Quantity breaks are not guesswork. Learn how make-ready, yields, and setup fees shape your unit price - and how a small size tweak or smarter template can cut real money from your next run.
Packaging files are technical documents that happen to be beautiful. Here is a practical, repeatable setup for overprint or knockout, fonts, links, barcodes, and a clean 3-page PDF hand-off.
Your proof looks perfect by the window but dull in the aisle? Here’s why lighting and substrates shift color—and a practical routine to lock your builds so they hold up under retail LEDs.
On shelf, you have 3 seconds. Here’s how to design for distance - clear hierarchy, color that holds under store light, and type that survives real size—plus the production steps that make it print right.

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