Cigarette industry is one of the most profitable and popular industry in the world. Government is taking steps to refrain cigarette smoking among people but still its consumption is keep on increasing among people of all ages and races. A new and attractive brand of cigarette keeps on increasing .One of the factor that attracts the people toward a specific smoking brand is its packing and print. Printing of cigarette packing is one of the most profitable and stable industry in the field of printing. As the brands are keep on increasing and consumed by the people. Now-a-days, cigarette packing is highly attractive comprising of adornment, metallic foil, upper coating, and barcodes etc. decoration of cigarette packing is used for attraction while the metallic foil has its purpose of protection of cigarette toward unfavorable conditions. A barcode is printed carefully as it ensures the originality of the cigarette packing. It is the company code that ensures that the cigarette packing is original made by specific company without allowing fake cigarette of same brands. Usually a large stock of cigarette packets is printed at a single time ranging from printing of 100 packets to about 500,000 packets. Offset online printing and digital printing technique is used for printing of the cigarette packet printing. Large number of prints of cigarette packing is carried out by offset printing while smaller number of prints is usually done through digital printing. Usually, a high quality paper is used for printing cigarette packing as it is necessary to protect the cigarette from environment. Some cigarette also uses card board, hard paper etc for printing. The cigarette packing can be of different shapes and sizes depending on the standard size of specific company standard packing. The standards for checking the durability and freshness of the Cigarette are the quality of its packing. The color system used for the Online printing of cigarette packing is CMYK .It includes Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black colors while other color may also be made using the combination of these colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.PMS (Pantone Matching System) color printing technique can also be used in the printing of cigarette smoking. As Pantone color matching system allow the matching of different colors without physical contact with each other. The color used for cigarette packing re usually graceful and attractive to appeal the customer towards itself.
Usually Flavored cigarette are printed in an appealing way that strikes the customers eyes and compel the customer to buy them. A logo is usually printed on the cigarette packing with the advertisement showing the harmfulness of smoking. Cigarette packet is covered with a plastic or glass coating for protecting the packet from dust and ultra violet radiations. The packet of cigarette are also designed in an attractive and user friendly manner .Usually it opens from the upper side, where the upper portion slides up allowing the person to use a cigarette .The online print is also held keeping in mind the opening lid of the cigarette.