Production-grade pre-press.
Mill-floor calibrated.
Built for the engineers who make designs print correctly — ICC profile management, RIP-ready exports, halftone screen specifications, dye-recipe handoff, and Delta-E tolerance protocols across every fabric base.
A mill engineer's job is to make the difference between a designer's monitor and the printed yard disappear. That means knowing every link in the color chain — RGB-to-LAB-to-CMYK conversion, ICC source and destination profiles, dot-gain curves, mesh-count-to-LPI matching, dye absorption per fabric base, illuminant metamerism, and the Delta-E tolerance the buyer's QC team will measure against. Texloom Studio is built for that workflow. The platform exports files with embedded ICC profiles tagged to your fabric base, separates colors with halftone parameters you specify (LPI, screen angle, dot shape per channel), and matches every spot color to Pantone TCX with CIEDE2000 — the same formula used by your color spectrophotometer. Pre-press becomes a verification step instead of a translation problem.
Start DesigningChallenges we solve
From idea to production-ready file
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Receive the design with embedded source profile
The designer (in Texloom or Adobe) hands off a TIFF or PSD with the sRGB or AdobeRGB ICC profile embedded. Texloom Studio reads the profile, displays the assumed source space, and warns if the profile is missing or non-standard.
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Specify destination profile + rendering intent
Pick the fabric-base destination profile (cotton-poplin, polyester-100, viscose-twill, etc.) and the rendering intent (perceptual for photo-realistic florals, relative-colorimetric for spot-color brand work). The studio simulates the printed result on-screen using soft-proof preview.
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Generate spot-color separations + halftone screens
Open Separation Studio. Set the channel count, LPI per channel, screen angle per channel, and dot shape per channel. Output is a multi-page TIFF (one page per channel) or layered PSD with screen parameters embedded for the RIP.
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Validate Pantone matches with CIEDE2000
Pantone Color Finder cross-references every cluster centroid against the full TCX library and flags any color exceeding ΔE 2. The engineer either accepts the closest match, picks an alternate TCX code, or sends the design back for color rework.
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Export the RIP-ready production package
One click exports: (1) the multi-page TIFF separations with embedded ICC profiles, (2) a Pantone TCX spec sheet listing every color with Delta-E from intent, (3) a halftone screen specification table, (4) a recommended dye-recipe sheet for the mixer. Drop the package into the RIP queue.
Tools you'll use every day
Separation Studio
Spot-color channels with LPI, angle, dot shape per channel
Pantone Color Finder
CIEDE2000 Delta-E matching against full TCX library
Color Standards
TCX + RAL Classic matching with Delta-E confidence scoring
Color Matching
K-Means clustering in CIE-LAB with Pantone export
Format Converter
TIFF/PSD/PNG with ICC profile preservation
Print Calculator
Bleed, repeat math, ink coverage estimates
Common scenarios
Rotary screen pre-press for high-volume runs
Multi-page TIFF separations with screen ruling per channel, ICC-tagged for the destination fabric base. RIP-ready handoff to a Stork or Reggiani rotary press without pre-press rework.
Digital direct-to-fabric production
ICC-profiled exports tagged for cotton, polyester, viscose, or blended substrates. The RIP applies the destination profile, the printed yard matches the soft-proof to within Delta-E 2.
Screen-print pre-press for apparel mills
Spot-color separations at the LPI and mesh count the press supports, with dot-gain compensation curves applied per channel. Strike-off success rate jumps from 60% to 95% on the first iteration.
Jacquard weaving file preparation
Reduce a designer's continuous-tone artwork to the limited color count a jacquard loom can weave, with explicit channel mapping per warp/weft system. CIE-LAB clustering minimizes perceptual loss.
Color management standardization across multiple presses
Build an ICC profile per press × fabric combination once, store in the studio, apply automatically per export. Cross-press color drift drops to within ΔE 1.5 across the entire mill floor.
Buyer color-tolerance compliance for brand work
Generate handoff packages with documented Delta-E for every color, signed by the engineer. When the buyer's QC team measures a swatch with their spectrophotometer, the recorded value matches the documentation within tolerance.
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ICC profiles, halftone specifications, Pantone-validated separations, and dye-recipe sheets — every export package the RIP queue needs, generated in one click.
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