How to reduce the production cost of wine boxes?
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Many people in the industry believe that the low cost and high quality of wine box packaging are designed by design, not by workshop production and quality control. This view is not unreasonable. The following author talks about the experience of many years of experience in the design of wine box packaging.
01 structural design
Structural selection
Because the bottle is made of glass, ceramics, earthenware and other materials, it is easy to break, so the wine box packaging must play a good supporting role for the bottle. Commonly used support materials are cardboard, gray cardboard, MDF, and the like. In addition to the main supporting materials, high-end wine box packaging usually uses high-grade facial paper and silk fabrics with special effects. When selecting the structure, it should be noted that it must meet the transportation requirements, make the structure firm, and have the product display function.
Structural molding
If the target market of wine products is domestic, then the wine box packaging should focus on the destructive structural anti-counterfeiting design, because the wine products have high profits, the prevailing fake and shoddy styles, the wine box packaging should bear a certain amount of anti-counterfeiting; if the wine products The target market is foreign, and the packaging of the wine box should pay more attention to the special structure display design, and if necessary, apply for a patent for the special design.
The structural design of the wine box packaging should also fully consider the production process, and it is not possible to "talk on paper." Designers should combine the company's production equipment processing capabilities, the design of the wine box packaging is best to use machine processing. For parts that can only be assembled by hand, the relevant molds must be designed and simplified, to ensure quality and efficiency, and the labor cost can be greatly reduced, and the production cycle can be shortened. Sometimes, semi-finished products can be made by machine first. Manual assembly, using a combination of machine and manual to achieve low cost, high quality.
The structural design of the wine box packaging should also consider the production conditions of the winery. The labor cost in foreign countries is very high. The automatic machinery is usually used to package the wine products. Therefore, for the outer single wine box packaging, the top opening structure design is usually adopted. Put it in the bottle and seal it with a lid.
Of course, the structural design of the wine box packaging also needs to meet the needs of consumers, and must be opened easily. Even after the wine is finished, the wine box preferably has the functions of decoration and storage.
Main accessories
Complex high-end wine box packaging consists of many accessories, usually with the same material composition but different shapes and sizes. The cost of the main accessories has a huge compression space. To compress this part of the cost, the designer must be proficient in the imposition process and the specifications of the conventional materials on the market, and should not be arbitrarily swayed.
Auxiliary accessories
Auxiliary accessories mainly refer to various metals, plastics, flocking seats, styrofoam and so on. The selection of auxiliary accessories requires special attention to control costs, avoiding the situation in which the wine packaging manufacturers have worked hard to produce a wine box packaging without the high profit of an auxiliary accessory of the supplier.
02 prepress design
Graphic design
Graphic design is mainly to deal with the pattern, color, text, barcode and other content on the wine box packaging. The design file needs to be processed well, and the color that can be overprinted should be overprinted as much as possible to reduce the difficulty of printing the calibration. The screen printing, hot stamping and embossing graphics that need to be set must be scaled according to the size to reduce the effect. Unexpected waste problem; when hot stamping and embossing, because the hot stamping plate and the embossed plate are usually made of metal, it needs to be based on the hot and cold expansion coefficient of the plate on the hot stamping plate and the embossed plate. The text is generally scaled down. If it is a copper plate, it generally needs a reduction ratio of 99.85%; the hot stamping line or graphic spacing should not be less than 0.1mm.
Imposition design
The imposition design should pay attention to comprehensively consider the processing width and material utilization rate of various equipments. The material opening specifications should be as close as possible to the conventional ones, so as to avoid waste due to the purchase of materials without special specifications; in order to facilitate the imposition of the materials, it is necessary to develop further modifications. The habit of the knife-line diagram; combined with the processing capability of each process, considering the relationship between the number of heads and the order quantity, the layout is not the bigger the better, do not enter the misunderstanding of "the more the number is connected, the more savings"; the need for overprinting between multiple operations The text should be arranged as close as possible to the side of the mouth and the side of the ruler; also avoid unnecessary waste of time due to improper imposition; the various control bars of the layout should be added correctly.