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One Bag, Several Coffees: The Wrap-Around Sticker, and Which Bags Can Actually Take One

A wrap-around sticker turns one printed coffee bag into a whole product line. The four shapes a wrap can take, why a horizontal 360 band is harder than it looks, and which bag styles can actually c...

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Roast to Order Does Not Make the Bag Matter Less. It Makes It Matter More.

Roasting after the order means bagging coffee at peak CO2 output, so the valve, the headspace and the seal all matter more rather than le...

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Your Coffee Bag Is Already Glossy. The Matte Varnish Is What Takes It Away.

On a rotogravure bag the PET is glossy to begin with, and matte varnish is what removes that shine. Applying less of it in selected areas...

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Why Your Coffee Bag Barcode Won't Scan, and How to Make It Part of the Design

A barcode has only four rules: dark bars, a clear quiet zone, full height, and a flat spot on the back panel. Everything else is yours, w...

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Coffee Bag Label Materials and Finishes: Kraft, Film, Foil, and What Sticks Best

What coffee bag labels are made of, from kraft and paper to glossy film, clear film, and metallized stock, the finishes they carry, and t...

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Die Cut Coffee Bags: How to Break Out of the Rectangle Without Breaking the Seal

Your coffee bag does not have to be a rectangle. How die cutting works on coffee packaging, the one area you cannot cut, when a die-cut l...

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Why Your Coffee Bag Has a Seam Down the Back (and What It Does to Your Art)

The seam down the back of a coffee bag is how a flat roll of film becomes a tube. What a fin seal and a lap seal are, why the seam matter...

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Soft Touch Is the Best Feeling Finish You Can Buy. It Also Shows Every Fingerprint.

Soft touch matte is the finish that makes a coffee bag feel expensive, and the same microtexture that creates that feel holds skin oil an...

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You Approved Your Color on Foil. Compostable Kraft Is a Different Canvas.

The same artwork prints differently on compostable kraft than on a conventional laminate. The substrate is not optically bright, the inks...

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Your Coffee Packaging Bags Spend More Time Curing Than Printing

Printing a custom coffee bag order takes hours. Then the laminated film sits and cures for days before it can be made into bags. Why the ...

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Your Coffee Bag Is Printed on the Inside. That Is Why It Never Scuffs Off.

On a laminated coffee bag the ink is printed on the underside of the outer film and sealed inside the wall. Why the graphics never scuff ...

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Coffee Bag Thickness Explained: What Mil, Micron, and Gauge Really Mean

What do mil, micron, and gauge mean for coffee bag thickness? A plain guide to how thick a coffee bag should be, and why thicker is not a...

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Your Bag Matched the Proof on Your Desk. Then It Hit the Store Lights.

Two colours can match under one light and separate under another. Why your coffee bag reads differently in a supermarket than on your des...

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