Key Roles & Responsibilities - Senior Graphic Designer
- Develop creative and commercially suitable artwork for sheet metal printing and other packaging materials.
- Create recent packaging concepts based on customer requirements and brand guidelines.
- Adapt existing artwork for different product sizes, SKUs, languages, and pack formats.
- Maintain consistency of fonts, logos, graphics, images, and brand elements.
- Create artwork according to approved packaging dielines and structural specifications.

2. Sheet-Fed Offset Printing – Technical Knowledge
- Strong practical knowledge of sheet-fed offset printing processes.
- Understand printing sequence, plate requirements, paper/substrate selection, ink coverage, registration, and printability.
- Prepare artwork according to the requirements of the offset printing machine and production process.
- Understand CMYK process colours and Pantone/spot colours.
- Check colour separations and ensure correct colour plates are generated.
- Understand trapping, overprinting, knockouts, screening, dot gain, registration, and ink coverage.




- Coordinate with the press operator and production team to resolve artwork-related printing issues.
- Support colour matching and approval during machine trials/press checks.

3. Prepress & Artwork Preparation
- Prepare print-ready PDF/AI/CDR/INDD files for production.
- Conduct detailed preflight checks before releasing artwork.
- Verify:
- Dimensions
- Bleed
- Crop marks
- Fonts
- Image resolution
- CMYK/RGB conversion
- Pantone colours
- Overprint settings
- Trapping
- Barcode
- QR code
- Text accuracy
- Dieline and cutting marks
- Ensure artwork is technically suitable for offset printing.
- Identify and correct prepress issues before sending files to production.
- Maintain proper artwork version control and approved master files.

4. Packaging Dieline & Structural Artwork
- Work confidently with packaging dielines, keylines, cutting, creasing, folding, and gluing areas.
- Place artwork accur

📌 Senior Graphic Designer (Udupi)
🏢 GPPL
📍 Udupi