How to protect photographs, prints and documents from bending during shipping

Protective packaging is not only about cushioning against impact

Photographs, books, documents and printed materials may not break during transport, but they can bend, crease, scratch or arrive with damaged edges.

For these products, protection also means helping the content maintain its shape throughout handling and transportation.

Ifolor, a company specializing in photographic products, has worked with WaveBag for several years and has purchased 250,000 WaveBag for the shipment of photographic prints and related products.

WaveBag's internal Wave Technology provides cushioning while also giving the mailer structure and rigidity, helping reduce the risk of flat products bending during transport.

The same type of application has also been used on a much larger postal scale: 1 million WaveBag were produced for USPS, the United States Postal Service, for applications involving photographs and documents.

These cases show why protective paper mailers can be relevant for publishers, photographic services and companies shipping printed media, where protection against deformation can be just as important as protection against impact.

WaveBag paper padded envelopes produced for USPS, the United States Postal Service, for applications involving photographs and documents.