Drop your artwork PDF — dimensions and ink coverage are read automatically. Enter job details to calculate ink needed per colour.
Artwork PDF
Drop your artwork PDF here
Normalised PDF — reads dimensions and ink separations automatically
Analysing PDF — reading separations…
Print Dimensions — from PDF
Width
—mm
Height (Repeat)
—mm
Area / repeat
—cm²
Drop a PDF above and dimensions will fill in automatically. If no PDF, enter dimensions manually below.
Ink Coverage per Colour
Drop a PDF above to auto-detect ink separations and coverage %.
Colours appear here once detected. You can also add them manually below.
#
Colour
Coverage %
Anilox cm³/m²
Coverage bar
Job Parameters
One impression = one print of the artwork exactly as loaded. If this PDF is a stepped sheet (several ups across/around), enter the number of sheets, not individual labels — coverage and ink are for the whole loaded artwork.
Metres of substrate for press setup and register
Typically 5–10 kg per colour. If set, this is used for start-up ink instead of the metres estimate.
Paper absorbs more ink than film — adjusts ink laydown estimate
Sets the press guidance notes below
Anilox volume (cm³/m²) is entered per colour in the table above. Leave blank to use a rule-of-thumb estimate. (If your anilox is spec'd in BCM, multiply by 1.55 to get cm³/m².)
