Double-Cut

In technical terms, double cutting in flexible packaging refers to the process of cutting a material twice using two rotary blades. This process is typically performed using a rotary die cutting machine, which uses a pair of circular blades to make two cuts in quick succession. The first cut partially cuts the material, and the second cut completes the cut, creating a clean, accurate edge.

We're not using an offline rotary machine to make double cuts - they are performed inline on the pouching line with two single blades spaced 4mm or 6mm apart.

The process of double cutting helps to ensure that the material is cut precisely and uniformly, reducing the risk of material unraveling or fraying. It also helps to prevent the material from stretching or deforming during the cutting process, which can result in an irregular edge. The use of double cutting in flexible packaging can also improve the strength of the cut edge, making it less likely to break or tear during handling, transport, or storage.

The advantages of double cutting in flexible packaging also include improved production speed, enhanced appearance, and better sealing. By cutting the material twice, the process can be completed more quickly and efficiently, allowing for increased production speed. The clean, accurate edge created by double cutting also results in a more professional-looking finished product. Finally, a smooth, clean edge can provide a better seal when used in conjunction with heat-sealing equipment, helping to prevent leaks and maintain product freshness.

Scratch n Sniff

At SunDance, we offer a unique and innovative printing/finishing solution for your advertising needs - Scratch & Sniff Printing. This service allows you to add a delightful scent to your printed materials, making them memorable and appealing to your customers.

How it Works

Our scratch and sniff printing process starts with you selecting a scent from our extensive fragrance library. We then print your design on high-quality paper stock with a special odorless ink or coating that releases the scent when it is scratched.Looking for a scent sample? Please contact us to discuss sample pricing.

Applications

Our scratch and sniff printing service can be used for a wide range of applications, including:

• Business cards
• Brochures
• Postcards
• Stickers
• Packaging labels
• Direct mail campaigns

Benefits

• Increased engagement and recall: A scent-enhanced printed piece is more likely to be remembered and talked about by your customers.

• Differentiation: Stand out from your competitors with a unique and memorable advertising experience.

• Cross-sensory marketing: Scratch and sniff printing appeals to multiple senses, enhancing the overall impact of your advertising message.

Quality Guarantee

At SunDance, we use only the highest quality materials and printing processes to ensure that your scratch and sniff printing project meets the highest standards of quality and longevity.

Get in Touch

For more information about our scratch and sniff printing services or to request a quote, please contact us or call us at 844-42-PRINT. Let us help you create a scent-sational marketing experience for your customers!

Menus

Hard Binder Menus

An excellent dining experience starts with a menu that informs and amplifies a restaurant's cuisine and brand. Custom menus present a rare chance for restaurants to show their originality and differentiate themselves from the competition. In addition to showcasing a restaurant's offerings, a well-designed menu can influence the mood of the entire dining experience.

The opportunity to highlight a restaurant's distinctive offers is one of the main advantages of bespoke menus. Restaurants can highlight their trademark dishes and display their culinary prowess by collaborating with a designer to build a custom menu. A finely crafted menu can be especially significant for eateries that focus on a particular cuisine or offer distinctive foods that are uncommon to the area.

Custom menus also enable you to develop a consistent brand experience. A well-designed menu can strengthen the entire brand image of a restaurant, creating a sense of consistency throughout the dining experience. Brand consistency can be achieved in your menu design by using particular fonts, colors, illustrations, or photos predetermined by brand guidelines. The menu's font and color scheme should enhance the brand image and produce a unified appearance and feel. For instance, a fine-dining restaurant would likely utilize sophisticated font pairings. In contrast, a casual restaurant might choose a more approachable or playful font pairing.

There are a few essential components to keep in mind when creating personalized menus. Make sure the menu is simple to read and navigate first and foremost. Creating a user-friendly design entails adopting a typeface that is easy to read and understand while arranging the menu items logically and naturally. It's crucial to think about the menu's general hierarchy and flow when designing the layout, which can involve organizing the menu with subheadings to group items and emphasizing featured or exceptional dishes. Using high-quality graphics or pictures to highlight the cuisine will produce a visually appealing menu. Additionally, the menu should also contain facts such as prices, allergies disclosures, and other pertinent information.

