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Packaging Add-Ons · Shine you can see and feel

UV printing that catches the light.

We print a clear, glossy UV coating onto chosen parts of your box. Use it over your artwork with spot UV, or on its own with blind UV for a hidden pattern that appears when the light hits it.

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Shine you can see and feel

UV Printing

Spot UV and blind UV: glossy, raised coatings that make parts of your box catch the light.

Open matte black mailer with a glossy spot UV leaf pattern inside the lid, holding a serum bottle and a face cream jar on a marble counter
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Spot UV

Gloss printed exactly over parts of your artwork - a logo, a pattern or a line of text - so they shine against a matte box.

Spot UV is lined up with your printed design, so only the areas you choose turn glossy. On a matte or soft-touch box the contrast is striking: the logo shines while the rest stays calm.

It is the classic way to make one detail stand out without adding another colour.

  • Lined up with your artwork
  • Shine against matte
  • Logos, patterns and text
Matte black rigid box with a clear gloss ring pattern on the lid, shining only where the light hits it
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Blind UV

Clear gloss printed on its own, with no artwork beneath - a hidden pattern that appears as the box turns in the light.

Blind UV is printed straight onto a plain or solid-colour area, without any printed design underneath to line up with. Head-on it is almost invisible; tilt the box and a pattern, logo or texture appears in the shine.

It suits minimal packaging - all-black, kraft or a single brand colour - where you want a quiet detail that rewards a closer look. Printed thicker, it can also be felt as a subtle raised texture.

  • No artwork underneath
  • Appears in the light
  • Subtle and minimal

UV printing, in detail

What is UV printing on packaging?

A clear coating printed onto chosen areas and cured instantly with ultraviolet light, leaving a hard, glossy finish.

Because it is printed only where you choose, it creates contrast: glossy areas against a matte box. Curing with UV light makes it set straight away, so it stays crisp and resists scuffs.

Spot UV or blind UV?

Spot UV highlights your printed artwork; blind UV creates its own pattern on a plain area.

Choose spot UV when a logo or image in your design should shine. Choose blind UV when you want a hidden, tone-on-tone detail - a repeating pattern across a black lid, for example - that only shows when the light catches it.

  • Spot UV: makes your print shine
  • Blind UV: a pattern of its own
  • Both stand out most on matte

Which boxes suit UV printing?

Smooth, coated boards - folding cartons, cosmetic boxes and the wrap on rigid boxes - show UV at its best.

A matte or soft-touch coating underneath gives the strongest contrast. On uncoated kraft the gloss soaks in and looks flatter, so we will advise on your board before you approve the proof.

With every order

  • Spot UV or blind UV
  • UV marked on your digital proof
  • Advice on board and coating
  • Artwork checked against your dieline

Popular for

  • Premium retail cartons
  • Cosmetic boxes
  • Rigid gift boxes
  • Minimal, all-black packaging

How to order

Request a quote for your box and tell us in your message whether you want spot UV or blind UV, and where. Send your artwork with the UV areas on their own layer and we will mark them on your proof.

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