ELEVATED - AiR-ESS GUMMIES - PACKAGING PRINT RELEASE
built 2026-07-31  .  Dabber Studio

WHAT THIS IS
    Production artwork for one printed piece:
        stand-up pouch   101.6 x 127 mm face + 50 mm bottom gusset
                         clear laminate film, opaque white underprint
                         zipper, tear notches, child resistant
    Two options are included. They are the SAME LAYOUT and differ by one word:
        A_with-AiR-ESS   Elevated script + AIR-ESS GUMMIES
        B_no-AiR-ESS     Elevated script + GUMMIES
    Everything is authored at 25 px/mm - 635 dpi at trim - and registered to the
    dimensions on the die that came with the enquiry.

    Folder layout, plate numbering and the BLACK-is-<what> naming are the same
    as the Spliff release you were sent in July.

READ THIS BEFORE YOU PLATE - FIVE THINGS ARE STILL CLIENT-SUPPLIED
    1  THE VERIFIED DIELINE. The die we were given is the tooling from a
       DIFFERENT customer's job (Higher Forms), supplied only as a size
       reference. Geometry has been lifted from it 1:1 and is internally
       consistent, but nothing should go to plate against a die that was not
       cut for this order. Please send the confirmed knife for this PO.
    2  REAL GTIN. The EAN-13 on the back panel encodes the placeholder
       0123456789012. Send the real GTIN-13 and it is regenerated and
       re-verified in minutes.
    3  STATUTORY SYMBOL AND WARNING WORDING, per market. There is a
       dimensioned, labelled reserve on the back panel, 38.2 x 9.2 mm,
       holding the space. It is deliberately empty - no symbol has been
       invented.
    4  THE NUTRITION FACTS VALUES. The panel on the back is set in the real
       format and is complete EXCEPT for the figures the factory has not
       issued: calories, fat, sodium, carbohydrate, sugars, protein, and the
       gram weight of one piece. Each of those prints as a VISIBLE BLANK RULE
       so that nobody can mistake an unknown for a zero. NET WEIGHT and the
       INGREDIENT and ALLERGEN declaration are not on the pack at all yet.
       The two THC figures ARE final and client-confirmed: 75 mg per
       piece, 600 mg per container, 8 pieces per pack.
    5  THE FRONT CARRIES CLAIMS: "100% THC EXTRACT" on the badge and "REAL
       FRUIT GUMMIES". That wording came from the client's own approved visual,
       not from us. Both should be confirmed before plate.

    Items 2-5 are drop-in text and code swaps on a locked layout. Item 1 is the
    only one that could move artwork.

FOUR THINGS FOR THE PRINTER TO CONFIRM
    A  THE WINDOW. The front carries a clear window 85.6 x 9.5 mm,
       rounded 2.4 mm. It is knocked out of the white underprint AND out of
       the spot varnish - see plate 07. The varnish knockout is grown 0.3 mm so
       it stops short of the window edge rather than butting it. Confirm your
       minimum unprinted land around a window on this film.
    B  THE FOIL PLATE IS OPTIONAL. Plate 06 carries the Elevated script only.
       In this design the script prints as WHITE INK by default and the foil is
       an upgrade. If it is wanted, confirm the foil colour - we have specified
       SILVER to match the metallic script on the client's vape cartons, not the
       gold the template's fourth layer is labelled with (烫金).
    C  SPOT VARNISH MUST NOT CROSS THE FOIL. Plates 04 and 06 share zero
       pixels by construction. If you re-derive either, keep it that way -
       varnish over a hot stamp lifts it.
    D  THE BOTTOM 21 MM OF BOTH FACES BECOMES THE BASE. With a 50 mm gusset
       the base opens to roughly 43 mm, and that film is drawn out of the
       bottom of the printed FRONT AND the printed BACK - the gusset is sealed
       to both. Everything below y = 105.7 mm curves under and is not a display
       surface. Type on both panels deliberately finishes above that line: the
       front at 104.3 mm, the back at 103.0 mm. Nothing important is down
       there, and nothing should be moved into it.

FOLDER GUIDE - THIS FOLDER IS ONE COMPLETE OPTION, ON ITS OWN
    You are holding A_with-AiR-ESS. Everything needed to plate it is in here.
    Nothing in this folder refers to a file outside it, and you do not need the
    other option in order to run this one.

    00-READ-ME-FIRST.txt        this document
    01-PRINT-SPEC.txt           the specification
    FACTORY-SPREAD__A_with-AiR-ESS.pdf
                                the imposed sheet on the template's own grid.
                                THIS IS THE ONE TO PLATE FROM.
    front/  back/  gusset/      the numbered plates for each panel, complete.
                                08-guides.png in each is the die, safe area,
                                zipper and notches on their own - lay it over
                                10-composite_BLEED3mm.png to check registration.
    reference/                  the die as supplied, the wordmark as vector,
                                the painted frame source art, and a contact
                                sheet of all three panels.
    separation-report.json      keyed percentage and ink coverage per panel.

    A NOTE ON THE TWO OPTIONS. This job has two: A_with-AiR-ESS and
    B_no-AiR-ESS. They differ by ONE WORD on the front and one on the back.
    Each is delivered as its own complete folder like this one - there is no
    shared folder to merge, deliberately.
    17 of the plates are byte-identical between the two options (verified
    by hashing the RENDERED PIXELS, not the source files). If you are running
    both, you can reuse that film rather than making it twice. If you are
    running only one, ignore this paragraph entirely.

PLATE NUMBERING, PER PANEL
    00-composite.png                       full colour, at trim
    01-base-field.png                      painted field alone
    02-artwork-no-type.png                 field, window and badge grounds
    03-type-plate_BLACK-is-ink.png         all type
    04-spotUV-plate_BLACK-is-UV.png        gloss varnish
    05-white-plate_BLACK-is-white-ink.png  opaque underprint, window knocked out
    06-foil-plate_BLACK-is-foil.png        hot stamp, optional
    07-window-knockout_BLACK-is-CLEAR-FILM.png   front only
    08-guides.png                          die, safe area, zipper, notches
    09-cmyk-SWOP.tif                       400 dpi, profile embedded
    10-composite_BLEED3mm.png              full colour with bleed
    11-artwork-VECTOR_trim.pdf             live vector, fonts embedded
    12-artwork-VECTOR_bleed3mm.pdf         same, with bleed

    Every plate marked BLACK-is-<something> ships black on white: black is where
    that thing is applied.
