We can’t stress enough how much better your production can be when you stop wasting time with finicky busy work and spend more time creating results you and your customers actually want. If you love over working and doing things in way more steps than needed, we suggest you stop reading now. If you like…
Category: Digital Factory
You might have put in the work to take down all the 1960’s wallpaper in your house, but the aesthetic of the repeated design is back. Creating it manually can be a time consuming process, but with the step & repeat feature, getting a customized, repeatable pattern from your images is a breeze. Start by…
Direct to Film printing has rapidly become an important market with explosive growth for many different sizes of shops. We’ve touched on a few benefits to the process already, so we’re here to answer the burning question – is my machine supported? We’ve gone ahead and got to the good bits below. Keep in mind…
Direct to film printing technology is gaining more and more momentum. It is an affordable way in which to add a new production line to your business and expand your product offering by enabling printing on a greater variety of fabrics than direct to garment printing technology. As with virtually any production method, direct to film printing has its advantages as…
Digital print technology supports virtually all widely used print applications. This list includes Wide Format, Print and Cut, UV, Direct to Garment, Direct To Film, Sublimation and Toner Transfer. As new workflows are discovered, we’ll continue to add to this list! Printer manufacturers continue to introduce new devices that address market requirements. Normally, alongside each…
Jobs where you need to match a specific color happen all the time. Famous brands or logos normally publish CMYK or other color values for their styles, but when you need to color match to a custom color, it can be very difficult to get the perfect color dialed in. With the NIX® Color Sensor,…
Is your shop currently set up for Direct to Garment (DTG) printing but you’d like to extend production to Direct to Film (DTF) printing without investing in additional printers? Yes, it is possible! Many existing garment decorating shops are looking to add Direct to Film technology so that they can increase their product offering to fabrics that are currently unsupported by DTG production. Both applications are…
The color red is, well, red. Same goes for blue. To us, we’re (mostly) able to tell what a color is and communicate that effectively. For those afraid of a robot uprising, computers are actually kind of dumb when it comes to this. With a little help from CADlink, identifying and correcting different spot color…
Direct To Film (or DTF – we didn’t make the acronym) printing has been exploding in popularity recently due to is low barrier to entry for producing such high-quality prints. However, the world of direct to film printing is a bit of a wild west right now, and can be very confusing to get started…
RIP Software VS Windows™ print drivers – What to use for your Epson SC-F500/570 sublimation workflow
This is an extremely common and worthwhile question to ask. After-all, a Windows™ driver provides good color prints for your sublimation workflow, is easy to use and generally comes free in the box alongside your new printer. Why should you spend extra money purchasing a third-party RIP software? The reasons why may not seem…