Now let's talk about the flap send the doc sending then send all the things you'd have to have in your box in order for it to close properly. So let me take this box which is nothing special, it's a box we all have a goal for many different products. In order for it to work, we need several things. We need the box itself of course, and we need some flaps. These little guys are called the dust flaps. They're here to prevent from when you close the lid.

They are here to print from the dust from falling inside the box and keep it cleaner and keep and keep it cleaner and they serve another purpose and that's for the additional These are called the dust flaps. Originally they were here as dust flap in order for us to keep on side but the structural integrity to the box itself. So They are very important. In order for this to work in order for this lid to work, you may have to make sure several things occur. For starters, if you want this flap, this is called a duck flap, if you want it to go inside the box and the doesn't get twisted in a way it has to be narrower. So this shouldn't be as long as this it has to be shorter for the thickness of the material you're using on both sides.

So if the material is, let's say, point five millimeter thick like this one is you have to have point five on this side and point five on this side. It's one millimeter in total, which has to be narrower than the box itself in order for it to go inside properly. Because if it was the same splint when you would get here like this, it wouldn't go further. So make sure this is smaller. Another thing when you want to close this, you will see that when you start closing that the dust labs have this level eminence They're also in thickness of the material size, in order for the duck flap to go in there. Another thing you can see are these little notches, they're here in order for the upper lid, not to go all the way through once you close the box, they're here as stoppers.

But you have to also take notice that here is a little gap and the crease line is a bit behind it. That's an order for the that is here in order for the flap itself to go inside. Because it shouldn't go outside the box like this, you can see it's already losing its shape it has to build inside. So those are the things you have to have in mind when designing any type of box like this. If you made an error in case of a box with a material thickness like this 1.5 millimeters it will not be as bad, at least not for the first time when it's closed. You won't be able to close it and open it many times because it Break but you can do the same mistake without leaving the place for collapse to close in as they should and all those things on a thicker material like this corrugated you can see for example and then the designer that made the box did not put this little notches over here.

In that case you literally cannot close the box itself and the packaging just became useless. So bear in mind to believe those notches were the should. Another thing you can do to save money and to make your packaging stand out to be funky and not to break the bank. Is this bug This is your typical mailing box has very little prints on it. But it is a very clever way to use your packaging as a secondary scan for your product. In this case, the designer made these beautiful little bottles and labels on them and why not use those beautiful little labels.

They Made to serve its purpose in this box because they have to make a box in order to sell this why not use this why they very much money to make the print on this corrugated material look good because that is not as easy as it is on the labels themselves. Why not use the byline which they have to make custom in order for the for the products not to move inside, why not just add a little window on the dye line itself and show those beautiful labels and just make one color print on the box itself. In this case, this is logo which does website but you can if you need for example a nutritional facts on the box or you need a barcode or something like that you can use that same color. We are still in a one print, one sided print, flip it over.

So at the bottom of the of the box, you can have all those materials you can do it on the side as well. Well just make sure you flip it over and it's still on the one side. So I won't be taking this apart because I will be using it later on. But all of these surfaces can be used for print.