PrintFactory

The Complete Large Format Print Software System

Say goodbye to the problems caused by having different print software running each of your large format devices. PrintFactory is a versatile and scalable print software suite that runs all your print devices and cutters, integrating them with the same easy-to-use colour management and production tools.

Match colour across all your devices, recalibrate easily, save ink and media. Automatically produce white ink layers, cut marks and contours.

The only RIP on the market that works on both Mac and PC across your network in harmony. Only pay per output device, from as little as £45 per month. Available as a subscription on a monthly or yearly basis – covering all support and software updates.

Control Your Colour

Different print devices, different inks, different medias, different software – all these factors will affect your colour output. If you want to produce accurate colour, produce it repeatably over time and match across different devices then you need to embrace colour management.

A subject often made overcomplicated and shrouded in mystery and jargon, the idea is simple; keep the colour appearance of your artwork the same as you send it to different devices. On screen, on press, on a proof, on a banner or on a tin can – the aim is for everything to match.

The process is straightforward and simplified by PrintFactory’s Calibrator tool. Just follow the wizard to output colour charts and measure them with a spectrophotometer. Two charts is enough to quickly produce an accurate snapshot of the device to make a profile from. The Calibrator software produces a colour profile which is automatically shared to all the other Printfactory RIPs on your network.

All your profiles are securely backed up to the cloud so your work is instantly available to every machine in your business.

The beauty of the PrintFactory colour management engine is that it uses the international standard ICC profiles – just like you get in Photoshop. This means that you can easily work with customer’s profiles for producing photographic and fine art. You can also harness the full colour gamut of your output device with extended gamut inks and even work with an RGB workflow.

You can fine-tune your ICC profiles and produce what are called ‘Device links’ – these let you produce ultra accurate profiles for proofing as well as ink saving.

PrintFactory’s spot colour support is the easiest to use of any RIP software. All the popular spot colour libraries are included and automatically applied. You can override and fine tune these by measurement or by using the visual match tool.

Key Features

Mac & PC

The only RIP solution on the market that is truly Mac or PC. Your artworkers submitting artwork from their Macs, the production department scheduling and running jobs on PCs – or any other combination.

Free Cutter Support

Roll-to-roll or flatbed. Drive your cutter for free, no extra license required. Automatically add alignment marks to the print data. Automatically create the cut path. Send the print data to the printer, send the cut data to the cutter. No humans required.

Subscription

Available on a monthly or yearly subscription from £45 per month / £450 per year. Your subscription includes all software updates and technical support. Only pay for the printers you use. Cancel any time.

Layout Tool

You can feed PrintFactory with files into hotfolders, but if you want to lay out and edit jobs manually, then the Layout tool is the easiest and most powerful in the business. Create precise nests of jobs and add crop marks, canvas stretches, mirror jobs for reverse printing with an automatic white layer – and much more.

True-shape Nesting

Save precious material in your nesting with True-shape nesting, which ignores the white space of the bounding box and uses the cut contours of your job to fit items closer together, saving material and time.

Easy Colour Management

The simplest and quickest Profiling wizard around. Get an accurate media profile in two charts. All licenses included in your subscription. Device-links can be created for accurate proofing but still keep the flexibility of ICC profiles for any other work.

Proofing

Gone are the days when you needed expensive, proprietary software for producing colour proofs. Four figure price tags from companies with three letter names are consigned to history.

Proofing is integrated into PrintFactory – highly accurate colour proofs to any colour standard are easily achievable thanks to the powerful colour engine. Easy recalibration keeps everything passing to the tightest tolerances. No need to use expensive branded proofing media – you can easily create profiles with any commercial proofing paper.

Support for the industry standard Epson SC-P series printers is included along with the in-line Spectroproofer for easy and automated proof verification. Verification results are automatically printed on the proof along with a QR code to access the full measurement data.