How smarter packaging can eliminate instruction manuals

Want a great way to cut costs on the packaging of your product? Try printing the instructions for your product on the package itself. By doing so, you eliminate wasted hours spent on producing and inserting separate instruction sheets.

25 Sep 2008

A great example of this switch is Whelen Engineering, which manufacturers lights, beacons, sirens and other warning equipment for emergency vehicles. Each of Whelen's several thousand different products requires instructions that provide users with the information needed to assemble and mount the part.

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