UPRINTSOFTWARE

UPrint Studio RIP

RIP software: prepare, lay out and print

You already design. This prints it properly.

Import, prepare, lay out, print. Four steps, the white layer under your control, and colour measured on a real print engine. No dongle.

$19.99 a monthOr $495 onceNo dongle, everWhite layer control
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UPrint Studio RIP software box
Prepare tab · Step 2

Quick fixes: ten ways to repair a file

Point at a fix. It tells you what it does.

Quick fixes
Edit

Crop

Lets you drag a box over the image to frame the part you want to keep, then trims away everything outside the box.

Prepare tab · Quick fixes

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Step 1 · Import

Import any file

Drop it in. Anything.

PNG, JPG, TIFF or PDF, dragged anywhere on the window, or start from a blank sheet. It cuts the background out on the way in and tells you the real size.

The numbers under the drop zone keep your place: 1 Import, 2 Prepare, 3 Layout, 4 Print. The same order every job, every day.

The Import step in UPrint Studio RIP, with the drop zone and the numbered one to four workflow stepper beneath it
Step 1 · Import
Step 1

Scan a drawing

Paint it by hand. Print it on anything.

If you paint, draw or letter by hand, you do not have to learn to do it again on a screen. Put the work on the glass and scan it straight into the app. Everything below is one real card, scanned on a Canon flatbed, taken all the way through.

A hand painted card of pink flowers in a striped vase on a blue ground, inside a yellow and pink patterned border, as it came off the scanner glass with a white margin down the right side and along the bottom
1 · Straight off the glass · 215.9 x 296.9 mm (8.5 x 11.7 in) at 300 dpi
The crop tool open over the scanned card, with an angle dial set to zero degrees and Reset, Apply crop and Cancel buttons
2 · Frame it, and turn the angle dial if it went on crooked
The same card after the crop: the white glass margin is gone and shows as the transparency checkerboard, and the artwork fills the frame ready to print
3 · Cropped, the glass margin gone, ready for the sheet

Straight off the glass

The scanner is a tab in the app, not a separate program. Your machine appears in the list when it is switched on, you pick the quality, and the page arrives at its real size in millimetres rather than a guess.

Crop and straighten in one step

Art never lands square on a scanner. Frame it at its own angle and the app gives you a straight image in one go, instead of crop, rotate, crop again.

Then clean it up

Knock the paper white out, clean the edges, lift the contrast, and see it on the product colour before you commit a sheet.

In both editions

Studio RIP has the scanner too. Bringing a customer’s artwork in off the glass is not a design job, it is a Tuesday.

Step 2 · Prepare

Prepare: fix the file

Fix the file you were sent.

Ten quick fixes down the left, from a crop to a halftone screen. On the right, brightness, contrast and colour pop, with the foil threshold underneath. What you see here is what prints.

New in 1.3.42The cut line now follows the outside edge of the artwork. Tick Cut too and it also cuts round the holes, like the middle of an O.

The Prepare step in UPrint Studio RIP just after an AI cut-out: the tiger artwork now has no background, and the Quick Fixes list offers crop, undo last edit, restore original, turn, remove white background, clean edges, AI cut-out, refine edges, upscale and recolour
Step 2 · Prepare · the background has just been cut out
Step 2

Auto cut-out: remove the background

The box behind the logo, gone.

A customer sends a logo sitting on a solid square. Printed on a dark shirt that square is a slab of toner you paid for and nobody wanted. Two ways to get rid of it, and you pick whichever suits the file in front of you.

The design canvas with a bold vector tiger illustration still sitting on its solid blue background
Before · solid blue background
The same tiger on the design canvas after the AI cut-out, the blue gone and the transparency checkerboard showing through, with the teal star behind the tiger kept and the whiskers intact
After · one click, checkerboard means transparent

Let it cut itself out

One button: Auto cut-out on the design canvas, AI cut-out in the Prepare panel. It works out what the subject is and takes everything else away, including the gaps inside letters and handles if you ask it to keep the holes. Best for photographs and messy edges.

Or pick the colour yourself

Pick a colour to remove, in the same bar. Point at the background with the eyedropper and set how far the match should reach and how soft the edge should be. Exact, repeatable, and better than the AI on a flat brand colour.

