Printing Finishes and Effects to Elevate Your Brand
Enhance your packaging with professional printing finishes that reflect your brand’s identity. Dauxin offers precision printing methods, protective coatings, laminations, and specialty effects such as foiling and embossing — ensuring every design stands out with exceptional detail and quality.
Printing Methods for Packaging
Choose from a range of professional printing techniques tailored to your packaging needs. From cost-effective offset printing to flexible digital printing, and from bold silk screen to precise gravure and flexography, each method delivers unique benefits in quality, detail, and production scale.
Offset Printing
Offset printing uses plates and ink transferred through rollers for high-quality, consistent results. It’s ideal for large-volume packaging runs, ensuring accurate color reproduction and sharp details at a cost-effective price for bulk production.
Digital Printing
Digital printing applies ink directly onto the packaging surface without the need for plates. It’s best for short runs, prototypes, or personalized packaging where quick turnaround and flexibility are important.
Silk Screen Printing
Silk screen (or screen printing) pushes ink through a mesh stencil to create bold, opaque designs. Perfect for specialty packaging, it allows vibrant colors, metallic inks, and textured effects on a variety of surfaces.
Gravure Printing
Gravure printing uses engraved cylinders to transfer ink, delivering precise, high-quality images. It’s excellent for long-run packaging with fine details, rich colors, and continuous patterns such as films, foils, and labels.
Flexography Printing
Flexography (or flexo printing) uses flexible relief plates and fast-drying inks. It’s ideal for printing on corrugated boxes, plastic films, and flexible packaging materials, making it a popular choice for high-speed, large-scale runs.
Protective & Finishing Coatings
Coatings add both protection and style to your packaging. Options like aqueous and UV coatings provide durability against scratches and moisture, while spot UV creates striking highlights. These finishes not only protect your design but also enhance its visual appeal.
Aqueous Coating
A water-based coating applied over printed packaging to protect against scuffs and fingerprints. It provides a smooth finish with quick drying, making it eco-friendly and great for everyday product packaging.
UV Coating
A glossy or matte liquid coating cured with ultraviolet light. It enhances durability while giving packaging a vibrant, high-shine or smooth finish. Perfect for premium packaging designs.
Spot UV Coating
Spot UV applies UV coating only to specific areas, such as a logo or text, to create contrast with the rest of the surface. It’s commonly used for luxury packaging to highlight important details.
Premium Laminations for Lasting Quality
Lamination is a popular way to strengthen packaging while elevating its appearance. Gloss or matte lamination enhances durability, soft touch lamination creates a velvety feel, and anti-scratch lamination keeps surfaces flawless. Each option adds a professional finish that lasts.
Glossy & Matte Lamination
A thin plastic film applied to the surface of printed packaging, available in gloss or matte finishes. Lamination enhances durability, protects against moisture, and creates a premium look.
Soft Touch Lamination
A special type of lamination that gives packaging a velvety, suede-like texture. It adds a sophisticated, tactile experience and is widely used in luxury packaging.
Anti-scratch Lamination
A protective lamination designed to resist scratches and abrasions. It’s ideal for packaging that requires both a premium appearance and long-lasting durability.
Specialty Effects & Luxury Finishes
Effects transform ordinary packaging into a premium brand experience. Techniques like foil stamping, embossing, and debossing add texture, shine, and dimension, while combo and registered finishes create intricate details that stand out on shelves and attract attention.
Hot Foil Stamping
A process that uses heat and pressure to apply metallic foil onto packaging. Hot foil adds shiny gold, silver, or colored accents, giving products an upscale, eye-catching look.
Cold Foil Stamping
A printing method that transfers metallic foil without heat, making it faster and more versatile. Cold foil allows fine details and gradients, perfect for modern, creative packaging designs.
Debossing
A technique that presses a design into the packaging surface without ink or foil, creating a recessed impression. It adds subtle elegance and texture.
Blind Embossing
The opposite of debossing, embossing raises a design above the surface without additional color or foil. It highlights logos or patterns with a clean, refined effect.
Registered Embossing
Embossing aligned precisely with printed artwork or foil stamping. It combines raised textures with color or metallic effects for a striking, high-end finish.
Combo Embossing
A combination of embossing with foil stamping or other finishes. This creates a multi-dimensional, luxurious look often used for premium brand packaging.