Print & Packaging Vendor Resource Guide
The Printing & Packaging Planning Kit |
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This guide is a collection of over 50+ vendors I have collected in my experience as a brand & packaging expert working with food & beverage, restaurants, products, and experiential businesses like yours. It includes various packaging & print vendor options, print method glossary, a checklist, & file guide. Click below to access this guide and pay what you can to download this resource.
Bring your Packaging Dreams to life…
But you might be thinking, “where do I even begin?”
If you want to utilize professional-level packaging on your products, marketing materials, create client gifts or any other collateral for your business to level up and bring your customer experience and branding to the next level, you are in the right place.
Spending countless hours finding companies to source your printing and merch needs from is not the vibe, because you have wayyyyy more important things to be doing. So with my experience of sourcing the best fit vendors for my client’s packaging and print needs, its time to share my whole library of resources to help make this endeavor as seamless as possible for you, as it can be extremely overwhelming with all the choices out there with little to no guidance on where to get started.
Packaging Prep Checklist
Use this checklist to get started on gathering all the things you are responsible for on your packaging, merch or marketing materials before your designer can turn your vision into magic:
Complete and gather your brand identity with logos, illustrations, colors, fonts, icons and other graphic marks from your designer.
Choose your Vessel or paper type | primary packaging bottle, jar, tin, pouch etc (browse options with our planning kit)
Choose dimensions for each item of your packaging to use on the vessel (your designer can help you with this)
Choose your print finish options (browse options with our planning kit)
Choose your printing Vendor for custom packaging needs (browse options with our planning kit)
Download die-lines with the correct label dimensions from your vendor printer company
Create Packaging Copy Content - Title subtitle, product descriptions, ingredients etc.
Gather Certifications, SKU’s, Nutrition labels, QR codes and other images that will be applied to design
Get packaging requirement details from your manufacturer or state government to be compliant
Send all items above to your packaging designer to create your final artwork!
Ready to dive into vendor sourcing? I have created a whole vendor library that includes over 50+ companies you can use to help plan your packaging design, marketing materials, merch, apparel and more.
Download the Print & Packaging Planning Kit here