Step 2

Refine edges

Then paint the last five percent by hand.

The Refine cut-out workspace open over a tiger illustration, with Keep, Remove, Soft edge and Cut line modes, a brush size slider, live result and snap to edges, and red brush strokes marking the background to be removed
Refine cut-out, running in UPrint Studio RIP · red marks what goes

No automatic cut-out is perfect on hair, fur or a soft edge. Refine opens its own workspace over the artwork: Keep and Remove brushes, a Soft edge that fades a hard cut to clear, and a Cut line you place by clicking points. Snap to edges follows the artwork for you, and the result updates live as you mark.

It is not a preview and it is not a mask you have to keep managing. What you paint is written back as full resolution artwork, so the thing you print is the thing you fixed.

Keep and remove

Brush back a strand the cut-out ate, or wipe out the bit it kept.

Soften the edge

Fade a hard cut so it does not read as a sticker on the garment.

In both editions

Refine edges sits in Studio's Quick Fixes and on the Design canvas. Nobody has to upgrade to tidy an edge.

New · Both editions

Palette: multi-colour halftone

Pop-art dots, in any colours you like.

Palette turns the whole picture into bold, hard dots, the comic-book look. Keep the picture’s own colours, pick one of 40 colour sets, or choose your own 2 to 6 colours. The gaps are real holes, so the shirt shows through.

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Shirt
ColourOriginal colours

This is the app’s own Palette code, running in your browser on a 10 cm (3.9 in) wide print. Drag the gold knob out for bigger dots, in for smaller, round to turn them, the same as in the app, UPrint 1.3.42.

  1. 1In the Halftone bar, pick Palette.
  2. 2Choose the colours, and a light or a dark shirt.
  3. 3Drag the gold knob on the picture: out for bigger dots, round to turn them. Then press Apply.

Close-ups in Original colours: only the dot setting changes from shirt to shirt. Each is a photo of plain shirt fabric with the print laid on. Every dot was made by the app’s own halftone engine (version 1.3.42) at the real print size, 22 to 26 cm (8.7 to 10.2 in) wide. Tap a shirt to see it bigger.

Design RIP
Design canvas › Halftone › Palette
Studio RIP
Prepare › Quick fixes › Halftone › Palette
Both editions

Halftone screens

The streetwear halftone look, in a few clicks.

Make a design dissolve into dots at its edge, turn just one colour into dots, or screen the whole picture. It is the look designers build by hand. Here you need no design skills: pick one of seven dot shapes, set the size, press Apply. The gaps are real holes, so the shirt shows through and the print breathes.

Shirt
Design RIP
Design canvas › Halftone, or Object › Halftone screen
Studio RIP
Prepare › Quick fixes › Halftone

Every dot here was made by UPrint Design RIP 1.3.40. The close-ups are cut straight from the file it saved, then saved as WebP for this page. Every picture was made with the app’s own AI image tool and upscaled in the app first; the flower picture and the lion were also cut out in the app. The shirt colour is only the background on this page.

Step 3 · Layout

Layout: fill the sheet

How many fit, and what it wastes.

Press Fill the sheet and it works out how many fit and lays them out. The numbers that matter sit across the top: how many are up, how many did not fit, and what percentage of the sheet you are actually using. The sheet is the expensive part.

The Layout step in UPrint Studio RIP with Fill the sheet turned on: six copies of the cut-out tiger tiled two across and three down on an A4 sheet, reading 6 up, 0 did not fit, 68 percent used
Step 3 · Layout · Fill the sheet, 6 up, 68% of the A4 used
Step 4 · Print

Print

Everything that decides the job, on one panel.

Printer, paper and product, and the white under the print. Choose white everywhere or only under the colours, trim its edge in pixels, and press How it will print to check the artwork against this press before the paper goes through.

The Print step in UPrint Studio RIP: the same six tigers on the sheet, with printer, paper and product, white under the print at 75 percent, white placement set to everywhere with a pixel choke, and a How it will print colour prediction button
Step 4 · Print · the same 6 up, white set to 75%
Step 4 · The layer that decides everything

The white layer

See your white before you print it.

