ELEVATED - AiR-ESS GUMMIES - PACKAGING PRINT RELEASE
built 2026-07-29  .  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, 35.2 x 19 mm, holding
       the space. It is deliberately empty - no symbol has been invented.
    4  PIECE COUNT, NET WEIGHT, TOTAL THC PER PACK, and the INGREDIENT and
       ALLERGEN declaration. All four sit in labelled empty reserves on the
       back panel. The layout already holds the right amount of room.
    5  THE FRONT SPEC LINE reads "100% Live Sauce Infused . Real Fruit . 10mg
       THC each". That wording came from the client's own approved visual, not
       from us. It is a claim, and it 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 89.6 x 12 mm, rounded 3 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 THE FRONT PANEL BECOMES THE BASE. With a 50 mm
       gusset the base opens to roughly 43 mm and that film comes out of the
       bottom of the printed front. Everything below y = 105.7 mm curves under.
       The layout deliberately finishes at 105.5 mm. Nothing important is down
       there, and nothing should be moved into it.

FOLDER GUIDE
    pouch/
        A_with-AiR-ESS/<panel>/     the plates that differ between options
        B_no-AiR-ESS/<panel>/       - composite, type plate, spot UV plate
        _shared-plates-both-options/<panel>/
                                    the layers that are byte-identical for both
                                    options: base field, artwork-without-type,
                                    white underprint, foil, window knockout.
                                    13 plates. The two options differ by one
                                    word, so most layers really are the same and
                                    you should only hold one copy.
        <panel> is front, back or gusset.
    reference/
        the die as supplied, the full factory spread for each option, a
        dieline-marked check proof, the wordmark as vector, the painted frame
        source art, and a contact sheet.

    Shared-plate decisions were made by hashing the RENDERED PIXELS, not the
    source files, so a plate is only called shared when it truly is.

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.
