Design Guideline

Please carefully read through our design guideline to understand how to best prepare your artwork files ready for production.

  • Please don’t make amendments to the dieline we supply you as this can alter how the finished product aligns with the material.

  • Please supply all artwork in Adobe Illustrator file format.

  • Please include all photos and imagery elements as separate files (CMYK jpeg, tiff, or PSD files at a minimum of 300 dpi are acceptable).

  • Convert all text to outlines and supply all font files, the minimum font size is 6pt.

  • 0.14mm / 0.4pt.

  • Designs can include up to 10 colours inclusive of CMYK for imagery and photographic elements.

    Please use single Pantone colours for all text.

    Matte varnish and white need to be considered as individual colours/ cylinders.

  • Please allow any areas to remain unprinted as a separate layer in the working file.

  • Please exclude barcodes from the matte overlay for scanability.

    Please note matte varnish can reduce the strength of the original Pantone.

  • If your design is continuous, with a solid colour to the edges and the same on either side, this is fine. When imagery is used, please allow for a 2mm bleed to ensure the cut tolerance does not impact the finished product.

    The same applies to roll format regarding the design from top to bottom.

  • The ideal barcode size is 39mm x 28mm.

    Keep barcode colouring as standard black-on-white.

  • 175 LPI line screen ruling.

    5% minimum dot gain.