In conclusion, bespoke menus give restaurants a unique chance to highlight their products and establish a consistent brand experience. Restaurants may differentiate themselves from the competition and provide their customers with a unique dining experience by working with a designer to develop a menu that is easy to read, aesthetically pleasing, and consistent with the overall brand image.

Special Finishes

Special Finishes for Pouches

Finishing touches can elevate your flexible packaging and give your pouches pizzazz. Just like a great dish deserves a complimentary sauce, a great pouch deserves a special finish.

In the consumer package goods industry, where shelf appeal is king, finishing your flexible pouches with a special flourish gives your product a distinct advantage. Four flexible pouch finishes are especially popular with product marketers and package designers. And other finishing touches are also available.

Four Finishes That Will Wow Your Customers

Like flexible packaging and pouches, special finishes come in many types, from cold foils and holographic foils to spot colors and spot UV/varnish. These flourishes can be applied to virtually any flexible pouch, including die-cast pouches with unique shapes.

Cold Foils. The cold foil technique prints metallic foil on a substrate (the primary layer of the pouch). Using a standard printing plate, an image is printed onto the substrate with the application of a cold foil adhesive. A dryer sets the adhesive, making it tacky to the touch. Foil placed over the substrate adheres to it, producing an image with a bright foil surface. Because it uses printing plates instead of foil stamping tools, this process is fast and cost-effective. Cold foil images can also be varnished or laminated to protect them, add further interest, and create a strong, durable package.

Spot UV/Varnish. This technique applies a clear shiny or matte coating to a specific area of a printed pouch, such as an important image. This process adds depth and contrast to any area you want to spotlight, drawing consumer attention to your most compelling image or text. Spot UV/varnish is a rich finish for many printed materials, including flexible packaging and pouches.

Holographic Foils. Holography is a technique that creates the appearance of three-dimensional images, producing eye-popping effects. It can also be used to add product security and anti-counterfeiting features. Our holography process uses a special film with a micro-embossed holographic pattern. Once a coating is applied to the substrate, the film is laid over it and run through a dryer to set. When the film is removed, the holographic effect remains on the substrate. It’s a special finish that really makes a statement.

Spot Color. This technique uses solid colors created from premixed inks that conform to the universal Pantone Matching System. Use of the PMS system guarantees that the colors you specify will be the colors that are printed on your flexible packaging or pouch, every time, in every print run, without variation. In this way, spot color maintains your branding and logo color standards and ensures consistency. It’s no wonder spot color is such a popular finishing option for pouches and other flexible packaging.

For any business who wants to showcase a product and dominate the shelf, special finishes for pouches can produce amazing results. Bring your imagination to SunDance. We’ll bring our award-winning skills to your project. Together, we’ll produce a perfect pouch with a wow-factor finish.

Read more about pouch packaging finishes on the SunDance blog.

Marissa Miller

Marissa is an Orlando native, bringing over ten years of experience in sales and marketing to the SunDance team. She has had the opportunity to work with several fast-paced, client-service-oriented brands throughout her career in Florida. Her industry experience includes retail, hospitality, and real estate, working with both the public and private sectors. Marissa is a graduate of the University of Central Florida and Valencia College, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration for Marketing and a Technical Certificate in Graphic Design. Her passion for marketing and design is apparent in every project she participates in. In her personal time, Marissa enjoys photography and being outdoors. She is always looking for new inspiration and ways to apply her creativity.

Pet Food

Custom-Printed Pet Food Packaging

Get tails wagging and whiskers twitching with a custom-printed pet food bag that stands out from the crowded store shelves.

Our four-legged friends deserve the best, and YOU deserve the best pet food packaging.

Formulating healthy, tasty food and treats for your furry customers is just one step in a long journey to the store shelves. But what about getting your pet food and treats off those shelves and into people’s carts?

You need a bold, branded pet food packaging design to do that. And it must come with a safe, durable packaging solution that protects flavor and freshness.

