• Sustainable Packaging: This term encompasses materials, designs, and practices that minimize environmental impact throughout the packaging lifecycle. It includes concepts such as recyclability, compostability, biodegradability, renewable resources, and reduced carbon footprint.
• Flexible Packaging: This involves the use of lightweight and pliable materials like films, foils, and laminates, providing versatility in design, storage, and transportation. Flexible packaging offers benefits such as convenience, product protection, and reduced material usage.
• Rigid Packaging: Rigid packaging refers to firm and inflexible materials like plastic bottles, glass jars, or metal cans. It offers durability, structural integrity, and enhanced product visibility.
• Primary Packaging: This refers to the layer of packaging that directly contacts the product. It serves to protect the product during distribution and storage while providing necessary information and branding elements.
• Secondary Packaging: Secondary packaging includes the additional layers of packaging that surround the primary packaging. It provides additional protection during transportation, facilitates shelf display, and often serves as a marketing tool.
• Blister Packaging: Blister packaging consists of clear plastic cavities or pockets attached to a backing material. It is commonly used for pharmaceuticals, consumer electronics, and small retail items.
• Shelf-Ready Packaging (SRP): SRP is designed to optimize product display and stocking on retail shelves. It allows for easy identification, faster restocking, and reduced handling, enhancing overall efficiency.
• Child-Resistant Packaging (CRP): CRP incorporates features that prevent or delay young children from accessing potentially harmful substances. It is commonly used for pharmaceuticals, cleaning products, and chemicals.
• Tamper-Evident Packaging: Tamper-evident packaging includes features that indicate whether a product has been tampered with or opened before purchase. It provides consumers with a sense of security and protects the integrity of the product.

Partnering with a reliable and experienced packaging company is crucial for achieving high-quality results. Post Press Specialties is proud to offer a comprehensive range of print finishing services, including folding, gluing, binding, and die-cutting. With our recently installed Bobst Mastercut Die-cutter, we can provide even more precise and efficient die-cutting services, ensuring your printed materials stand out and leave a lasting impression.

Our commitment to quality, attention to detail, and investment in advanced equipment set us apart in the industry. We pride ourselves on delivering exceptional results and exceeding customer expectations. Whether you need packaging for 100,000 donut boxes or 300,000 oil filter boxes, we are here to help.

While we may not cover all packaging types, we can assist commercial printers or packaging printers with their unique requirements. If we can’t do it, perhaps we can help you find someone who can.
Experience the difference with Post Press Specialties and take your printed materials to the next level. Contact us today and let us help you finish strong!

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Here are just a few things we have been doing for commercial printers for over 25 years.

Folding

We like to tell our customers that they can “stop thinking in right angles”. In other words, we’ve become experts in folding printing jobs in an almost unlimited variety of ways. Not only can we do standard folds such as half, accordion, gate, French and letter folds, Post Press thrives on offering folding solutions for the most complex and difficult jobs.

Collating and Gathering

Need collating help? We will be happy to help. We can gather and collate all jobs, big or small. Nothing is too complex for Post press to handle. After gathering and collating we can offer the perfect binding solution when needed.

Binding

We’ve become experts in binding services. Here are a few of the techniques Post Press can help you with.

• Perfect Binding: Pages are fixed to a cover or spine using glue. This process is commonly used for paperback books, magazines, telephone guides etc.
• Saddle-stitching: Pages are bound by driving staples through the center of the spine of folded sheets. This wire binding technique is commonly used for magazines, newsletters, small catalogs, but is limited in the number of pages that can be bound.
• Plastic Spiral Binding: a book or notebook binding in which a continuous spiral wire or plastic strip is passed through holes along one edge.
• Wire O: A continuous wire is threaded through holes drilled or punched into a stack of sheets. Spiral binding is typically used for notebooks.
• Loose-leaf binding: A set of holes is drilled in a stack of sheets which are then inserted into standard or customized ring binders or post binders. This binding technique is used for notebooks, presentations, financial reports, manuals or any other type of publication that require frequent updating.
• Padding: the binding of a stack of sheets are bound using a flexible adhesive so that the sheets can easily be removed. Notepad are a typical example of padding.

