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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,…

You got your designs perfected. With your Digital Factory queue running at full steam, you have your colors dialed in, white balanced and choked, with perfect gradients and vivid reds. You take a step back and there it is. Your logo is about a quarter inch crooked to the left. Eyeballing it can get you…

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…

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…

You’re in a very competitive production business, downtime for any reason is not an option. If your output device is not moving, it means lost revenue, lost profit and possibly lost customers.  The one item that often gets overlooked when investing in a software application is the technical support that is available alongside it. This…

As a software company, if there’s one thing we understand, it’s that no matter how easy or intuitive software is, learning an entire new workflow can be a time-consuming hassle.   You may have hundreds if not thousands of hours of experience using your favorite design application. Changing to a different software package for your design work is not an option. With your design perfected, how do…

We know you’re using CADlink software to create visual masterpieces. If it’s wide format printing, engraving, DTG, or any other kind of output we support, it’s likely a very visual medium.   We could sit here and write you pages and pages of documentation on how to use the software we provide, but we both know reading that is as much fun as curing…

A lot of product guides are printed – Compass replaces traditional help files and provides everything you need in one place as you use your program.  Compass is CADlink’s all-in-one digital product user guide and includes videos and bonus docs. If you have multiple applications, Compass switches between them seamlessly as you move between applications.  Available in 7 languages!  When…