Final Artwork & Mechanicals

You have approved packaging design files. Now you need someone to make them print-ready. Approved design and print-ready production are two different things, and the work in between has a name: final artwork, or artworking. It's what turns a design file into a file your printer can actually run.

Maybe your production person just left. Maybe you never had one. Either way, this is the gap print-ability™ fills. We're a packaging production partner: we take approved creative and produce print-ready mechanicals for brands across spirits, beauty and CPG. We've done it for Johnnie Walker, CÉCRED, Wild Turkey, Dove and Colgate, among many others.

Packaging Line Extension

Expanding a packaging line across multiple SKUs requires precision and consistency. We handle dieline adaptation, panel layout and color consistency across the full portfolio, whether that's a spirits line spanning multiple bottle formats or a beauty collection with dozens of shade variants. Every variant gets the same attention as the hero SKU.

Beauty Comps & Sales Samples

Before committing to full production, visualizing the final package matters. We create photorealistic beauty comps and sales samples that simulate the printed package: accurate to substrate, finish and structure. Useful for focus groups, retailer presentations, stakeholder alignment and pitch meetings. Single comp or full suite, we scope to meet your needs.

Design Intent Files

Not every project requires full mechanical artwork, but every handoff requires precision. Our design intent file services, also known as cleaned files, ensure approved creative is production-ready before it reaches your printer or internal production team.

We audit files for embedded fonts, incorrect color spaces, missing bleed, low-resolution images and structural inconsistencies. We also verify mandatory copy requirements, regulatory warnings, nutrition panels, ingredient lists are present, correctly formatted and properly sized.

Particularly useful for brands working with multiple vendors or managing production in-house.

UPCs & Barcodes

Need UPCs or barcodes for your packaging? We generate, place and verify them, built to the right dimensions and tolerances for your substrate and print process so they scan the first time.

One note: "full mechanical artwork" in the Design Intent Files section was originally a hyperlink to the Packaging Production page — you'll want to re-link that phrase once it's pasted in, same as the Spirits/CPG/Beauty links on the last page.

Next one whenever you're ready.