Minimize material waste by ensuring the design is correct before the first physical sample is produced.
When a flat graphic is wrapped onto an irregular 3D object and then shrunk, the artwork must stretch and compress in complex ways. Straight lines can become curves, text can become illegible, and barcodes can become unreadable. Without an accurate way to predict this distortion, designers are often working blind, leading to: Minimize material waste by ensuring the design is
: Load your structural 3D file (such as an OBJ, STEP, or COLLADA file) into the Studio Toolkit. Without an accurate way to predict this distortion,
Launch Studio 10 and import your bottle geometry. If you have the Toolkit, you can use the "Revolve" feature: draw the bottle’s half-profile and revolve it 360 degrees. Assign the shrink sleeve area—defining where the sleeve starts and ends (e.g., from just under the cap to the bottom radius). Assign the shrink sleeve area—defining where the sleeve
The integrated ecosystem of and Studio Toolkit for Shrink Sleeves solves this issue by creating a physics-based digital twin of the packaging. This application allows prepress operators and brand owners to accurately simulate the physical deformation of the material and mathematically apply predistortion to the artwork prior to plate-making. The Architecture of Esko's Shrink Sleeve Ecosystem
Esko simplifies the design process into four easy steps inside Adobe Illustrator. 1. Import the 3D Shape