That’s where we come in. SunDance custom printed designs enable your pet food packaging to stand out from the crowded store shelves while maintaining the aroma and taste of the contents inside.

So, whether you need a custom printed package for a dog, cat, bird, fish, reptile, rodent, or other animals, we offer USA-made pet food packaging solutions that’ll meet your needs.

Our pet food packaging solutions

The pet food packaging design team at SunDance provides a full range of turnkey solutions for your business. We provide everything from A to Z:

• Graphic design
• Full packaging design
• Packaging development
• Branding and marketing

We also offer the following packaging embellishments for memorable tactile, visual effects that will catch your customer’s attention:

• Raised UV coatings
• Foil accents
• Multi-material packaging
• Holograms
• Augmented reality labeling

Prototyping and Rub Testing for Pet Food Packaging

While you make adorable animals happy with your tasty pet food, we’ll be making you happy with a streamlined production workflow. At SunDance, we offer prototyping for every piece in the production of your pet food packaging, walking your piece through the entire process:

• Mockups
• One-offs
• Proofs

After prototyping, the next step is rub testing. Our rub testing service ensures that your pet food package will continue to look fresh off the production line even after shipping, handling, and storing for extended periods.

The Production Process

Does your brand have standards? Of course, it does. And once your pet food package is ready for production, we manage the entire process from start to finish to guarantee your brand standards.

We handle:

• Sourcing
• Printing
• Finishing

Finishing includes foil stamping, UV coatings, and textures like Soft Touch Laminate. In addition, we also manage the cutting, assembly, and packing process.

Fulfillment and Logistics

We can also handle your distribution through our brand storefront website portal if needed. Yes, pet food packaging can even be ordered through our dedicated web portal, and it has everything you need:

• Budgeting
• Pricing
• Payments

At SunDance, we also cover direct drop shipments.

Direct Shipping Solutions

• Ship directly to your facilities
• Ship ready to use on the production line
• Stage shipments through our in-house warehousing

Whatever you need, let us know, and we’ll customize the workflow to meet your goals.

Branding and Marketing Strategy for Pet Food

• Large Format Printing and Installations - wall wraps, floor wraps, ceiling wraps
• Promotional Items - branded office materials, conference giveaways, tradeshow memorabilia
• Marketing Materials - flyers, posters, calendars, journals, notebooks
• Direct Mailing - mailing list generation, intelligent inserting, variable data, USPS Informed Delivery
• Publications - quarterly/annual reports, employee manuals, HR training 
• And So Much More!

Discover the right pet food packaging for your brand.

SUSTAINABLE OPTIONS | QUAD SEAL | WOVEN PP | STAND-UP POUCH | SIDE GUSSET BAG | SHOWPACK

Get the purrfect packaging for your pet food business from SunDance USA.
Reach out to us for your FREE, no-obligation quote.

Child Resistant

Child-Resistant Zipper Packaging: The Optimal Choice for Avoiding Accidental Ingestion of Harmful Products

Certified Reclosable Packaging Provides an Added Level of Safety for Your Customers

Children are curious by nature, but sometimes their interest can get them into trouble, especially when they ingest something they shouldn’t. Our child-resistant zipper packaging is constructed with high-quality and functional materials and designed to protect small children from opening potentially harmful or hazardous products — giving parents more peace of mind.

As noted by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), child-resistant packages are designed or constructed to be significantly difficult for children under five to open or obtain a harmful amount of the contents within a reasonable time but not difficult for normal adults to use properly. They add another level of poison prevention and can be used for numerous product categories, including:

This option also is perfect for Cannabis products, which most states require to be in child-resistant packaging.

Features and Benefits

By using resealable, child-resistant zippers requiring two-handed dexterity to open, products are vacuum sealed to keep contents fresh and dry for a longer shelf life. Plus, they’re odor-proof to lock in scents, so inquiring young minds won’t be as tempted to try to open them.

