Pizza box styles

To get working on your design we need you to supply your logo and any other details you wish to include in the box layout.

The printing method used for pizza boxes is quite crude when compared with printing for magazines or some other types of product packaging, so it is very important to supply logos at the best quality possible.

Very fine details often become lost or can look fuzzy on a pizza box so our design team will advise you if your logo or any imagery you supply needs to be altered in any way to avoid these kinds of issues.

Ideally your logo needs to be supplied in a 'vector' format — as an Adobe Illustrator file (AI), or Encapsulated Postscript file (EPS), with all text converted to outlines, and if possible PANTONE colour references should be supplied.

If you are unsure about this but you are in contact with the person who designed your logo, you can ask them to supply a logo in one of these formats.

We can also work with JPG files and TIF files, but they need to be a certain size. A logo from your website will usually not be good enough as in printing terms it will be much too small to use. PLEASE DO NOT SEND PNG FILES.

If you are supplying 'vector' files — as mentioned above, you needn't worry about size because these types of files are scalable and do not lose quality when they are enlarged or reduced in size.

If you are supplying a JPG or TIF file then the size of the file you supply is very important.

As a rule we ask customers to supply an image between 8 and 10 inches wide (height in proportion), at 300dpi. This basically means any image you supply needs to be a minimum of 3000 pixels wide.

If you are not sure how big/small your image is you simply need to hover your mouse over the image name/icon in your computer's File Manager and the dimensions in pixels and the size in Mb will pop up.

The ink colours used in pizza box printing are not opaque, so they are affected by the colour of the material they are printed on.

If you are having a white box then the colours will be 'pure' and unaffected.

If you have chosen a light brown box then this will affect the colour of your print; bright colours will appear slightly 'dirty' and dark colours will look darker than you might expect.

It is important to consider this when choosing the base colour of your box.

Black is not affected.