Products with predefined colours: how to create the file

We print our products with many different printing processes and technologies. Most of them are printed in CMYK and for some others we offer a predefined colours selection. In these cases, you need to choose which colour(s) you want to be printed during the product configuration:

  1. For one printing colour (e.g. plastic mailing bags, wrapping paper and some models of paper bags):

  • Select the printing colour from the ones available on the product page

Product page colour picker for single-colour printing showing swatches for PANTONE Reflex Blue C, PANTONE 342 C, PANTONE 201 C, and PANTONE Black, with Reflex Blue C selected.
  • If you have chosen one of the proposed colours, create your design using only black (C 0% - M 0% - Y 0% - K 100%): all the graphics in black will be printed with the colour chosen during the product configuration

  • If you have selected a customised colour (as can be done for wrapping paper, for instance), send us a vector file with one-colour graphics in CMYK

  1. For products in which one, two or three different printing colours can be selected:

  • Select the colour(s) through the ones available in the product page

Product configuration panel with separate "First printing colour" and "Second printing colour" swatch selectors offering PANTONE White, Black, Yellow 012 C, Orange 021, and 485 C, with Black selected for the first printing colour and White selected for the second printing colour.
  • Find the colours available in the template provided

Adobe Illustrator Swatches panel distinguishing the row of available printing colours from a separate row of technical colours labelled "to never use".
  • Create your artwork on the specific layer(s) you find already set in the template

  • Assign the colour you want using the swatches panel colours (one colour per layer)

Adobe Illustrator Layers panel listing the "Bleed," "Color1," "Color2," "Color3," and locked "Template" layers used to assign one printing colour per layer.
  1. For promotional items with one-colour printing:

  • Find the colours available for each product in our online Designer

"Printing color" window for customising the print color in the online Designer, with a grid of color swatches; “Reflex Blue C” is selected, with the code #00489.
  • Select one for your design

 Please download the instruction document in order to create a correct file and don't forget that:

  • The artwork must consist entirely of vector graphics

  • Gradients, reticulation, and transparent graphics can't be used

  • It's important to follow the minimum printable size recommended for font and lines

  • In case of screen printing (tote bags, fabric pouches, packaging tapes) different colours must not come into contact

For graphic support with your project, take advantage of our Design Services 

If you still have any doubts, please contact us. We'll be happy to help!

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