The Dieline – Your Primal to Success

The first pace to a successful shrink sleeve project is to request a dieline from Traco. The dieline is custom-sized to your product and will serve as the design template for your project. A sample container is required in order for Traco to produce a custom dieline for your projection. Your sales rep can instruct yous on submitting your container to Traco.

How to Utilize the Dieline

The dieline is provided as a PDF that y'all can import into your design software and employ as a template. This dieline should be placed on a dissever layer from your artwork. The dieline is ever provided at 100% of actual size and should not be reduced or enlarged. The dieline contains the following information:

A) Layflat Size: This is the finished width of your sleeve after information technology is D seamed. The vertical lines of the layflat are where the sleeve will be folded. These folds tin can exist moved horizontally across the sleeve, simply must remain at to the lowest degree 20mm from the seam of the sleeve.

B) 2mm area of clear at the top and lesser of the sleeve.

C) Unseamed Width: The flat, unseamed web width of the motion-picture show

D) Seam Overlap: this area will be covered by the overlapping flick from the contrary side of the sleeve. This surface area tin can include background image, only should not include any important copy.

E) Fold Locations: The Layflat can be moved either left or right to accommodate your design, but this distance must be more than 20mm from the seam. To maintain the layflat size, the fold lines must remain the same altitude apart if moved.

F) Clear Area: In order for the sleeves to exist cut from the rolls on which they are produced, there must be a clear area between each repeat on the curl. The resulting 4mm of articulate space betwixt each repeat allows the sleeves to exist cut accurately.

M) Projection Specs: This area is used for listing the project specifications

H) Ink Swatches: All ink colors must be designated with a swatch. Add or remove colors as needed. Remember to designate all spot colors. On clear picture show, opaque white ink is required to impress opaque colors. Swatches for all Pantone spot colors, metal inks, varnishes and adhesives should exist included.

I) Proof Approval: This surface area is used for your approval of the proof that Traco will provide prior to your sleeve existence printed. A signed re-create of the proof must exist returned to Traco before whatsoever press tin can begin.

J) Safe Area: This expanse (shown in green) is the prophylactic area for your re-create. Avoid placing important copy outside of this area. Background epitome can extend to the seam edges and articulate areas as shown by the pink area. Items should not extend across the ruby lines. No bleed is required. Avoid placing barcodes and of import copy on the layflat folds.

Plates / Spot Colors

You are limited to 10 total plates for gravure printed sleeves. This includes CMYK Process Colors, Pantone Spot Colors, Metallic Inks, Opaque White, Varnishes and Adhesives. Use SWOP standards for procedure colors and Pantone (PMS) Coated Solid colors for spot. Show all colors used as swatches on the dieline. If white ink is used as a alluvion of the entire print area, no white layer is needed.
If white is used other than a flood, apply a contrasting colour to show white ink coverage on a carve up layer. Clear areas should likewise exist shown in a contrasting color on a separate layer. Be sure color style is fix to CMYK, not RGB.

Design/Layout Application Software

Adobe Illustrator CS6 (.ai) is the preferred application for designing your shrink sleeves. We tin can also accept CorelDraw EPS files,
hi-res PDF files, QuarkXPress files and Adobe InDesign files with some limitations. Adobe PhotoShop is NOT an adequate format for use in printing sleeves. It is, even so excellent for editing photographic images that may be used on sleeves, but it should not be used for anything that contains type or vector graphics.

Submit files equally Illustrator CS6 AI files whenever possible. Submit a PDF proof of your artwork also.