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Get bespoke Cardboard Boxes with Our Design Services
Forests proudly offers a studio of expert structural designers and graphic artists, crafting your new corrugated cardboard boxes, packaging and POS Displays concepts. Forests has its own design deparment, delivering a seamless concept, design and production journey, with our customer’s requirements, needs and deadlines at the forefront of all packaging and display projects.
When you need new designs for your packaging, Forests has you covered with reliable design services to achieve your desired look. Whether you need printed any type of paper packaging, we will create designs that meet your needs and help differentiate your product from from the competition. Our prompt, seamless design services for custom cardboard boxes will help you make the best possible impression.
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN (CAD)
Forests can create a computer aided design to meet the most individual requirements. We use the latest design software and have a huge range of standard designs to choose from. These can be adapted to ensure your product fits perfectly or we can develop an individual design solution from concept. Our designers are highly experienced in packaging and can develop ideas to suit any application.
SAMPLING OF PROTOTYPES
Forests offers the latest in sample making equipment, allowing us to provide our customers product samples in a timely manner. Maximum dimensions up to 3200 x 2200mm for sampling of prototypes is possible, as well as the ability to produce short run orders.
PALLETISING SOFTWARE
To meet your warehousing and transport requirements, we are able to design the right carton to suit your specifications and then work out the best way to palletise your unit for transport. This can also be applied to stacking your goods in an export container.
PALLETISATION SPECIFICATION
To ensure you are efficiently using transport space, we will design your cartons for the most effective pallet utilisation. We offer expert solutions for both local and export transport to optimise your stacking patterns and stacking height. Our Finished Palletisation Specification sheets provide peace of mind and show how many cartons you will fit on a truck or in an export container.
COMPUTER GENERATED 3D MODELLING
You are able to view a 3D model before we go to the sampling stage. This can be rotated to see different angles of your custom-built design before we go to sampling or tool manufacture.
Let us design the right solution for your needs. Contact Us today!
STRONG DESIGN SKILLS
Our artists are not only in tune with the corrugated and printing side of the industry, but also possess strong design skills that can be used when creating a new concept or design for your product. We are also able to replicate an existing job that is currently being supplied to you.
CUSTOM DESIGN SERVICES FOR ALL TYPES OF PACKAGING
When you need new designs for your packaging, Forests has you covered with reliable design services to achieve your desired look. Whether you need printed cardboard boxes for biscuits and bakery goods supplied from Melbourne or custom cardboard packing boxes in New South Wales, we will create designs that meet your needs and help differentiate your product from from the competition.
Our prompt, seamless design services for custom cardboard boxes will help you make the best possible impression.
WE HAVE A MYRIAD OF COLOURS TO CHOOSE FROM!
With Forests, you can select from a large range of colours to print your cartons via flexographic print process.
Please view our Flexographic print Colour Selection Chart. Alternatively, consult with a salesperson or our art department for more information. We can area-match PMS colours if required for an additional cost.
Our Custom digitally printed boxes run via our single-pass (CMYK) digital printer, which is one of the largest printing formats available for corrugated cardboard solutions.
Forests Artwork Guidelines & Supplying Artwork
Forests’s Art & Design Studio – Sandbox can accept artwork in both MAC and PC Formats. Adobe Illustrator or a Press Ready PDF’s are preferred digital art file types. The Sandbox creates all art layouts in Adobe Illustrator.
Artwork Requirements
Adobe Reader is required for accepting and signing off completed artwork online. Forests’s Art & Design Studio – Sandbox can accept artwork in both MAC and PC Formats. Adobe Illustrator or a Press Ready PDF’s are preferred digital art file types. The Sandbox creates all art layouts in Adobe Illustrator. All elements in your .ai or PDF file should be editable vector elements. Any images or .psd files used in your artwork should be embeded into your file or supplied as separate images/files. Adobe Photoshop should only be used for photographic elements.
FORESTS IMPRESSION – DIGITAL PRINTING FOR PACKAGING AND POS DISPLAYS
The latest in Digital printing technology is here at Forests. We are able to print in a single pass, direct to corrugated board, a full CMYK process. This printing technology provides high quality finished print for small to medium run lengths at competitive prices, with minimal set up fees. We are proud of being able to offer customers access to high quality digitally printed products with low volumes. We offer full customisation, and can help you with designs that are region specific, suitable for export markets and make the most of seasonal events such as major sporting events, Father’s/Mother’s Day, Christmas and Easter.