As a country of etiquette, giving gifts on New Year's Day has become a traditional item in China. Every festival, no matter which supermarket you enter, you can see a wide range of gifts, colorful, and different in shape. The first thing that catches the eyes of consumers is the packaging of these gifts. For this reason, major businesses have Holling out the packaging in order to make his products stand out among the many competing products.

   Below, let’s take the most common paper gift box as an example to talk about the classification, common structure and production process of paper gift boxes.

   paper gift box classification

  01 / Divided by wall-papering fabric

  ·Paper: including gold and silver cardboard, pearl paper and various art papers, etc.

  · Leather: Including genuine leather, imitation leather PU fabric, etc.

  · Fabric: Including a variety of cotton and linen texture fabrics, etc.

  02 / According to the scope of application

  · Daily chemicals: mainly used in cosmetics, perfumes, etc.

  · Liquor: Mainly used in white wine, red wine and various foreign wines

  · Food: mainly used in chocolate and health food

  · Tobacco: Mainly used in high-end premium cigarettes

  · Digital electronics: mainly used in mobile phones, tablet computers, etc.

  · Jewelry: Mainly used in all kinds of jewelry

  Common structure of paper gift box

  01 / Heaven and Earth Box

   is composed of a cover box and a bottom box, which are generally used for buckling the upper part and the lower part.

  02 / Book box

   is composed of an outer leather case and an inner box. The leather case loops around the inner box. The bottom of the inner box and the back wall are bonded to both sides of the leather case. The unbonded upper cover part can be opened, and the appearance looks like a hardcover book.


  03 / Double door box

   is composed of a left outer box and a right outer box. There is an inner box on the inside, and the left and right outer boxes are symmetrical.

  04 / Heart-shaped box

The    box resembles a heart shape, and it is mostly a box structure with a heaven and earth lid.

  05 / drawer box

  A box type with drawer function, it is very convenient to open the drawer box when it is used.

  06 / round box

The    box shape is a perfect circle or ellipse shape, and most of it is a box structure with a cover on the earth.

09 / Folding box

  Gray board is used as the skeleton, and coated paper or other paper is used for pasting, leaving a certain distance between the gray board at the bend, and supporting the whole body in a three-dimensional shape when using it. It can be folded freely without affecting its appearance after forming. It can save packaging and logistics costs after folding. It is a very practical box type.

  10 / flip box

  The back of the box is pasted with tissue paper, which is a combination of the top and bottom cover box and the edge-inside top cover box, which can be opened and closed freely.

  11 / Other special-shaped boxes

   paper gift box production process

   paper gift box production process:

  Printing→Surface finishing→Outsourcing die-cutting→Gray board die-cutting→Gray board grooving→Gray board forming→Outsourcing material pasting→Assembly→Inspection→Packing

  01 / Paper selection

  · Consider the type of paper, such as coated paper, art paper, pearl paper, etc.

  · Consider the thickness of the paper. Note that the paper should not be too thick. If it is thick, the pasting will easily wrinkle, and it should not be too thin, otherwise the embossing effect will not be reflected.

  · Consider the finishing effect of the paper surface.

  02 / Surface finishing

  · Reverse upward light

  · Coating (light film, dumb film, touch film, scratch resistant film, etc.)

  · Hot stamping (gold, red gold, color gold, silver, laser, etc.)

  · Partial UV

  · Press bump

  · Embossing

  03 / The choice of gray board

  Gray board is produced from a kind of recycled waste paper, which is mainly divided into single ash, double ash, full ash, and high gloss, depending on the customer's requirements for surface smoothness. Gray paper is an environmentally friendly packaging material, and there is even no upper limit in special circumstances. Generally, gray boards of appropriate specifications are selected according to the specifications of the gift box.

  04 / die cutting

  Paper gift boxes have high technical requirements for die-cutting. The precision and accuracy of die-cutting directly affect the processing quality of subsequent procedures, and will directly determine the quality of the product.

  05 / Slotting

Slotting is a key step in gift box production. V-shaped grooves are cut out with a slotting machine on a gray board with a thickness of 1 to 4 mm. Generally, a connecting layer of about 0.25 mm is reserved. The V-shaped grooves are angled, generally 90 degrees. , 120 degrees, other angles can also be selected according to the product structure, but it must be that after the gray board is bent, the outside is straight and the inside is square, with sharp edges and corners, and the four corners are accurate.

  06 / paper

According to different product requirements, the coated paper, art paper, flannel, leather, etc., are glued or sprayed through a glue machine, and glued tightly with the gray board, so that the two are combined into one, so that the gray board The surface "gray look changed to a new look".

   The general packaging box is pasted first and then die-cut, but the pasting gift box is die-cut first and then pasted. The purpose of this is to:

  First, fear that the outer packaging material will be damaged and the appearance will be affected;

  Second, the gift box pays attention to the harmony of the overall effect, and the post-papering can completely cover the support body, so that the gray of the gray board is wrapped by the new-designed outer packaging material, presenting us a beautiful artwork;

   Third, some boxes with complex structures still cannot be pasted by hand, which cannot be replaced by machines.

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