PrintFilmReady Films without a RIP

Upload artwork → we split it per ink and convert it into printable dot rasters → download your films. In your browser. No RIP, no Photoshop.

Spot colors, or Pro CMYK process separation (beta).
4 fixed-angle inks, no ICC color management. For fully colour-managed photorealistic process work, use a pro RIP.
Guides & mesh charts →
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Beta testers and subscribers get a code tied to their email address. Both are needed: the code only works with the address it was issued to.

Copy it from your email — dashes optional. The first four digits are its expiry.

No code? The tool stays free for up to 3 inks at 360 dpi. 7 beta seats are open →

Each ink is clustered from your artwork’s colors and screened separately.
What happens to your image colours → inks → printable dots
1. Your artwork — colors and smooth shades, straight from JPEG or PNG.
2. Split into inks — one layer per color. Each layer gets its own screen.
3. Converted into dots (the raster) — a press prints ink or no ink, nothing in between. Shades become bigger and smaller dots, like newspaper print — or choose solid instead of dots (for lino / block printing) in step 3. This is what goes on your film.

Why films need dots at all →

1 — Artwork

JPEG / PNG · flat colors & tints work best
Uploaded artwork preview

2 — Inks

One screen per ink
3 inks → 3 screens
White = no ink
Lightness cutoff: 92%
Add white underbase
Choke: 1pt
Union of every ink, choked inward so registration drift never shows white at the edge.

Live on-press preview (soft proof)

Your artwork
Uploaded artwork
Separated

Click a swatch to change an ink color — the preview updates live. Films themselves are always black; the chosen color only affects this preview and the hex on the film label.

3 — Films

1-bit output · round dot · 22.5° · fabric or paper

Print setup

A knit swallows small dots and gains 15–35%, so dots stay coarser and the tonal range is clipped harder.
Dots below the clip floor fall through the mesh; above the ceiling they bridge. Clipping is intentional.
Height follows the artwork ratio. Wider than 18″ (457 mm)? The sheet is cut into panels automatically (Pro).

Film options

File formats

PNG — always includedThe film as an image at its true print size (360 or 720 dpi stored in the file), ready to print at 100%.

Extras (Pro)

Tick one to show its settings. The preview is free; generating needs Pro.
Print downloads at actual size / 100% — never “fit to page”.
Registration: getting every layer to land in the same place

Every colour after the first has to land in the same place. Two approaches, both older than any of us:

  • A registration jig. A board with a right angle for the block and another for the paper, so both drop into the same position every time. Cheap to build from scrap and accurate enough for most work.
  • Kento marks. The Japanese moku hanga method: a corner notch and an edge notch cut into the block itself, into which the paper is seated. Elegant, and it travels with the block.

The registration marks and crop ticks printed in the margin of each layer give you a common reference across all of them — align the marks, and the layers align.

Full guide to lino and block printing layers →

Pro removes every limit: unlimited inks, 720 dpi output, no FREE mark in the margin, and as many jobs as you like. The free version stays free for trying things out.

See what Pro costs Or test it free as a beta printer