I get asked about packaging quite a bit. Believe me, I know how hard it is to find fashionable photography packaging that matches your branding. Thankfully, I found out about H-B Photo Packaging from another photographer and have had a couple of pretty sizable shipments from them since. Even with the extra cost of shipping overseas and paying for import taxes, I still get my packaging from them. There’s definitely nothing better in this country and as for America, I haven’t found anything better, either.
{My packaging}
My disk packaging
Personally, I use the aqua 11×14, 8×10 and 5×7 boxes with brown paper inside and these colors match my branding perfectly. I also have the smaller boxes for my disks and even smaller for flash drives. I use their matching polkadot fabric ribbon and the wraphia for the smaller packaging. I even have the folders with stretchy brown bows which I love to use for my school marketing packs and complementary prints. I get my sticker printed with Vista Print.
{Pros + Cons}
Some things I love about H-B Packaging are:
- The customer service is amazing.
- The products are really great quality. Thick, substantial…and, again, worth the cost of shipping it overseas.
- There are so many colors that you’re sure to find what you need to match your branding
- They do collections of mixed sizes which is pretty handy.
My 8x10 folder for prints + my schools marketing pack
Only one con:
- I actually despise the 8×10 print size. Did you know that 8x10s only exist because old “large format cameras” shot in a 4:3 aspect ratio? Now, DSLRs shoot in s 3:2 ratio which means that you have to lose 2 glorious inches off the edge of your images because of our ridiculous dependence on 8×10. I try to print in 8×12 whenever possible, but these prints have to go into 11×14 boxes because obviously they won’t fit into the 8×10 boxes. H-B Photo would totally be my heroes if they would join photographers in the fight against the 8×10
Overall, I love H-B Photo Packaging and will be using them for a long time. They make the drudgery of order fulfillment a joy and I love the response I get from my clients who don’t expect their products to arrive in such lovely trimmings.
