Timelines depend on whether or not molds need to be opened, printing plates made, die lines created, whether it’s a new from-scratch development or a tweak to an existing item.
These are the steps we work through when creating custom packaging or products:
- We take the initial enquiry and discuss your needs to fully understand the requirements.
- Our design team brainstorms options based on the brief.
- We mock up some samples to see if our concept works.
- We show you the mock up, and if you’re happy we’ll quote a price to create this packaging/product.
- If the price works within budget we’ll then create a physical mock up for you to ‘play with’ and test out.
- If the physical mock up gets the thumbs up it’s time to place an order and then we’ll provide die lines for you to drop your artwork in.
- We create a printed sample so you can see the final outcome of the packaging.
- If the printed pre-production sample is approved, we’ll go to bulk production.
- Once the goods finish production, we have bulk samples randomly selected from production for us to check quality and we’ll have the goods inspected by a third party inspection company. If they pass both the quality checks we then ship the stock to your requested destination.
Generally it takes around 4 months to develop, produce and ship products that don’t require a mold.
