Spec Sheet (PDF)

The spec sheet is the one page a customer approves before production: what the pack is, drawn and pictured, with room to sign. Save one with File › Export › Export…, choosing Spec sheet (PDF); the options follow. The page worked on is written, on an A4 landscape page.

What it shows

• The heading: the title (the file's name unless you change it), the drawing's category, style and product, and the customer, their reference and the date it is issued.
• The dieline: its cut lines solid, creases dashed red, perforations and partial cuts dashed, glue in blue, fitted to its box, with the blank's overall width and height dimensioned.
• A picture of it folded, made 3D as its 3D page makes it and seen from three-quarters (switch off Picture of it folded to leave it out).
• The specification: the board (corrugated or solid, its flute and caliper, from the drawing's material); the blank's size and its board's area; its weight, when you give the Board weight; the folded size; the box's compression strength by the McKee formula, when you give the board's Edge crush (ECT); how many packs go on a Pallet (a layer, the layers, the total and the load's height, up to 1800 mm); then the drawing's labelled sizes and choices (length, width, depth, material …).
• The revisions: the revision you give, with today's date, what changed and who changed it.
• The approval box: approved by, signature and date, for the customer to sign.

Text is written as outlines, in the language the app is in, so the page looks the same wherever it is opened.

Using it

Send it with the dieline PDF and a proof: the dieline PDF is for the printer, the spec sheet for the buyer. Each new revision of the design is a new spec sheet with its revision letter and what changed. The McKee strength is an estimate from the board's edge crush and the box's perimeter; test samples for anything that matters.

The SaaS API writes it too (POST /export/specsheetpdf), with the customer, reference, pallet, board weight and edge crush in its options.

See also: Dieline PDF, Proofs, Packaging.