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Moving from Maintop: bring your DTF settings to UPrint

You have Maintop set up the way you like it. You do not need to type those settings again. UPrint reads them from two prints that Maintop makes: one small test chart and one colour chart.

What carries over, and how

In Maintop	In UPrint	Where
Which ink is on which channel	Read from your print of our test chart	Set up this printer, step 1
Resolution and passes	Read from the same print	Set up this printer, step 1
Your colour: how much C, M, Y and K ink Maintop lays	Copied from your print of our colour chart	Set up this printer, step 3
A colour profile (.icc) made for your printer, ink and film	Added as it is	Set up this printer, step 3: Add a profile
How much white, and where	Not copied: you set it per job	White: Amount, Where, Edge

Before you start

Maintop, with the colour settings you use for customer jobs.
UPrint open, on the PC that runs PrintExp, with DTF roll picked in Print to.
About 35 cm (13.8 in) of film: the test chart is 10 x 10 cm (3.9 x 3.9 in), the colour chart 203 x 219 mm (8 x 8.6 in).

The three steps

1Print our test chart from Maintop

In UPrint, open Set up this printer and press Save the test chart.

In Maintop: File, then Load image, and pick the chart. Print it at 100%.

PrintExp got the chart? UPrint offers that job: press Use this job.
Maintop saved it to a file (.prn)? Press Pick a file... and pick that file.

Maintop's Print window: Scale 100 and Print to File — Maintop's Print window, from the Maintop kit's own video. 1: Scale 100. 2: Print to File.

2Copy your Maintop colour

In step 3, Colour, press Save the colour chart.

Print it from Maintop at 100%, with your normal colour settings. Do not change any colour setting for this print.

Then Use this job or Pick a file..., as in step 1.

Copied from your RIP: 784 colours. Chosen for this printer as "My RIP colour" with the date and time.

Step 3 says the colour is copied from your RIP — The colour is copied. UPrint Design RIP.

3Set the white yourself

The white is not part of the copy. Set it for each job under White:

Amount: how much white.
Where: Everywhere or Under colour.
Edge: the white stops this many pixels inside the colour.

Start near the white you use in Maintop, and print one test.

White: Amount, Where, Edge — UPrint Design RIP 1.3.57

Every step with a picture: Set up your DTF printer and copy your colour.

What the copy does, and what it does not

It reads, square by square, how much of each ink Maintop lays. UPrint then lays the same ink for each colour.
It copies ink, not a colour measurement. So the app does not show a colour prediction for a copied colour. Hold your first real print next to the same job from Maintop.
Each copy gets its own date and time. An older copy is never replaced, and you can go back to it in the Colour list.

Maintop stays as it is

UPrint changes nothing in Maintop. Keep it while you compare prints side by side.

Try it on your own printer

7 day free trial, no card. Every tool, on your own computer. Download Design RIP and pick DTF printer when it starts. Install it on the Windows PC that runs PrintExp, or on a Mac that saves the jobs for that PC.

Download the free trial

On day 8 the app locks until you buy. Pay with the same email and it unlocks by itself. One free trial per computer and per email.