printQ 3D Packaging Design

The printQ 3D Packaging Design is a revolutionary mass customization technology that streamlines the usually cost-intensive and complex process of designing and ordering personalized die-cut packaging products. Bringing flexibility to a usually very rigid market and allows anyone to build and personalize packaging products to the size required. 

As the eCommerce market as well as the world packaging market has grown incredibly over the past years the significance of the packaging itself as part of the entire company philosophy increased enormously. Especially SMEs doing online business need to find ways to differentiate their brand from their competitors. Offering personalized packaging for their product adds extra value. More importantly: there is a strong trend towards small-run, individual products, away from large-run standard products in nearly every industrial sector. 

Prior to developing the printQ 3D Packaging Design, the process of designing and ordering custom-sized packaging products mostly happened offline, and no printing company had a suitable W2P solution that combined a high-performance online personalization function with the ability to design tailor-made, unique packagings and directly deliver all relevant production files (print PDF, CF2 file, etc.). 

The main application is suitable for any type of graphic packaging design, e.g. a lid box, snap lock box, display box, dispenser box, milk carton, gift box as well as flexible packagings or any product which should be adjustable in size and shape. When only a 2D representation is available, the online design of a custom-sized packaging is complicated. It’s hard to imagine how the final product will look like when folded or wrapped, or which side is the top or the bottom part of the packaging. Also varying criteria like paper thickness influence the way a box is folded. 

Naturally, each packaging design requires many design steps which normally leads to a long design cycle. The printQ 3D Packaging Design with its dynamic variability and the on the fly instant preview - directly done by customer interaction with the web site - is simply a game changer and will dramatically improve workflow efficiencies, and disrupt the market segment of customized packaging products by allowing users to fully implement the ordering process for packaging products.