From the course: Package Design Project: Paperboard Food Packaging

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Final physical and virtual samples

Final physical and virtual samples

From the course: Package Design Project: Paperboard Food Packaging

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Final physical and virtual samples

- [Instructor] Once you've checked the dielines, inserted your artwork, and applied the final little tweaks to the packaging, check the fit once more, by printing from your own printer to build a package and make sure it all fits together properly. At the office or home, it will be pretty straightforward. If a package is small enough, and your desktop printer can print oversized tabloids, then it will be pretty easy. However, if the packaging is bigger than your printer's largest paper size, then your packaging may have to be tiled together to produce the full size. Again, you can ask your printer or Prototype House to do this, as they are equipped with an oversized plotter that can print and cut the package out. They may even have an Esko cutting table to produce your packages. For this project, I used a Prototype House, since the client needed this quickly for a trade show and photos for online. I provided the files with the kind of printing finishes I needed, and they printed it on…

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