ELEVATED - AiR-ESS GUMMIES - PRINT SPECIFICATION
built 2026-07-31

PIECE
    stand-up pouch   face 101.6 x 127.0 mm, front and back
                     bottom gusset 101.6 x 50.0 mm
                     bleed 3 mm all round, safe area 5 mm sides and bottom

DIE GEOMETRY - measured off the supplied template, not eyeballed
    top seal band              0 to 20.0 mm from the top of the face
    zipper centreline          26.5 mm
    header band foot           33.0 mm
    tear notches, both edges   14.0 to 16.0 mm from top, 2.5 mm deep
    shelf face below header    95 mm, the template's own callout
    clear window, front        85.6 x 9.5 mm, corner radius 2.4 mm,
                               top-left at x 8, y 86

SUBSTRATE AND FINISH STACK (bottom to top)
    1  clear laminate film
    2  OPAQUE WHITE underprint, flood, WINDOW KNOCKED OUT        plate 05
    3  CMYK litho                                                plates 00/09
    4  SPOT GLOSS VARNISH on the painted splatter and hero type   plate 04
    5  HOT STAMP FOIL, Elevated script only, OPTIONAL             plate 06
    The window is bare film: no white, no ink, no varnish.       plate 07
    Varnish and foil share zero pixels.

INK BUILDS - LOCKED
    FIELD violet        82 /  92 /   0 /  10      #43227D
    PANEL violet        84 /  94 /   0 /  30      #3A1D6E
    DEEP violet         88 /  96 /   0 /  38      #2E1758
    LIT violet          76 /  84 /   0 /   0      #6949AD
    WHITE (no ink)       0 /   0 /   0 /   0      #F8F9F9
    INK (panel type)    85 /  82 /   0 /  70      #1D1030
    THC TRIANGLE         0 /  90 /  90 /   0      #E03127
    CODES  (K only)      0 /   0 /   0 / 100      #000000
    Painted splatter and the hero gradient: four colour, continuous tone,
    through the ICC. No finish over the window.

HOW THE CMYK FILES WERE MADE
    Not a naive mode conversion. Flat brand colour is KEYED to the exact locked
    build above. The painted splatter frame and the gradient type go through a
    real ICC transform against U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2, which is embedded in
    every TIFF. Barcodes are forced to K only - a barcode built from four plates
    fringes on the slightest misregistration and stops scanning.
    Verified by reading the written files back: every keyed build lands exactly.
    Total area coverage: max 284.7 %, nothing above 300 %.

THE PAINTED FRAME IS RASTER, DELIBERATELY
    The splatter is painted artwork at 412 dpi native across the panel, placed
    at 400 dpi. It is not vector and should not be re-traced. What makes it read
    as thrown ink is hues bleeding into each other and fine spray, neither of
    which survives being turned into flat vector shapes. Type, badges, barcode
    and QR are all true vector on top. Source art is in reference/.

CODES
    EAN-13   80 % magnification, 29.83 x 20.81 mm including quiet zones,
             back panel, one per pouch. This is GS1's minimum for a retail
             symbol - below it no till scanner reads reliably. Drawn as vector
             rectangles, not a bitmap, and verified by decoding the rendered
             pixels back module by module: 95 of 95.
    QR       14.0 mm, back panel, lab COA / verify URL.
    Both payloads are placeholders. See 00-READ-ME-FIRST.
    Neither code takes varnish: both are knocked out of plate 04, along with
    the white nutrition card. Gloss over a code is what stops a scanner
    reading it.

TYPE
    Clash Display  700       hero, headings, badges
    Satoshi        500/700   body, legal, spec lines
    Elevated script          VECTOR, re-traced from the client's 558 px web
                             asset. Clean vector now - if the original AI or
                             EPS exists, send it and it is swapped in.
    Floor: nothing below 6 pt anywhere on the pack.

QUANTITY
    Not specified in this release. Confirm on the PO.