On dark and clear products the white layer under your artwork decides whether the colour sings or sinks. Too little and the job is muddy. Too much and you are pouring the most expensive toner in the machine onto the floor.

UPrint shows you that layer on screen, per job, before a sheet moves. Drag it and watch what your press is about to do.

White underbase · live preview
White under the print50%

The working range. Colour sits up on the fabric and you are not spending white you do not need. Dark garment is preset to 60%.

Not a slider you hunt for. The white level sits on the Print panel with the paper and the product, so the setting that decides the job is next to the two things that decide the setting.
Step 4

Check it, then print it

The problems, the white and the cost, before you press.

  1. 1

    Check it

    File check reads the customer’s file the moment it lands and lists what would go wrong on a garment: a red dot is a problem, a gold dot is worth a look.

  2. 2

    See it, then print it

    Set how much white goes under the colour, per job. How it will print shows your design beside what this press will put on cloth, before you use any paper.

  3. 3

    Know the cost

    Every job lands in the Queue Manager with its cost, worked out from your own cartridge prices in Cost settings. Quote from a number, not a feeling.

  4. 4

    Keep the history

    Every job you send stays in the Queue Manager: see what printed, reprint a past job, or find where its PDF was saved.

Step 4

White toner in your press

On most presses, white takes the black slot.

On the presses we drive, white is not an extra station. It takes the black one. One slot holds white or black, and you swap the cartridge to change which. On some machines there is no black toner in the building at all.

Four stations, one of them shared White or black. Never both at once. CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW WHITE OR BLACK one slot. you swap the cartridge. OKI Pro8432WT The OKI C711WT carries no black toner at all, so its blacks come from the colours What lands on a dark product White under the colour the dark product white goes first colour on top White over the colour the dark product colour goes first white on top No white at all the dark product colour, sunk in the sheet you throw away

That is real. No software removes it.

What we do is stop it being your problem. The white layer is built in software, per job, from your own artwork. You choose how much and whether it goes under the colour or over it, on screen, before a sheet moves.

And when white is sitting in the black slot, your blacks are built from the colours that are still loaded instead of the job failing. You set it once and get on with the day. You do not walk to the machine to change your mind.

White under the colour

For dark and clear products. The white goes down first so the colour has something to sit on.

White over the colour

For the jobs that need it. Same job, same screen, no trip to the machine.

Black without black toner

When white is in the black slot, your blacks come from the remaining colours rather than failing.

Step 4

Colour measured on a real press

Stock profiles are written for an offset press. Yours is not one.

Most RIP software for these machines hands your press a stock colour profile written for an offset printing press on coated paper. We ran all 21 CMYK profiles in the Windows colour store through the exact path the software would use, and read off what each one asks the press to lay down.

They all landed in the same place. Those profiles ask for 179 to 211 percent ink. Our environments do the same work on 81 to 89 percent. They are built for a press that keeps responding past 60 percent drive. These engines do not.

Roughly double the toner, for colour that is further away, on every sheet.

2×
the toner a stock offset profile asks for
21
stock CMYK profiles run, not assumed
What we are not claiming. That comparison is a calculation, not a print run, and it is built on measurements of our own engine. Your press is not our press. So we ship you the environment we measured, and we will sit on a call and check it against your own printed colour.
New in 1.3.42

Got your own ICC profile? Print with it. In the Print pane, Add colour profile loads your printer’s own CMYK profile. The colour comes from your profile, and the app still makes the white. Free, in both editions.

Export to any format

It is your artwork. Take it anywhere.

Nothing you make is locked in this software. Send a print ready PDF to a trade printer, a transparent PNG to the web shop, or a lossless TIFF to whoever asked for one. Five formats, one menu, one click.

FormatWhat it is for
PDFPrint ready. The one you send to a press.
PNGTransparent, for web shops and mockups.
TIFFLossless, for print work that must not be squashed.
JPEGThe everyday one, when that is all that is wanted.
BMPFor the old machine in the corner that still asks for it.
The designer formats are Design RIP. SVG, AI, EPS, PSD and DXF are vector and layered files, and they belong with the drawing board that made them. Studio RIP keeps the five above, which is what a print room actually hands over.

