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Custom Printed and Branded Corrugated Boxes – Achieve great designs by avoiding common mistakes!

April 17, 2013 | By Dennis Salazar

Custom printed corrugated RSC and mailer boxes can be almost anything you want them to be and we are so pleased to work with customers who don’t always think in terms of plain or “vanilla”. After all, it is color and design that make life interesting, and quite frankly, also make branded packaging much more effective as well.

Here are a few eye catching boxes I think you will notice should they arrive at your home or office:

Corrugated boxes can be artistic – The neat people at Conscious Box are very creative and know how to make a memorable, positive impression. Shown in the photograph is their newest design … Read More

Newly Re-Designed www.SalazarPackaging.com web site features new products

April 3, 2013 | By Dennis Salazar

Many people know us as the company behind the Globe Guard® brand that includes boxes, mailer boxes and mailer envelopes. However, our new web site is re-designed to show off some of our newer and lesser known products and services. These include:

Temperature controlled packaging – as companies seek alternatives to EPS (Styrofoam) coolers, we are pleased to offer both moisture resistant carry totes like our Globe Guard® cooler and custom shipper box designs with biodegradable foam inserts for shipping cold products via UPS, FedEx and USPS.

Bemis Clysar® Shrink Film – This is a world class, industry leading product line we are pleased and proud to represent. There are … Read More

Custom Printed Rigid Boxes are Ideal for Upscale Samples and Retail Display Applications

December 12, 2012 | By Dennis Salazar

Wrap with any stock or custom printed paper

They are known by many names including rigid boxes, set-up boxes, rolled edge boxes, candy boxes, or even greeting card boxes.

Unlike boxes made of corrugated board or folding cartons made that are also made of paper board, these boxes are pre-formed with rigid vertical walls creating a bottom “tray” and the option of a matching full or partial paper board lid, or in some cases with a plastic or acetate transparent lid so the contents can easily seen. This last version with the clear lid is extremely popular for greeting cards and votive candles.

What Makes Rigid Boxes Green?

In most cases they are made of paper board that … Read More

Custom Printed, Unpadded Paper Mailer Envelopes – when black and brown = green

November 1, 2012 | By Dennis Salazar

custom printed boxes, mailers, tape and envelopes in basic black on Kraft

I have often said (and written) that green is in the eye of the beholder, but most people assume natural, Kraft (brown) packaging is “greener” than white or any other substrate color. This actually goes beyond perception in that most white packaging products utilize virgin paper to create that nice white finish. To the contrary, many brown, Kraft colored products, such as our Globe Guard® unpadded paper mailer envelopes are made of 100% recycled content material, most of which is post consumer waste, (PCW) so naturally brown products are typically more eco friendly than those that are white .

The concern over green perception extends to ink colors and ink … Read More

Globe Guard® Eco Flex ™ on Sale and Now With FREE SHIPPING!

October 1, 2012 | By Dennis Salazar

Eco Flex Molded Pulp ideal for blocking and bracing

Eco Flex™ is molded pulp packaging at its best because it is incredibly versatile and can be used for so many different applications. Now it is also on our fast growing list of free shipping products and on sale through the end of October, 2012.

Here are some of the ways Eco Flex™ can be used:

Blocking and bracing applications

Many of our customers find it is the ideal packaging to wedge in between or around the perimeter of products they are shipping. It seems to be the perfect combination; rigid enough to provide protection and, unlike some products, not so inflexible that it damages the product it is … Read More

Custom Printed Die Cut Corrugated Mailer Boxes in Five Easy Steps

September 19, 2012 | By Dennis Salazar

Six different prints of our stock 7x7x2 box

We continue to be one of the leading sources in the country for custom printed mailer boxes because of our low cost (usually less expensive than labels) and our low minimums (1,000 boxes) but mostly due to our experience. We take the fear and headache out of custom printing on stock mailer boxes by making the process quick and easy.

Custom box pricing within a few hours and shipment in about two weeks.

This sounds incredible to people who have never worked with us before but the fact is that in most cases, after you provide us with finished artwork, we can create a printing plate for one of our … Read More