Packaging is the science, art and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of designing, evaluating, and producing packages. Packaging can be described as a coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, warehousing, logistics, sale, and end use. Packaging contains, protects, preserves, transports, informs, and sells. In many countries it is fully integrated into government, business, institutional, industrial, and for personal use.
UK Risperdal Tablets 2000 in a blister pack, which was itself packaged in a folding carton made of paperboard.
1914 magazine advertisement for cookware with instructions for home canning.
Packing folding cartons of salt.
Heroin bottle and carton, early 20th century.
A label is a piece of paper, plastic film, cloth, metal, or other material affixed to a container or product, on which is written or printed information or symbols about the product or item. Information printed directly on a container or article can also be considered labelling.
Shirt with labels
A bunch of bananas with a label
A label made with embossing tape
A label with faux embossing