RIP software for sublimation printers

Your ink maker's profile

Your ink maker supplies an RGB profile for your printer, ink and paper. Add it once and pick it for every job. UPrint turns Windows colour management off for each job, so only your profile counts.

How it works

1. 1Open Environments and press Import colour, or Add colour profile in Print.
2. 2Pick the .icc or .icm file from your ink maker.
3. 3Pick it in the Colour environment list. In your printer's own settings, set colour to No colour adjustment once.

In the app: Add colour profile

Left, a 160 px logo. Right, the same logo after Upscale 6x.

AI upscale

A logo saved off a website or a phone is often too small to print well. Upscale makes it 2, 3, 4 or 6 times bigger with our own AI model, on your own PC, so the edges come out sharp.

How it works

1. 1Select the picture and press Upscale (in Studio RIP: Upscale in Prepare).
2. 2Pick 2x, 3x, 4x or 6x. The bar shows the new size in pixels.
3. 3Press Upscale. The print gets sharper, not bigger.

In the app: Upscale

Halftone styles

Six halftone styles and seven dot shapes for a bold, vintage or pop-art look, Palette included.

How it works

1. 1Open Halftone: on the Design canvas, or in Prepare in Studio RIP.
2. 2Pick a style and a dot shape, and set the Detail to choose how big the dots are.
3. 3Press Apply. The gaps between the dots are real holes, so the shirt shows through.

In the app: Halftone

Left, the design on its blue background. Right, after Auto cut-out.

AI background remover

Press Auto cut-out and the AI finds the edge of the design and takes the background away, on your own PC. Only the design prints, with no box round it.

How it works

1. 1Select the picture and press Remove background (in Studio RIP: AI cut-out in Prepare).
2. 2Press Auto cut-out. The background is gone.
3. 3Fix any edge by hand with Refine cut-out: Keep and Remove brushes.

In the app: Auto cut-out

Set up from one print

On a PrintExp board, print our test chart once to a file, and UPrint learns your printer from it. A printer with no white is fine.

How it works

1. 1Press Save the test chart in UPrint.
2. 2Print that chart from the program you use now, to a file.
3. 3Press Read the print and pick the file: UPrint learns the ink order, resolution and passes.

In the app: Read your printer

A traced piece open in the node editor: every square is a node you can drag.

Trace to vector

Press Make Vector and UPrint traces the picture into vector shapes you can edit, make any size and cut. You see the trace before you use it, and how much of the fine detail it kept.

How it works

1. 1Select the picture and press Make Vector.
2. 2Pick Line art, Classic or Sharp, and knock out the paper behind it if you want.
3. 3Compare in Slide, Side by side or Outline, then press Use this trace.

In the app: Make Vector

Design it here too

Draw, trace and lay out the art in the same app, then print it. No second program.

How it works

1. 1Draw, add text, or turn a picture into clean vectors with Make Vector.
2. 2Lay it out on the page.
3. 3Go to Print and send it to your printer.

In the app: Design canvas

Made in the app: v1, Best, Bold vector.

AI image generation

Describe the design, pick a print style such as Bold vector, and press Generate. The art lands in the app, ready to cut out, trace or print. It runs on your own OpenAI or Grok key: on OpenAI from about 1 US cent (Fast) to 17 US cents (Best) an image, paid to them, not to us.

How it works

1. 1Open AI Image and type what you want in the box.
2. 2Pick a print style, such as Bold vector, and Fast, Better or Best.
3. 3Press Generate, then pick the picture to use it.

In the app: Generate