Image and Layout Features
Quickly reorganize images in a job using custom distances or type of grid
Introduction There is no faster or more flexible way to reorganize all images or image groups within a job according to customizable horizontal and vertical distances (if the objects are the same size, they form a grid). Additional rules, such as ...
ColorCombine
Uses color separations, i.e. color channels separated into individual image files and combines them into a single image by overlaying them on top of each other, coloring each individual layer to create the final image. Similar to the process of ...
Step and Repeat
Enables you to take any bmp or tiff image and repeat it any number of times in horizontal and/or vertical direction with or without offset, creating a pattern of any size that can be treated as any other image. This comes in handy in textile printing ...
Correcting Size Changes caused by Processing
Certain printing applications such as the fixation process after printing on fabric can cause the original material to shrink or extend, leading to distorted output and making a reliable workflow difficult at best and impossible at worst. When this ...
Tiling
Images can be separated into horizontal and vertical stripes, also called tiles. This e.g. allows for large images to be printed in parts if their output size is larger than the printing width/material. Individual tiles may be rotated, scaled and ...
Crop Images
The crop dialog allows to cut out part of the currently selected image, discarding the rest. Crop can be defined either manually by dragging a selection in the preview window, or numerically by entering exact coordinates or percentages to cut out. ...
Positioning Images
Positioning allows to automatically or numerically set the location of images within a printjob. This can be useful to save media, to print the image on an exact distance to another image, or other application reasons. Positioning can be set either ...
Rotate, Mirror, Scale
Rotate Rotating images is often useful to save media, diversify the print direction on a structured media etc. Note that Printing rotated images consumes more calculation time and therefore can reduce the output speed. To rotate or mirror an image, ...
Group Images, Page per Image
Group Images Locks mutliple images into a group so they are treated as a single image. Selecting one image in a Group will always select the entire group and moving one image will move the rest of the group as well while keeping the images relative ...
TrueShapeNesting
Repositions and rotates all images in the Job according to set criteria such as easy cutting, save media, etc. TrueShapeNesting always uses the proper, inner shape of an image, ignoring transparent areas surrounding the actual image contents form to ...
Rectangular Nesting
Repositions and rotates all images in the Job according to set criteria such as easy cutting, save media, etc. Nesting always uses the outer rectangular shape of an image as its boundary, transparencies in files to create complex outlines will not be ...
Duplicate, Rearrange, Center, and Overlay
Duplicate Creates duplicates of the selected image and optionally aligns them on a grid. Select the image and press Ctrl+D or use Right Click > Duplicate... on the image to bring up the Duplicate menu. To simply add multiple duplicates of the image ...
Bleed and Cut Lines
About Bleed and Cut Lines Bleed and Cut Lines are two features intended to be used for images that will be cut out sometime after the printing process, either by machine or by hand. Bleed will add a bleed margin to the image to avoid material color ...
Mask Image
About Masks Crops or covers up parts of your image by applying a second image on top of it and removing/covering parts of the original image based on the image content of the second, Mask Image. Mask Image works similar to features such as Clip Masks ...
Tune
Makes adjustment to image colors by changing Saturation, Brightness & Contrast, Color Balance and Color Gradation. Use the tabs at the top of the dialog to switch between the different Tune modes. Adjustments can also be saved as a Tune Preset by ...
Image Margin
Adds a margin around the selected image file. To apply margins, either select one of the margin Presets, define a new Preset using the Add button or simply enter the desired margins into the respective fields. Margins may be different on each side. ...
Image AddOns
Image AddOns are canned modifications and additions that alter an image without requiring actual changes to the the image file itself. AddOns can be used to add Company Logos, Seam Extensions, Labels and other elements to images directly in the RIP ...
Print Marks
Adds Print Marks to the selected Image. Typically Print Marks consist of two header lines above the image, one footer line below the image and contains information on the image and settings it is being printed with and a crop mark in each corner of ...
Image Format
A powerful tool that allows you to apply predefined scaling parameters to the images you are importing. Selecting an Image Format for your image import will automatically import your selected images scaled to the desired format. E.g. selecting 2 ...
File Comment
Displays the path to the currently selected image file and lets you add a comment or description to that file. This comment is saved with this instance of the file and can be displayed in dynamically generated fields such as Print Marks and the Image ...
Image Import
Adds images from an accessible location on your Harddisk, Removable drive or network to the current Job. The import dialog also allows to set multiple parameters for the image import so you need fewer editing steps and less manual work preparing the ...