Everything else in the app

Everything between the file and the sheet.

Bring in anything

PNG, JPG, TIFF or PDF, dropped anywhere. It cuts the background out and gets it print ready.

Prepare

Brightness, contrast, levels and a foil threshold. Fix the file you were sent without opening another program.

Mixed gang sheets

Different designs on one sheet, laid out together. The sheet is the expensive part, so waste less of it.

Edit a PDF

A customer’s PDF with the wrong text or the wrong size, fixed in the app instead of sent back.

AI artwork

Describe it and get printable art on your own OpenAI or Grok key, a few cents an image. Yes, this is in Studio too.

Save as PDF

No printer attached? It will still rip the job and hand you the file.

Your own ICC profile

Print with your printer’s own colour profile. Add it in the Print pane, free.

Speak to the assistant

Press the microphone and say what you want instead of typing it, on your own OpenAI key.

Already have a licence? Sign in to the customer portal to see which edition you own and download the current version. Open the customer portal.
Three ways to pay

Start this month, or own it for good.

Already own a compatible press? The RIP is sold on its own and works with the press you have. One licence runs on two computers. Prices are in US dollars, and tax is worked out at checkout for your country.

For South African businesses: pay UPrint Global CC in Rand by card. Prices include 15% VAT and you get a UPrint tax invoice to claim it back. No account needed: pick a plan, fill in your invoice details and add your card.

Try it free for 7 days. No card.Use every tool for 7 days before you pay anything. When the 7 days end, pick a plan to keep going. Your files stay on your computer.Get the free trial
Studio RIP: a gang sheet of six UPrint designs, in the app
UPrint Studio RIP
$19.99R369a month

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UPrint Studio RIP Monthly

R369 VAT included

These details go on your UPrint tax invoice. Your order code and the invoice are emailed to you once the card payment goes through.

You pay UPrint Global CC by card through Paystack. For South African businesses.

Start monthly
$200R3,699a year

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UPrint Studio RIP Yearly

R3,699 VAT included

These details go on your UPrint tax invoice. Your order code and the invoice are emailed to you once the card payment goes through.

You pay UPrint Global CC by card through Paystack. For South African businesses.

Pay for a year
$495R9,149once off

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UPrint Studio RIP Lifetime

R9,149 VAT included

These details go on your UPrint tax invoice. Your order code and the invoice are emailed to you once the card payment goes through.

You pay UPrint Global CC by card through Paystack. For South African businesses.

Own it outright
Design RIP: Trace to vector, a traced piece open in the node editor, in the app
Or: UPrint Design RIP
From $34.99 a month, $350 a year, or $699 once

Adds a full drawing board in the same window: trace to vector, edit every node, AI artwork.

See Design RIP
Windows and Mac. Both editions run on Windows 10 (64 bit, 21H2 or newer) or Windows 11. Both also run on a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or newer) on macOS 12 or newer; Intel Macs are not supported. The first time you open the Mac app, macOS asks you to allow it once, and your download page shows you how. One licence runs on two computers: Windows, Mac or one of each.

You pay on Paystack’s secure page. Your order code comes by email. Questions? Contact us.

You pay on Polar’s secure page. Your order code comes by email. Questions? Contact us.

Monthly gets you the same software as the once off, updates included, and stops the day you stop. Windows 10 64 bit (21H2 or newer) or Windows 11, and a 1440 x 900 screen or larger. Signed installer, publisher UPrint Global CC.

DTF printers

UPrint Studio DTF RIP: DTF up to 45 cm (17.7 in) wide

For DTF printers with Epson XP600 or i1600 heads, run by PrintExp, on a page or a roll, up to 45 cm (17.7 in) wide. On a wider printer it prints jobs up to 45 cm (17.7 in). It is the Studio RIP download with DTF switched on by your licence. Needs Windows 10 or 11 for now. Prices are in US dollars, plus tax worked out at checkout. Try it first: get the 7 day free trial and pick DTF printer when it starts.

