For 2000 years man have been perfecting and innovating the printing process into confusion. So to make BRANDING YOUR BRAND more attainable we started our free Harbor Pilot “PHP” program. It is designed to identify the most effective and least expensive marketing alternatives, tailor them to meet your specific needs, then take over to navigate the production process from creative to delivery.
There are lots of moving parts
- Types of Printing: Digital; Sheetfed; Web; Gravure; Flexography; Screen
- Substrates: Paper; Paperboard; Corrugated; Vinyl; Mylar, etc etc.
- Inks and Coatings: 4/C Process; PMS (neon/metallic); Matched Color; Varnishes; UV; Aqueous
- Finishing: Die-cutting; Embossing; Foil Stamping; Laminates
Upfront decisions and Information gathering:
CR Container custom branding alternatives:
- Folding Cartons
- Premade pouches
- Labels
- Other
Quantities; Requirements; and Configurations:
- Number of (SKU) Stock Keeping Units
- Quantity of each SKU – SKU imposition – Carton Math Interactive
- Weight or Count of product within
- Packaging requirements
- Size
- Configuration
- Smell Proof
- Tandem Packaging requirements
- Internal bag
- Tray
- Blister pack
- Other
- Deadline
- Pack-out – collation
- Delivery requirements
- Destination
Harbor Piloting:
- Creative – We will provide templates and format requirements and help creatives with all needs. Our experience in digital prepress will help the most novice of creatives.
- Prepress – This is normally a charge from printers, but we will make your files print ready as value added.
- Proofing – With a digital pdf this can be don’t over the internet, however physical proofs are available as required.
- Printing – We take it from here to deal with all of the subtleties of this process. Our decades of experience will make this process stress free and seamless for all of our clients.
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