Textile Printing Software for Digital, Screen & Commercial Production
Textile printing software handles the production prep that turns a designer's artwork into a press-ready file: seamless tile generation, color separation, accurate colour code matching, ICC profile management, and production exports at 300-600 DPI. Texloom Studio is web-based textile printing software for the file-prep side of digital, screen, sublimation and rotary production; your RIP still drives the press.
Where Texloom fits: the file, not the press
Texloom prepares the file
- Design the artwork, build the repeat and make colourways
- Name every colour with a coded library colour and its Lab values
- Separate for screens, with trapping and a white under-base
- Check resolution at print size, the repeat, bleed and out-of-gamut colour
- Export TIFF, PNG or PDF at 300 or 600 DPI, and layered PSD for separations
Your RIP drives the press
- Applies the profile for your ink and fabric
- Sets ink limits and linearisation
- Mirrors sublimation transfers, nests and queues jobs
- Sends the job to the printer
Looking for a RIP? Wasatch, Caldera, ErgoSoft and ColorGate make them. Texloom is not one: it hands your RIP a clean, checked file.
From artwork to a press-ready file
- Make the repeat. Build block, half-brick or half-drop repeats in the Seamless Pattern Maker, then see every join in the Seamless Tile Checker.
- Get the size right. Check what print size a file supports with the DPI & Print Size Calculator, and enlarge small artwork with the AI Image Upscaler.
- Name the colours. Find the closest coded colour for each ink in the Texloom Colour Library.
- Separate for screen printing. Split the design into one plate per ink in Separation Studio, and set dots, angle and LPI in the Halftone Generator.
- Preflight and export. Run the Print Preflight at your print size and bleed, then export for your RIP.
What textile printing software does
Seamless tile generation
Convert any source image into a tileable rapport that prints continuously across the fabric width without visible seams. Block, half-drop, half-brick, and mirror layouts supported.
Color separation + colour codes
Cluster pixels into spot-color channels (4-12 colors typical), match each to its nearest library colour, and generate halftone screens at production-grade LPI and angle.
Production-ready export
TIFF, PNG or PDF at 300 or 600 DPI, with the DPI written into the file. Multi-page TIFF and layered PSD for separations: standard files that RIP and pre-press software open.
Multi-method workflow
One file-prep workflow for digital direct-to-fabric, sublimation, screen printing and rotary screens. Your printer's RIP applies the profile for each press and fabric.
Comparison: textile printing software methods
Digital direct-to-fabric
Short runs, on-demand, no minimums. Best for sample work, custom prints, e-commerce drops.
DPI: 300-600 · Setup: minutes · Min order: 1
Screen printing
Spot-color, high-volume, durable wash performance. Best for apparel, branded merch.
DPI: 72-150 LPI · Setup: hours · Min order: 50-100
Rotary / commercial
Industrial-scale continuous printing. Best for fashion mills, home textiles, wallpaper.
DPI: 300+ · Setup: days · Min order: 500-1000m
Free account, 100 starter credits, web-based, with no install, no card.
Frequently asked questions about textile printing software
What is the best textile printing software?
The best textile printing software depends on your print method. For digital direct-to-fabric and sublimation, you need files at the right size and DPI with a checked repeat, plus RIP software (such as Wasatch SoftRIP) to drive the press. For screen printing, you need spot-color separation; dedicated desktop separation software adds simulated-process and halftone controls. Texloom Studio covers the design and file-prep side of both in one workspace: seamless repeats, colour code matching, spot-colour separations with trapping, and print preflight.
What does textile printing software do?
Textile printing software handles the production prep that turns a designer's artwork into a press-ready file. The core operations are: (1) seamless tile generation, making the pattern repeat without visible seams across the printed yardage; (2) color separation, splitting the design into spot-color channels (for screen printing) or process channels (for digital); (3) colour matching, verifying every color against its colour reference within commercial colour tolerance; (4) ICC profile management, embedding source and destination color profiles so the press reproduces colors accurately; (5) production export, writing TIFF, PSD, or specialized RIP formats with the right DPI, dimensions, and metadata for the print partner's equipment.
Is there free textile printing software?
Texloom Studio's starting plan covers the core file-prep workflow (seamless pattern generation, colour code matching, separations and standard exports) with starter credits and no credit card required. Every plan exports at 300 or 600 DPI; paid plans add monthly credits for the AI tools, and team plans add a shared credit pool. Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator can do textile print prep but require manual seamless work, manual colour matching, and external separation plugins (typically $200-500). Open-source GIMP and Inkscape lack the textile-specific features that production printing demands.
What is the difference between digital and commercial textile printing software?
Digital textile printing software prepares files for direct-to-fabric, sublimation, and pigment digital presses: the workflow is short-run, on-demand, no-minimum, with ICC profiles per fabric base and high DPI (300-600) for fine detail. Commercial textile printing software covers a broader scope including rotary screen printing, flatbed screen printing, and digital, at industrial scales (hundreds to thousands of meters per day), with team workflows, audit trails, multi-press color calibration, and integration with mill RIP software (Wasatch, Caldera, ErgoSoft, ColorGate). Texloom Studio covers the design and file-preparation side of both; RIP software and press calibration stay with the printer.
What file formats does textile printing software produce?
TIFF is the textile production standard: lossless, supports 16-bit depth, embeds ICC color profiles, and supports multi-page documents (perfect for spot-color separations, one channel per page). PSD (Photoshop layered) is the second standard, used heavily by mills running Streamline or FilmMaker pre-press. Some specialized digital printers also accept proprietary formats: AVA CAD, Lectra Modaris, Gerber AccuMark for jacquard pattern files. Texloom Studio exports TIFF, PNG, JPG and PDF from every tool, layered PSD from Separation Studio and Recolor Studio, and SVG from Vectorize Studio.
Is Texloom a RIP?
No. Texloom is design and file-preparation software: it builds the repeat, names the colours, separates for screens, checks the file and exports it at print resolution. Your RIP software (Wasatch, Caldera, ErgoSoft, ColorGate and others) applies the profile for your ink and fabric and drives the press. Texloom's job is to hand it a clean, checked file.
Does textile printing software handle colour code matching?
Production-grade textile printing software matches colours to precise codes as a core feature. The matching uses perceptual colour difference to find the nearest library colour for each color cluster in the design, with a match score displayed for every match. Commercial tolerance is a score under 2.0; anything above is flagged for designer review. Texloom Studio matches against its own 2,736-colour library, each colour with a permanent code and Lab values, and exports a spec sheet alongside the production file, giving the print partner an unambiguous color specification per ink channel.