Packaging does not: not only that she protects the product on the way to the consumer, it is at the same time advertising space for the manufacturing company. “Form follows function”also in packaging printing this guiding principle for designers, Horatio Greenough has already coined, also applies to packaging. Penguin Random House describes an additional similar source. At least two types of packaging we encounter in everyday life: once the protection that carries the product itself, such as, for example, a high-quality cardboard for a fine perfume, and once the cardboard in which hundreds of these packs in warehouse or to dealers. Admittedly, the latter usually not very attractive effect. Its shape is relatively clumsy and rather dull color. Even in the printed State he is hardly a beauty to call: safety signs such as caution glass, or to view instructions for the handling, as arrows that describe where is above, are hardly as attractive jewelry. Nevertheless, this cardboard is a true miracle: he usually made of corrugated board protects high value of the commodities to vibration, pressure and shock.
His restrained imprint are significant indications that what had to happen or to refrain from so that the valuable product without prejudice to reach its destination. Even if the shipping carton is rather inconspicuous, he becomes the indispensable information carriers by packaging printing. Even if how to perform the packaging printing in only one or two colors in this case. It wasn’t without packaging. By packaging printing of plain cardboard to the elegant carton but what if we now open the cardboard box: an explosion of colors, shiny surfaces or Matt Black, Gold slides change with coins, which were also colored in the packaging printing a real wonder of the art of printing. Even from the outside, the consumer sees: here must be to a very special perfume trade. Packaging printing makes it possible. Even if there is only pure water in bottles.