Want more accurate colors? Swatch charts involve printing one-or-more sheets of material (i.e., garments), and each swatch has a color value. Lab charts are printed with Lab values, CMYK charts are printed with CMYK values, etc. By printing your own charts, values are accurate for your specific printer, including its inks, substrate, and operating environment….
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Looking to add customizable aging and a vintage look to your prints right from the queue? The Distressed effect plug-in allows you to apply a filter over your image or design, which adds a weathered and worn look. You can create these masks and save them as presets for future use. For an example, we’ll…
Working with your objects can get confusing, especially when stacking different layers. With the weld tool, you can join objects, either to simplify your design, or as a tool to create entirely new design options. The weld tools can be used to weld objects together in different styles. For information about configuring nodes for welds, see our Compass article…
If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that the variable data wizard is a powerful tool for quickly serializing and replacing data, eliminating some tedious design work and saving you time. We can use the same features for text replacement, but for images! To walk through this, we suggest using a tab delimited text file…
When printing your film separations, there are a few things to consider. Too little ink can cause fuzzy appearing dots on your print. Too much ink increases drying time, and can risk leading to bleeding issues. Before starting a large job, we suggest printing an ink density test page. Test pages determine optimum ink density,…
Knowing what tools to use when can make you a master of your production. While there’s nothing wrong with clicking and dragging every change you want to make, there are easier ways to get results in SignLab, EngraveLab, and ProfileLab. Take a look at the keyboard shortcuts below. We recommend bookmarking this page or downloading…
With your variable data, applying cutlines can sometimes break the overall fit of your design. This can happen with text or detailed images, resulting in marooned sections that if cut as is, would result in separate pieces. The Merge feature of the contour cutting function in the Variable Data Wizard allows you to bring these…
The Variable Data Wizard is useful for things like quickly and easily replacing text in a workspace. Things can get complicated if that text has associated cut lines, but with contour cut settings in VDW, you’ll be able to replace text and have your cut lines automatically set to fit the new text. To start,…
Looking to maximize your print material by making sure you use every inch? Rather than spend hours moving all your objects together, let the computer do the calculations and figure out the exact best spot to place your objects with the Nesting feature. Nesting objects reduces wasted material by flipping, grouping, and rotating objects on the…
Getting a picture perfect design on a shape or text can be time consuming. There’s nothing worse than the sinking feeling of realizing your design is great, but now you have to mimic it 100 more times. The InstantReplay function in SignLab, EngraveLab, and ProfileLab lets you take all the custom design work you do…