In the print templates for some of our materials, you will find special layers and colours that are crucial for the design creation. Below, we will explain what these are for.
For the printing process, we have created a dedicated layer and colour in our print templates for the Toni and Martha materials. This allows you to create special effects.
In the print template for stand-up pouches and flat pouches, you will find a layer named ‘bila-white’ and the colour ‘bila-white’.
For flat bottom pouches, you will find the layer ‘White’ and a colour ‘White’.
Even though they are used for different packaging forms, ‘White’ and ‘bila-white’ have the same purpose.
The colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ is displayed in magenta. It serves as a white primer and is printed on the packaging as a background.
If the colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ is completely coloured in magenta, your packaging will be primed and your design will be printed over the entire surface. The ‘White’/‘bila-white’ layer must also be 100% filled with this magenta.
The ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ layer must not be deleted under any circumstances.
The colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ must also not be renamed, changed or deleted.
You can create special areas by recolouring or removing the desired areas on the ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ layer.
If you have chosen our packaging material Toni, you have the possibility to create transparent windows on your packaging design.
Transparent windows on your packaging can make your product stand out even more. Your customers get a good impression of your product before buying.
To add a transparent window to your packaging, you need to edit the white primer on the ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ layer in addition to your design. You have two design options here:
Design your packaging so that the background is mainly transparent and there are only coloured design elements (logo, text, graphics, etc.).
You design your packaging so that it is fully printed and has individual transparent elements or windows.
For the first design option, proceed as follows in your print template:
Delete the coloured area from the White/bila-white layer, copy all the elements from your design and place them in the same position in the White layer and colour all the elements with the colour White.
For the second design option, proceed as follows:
Cut out the elements that should appear transparent on the White or Bila-White layer and on the artwork layer as you wish.
Please note: the transparent elements in Toni are not 100% see-through, but transparent.
You can create metallic surfaces with our Martha packaging material. They will give your packaging a metallic-silvery shine and visibly enhance it.
You can create metallised surfaces by removing the surface that should appear metallised on the ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ layer. All surfaces that are not coloured magenta in the layer (that is the colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’) will appear metallised on your packaging.
Omitting the white or bila-white colour ensures that the aluminium-coloured material becomes visible, creating the metallised effect.
You have two design options:
make coloured elements appear metallic
use the silver effect
You can achieve the metallic look by cutting out the areas that should appear metallic on the white or bila-white layer. This way, your design will be printed directly on the base material in this area, giving it a metallic effect.
❗Please note: the metallic effect is less visible on a black backgrounds. On the white surface, your packaging would appear more silvery.
You wish to have the silver effect printed with your Martha packaging? Then proceed in a similar way to Toni:
Delete the coloured area from the White or bila-white layer, copy all the elements from your design and place them in the same position in the layer, then colour all the elements in using the colour White or bila-white. Everything that you have not coloured will be printed as metallised.
Or:
Cut out the elements that should appear metallised on the White or bila-white layer and on the Artwork layer.
Unlike Toni, Martha's base fabric is not transparent, but silver. To make individual elements stand out in Martha's silver base material, you proceed as with the transparent areas in Toni (see above).
To make elements or areas appear in a metallic colour, you can print directly onto the silver base material for Martha. To do this, simply cut out the areas that should appear metallic on the ‘White’ layer (flat bottom pouch) or ‘bila-white’ (stand-up pouch & flat pouch). Your artwork will be printed directly onto the base material in this area.
When using the ‘White’ layer (flat bottom pouch) or ‘bila-white’ (stand-up pouch & flat pouch), make sure that you only use the colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’.
Next to the pre-set colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ you will find an almost identical colour ‘CMYK Cyan’ or ‘CMYK Magenta’. White corresponds to the colour Magenta, while bila-white corresponds to Cyan. Even if the colours do not differ visually, they are fundamentally different from the colours ‘White’/‘bila-white’ defined for your packaging print.
Therefore, always make sure that you use the colour ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ with the colour type ‘Spot colour’ on the ‘White’ or ‘bila-white’ layer. You can recognise them by the grey corner with the black dot in the ‘Colour fields’ area.
Did you use only the colour white or bila-white for transparent and metallised surfaces?
Did you create the design only on the artwork layer?
After creating the design, are the white or bila-white layer and colour still there?