Prototype Model
Prototype model
Flexible Packaging Prototype Development and Testing
In addition to visualizing your packaging through modeling and concepts, Unified Flex also provides packaging prototypes. This allows you to physically hold and feel your packaging before it goes into production, giving you confidence that the package design will meet your packaging and marketing requirements.
These packaging prototypes can reduce package development costs and your speed to market by ensuring the prototype packaging meets size, weight, and volume requirements.
What is a Packaging Prototype?
A flexible packaging prototype is an early model of your packaging concept that helps identify any needed changes. It is manually created using the same materials and size your packaging specs call for.
This stage can also include a full-color digitally printed packaging prototype so you can see how your design will look and lay. This version gives a better sense of the finished design and its self-appeal. At this point, we can make any necessary design changes before the packaging manufacturing process begins. If desired, these high-resolution renderings are made available to our clients for their print and/or digital marketing needs.
Packaging Prototyping Can Help Identify Feature Changes
Packaging prototypes help you better understand how a consumer might use your product and make adjustments with them in mind.
Maybe you were planning on using a standard Stand Up Pouch, but after analyzing the prototype, determined that a Doy Rim Styled Stand Up Pouch would work better.
Features you can test during prototyping include:
- Up to 20 different types of material structures
- Multiple resealable closure options, such as zippers, tear-away zippers, and Velcro
- Breathability properties, such as micro-perforated pouches
- Clear, opaque, and metalized structures
- High-barrier double and triple laminations
Testing Ensures Proper Functionality and Durability
You want your product packaging to hold up and perform as intended, and so do we.
We offer packaging prototype testing to ensure:
- Seal strength
- Packaging strength (especially for puncture resistance)
- Pour performance