For Mill Engineers & Pre-Press Technicians

Cleaner files into pre-press.
Fewer surprises on the floor.

Coded colours with Lab values, spot-colour separations, print preflight and spec sheets, so the files reaching pre-press are checked before the RIP sees them.

A mill engineer's job is to make the difference between a designer's monitor and the printed yard disappear. Much of that work happens in the RIP and the colour lab: profiles, screening, dot gain and recipes. What Texloom Studio does is improve what arrives there. Designers match every colour to a coded library colour with Lab values, separate spot colours with trapping and registration marks, and run Print Preflight to catch low resolution, broken repeats, missing bleed and out-of-gamut colour. The engineer receives a file with the DPI set, a colour list in codes, and a spec sheet with the production details.

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Coded library colours with Lab values

Preflight

Resolution, repeat, bleed and gamut checks

PSD / TIFF

Layered and multi-page separations

600 DPI

On every export, every plan

Why mill engineering teams choose Texloom

Challenges we solve

Files arrive at the wrong size or resolution, with broken repeats or no bleed.

Print Preflight checks resolution at the real print size, the repeat, bleed and out-of-gamut colour before the file is exported, and gives the designer a report card.

Colour targets arrive as screenshots or descriptions.

Every colour is matched to a Texloom library colour with a permanent code and Lab values, so the colour lab gets numbers to work to.

Screen and rotary work needs clean spot-colour plates.

Separation Studio separates automatically or to 2 to 12 screens, with choke and spread trapping, a choked white underbase and registration marks, exported as layered PSD or a multi-page TIFF.

Production details get lost between design and the floor.

Spec Sheet produces a one-page sheet with the palette and nearest colour codes, dimensions, print size at 300 DPI, repeat type and fabric and ink notes.

Workflow

From idea to production-ready file

1
Agree the specification
Share the print size, DPI, bleed and file format your RIP expects with the design team.
2
Designers preflight
Designers run Print Preflight against that print size and bleed and fix anything it flags before exporting.
3
Colours arrive as codes
Each colour comes with its Texloom library code and Lab values, ready for the colour lab.
4
Separations for screen work
For screen and rotary jobs, the designer exports spot-colour plates with trapping and registration marks.
5
Profiles and screening in the RIP
Apply your press and fabric profiles, screening and dot-gain compensation in the RIP as usual.

Built for mill engineering

Tools you'll use every day

Separation Studio

Spot-colour plates with trapping and underbase

Texloom Colour Library

Coded colours with Lab values

Color Matching

Recolour a design to match a reference

Format Converter

PNG, JPG, WebP and TIFF with DPI metadata

Print Calculator

DPI and physical print size

Use cases

Common scenarios

Rotary screen pre-press

Spot-colour plates as layered PSD or multi-page TIFF, ready for your engraving workflow.

Digital direct-to-fabric production

Preflighted RGB or CMYK print TIFFs with the DPI set in the file, profiled in your RIP.

Screen-print pre-press for apparel mills

Separations with trapping, a white underbase and registration marks.

Jacquard preparation

Artwork reduced to a set number of colours (2 to 12) on separate channels, as input for your jacquard software.

Colour targets for the lab

Coded colours with Lab values sent with every job.

Buyer colour discussions

A written colour list in codes to discuss with the buyer's QC team before the strike-off.

Industry FAQ

Questions about mill engineering on Texloom

No. Texloom exports standard files with the DPI set; apply your press and fabric profiles in the RIP. Print Preflight can export a CMYK TIFF and flags colours outside the CMYK range first.