The process that occurs between graphic design and printing
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Layout and fitting designs into dielines
Unworkable printability issues that require design adjustments
Color management: separations, pantones, rgb, cmyk
Three-dimensional print continuity
Layer and separation organization
Misunderstanding of printer specs
56% of CPG professionals agree that late-stage packaging design decisions tend to be
weak and rushed
Nielsen
SERVICES
Assess, adjust and apply creative assets to dielines for layout, legibility, hierarchy and performance
Iterate existing SKU assets while ensuring visual consistency via dielines
Ensure color separations, overprint, rasters and other notations have been correctly applied to dielines
Tackle printer-requested revisions to existing print-ready dielines (not created by us)
Meredith has been a printing and production design leader for 10+ years. Before leading packaging and printing at a fast-growing CPG company that launched 60+ products and hit $80M+ in sales over a 5-year period in one of the most highly-regulated industries in the world, Meredith built and ran her own production design and prepress design business. Companies and brands of all sizes depended on Meredith to ensure their creative vision shined through in the physical form.
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Easily add and track design requests. We'll tackle them one at a time based on your priorities.
Fixed monthly rate
A predictable budget with predictable deliverables.
Minimal turns
Minimize revisions via our team's extensive experience
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Your IP
You always own 100% of your production designs.
Production design expertise
Access to decades of production design experience.
FAQ
The process that occurs between final design creation and final printing, marrying your creative vision with the technical needs of the printer to ensure your product looks just the way you envisioned.
If it gets printed, it requires production design! Examples of common projects are:
They can. However, graphic designers’ skills are best leveraged on creative projects. Time spent on the technical production design process means other creative projects get pushed out.
As long as your subscription is active you can add as many design requests to your queue as you like. Each project will be delivered one-by-one - we cannot move on to the next project until the current one is completed or put on hold.
It depends on the complexity of the design project but most projects are delivered within 3-4 working days. More complex projects or projects with multiple layers of deliverables may be broken into multiple projects.
We have a team of highly-vetted production designers. Every design deliverable is reviewed and approved by our co-founder (and seasoned production design expert) before you receive your final designs.
We are two long-time colleagues that have spent years leading product development, packaging and printing in some of the most highly-regulated and fastest-growing CPG industries.
In order to join our team, a production designer must pass a rigorous test that includes a challenging, real-life production design scenarios.
Our designers are fluent in the Adobe Creative Suite - Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop, etc. Most jobs will be completed within Adobe Illustrator, however some designs will require managing assets in a variety of filetypes.
Some printers have in-house production designers. Many do not. Some printers even leverage our team to do production design for them on behalf of their clients. We typically find that the printers that do have in-house production designers focus on ease of printing rather than customizing your design to be the best it can be.
You will submit your request in your Trello board.
Assets and information we’ll need will include (but may not be limited to):
You can specify your required deliverables and file types! Every thing will be housed in your Trello board and Dropbox folder(s).
Don’t worry! We’ll complete as many revisions as necessary until you’re happy.
There are no refunds but we will complete as many revisions as necessary in order to provide a result you are 100% satisfied with.
No problem. You can pause your subscription when the project is completed and resume when you have more project requests.
Sorry, proration isn’t available - you will be charged for a full month.
No way! This is a collaborative process and designs will always be provided to you in a format that your design team can quickly edit as needed/desired.
Definitely! If it’s difficult to get the gist of what you need across in an email, we’re more than happy to schedule a call with you. Simply check the “needs intro call” box when you are submitting your job and you will be routed to our calendar for scheduling. Note: This may add a day or two to the delivery timeline.
KitPrint Project Managers and Designers are hard at work between 9am and 6pm PST.
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