For South African businesses: pay UPrint Global CC in Rand by card. Prices include 15% VAT and you get a UPrint tax invoice to claim it back. No account needed: pick a plan, fill in your invoice details and add your card.

UPrint Studio DTF RIP
$25R420a month

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UPrint Studio DTF RIP Monthly

R420 VAT included

These details go on your UPrint tax invoice. Your order code and the invoice are emailed to you once the card payment goes through.

You pay UPrint Global CC by card through Paystack. For South African businesses.

Start monthly
$250R4,200a year

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UPrint Studio DTF RIP Yearly

R4,200 VAT included

These details go on your UPrint tax invoice. Your order code and the invoice are emailed to you once the card payment goes through.

You pay UPrint Global CC by card through Paystack. For South African businesses.

Pay for a year
$570R9,500once off

Almost there

UPrint Studio DTF RIP Lifetime

R9,500 VAT included

These details go on your UPrint tax invoice. Your order code and the invoice are emailed to you once the card payment goes through.

You pay UPrint Global CC by card through Paystack. For South African businesses.

Own it outright

You pay on Paystack’s secure page. Your order code comes by email. Questions? Contact us.

You pay on Polar’s secure page. Your order code comes by email. Questions? Contact us.

Find your printer

Will it work with my press?

Which printers does it drive?

White toner printers

Both editions, Studio RIP and Design RIP. Most of these were discontinued years ago, and shops run them every day. Old is fine.

  • OKI
    • Pro8432WT
    • C711WTThe same machine as the ES7411WT and the Pro7411WT.
  • Converted machines
    • OKI C711, C712 and C833Converted to run white toner in the black slot, and others like them.

Sublimation printers

On their own Windows driver, in Studio RIP and Design RIP: add the RGB profile your ink maker supplies. On a PrintExp board, with DTF on your licence: the Studio DTF RIP or Design RIP with DTF.

  • Own Windows driver
    • Sublimation printersAdd the RGB profile made for your printer, ink and paper (.icc or .icm).
  • PrintExp board
    • Sublimation printers with no whiteSet up from one chart print. With the Studio DTF RIP or Design RIP with DTF.
See what UPrint does on each printer

Running a DTF printer? DTF prints from the Studio DTF RIP or Design RIP with DTF.

Your printer not on the list?

Want to add your printer to our software?

Tell us the make and model. We tell you straight whether it works today, and what it would take if it does not.

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support@uprintsoftware.com · +27 81 246 0010

Can I design in it?

Not in Studio RIP. It prepares, lays out and prints, and it expects the artwork to arrive finished from Illustrator, CorelDRAW, Affinity or wherever you work. If you want to draw and trace inside the software, that is Design RIP.

Do I need to own any printer to use the software?

No. Without a printer you can still use it to prepare artwork and export it: bring in the file, clean it up, lay out the sheet, then save it as a file. UPrint Studio RIP exports PDF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG and BMP. UPrint Design RIP lets you design the artwork too, and adds SVG, AI, EPS, PSD, DXF and WEBP.

Why would I switch from my old RIP to UPrint?

To save money, time and training, and to get a print that comes out right every time, without losing what works. For DTF, your colour and printer settings come with you from one print of our charts, and you try UPrint on your own printer for 7 days with no card. Why switch, in full, with a savings calculator.

Do I need to buy a UPrint printer as well?

No. If you already own a compatible press, the software is sold on its own and works with the press you have.

What happens after I pay?

You get an order code and a download link. Install, enter the code, and it activates itself on that computer. Your colour environment installs with it, so there is nothing to load by hand.

How many computers?

Two. One order code runs on two computers in your business, and you can reinstall on them any time with the same code. A free trial runs on one computer. If a machine dies or you replace it, send us your order code and we will move you across.

Can I try it before I pay?

Yes. Download the free trial and the full software runs for 7 days on your own computer. No card is needed. Not a cut down demo, the same build the paying customers get.

If I pay monthly, can I switch to owning it later?

Yes. Buy the once off whenever it suits you and the monthly stops. Nothing on your computer changes and no work has to move.

Try Studio RIP free for 7 days

Stop guessing at the most expensive layer.

Try it free for 7 days, no card needed. Install it today, print with it today.

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