Want to further automate your printing and cutting workflow? Let’s take a look at adding contour cut lines automatically when files are imported, and how to setup an automated Contour Cutting workflow in Digital Factory! Within Digital Factory, you have a few options to create, edit, or delete contour cutlines. These include: Manually adding contour…
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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….
When it comes to blending your design into your garment, one of the best tools you can use is the KnockMeColorOut plugin. The KnockMeColorOut plug-in is used to remove specific colors from your design, which will then be replaced by the color of the garment underneath when printed. To get started with the KnockMeColorOut plug-in:…
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…
In Digital Factory there are several ways to create multiples of a design. Duplicating or copying a design is a simple process, and there are some powerful options that give you more control over your copies versus traditional copy and paste. To start, let’s take a look at the following functions of making copies: Page…
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…
Want to get a better idea of what each print head is doing when you go to print? Need to change settings on a per-layer basis? Each print head pass over the substrate uses a set of Layer Profile tab controls applied for that pass. Within these menus, you can configure the layer properties and…
There are two main reasons that you may need to tile a job: if the image to be printed exceeds the current media width, or to make larger jobs easier to handle. Breaking your jobs up into sections can sometimes make it easier to fit more jobs into a workspace. VPM works with a vast…