Many graphics professionals are all talking about one process: producing a direct to film job. Using Digital Factory Direct To Film edition, getting a color accurate, low cost, good feeling print is easy. Let’s take a look at the process, covering: Verifying your settings. Setting up ink order. Checking rasterization. Performing a test print. Printing…
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You have a design you love, but a cut shape that makes it difficult to line up exactly. You could spend hours trying to position your design, but why not leverage the power of the queue to do it for you? With this feature, you can use your existing clipping path to clip your design…
Removing white or solid colored backgrounds from images can be a laborious process, with masking and cleaning up images in your favorite image editing software. Removing a colored or detailed multi-tone background would normally be even more of a challenge, but with the FluidMask add-on module, this feature packed tool makes removing even the most…
Adding, Editing, Sharing, and Removing a Camera For setting up a camera to use with Visual Print Positioning, any PC camera will work. CADlink recommends mounting the camera above your platen and aiming it directly at the platen. You can test this feature using your laptop camera. Adding a Camera When a camera has not…
Suppose that the customer has provided you with a low resolution image, and you need to make it larger, and increase the resolution. Complicating matters is that the file was created using JPEG compression, which has introduced noise in the form of stray pixels. With the Super Size image function, you can enlarge an image…
You can import, export, remove, and use the camera to set queue background images in the preview area. To delete any queue background image, go to Queue > Remove Queue Background Image. Take a picture With a camera installed, in the preview area, click Update Queue Background Image. A new picture is taken and populates the queue background. Set…
To get started, rendering intents sounds scientific, but really what we’re talking about here is what happens to red when printing. Monitors display colors using RGB (Red, Green, and Blue). They are very good at displaying these colors, while printers use CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black) and are much better at printing these colors. Correspondingly, printers are…
It’s now easier than ever to create your own incredibly accurate printmode with CADlink software. In the video below, we will cover the process of setting up complete print modes in PMC lite with the Nix™ Color Sensor. In this process, you will set your parameters for ink limiting, calibration, and ICC creation. Since every…
White Ink Only Print Modes The RIP has a white underbase with a manual curve. Color data is printed as white, as if converted to a grayscale (based on the amount of CMYK ink being printed, with more CMYK = less white ink). This ensures that any images with transparency do not get white in transparent areas and the color data is…
The Underbase strength controls how much white ink is used under black and dark areas. There are presets that are set up to give you the best color reproduction and typically, you want to use between Strong 100% white under black to 19 0% White under black. With most DTG, you do need some white under…