QR Codes on Product Packaging: From Shelf to Screen
Packaging is the hardest surface a QR code has to survive: curves, creases, scuffs, and press conditions that thicken every module. Here is what to change.
Organised by the object you are printing on, because that is what actually changes the answer. A code on a business card and the same code on a shipping carton are different design problems: different sizes, different viewing distances, different printing tolerances, different odds the surface is curved or shiny.
Each article covers one surface — what to link from it, how big the code needs to be, and the specific thing that most often goes wrong there. Useful if you already know where the code is going and just need the rules for that spot.
Packaging is the hardest surface a QR code has to survive: curves, creases, scuffs, and press conditions that thicken every module. Here is what to change.
A business card is the smallest surface a QR code ever gets. Here is the size floor, the payload limit, and the finish that quietly ruins both.
A brochure is already the long read, so its QR code has to offer something paper cannot. Here is what to link, where to place it, and how to print it.
The QR menu earned a bad reputation for good reasons. Most of them are fixable with better implementation.