Blog Archive

Packaging

The Roast Date Is the One Thing That Cannot Be Printed on Your Bag

Your bag is printed months before it is filled, so the roast date cannot be in the artwork. The four ways the date actually gets on, what...

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Packaging

Custom Boxes Now Start at 500. The Catch Is That 500 Is Per Design.

Custom printed boxes dropped from 1,000 to 500 units. The 500 is per design and cannot be split across two boxes, so plan the designs bef...

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Packaging

The Small Bag Won. Your Collection Box Just Got Busier.

A pound of coffee is 1.3 bags at 12 oz and exactly 2 at 8 oz. What the shift to smaller formats does to your empty bag volume, and what c...

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Packaging

Green Coffee Prices Are Falling. Your 12 oz Bag Is Not Coming Back.

Arabica has come off the 2025 peak, so does the 12 oz coffee bag return? Why the smaller bag is staying, what the volatility actually mea...

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Packaging

Approved Flat, Printed on a Curve: What Filling a Coffee Bag Does to Your Artwork

Your dieline is flat and your filled bag is not. What happens to coffee bag artwork once gussets open and the base folds, why the safe zo...

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Packaging

Sharing a 10,000 Roll Stock Run Across Designs Saves Up Front and Costs You at Reorder

Combining two bag designs on one 10,000 roll stock run lowers your cost per bag and locks both SKUs to one set of cylinders. Why the savi...

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Packaging

The EU Just Banned PFAS in Food Packaging. What It Means for Your Coffee Bags

The EU's packaging regulation began applying on 12 August 2026, starting with a PFAS restriction on food-contact packaging. What it means...

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Packaging

The Shrinking Coffee Bag: Why 12 oz Is Losing Ground to 10, 8 and 6

Roasters are moving from 12 oz to 10, 8 and 6 oz bags as green coffee prices climb. What a smaller bag changes for your dieline, fill wei...

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Packaging

Rotogravure, Explained: The Press, the Cylinders, and the 10,000-Bag Payoff

Rotogravure printing coffee packaging, explained in plain language: the press, the engraved cylinders, the premium look, and the 10,000-b...

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Packaging

Savor Brands CEO Patrick Lau on Coffee Packaging in Barista Magazine

Savor Brands CEO Patrick Lau is quoted throughout a coffee packaging feature in Barista Magazine. What he told the magazine about shelf a...

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Packaging

Why the First Custom Coffee Bag Off the Press Matters

The first custom coffee bag off the press is the whole run in miniature. What happens in pre-press, what a press check confirms on that f...

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Packaging

How to Switch Coffee Bag Suppliers Without Missing an Order

Switching coffee bag suppliers is a planned handoff, not a cold start. Here is how to pin down your current bag's specs, hand over print-...

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Packaging

Zipper, Tin Tie, or Neither: Choosing a Coffee Bag Closure

A valve is not a closure. What a zipper actually buys you, why a tin tie forgives a bad opening, when heat seal alone is the right call, ...

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Packaging

The Last Two Inches: Why Coffee Bag Seals Fail

A bad coffee bag seal usually looks perfect. What heat, time and pressure actually do, why contamination and wrinkles cause most failures...

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Packaging

The Quad Seal V Cut: The Flat Bottom Look for Less

The V in a V cut bag is the bottom, not the top. What the wedge base changes, why QSV and SGV cost less than a box bottom, and which one ...

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Packaging

The Bag Has a Clock Too: How to Store Coffee Bags Before You Fill Them

Heat, humidity, light and stacking all age an unfilled coffee bag. What each one does, why aluminum waits and compostable does not, and a...

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Packaging

Stuck With Outdated Coffee Bags? Six Ways to Use Every One

An outdated coffee bag is a surface problem, not waste. Six ways to use up bags with old branding, and how to time a rebrand so the pile ...

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Packaging

Does Your Coffee Bag Expire? Product Shelf Life vs. Bag Material Life

A coffee bag has two lifespans: the coffee's shelf life and the bag's own material life. Aluminum never expires, but compostable film doe...

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Packaging

One Brand, Every Roast: Designing a Coffee Bag Product Line That Holds Together

How to design a cohesive, custom-printed coffee bag product line across every roast: lock one brand system, give each roast its own digit...

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Packaging

Coffee Packaging Delivered to Your Door: What Your Quote Actually Covers

Getting coffee packaging delivered to your door means freight, clearance, and duties are already in the quote. Here is what that covers a...

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Packaging, International

Who Pays the Duty? How International Coffee Packaging Shipping Really Works

International coffee packaging shipping runs on FOB terms. Learn who pays freight, customs, and duties, and what changes when you order f...

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Packaging

Print Ready or Sent Back: The Preflight Checklist for Packaging Artwork

What print ready artwork actually means. The six hard requirements that send a file back, what we flag for review, and the file types we ...

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Industry News, Packaging

Picked in August, Coffee Bags on the Shelf by November: Packaging the 2026 Kona Harvest

The 2026 Kona coffee harvest has started. Here is the packaging timeline that gets your new crop into finished coffee bags before the Nov...

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Packaging, Sustainability

One Bag, One Year, Zero Landfill: Refill Your Coffee Bag at the Roaster

A refillable coffee bag with an aluminum barrier can be refilled at your roaster all year, then dropped in an R+R box. One bag instead of...

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