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Poly Mailers for Montreal Businesses

Quebec has language legislation that affects commercial communication, including packaging, and businesses selling here plan artwork around it rather than translating afterwards.

We are packaging manufacturers rather than legal advisers, so what follows is about the practical consequences for artwork and layout. What the law requires of your specific business is a question for someone qualified to answer it.

Quote an order for Montreal

Tell us what you ship and where it goes. We confirm the specification, the schedule and the price in writing.

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Who buys mailers here

Sectors where poly mailers are genuinely the right packaging, with the reason each one appears rather than a generic list.

  • Retail and consumer goods

    Businesses whose packaging carries customer-facing wording rather than a logo alone.

  • Fashion and apparel

    A significant local design and retail base selling into and beyond Quebec.

  • Food and speciality products

    Categories where product information on packaging matters most.

What we would suggest

Practical consequences for artwork

Four effects, all of which are easier to design for than to retrofit.

  • Copy volume roughly doubles

    And unevenly, because the same sentence is usually longer in one language than the other. Symmetrical layouts break.

  • Prominence matters, not just presence

    Language rules commonly address how prominently each language appears, not only whether it is there.

  • Type size comes under pressure

    Which is the opposite of what flexible film wants. Usually the answer is less copy rather than smaller type.

  • Proofreading needs a native reader of each

    We print exactly what is on the approved proof and have no way to know a phrase reads oddly.

Laying out two languages on a mailer

Four approaches, in rough order of how well they work on this substrate.

  1. Split across faces

    One language on the front, the other on the back. Each gets full-size type and neither is crowded.

  2. Reduce the copy rather than the type

    On film, small type loses its counters. Cutting words is almost always better than shrinking them.

  3. Use symbols where meaning allows

    Care icons and handling marks carry meaning without wording in either language.

  4. Move detail to a printed insert

    A card can carry both languages at readable size in a way a bag panel cannot.

What we will and will not decide for you

We will lay out whatever wording you supply, show it to you on a proof, and print exactly what you approve. What we will not do is decide what your packaging is required to say, because that depends on your business and your obligations rather than on your packaging. The technical limits that shape what is achievable are set out on the artwork specification page.

Questions from Montreal buyers

Can you print packaging in French and English?

Yes. The practical constraint is space rather than process: copy roughly doubles while the panel does not, so most bilingual layouts sit most comfortably split across the front and back rather than crowded onto one face.

Do you know what Quebec language rules require?

We are packaging manufacturers rather than legal advisers. We will print exactly what you supply and approve; what your packaging is required to say is a question for someone qualified to advise on it.

Who checks the French copy?

You do, and it should be a native reader rather than a translation tool. We print what is on the approved proof and have no way to know that a phrase is awkward or wrong.

Print in two languages

Send both versions of your copy and we will lay them out so each stays readable at the size film can actually hold.

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