Foil stamping

Foils can be a real “game changer” when applied to book or magazines covers. Studies show that foil stamping can add up to 45% engagement with end users. This is especially true for foils that reflect light and add a silvery or golden glow. We will be happy to show you how we can enhance your jobs.

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Die cutting

Have you met our new Young Shin 57” Die-cutter yet? If not, give us a call at 816-257-1919 and we’ll be happy to show you around. You’ll be astounded at what this piece of equipment can do. We can almost die cut any shape imaginable. We’ve never met a rhombus, trapezoid or decagon we didn’t like.

Gluing and Tipping

Need to apply an adhesive on a printed piece? Need to affix a product on a direct mail offering? Post Press can help. Our experts can provide you with the perfect solution for your next gluing or tipping project.

Post Press has been serving commercial printers for over twenty years. Call us today at 816-257-1919 and we’ll be happy to help you “finish strong”.

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 Post Press knows that a mutual appreciation of each other will result in long-term PROFITABLE relationships. How do we get to know our customer’s unique needs and wants? Here are just a few of the ways:

 Our Doors are ALWAYS Open

 At the risk of sounding like your mother, “Please come visit!” We are more than happy to show you around our plant. Haven’t met our Bobst Mastercut Die-Cutter or MGI Jet Varnish 3D iFoil Printer yet? Come on by and see these amazing machines. Who knows? We might even have donuts and coffee.

 Build Personal Connections

Getting to know our customers is one of our top priorities. Our sales, customer service, and management teams all take pride in establishing and nurturing long-lasting personal relationships. Many of our customers become not just great customers, but great friends.

We Speak the Same Language

We’ve worked with commercial printers for a long time. We know the challenges you face and have encountered the same struggles. Most importantly, we speak “printer”. Understanding exactly what a job requires from a technical perspective eliminates mistakes that can cost thousands of dollars. 

 Samples

For complicated jobs that require a little more attention, we often provide samples of what the completed work will look like. We’ve learned that a little extra attention at the beginning can eliminate costly errors in the end. 

 Quality Control Procedures

Nobody’s perfect. Manufacturing problems can occur at any time. We take pride in discovering errors before they become big problems. We pull and maintain sheets from each stage of the job while we’re running it. 

We want to be your bindery. Give us a call at 816-257-1919. We’ll be happy to show you around our facility. Post Press is constantly adding new equipment and services and we would love to discuss how we can help you grow your business.

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Saddle Stitching

Generally speaking, saddle stitching is the most affordable. Post Press Specialties have done thousands of brochures, handouts, calendars, and small catalogs that have utilized saddle stitching.

Method: Stapling printed sheets together at two or three points on the fold. It’s a cost effective, yet effective solution for simple projects without a spine.

Perfect Binding

Perfect binding is one of the most common methods for binding projects with a large page count or high caliper pages. If your project has over 50 pages (25 sheets), perfect binding is the way to go. Post Press specializes in perfect binding that will give your piece a high-end look and feel.

Method: A strong adhesive binds the book block to the spine, and the residual glue holds the pages together. Ideal candidates for perfect binding include large books, instruction manuals, catalogs, and magazines.

Wire-O Binding

Wire binding is a popular commercial book binding method, and is known by a number of different names including twin loop wire, wire-o, double loop wire, double-o, ring wire and wirebind.

Method: Users insert their punched pages onto a “C” shaped spine and then use a wire closer to squeeze the spine until it is round.

Plastic Comb Binding

Need binding that is flexible, durable and adjustable? Plastic comb binding might be the answer. It’s very cost effective and usually can be done quickly.

Method: Pages are first pre-punched to accommodate the plastic comb. The comb is inserted and can hold many pages. Also, you can add and subtract pages if necessary.

Post Press Specialties can help you with your next project. Call us at 816-257-1919 and we can discuss which method is best suited for your project. It’s just another way we help printers “Finish Strong”

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