The paper presents an overview of national and international standards for abrasion resistance testing. Some own solutions for the analyzing and evaluation of abrasion tested samples were also presented. This evaluation can be performed both with spectrophotometric and visual method. The selected results of the studies on the rub resistance of printed and unprinted packaging materials were presented in this paper. The analysis of this problem will familiarize the reader with a very important issue, which significantly affects the final quality of the packaging material.