LIVE - 5-SLEEVE MASTER BOXES + CUSTOM TAPE - PRINT RELEASE 2026-09-21
Prepared by Dabber Studio for LIVE (canna.live) / Rob. Two product lines, two boxes, two tapes.

WHAT THIS IS
  Box:  Packola "Shipping Box" (Regular Slotted Container), interior 13 x 11 x 3.25 in, Kraft (Brown) with Matte Ink (HD Print),
        WHITE INK YES, printed BOTH SIDES, B-flute (1/8 in). Holds five distributor sleeves upright.
        One file per line, two pages each: page 1 = OUTSIDE, page 2 = INSIDE.
  Tape: UPrinting "Custom Tape - Water Activated" (white reinforced paper, full colour), 2.75 in wide, one 12 in repeat tile.
        One file per line. Regular = green ground, Candy = red ground.
  Lines: REGULAR = Gen 5 distillate (green LIVE lockup, black-ink leaf) · CANDY = Gen 1 (candy script, red + black stripe corner).

READ THIS BEFORE YOU PLATE
  1. THE DIE. Both box files are built on Packola's own dieline for this order (13x11x3.25_SHIPPING-BOXES.pdf, emailed 2026-09-21),
     untouched, unscaled, in its original position. Page size 50.375 x 15.125 in INCLUDING the 0.25 in bleed on every side;
     trim 49.875 x 14.625 in (TrimBox and BleedBox are set in the PDF). Panel widths as scored: 13.0625 / 11.125 / 13.125 / 11.0625 in,
     depth band 3.5 in, every flap 5.5625 in, glue tab 1.5 in, slots 0.25 in. Page 1 is the outside (tab at the left), page 2 the
     inside (the mirror, tab at the right) - exactly the order of the template you sent.
  2. COLOUR. CMYK only (DeviceCMYK), no RGB, no spot inks in the PRINT file, raster at 300 dpi at size, all type rendered into the art
     (no live fonts to embed or outline). Rich black flood on the inside = 60/40/40/100. Every black on the kraft outside
     (type, marks, dots, the botanical leaf) = 0/0/0/100 (K only). Brand flats keyed: LIVE green 70/0/100/0,
     drip orange 0/65/100/0, candy red 0/95/100/0. Max total ink: outside 174 % / inside 298 % (Regular),
     outside 292 % / inside 298 % (Candy).
  3. WHITE INK (kraft board). The PRINT files carry no white separation of their own; the WHITE-INK-PLATE file shows exactly where
     white must print (BLACK = white ink), 0.2 mm choke under colours.
       OUTSIDE: every unprinted area is BARE KRAFT. White ink only as an underprint beneath the coloured art (green, orange, red)
                so it prints bright on brown. Nothing on the outside is meant to be white.
       INSIDE:  printed edge to edge (black flood). Every white element - the LIVE lockups, marks, reversed type - IS white ink.
     The plate IS the white layer.
  4. GLUE TAB. Bare board on the outside (the glue face of the tab-in joint). The inside prints the tab with the black flood so the
     inner corner of the box is continuous black.
  5. TAPE GUIDES. The dotted lines are printed art (black dots 0.8 mm at 2.4 mm pitch), not dieline marks. They mark the edges of
     the 2.75 in tape path: 1.375 in either side of the top seam, down the centre of both end panels, and along the bottom seam.
  6. BLEED. Art runs 0.25 in past every cut edge (outer edges, flap sides, into the slots). Creases carry no bleed - the art is
     continuous across them.
  7. DIELINE-CHECK files are the same art with the vendor's cut/crease lines on a separate layer as a spot colour "Dieline"
     (overprint). They are for checking registration only - plate from the PRINT files.

PRODUCTION NOTES (how the files are set up - no action needed unless your process differs, in which case call before running)
  - Page 1 = OUTSIDE, page 2 = INSIDE. Each page is labelled in the PDF (page labels) and carries a slug line in the 1/4 in bleed
    strip at its left edge that names the line, the page and the side; the slug is trimmed off by the die.
  - Manufacturer's joint: glue tab IN (the tab against the inside of the right end panel), the standard RSC joint. The outside of the
    tab is bare board for the glue; the inside of the tab prints the black flood so the inner corner is continuous.
  - White ink: outside = underprint beneath the coloured art only (never under black, never on bare kraft); inside = every white
    element is white ink; no white under the black flood. The WHITE-INK-PLATE files are that layer, ready to use.
  - Bleed art, slots, flap allowances: taken from your own die file, unchanged.

TAPE (UPrinting) - ORDER SETTINGS
  Product: Custom Tape - Water Activated · width 2.75 in · print: full colour · logo repeat: 12 in (the tile holds two identical
  6 in units, so 6 in also matches) · orientation: horizontal ("follow file settings") · background: use my file's background colour.
  File: 12.25 x 3.0 in page = 12 x 2.75 in trim + 1/8 in bleed all round (TrimBox set). Vector, CMYK, no fonts. Seamless: the
  ground is a flat flood and the marks sit inside the 1/8 in safe zone at both ends.

BOX (Packola) - ORDER SETTINGS
  Shipping Boxes · 13 x 11 x 3.25 in interior · Kraft (Brown) with Matte Ink (HD Print) · White Ink: YES · Printed sides: BOTH ·
  B-Flute (1/8 in) · quantity: the client's call. Upload the PRINT PDF for each line (two pages: outside, inside).

ARTWORK STATUS
  Final. Every logo and lettering mark is vector-sourced: the LIVE letters, leaf and drop are the brand's own vectors; the "candy"
  script and droplet are the brand's lettering rebuilt as a clean vector from the printed sleeve (the brand holds no separate vector
  file - this is it; fit to the sleeve measured at 99.2 %). The Regular botanical leaf is raster art rendered into the 300 dpi page.
  Wording (GEN 5 / GEN 1, 5 SLEEVES - 500 x 1.0 ml CARTRIDGES, the strain and flavor lists) is the client's, approved on the comps.
  No statutory copy or symbol belongs on this case (B2B shipper, client's call).

FOLDER GUIDE
  00-READ-ME-FIRST.txt        this file
  01-PRINT-SPEC.txt           every number: sizes, boxes, ink builds, files, resolution, bleed
  02-QA-REPORT.txt            measured checks on the finished files
  REGULAR-GEN5-distillate/    the Regular box PRINT PDF (upload this) · DIELINE-CHECK PDF · WHITE-INK-PLATE PDF + PNGs · tape PDF · previews/
  CANDY-GEN1/                 the Candy box files, same set
  reference/                  the vendor dieline and tape template AS SUPPLIED · labelled die maps (what goes where) · brand marks (SVG)
