Drop a single-label PDF — inks are detected automatically. Set the web layout and the tool steps the label and adds tracker bars, registration targets, ink slug and control strip on every plate.
Single Label PDF
Drop your single-label PDF here
One label, with bleed and dieline — size and ink separations are read automatically
Analysing PDF — reading separations…
Label — from PDF
Dieline Width
—mm
Dieline Height
—mm
Ink Plates
—
Inks — press order (top = first down)
Drop a PDF to detect ink separations.
Tick = include in slug, dots and control strip. Use ▲▼ to match your press station order. Technical separations (Die etc.) are unticked automatically.
Web Layout
Labels across the web
Rows around the cylinder
Between labels across the web
Between rows around the cylinder
Print repeat / circumference. Leave blank to size the page automatically (no distortion).
K factor method: distortion = (repeat − K) ÷ repeat
Drop a label PDF to calculate the layout.
Press Marks
Generic = 3 mm side bars / FA slug bar with reg targets, ink slug, ID dots, control strip. Basewrap = corner registration L-marks 0.1 mm off the die, edge centre crosses, and a top + bottom colour-code line in each ink.
Standard 1.5 mm from the dieline
Bleed beyond the dieline. 1.5 + 1.5 = tracker at the bleed edge.
Which way labels travel around the cylinder. Tracker lines appear on the edges perpendicular to the repeat direction.
T bar trackers 100%: the 3 mm Pivot-style tracker bar top and bottom on every printing plate, sitting right on the art bleed. The two end white lines are exactly one repeat apart (the distorted repeat in the distorted file), the page is the repeat plus 1.25 mm each side, the bar runs 1.0 mm past each end line and the centre cross is exactly halfway. Dots, tint squares, target patches, ink names, date and job name are all built in, so the four options below do not apply.
Tracker lines + registration targets
Always 3 mm thick, at the start and end of the repeat, with circle-cross targets at both ends and centre.
Job slug + ink names
Job name in the top bar, plus each ink's name printed in its own ink.
Ink identification dots
One dot per ink, knocked out of both bar ends, in press order.
Control strip
One solid 100% patch per ink below the bottom bar.
T bar tracker inks (read from your file)
Every plate that carries ink gets the tracker, Pantones, White and Varnish included. Non-printing plates (die, cutter, free cut, grid, paper, dimensions, info, guide, keyline) get nothing. Tick No screen work for an ink that prints solids only: its 5% and 50% tint squares stay clear.
