Much like the perfect choice of what to wear, your product will stand out more effectively when it has the right finishing touches. But instead of hats and other accessories, our specialists at MJS Packaging can help you choose the perfect packaging components, like decorative caps and closures.

Get a Bright Start With Your Decorative Caps

Decorative caps and closures are like putting together the perfect outfit, but even more importantThere are countless ways to add extraordinary aesthetic appeal when you start packaging discussions early in the process. However, there are just a few key opportunities that intersect with both how your packaging functions and how it adds appeal.  This underscores how important it is to give full consideration to all the techniques you can apply to enhance the closures on your product.

7 Techniques to Consider for your Closures

Drawing from our extensive expertise, along with inspiration from one of our closure suppliers, Weatherchem, we recommend the following ways to cap your product and make it pop out to consumers. With these options in mind, we’re confident you can get the right look.

1.  Screen printing: With screen printing, decorative caps get an application of ink through a silkscreen. Colors are crisp and have no chance of showing through because the ink is thick and opaque. The ink is slightly raised from the surface to produce a high-quality image with fine print that is clearly legible.

2. Inkjet/digital printing: Digital printing, or inkjet printing, utilizes inkjet heat to print ink on the closure. Though it is secondary in quality to screen printing, it can be very efficient for small quantities.

3.  Offset printing: This technique utilizes two rollers to transfer ink and image to flat caps. Ink is transferred from a flat roller to an embossed logo on a second roller, which then transfers the ink/artwork to your decorative caps. Cost-efficiency is a key benefit of offset printing.

4.  Embossing/debossing: Using a specific tool to form the logo or lettering in plastic, this can give most closure styles a cool and classy 3D effect along with texture to appeal to other senses.

5.  Tipping: Tipping transfers a colored foil to an embossed closure by a flat, hot rubber die. We recommend tipping if you want your product to have a high-quality look.

6. Highlighting (also known as Kiss Printing): Going beyond the typical embossed cap and doing so in a way that is less costly than tipping, highlighting transfers a colored ink to an embossed cap by printing rollers.

7.  Hot stamping: Hot stamping uses a few different elements from a number of the previously mentioned options for decorative caps and closures. With hot stamping, a colored foil is transferred to closure by an embossed, hot rubber die. A logo design is cut into a rubber die, which can stamp any color foil to the cap. Among a few distinct advantages, hot stamping can also be done on a curved/dome surface.

More Information About Closures

Whether you are in the beginning stages of exploring options or you have a strong idea of how you would like your decorative caps and closures to take shape, we can help. We invite you to consider additional articles we have written about closures by clicking here and we welcome your call to one of our specialists.