Tayda UV Artwork Processor

Source: github.com/drlholloway/tayda-uv-artwork-processor (Go, MIT)

Why#

Tayda’s UV printing service is a gift to small pedal builders. You can go from a bare aluminium box to a professionally finished enclosure quickly and for very little money. The hard part is getting the artwork into the exact shape Tayda’s Box Tool expects: the right artboard size for each side, the right resolution, and the right spot colours for the white undercoat and optional gloss varnish.

A community web tool exists for the front face, but web tools disappear. I wanted something that runs locally, covers every side of the box, and can be scripted.

What it does#

• Interactive TUI. Pick an enclosure (1590B, 125B, 1590XX, and friends), attach an image to each side you want printed, and convert them all in one pass. Each side is validated as you attach it, so problems show up before you spend anything.
• Validation. Checks image dimensions against the artboard for that side, with per-side tolerances, and reports effective DPI.
• Print-ready output. Writes a single-artboard CMYK PDF per side with the RDG_WHITE undercoat and optional RDG_GLOSS varnish layers in the order Tayda’s process expects.
• Inspection. Reads a finished PDF back and reports its artboard, spot colours, and print order, so you can confirm what is actually in the file.
• Scriptable. Everything the TUI does is also a subcommand, so builds can be automated or driven by an agent.

A taste#

# what size does each side need to be?
tayda-uv sides 1590B

# check artwork without writing anything
tayda-uv validate -e 1590B -s A face.png

# write the print-ready PDF
tayda-uv convert -e 1590B -s A -o face.pdf face.png

# read it back and confirm what is in it
tayda-uv inspect -e 1590B -s A face.pdf