Stand out. Press in.
Relevo & Vinco is an inkless packaging workshop in Porto. We emboss, deboss, cut and fold raw board, so your brand is something people feel before they read it.
Ink fades. Foil peels. Pressure stays.
Every box we make carries its brand in the board itself: raised where it should catch the light, cut where it should hold a shadow.
Nothing to scuff off in transit and nothing to separate at the recycling bin. The whole box goes back to pulp.
Six ways to say it without ink
Each finish is pressure, a blade or heat on raw board. Most boxes combine two or three; the sample kit holds all six, so you can choose with your fingertips.
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Blind emboss
Raised from behind with a brass die. It catches the light and reads at arm's length.
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Deboss
Pressed down into the face. It holds a shadow and shrugs off scuffs in the post.
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Die-cut window
A clean opening through the board that frames the product, or simply a shape.
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Score and fold
A pressed crease that decides where the box bends, and how crisply it does.
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Texture plate
An all-over pattern pressed into the board, from fine linen to bold ribs.
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Burnish
Heat and pressure darken the fibres. It is the only colour we ever add.
Flat to finished in four moves
One flat sheet goes in, a box comes out. Each move leaves its mark in the board, not on it.
Every box we make starts life as a single sheet on the cutting table. Here is what happens to it on its way to you.
Prototype in a week, production in four.
- Step 1
Dieline
We draw your box flat: every cut, crease and glue flap on one sheet, sized to the millimetre around your product.
- Step 2
Press
A brass die raises or sinks your mark into the board. No plates, no ink, nothing to dry.
- Step 3
Cut
A steel-rule die punches the outline and any windows in a single stroke.
- Step 4
Fold
The scores give way, the flaps lock, and a flat sheet stands up as a box.
A prototype stands up in one afternoon.
Start with a sample kitBoxes we have pressed
Four clients who swapped printed cartons for plain board with a shape, a shadow and a crease of their own.
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Morrow Coffee
A food box, cup sleeves and a napkin band, all cut from one sheet. The logo is debossed on the lid; nothing is printed anywhere.
- Finish
- Deboss and score
- Board
- E-flute, 1.5 mm
- Run
- 12,000 sets
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Halde Candles
A greyboard lid that sinks slowly over its base, with a blind-embossed mark exactly where the thumb lands.
- Finish
- Blind emboss
- Board
- Greyboard, 2 mm
- Run
- 3,000 boxes
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Saltbook Stationery
Three sizes that nest into one column. A burnished band runs across all three, so the stack reads as one object.
- Finish
- Burnish and texture plate
- Board
- Kraft liner, 350 g
- Run
- 1,500 sets
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Quinta do Vale
An olive-oil carton built to be stacked into a wall in the shop. The debossed mark lines up from box to box.
- Finish
- Deboss
- Board
- Kraft liner, 350 g
- Run
- 25,000 cartons
A small press in Porto
Eleven people, two platen presses and a cutting table in the Miguel Bombarda arts quarter.
Inês Barros and Tomás Reis started the workshop in 2014, after ten years of printing cartons they knew would be in the bin by lunchtime.
They kept the dies, dropped the ink and built every job since around one question: what can the board say on its own?
We stopped asking what colour a box should be. Now we ask where the light should land.
Five boards we press
All five come from certified mills within 400 km of Porto. Each takes relief differently, and the cross-sections show why.
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Kraft liner
350 g · 0.5 mm
- Best for
- Sleeves, wraps, tags
- Takes
- Deboss, burnish, die-cut
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Greyboard
2 mm
- Best for
- Rigid lidded boxes, covers
- Takes
- Blind emboss, deboss, burnish
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E-flute
1.5 mm
- Best for
- Mailers, food boxes, retail cartons
- Takes
- Deboss, score, windows
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B-flute
3 mm
- Best for
- Shipping boxes and crates
- Takes
- Deep deboss, score
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Honeycomb
10 mm
- Best for
- Displays, inserts, protective trays
- Takes
- Die-cut, score
A disc of each, punched for you
Every sample kit carries a disc die-cut from each of these boards, so you can weigh them in your hand before you choose.
Sample kit
Posted within three days, anywhere in the EU.
Inside: the six finishes on swatches, a disc of each board, a blank dieline template and a prepaid envelope for your first brief.
Feel it before you order
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Sample kit
Every finish on every board. Refunded in full on your first order.
€24per kit
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Pilot run
From 250 boxes: one structure, one die and two rounds of proofs, for a launch or a market test.
€2.40per box
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Production
From 2,500 boxes at a fixed price, pressed in Porto and delivered on pallets across the EU.
€0.85per box
Before you ask
The questions we hear most from brands moving off printed cartons. Anything else, write to us.
Can a box carry a brand with no ink?
Yes. A debossed mark on plain board is recognised by its shape and shadow, the way a coin or a wax seal is. We test every mark at arm's length and under shop lighting before we cut the die.
What is the smallest run you press?
250 boxes for a pilot run. Below that, the sample kit and a hand-cut prototype are usually the better first step.
How long does a die last?
A brass emboss die runs for hundreds of thousands of impressions. We keep yours on a shelf in Porto, so a reorder only takes an email.
Is the whole box recyclable?
Completely. With no ink, foil, lamination or plastic window, the box goes into paper recycling whole, and the board itself is made from certified fibre.
Do you ship outside the EU?
Sample kits go worldwide. Production runs ship across the EU and to the UK; further afield, we quote freight per order.
Let's press something.
4050-381 Porto, Portugal
Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 18:00