not affect the business of your company.
8. Do you have sample works?
The portfolio in the website might look good but it is best to look at actual samples done up by the packaging box printing company.
Nothing beat an actual finished printed samples. Check the finishing, paper used, durabilities so you get make a better judgement about the quality of their packaging box printing.
9. Can you give contact numbers of previous clients?
You can also ask for contact numbers of their existing clientele for reference.
A good packaging company will be glad to give you the contact information. If the company hesitates, it can indicate they are hiding something.
10. How do you keep up with industry trends?
Today we have 5 colour offset printing machine, digital printing machine. Uniquelink is also Forest Stewardship Council® certified printing company.
New machine have been brought in such as a special machine for 3D hot stamping and spot UV. We understand if you don’t change, you will be replaced. Uniquelink will continue to serve our client better.
Final words
Whoever you choose will be an important part of your business. Ultimately, this is a partnership. You need to know you can count on them.
Choose Not the biggest, or most established. Choose a packaging box printing company that will take care of you and make you feel important to them.