Print-Ready Packaging Artwork & File Delivery: From Approved Design to Production
Approving a packaging design is not the end of the project. It's the beginning of production — and production is where most packaging design agencies disappear. The files are handed over, the brief is closed, and whatever happens next is your problem.
At Suramya, print-ready delivery is a structured, comprehensive handover that gives every person involved in bringing your packaging to life — printers, manufacturers, marketing teams, co-packers — exactly what they need to execute it correctly.
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What Print-Ready Delivery Includes
Print-ready artwork files for all packaging formats in the project scope, built to the exact specifications of your printer and production method. Dieline templates for every packaging format, clearly marked with bleed, safe zone, fold lines and die cut lines. Pantone colour specifications for spot colour printing, ensuring colour accuracy across every print run regardless of printer or substrate. CMYK colour breakdowns and tolerance specifications for four-colour process printing. RGB and HEX colour codes for digital applications, website and social media assets. Typography files and font licensing confirmation to ensure consistent rendering across all future brand communications. A packaging guidelines document covering logo placement rules, clear space requirements, colour usage across different backgrounds, and do-and-don't usage examples.
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Why Colour Specifications Matter More Than Most Brands Realise
Colour is the most powerful visual element in packaging. It is also the element most commonly compromised between design approval and physical production.
A colour that appears vibrant and precise on a screen will shift when printed on kraft paper, matte film, gloss laminate or a shrink sleeve — and it will shift differently on each. Without precise Pantone and CMYK specifications, and without a print-specific colour management process, what you approved on screen and what arrives in a warehouse can be substantially different.
We specify colours with production intent from the start of the concept development phase — which is why our final print-ready delivery includes colour specifications that account for your specific substrate and print method, not generic CMYK values that assume ideal conditions.
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The Packaging Guidelines Document
This document is your packaging's rulebook. It covers everything your internal team, co-packers, distributors and any future design agency need to know to use your packaging assets correctly and consistently.
It includes logo usage on packaging, placement rules, clear space and minimum size specifications, colour palette with all print and digital specifications, typography usage on packaging, approved and prohibited applications, imagery direction for secondary packaging and marketing materials, and compliance notes for labelling requirements specific to your category and export markets.
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What We Deliver From This Phase
Complete print-ready artwork files for all formats, supplied in the file formats your printer requires. Dieline templates, Pantone and CMYK specifications, RGB and HEX codes. A comprehensive packaging guidelines document. A production handover call with your printer or manufacturer if required.
From approved design to production-ready files. We hand over everything.Talk to us about your production timeline