Made in France 
What prints without rework
- Vector file: AI, EPS or PDF
- 230 × 85 mm at full scale
- Text converted to outlines (no fonts to supply)
- Colours in Pantone Coated, one colour = one solid
- Lines at least 0.5 mm thick
- Positive text ≥ 6 pt, reversed text ≥ 8 pt
Printing
Clean screen printing starts with a clean file
Everything you need to prepare artwork that will go through without rework: the printable area, the file, the colours — and the print proof you sign before production starts.
The area
230 × 85 mm, all round the bottle
The print goes all the way round the body. Your file is therefore an unrolled rectangle: 230 mm of circumference by 85 mm high, a ratio of 2.7:1.
- Bleed — the pattern can run edge to edge, the circumference closes on itself.
- Safety margin — keep 6 mm around the edge for anything that must not be cut off.
- The seam — if your pattern is continuous, check that the left edge lines up with the right edge.
- Most visible area — the middle third: that is what shows from the front in the cage.
The file
What we need, and what we cannot use
What holds up production
- Low-resolution bitmap (a website JPG, a screenshot)
- Drop shadows and transparency — screen printing lays down opaque solids
- Colours in RGB or CMYK with no Pantone equivalent
- A logo sitting on an unwanted white rectangle
- More than 5 colours, white underlay included
- Fonts not converted to outlines
The colours
One colour = one screen
Screen printing lays down one ink at a time. Each colour in the artwork needs its own screen, prepared for your order.
Fixed costs, charged once
Screen charges are billed once per colour, on the first order of the artwork, whatever the quantity: on 125 bottles they weigh, on 1,000 they vanish. A rerun is not charged again — we keep your screens, and they print the PRO 600 just as well as the MAX 800. Changing a colour mid-run means cleaning a screen, which is charged.
Allow for an underlay
On a black, navy or dark translucent body, the inks do not catch the eye without a white underlay. That underlay counts as one more colour.
Possible, but as a halftone
Ink is laid down at a constant thickness: a colour cannot vary continuously. A gradient is therefore rendered as a halftone — a cloud of dots the eye recomposes at a distance; a photograph is treated the same way. The mesh of the screen limits how fine it can get: the dots show up close, and the gradient cuts off where they become too small to print.
Real-world tolerances
A 0.5 mm offset between two colours and slight colour variations from one batch to another are inherent to the process. Avoid registration to a tenth of a millimetre.
- The film positive one film per colour
- The emulsion UV-exposed
- The frame the stretched mesh
- The squeegee and the ink one pass per colour
- The bottle it rolls under the screen
Documentation
The component range
The colours of every part — body, ring, cap and valve — and the screen-printing inks, on a single A3 sheet to keep at hand.
These colours are prepared as standard. A colour outside the chart is still possible: it requires a custom colour development, charged separately.
The print proof
Nothing is printed before you sign
Your file reaches us with the quote request, or by e-mail to [email protected]. We check the dimensions, the number of colours, line weights and Pantone equivalents, and we tell you what gets in the way.
Then comes the print proof: the finished bottle, flat and in 3D, within 48 working hours. Your written approval starts production — and any change asked for after that stage restarts the cycle.
No artwork ready? We create the design for you.
Try your artwork right now
The configurator wraps your file around the bottle and shows you the result from every angle. No account needed.