Advanced Decorations & Printing

Packaging decoration and printing options include silkscreen printing, offset printing, hot stamping, litho printing, flexography, water transfer, pad printing, emboss and deboss, soft touch, frosted, textured finish, metallization, color spray, and decal. The right method depends on your substrate, design complexity, and the shelf effect you're looking for. Evergreen's decoration teams work with brands from the design stage to match the process to the finished package.

The right decoration method depends on your packaging substrate, the visual effect you want to achieve, and your production volume. Silkscreen and offset printing suit high-volume runs with consistent graphics, while techniques like hot stamping, embossing, and soft touch add tactile or premium finishes. Evergreen's team will recommend the most appropriate method — or combination of methods — based on your brand objectives.

Yes — combining techniques on a single package is common, particularly for premium personal care and beauty products. A bottle might carry offset-printed graphics alongside silkscreen printed text and a soft-touch finish. Evergreen coordinates multi-technique decoration within its production network to ensure consistency across every unit.

Soft touch is a surface coating that creates a velvety, matte tactile feel when the packaging is handled. It is widely used in personal care and cosmetics where the physical experience of holding the product is part of the brand. Evergreen applies soft touch across plastic and metal packaging formats as part of its decoration offering.

Embossing raises a design element above the surface of the packaging; debossing presses it below. Both add a tactile, three-dimensional quality that printing alone cannot replicate, making them effective for reinforcing brand identity on premium packaging. They are available on glass, plastic, and certain metal formats.

Silkscreen printing is a decoration process in which ink is pushed through a mesh screen onto the surface of a container, producing sharp, vibrant graphics directly on the packaging. It is widely used across plastic, glass, and metal formats, and is particularly effective for bold single or multi-color designs on round or cylindrical containers.

Print quality should be managed at the production source, not assessed after the fact — through color verification against approved standards, registration checks, and surface defect inspection before goods are packed and shipped. At Evergreen, every facility is audited across 165 quality management metrics, with QC engineers onsite at all productions globally. This ensures consistent decoration quality at every production run.

Yes — certain decoration processes, such as pad printing and silkscreen, are well-suited to smaller volumes without significant setup cost. For larger runs requiring premium finishes, a global manufacturing network provides the capacity to keep unit costs competitive. Evergreen works with brands across a range of production scales, from initial sampling through to high-volume recurring orders, with the same onsite QC standards applied at every volume.