At Sundance, our flexible packaging services will complete your entire packaging journey. We’re able to produce and design child-resistant zipper packaging in both common and custom colors, sizes and styles, including:

• Lay Flat Pouches – 2 or 3 side sealed
• Stand Up Pouches – variety of gusset options

Third-Party Certifications

Our high-quality child-resistant zipper packaging has been tested and certified to meet regulations of:

• The U.S. Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA)
• American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)

Why Sundance?

With our design and printing expertise, we’ll help you find the best way to showcase your product through custom branded packaging. We offer food-safe packaging for direct and non-direct food contact to ensure your product not only looks appealing but also complies with regulations from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In addition, our digital printing capabilities allow us to add finishes to increase the packaging’s durability or add dimension to the design.

Contact us today to request a quote for your unique packaging needs

Penny Applicator

Levelup Your Direct Mail Marketing with Cost-Effective Affixing

Stand out in a crowded mailbox with our custom Direct Mail Affixing Services. Get a FREE quote and start your next successful mailing campaign.

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Whether you’re dropping some pennies from heaven or unlocking the keys to your customer’s heart, direct mail affixing adds pizazz and intrigue to your direct mailing efforts.

Attach keys, coins, cards, sugar packets — the list is endless and we can customize your direct mail affixing to whatever your campaign needs.

Our Direct Mail Affixing Service boosts open rates up to 10X more than digital and non-affixed mail.

• Stand out from the mailbox and increase your response rates
• Make your customers feel special and valuable
• Remind your clients of events
• Provide customers with items they need
• Attach coupons to drive sales and increase conversion rates

SunDance is your one-stop-shop, no-hassle, reliable printing partner for all your direct mail and printing needs. We use the latest equipment and technology to bring you the lowest cost possible from design, printing, affixing, and mailing.

Our in-house, state-of-the-art printing, and pressure-sealing equipment provides you with:

• The lowest rates and highest quality possible
• Next day turnaround capabilities
• Full turnkey services
• Customized affixing for all your direct-mail printing needs

Get started today. Reach out to us for a FREE quote for our Direct Mail Affixing Services.
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Sundance Managed Solutions

SunDance Solutions Group

SunDance Solutions Group allow you to focus on the big picture. We seamlessly manage your marketing campaigns and allow you the freedom to direct your time and energy where it really matters - building your customer base, strengthening your brand, growing your sales, and developing your customers’ experience.

Our fully managed end-to-end solution coordinates your entire marketing execution process past the creative concept. Once you sign off on your project, we take care of the rest. Your customer receives your key message in whatever form you choose – direct mail, retail point of purchase signage, or digital content on their mobile device.

Our highly experienced account managers become an extension of your marketing team as they coordinate all activities and workflows involved in executing and delivering your marketing campaign on time and within budget.

Your current marketing workflow might look something like this: you spend your days briefing creative agencies, managing production designers in preparation for print or digital content creation, placing orders with printers, confirming supply orders, arranging deliveries and shipping options, data processing or asset management, or making storage and warehouse arrangements. The list of tasks can be exhausting and overwhelming.

SunDance Managed Solutions eliminates these headaches for our customers. Period.

SunDance Managed Solutions allows you to maintain creative control over your marketing concepts, and then steps in to manage the execution and implementation of your plan. You decide what message you wish to convey to your customer, what it will look like, and how it will be delivered. We take care of everything else, and you are able to move on to your next project.

The SunDance model allows everyone to focus on what they’re good at, and play to their strengths. You focus on honing your strategy and company goals, your agency works on sparking creativity and the brand message, and we manage the production and delivery of your finished marketing campaign.

By managing our strengths and eliminating your production headaches, this simplicity increases speed to market, releases resources and reduces cost.

Partners

Our Partners

SunDance is part of a network of other print partners across the country. With these partners we have redundancy for catastrophic events along with expanding our capabilities, footprint and delivery timelines. This group meets in person twice a year along with regular calls to discuss issues and ensure a smooth workflow.

Delzer

ImageMark

Kingery Printing

Linemark

Oregon Web Press

Panaprint

Spectrum Printing

Thompson Print

Westamerica