Custom Printed Pouches & Packaging

We print flexo and gravure, and which one suits a job comes down to the run length and the artwork.

Flexo is the right process for shorter and medium runs and for solid, confident colour. Plate cost is lower, so it stays economical at volumes where gravure would not, and it handles blocks of brand colour, type and line work cleanly. Most launches and most private-label work run flexo.

Gravure holds the finest detail and the most consistent colour over a long run. Where the artwork carries photographic imagery, fine gradients or subtle tonal work, or where the same pack is printed repeatedly over a long period and colour drift between runs would be visible on shelf, gravure is the process that holds it.

On laminated structures we reverse print: the ink is applied to the inside face of the outer film and then trapped between the layers of the laminate. The artwork is sealed inside the pack, so it cannot scuff, scratch or rub off through filling, distribution and handling, and it keeps its gloss under the outer film. Some monolayer structures are surface printed instead, with the ink on the outside — that is the correct approach for those films, and we will raise it when it applies to your pack.

The structure sits underneath every other decision about a pack, and we specify it around your product rather than offering a fixed menu. Multilayer laminates combine films to get strength, barrier and sealing into one structure. Monolayer recyclable films stay within a single polymer family so the pack can be recycled. Different thicknesses trade stiffness and protection against material cost.

What drives the choice is the shelf life you need, whether the pack is vacuum packed or gas flushed or simply sealed, and the distribution and storage conditions it will see between our factory and the customer.

One thing worth raising early: monolayer recyclable films involve real barrier trade-offs against a laminate. Recyclability is a genuine and increasingly important goal, and we would far rather work through what the film can and cannot do for your specific product at the start of a project than discover it in a shelf-life trial. Bring it up in the first conversation.

Gloss and matte finishes, clear and frosted windows, resealable zippers, tear notches, hanging Euroslots and rounded corners are all available, and they combine — a matte pouch with a clear window strip and a zipper is a routine specification.

The format is open too. Stand-up pouches, 3 side seal flat pouches and side gusset bags can all be printed to your artwork, so a single brand look carries across a whole range in different formats and sizes.

To come back with a real answer rather than a range, it helps to have: the product and roughly how it behaves — dry, fatty, aromatic, fragile; the fill weight and the format you have in mind; the shelf life you are targeting; whether the pack is vacuum packed, gas flushed or simply sealed; how it will be distributed and stored; and print-ready artwork, or whatever artwork you have along with the number of colours in it.

If you do not have all of that yet, send what you do have. Most of the useful work happens in the first conversation — contact us with your requirement and we will tell you what else we need.