Wide-format software developer Caldera presented for the first time in Europe its new fabric-printing suite to help industrial textile printers harness digital potential. TextilePro combines the intuitive but powerful interface of Caldera’s core V10 platform with a wealth of tools specific to production onto fabric substrates.
Recognizing the skills gap often found by wide-format houses diversifying into textiles, TextilePro helps operators avoid common errors by maintaining color information in RGB until the last possible moment, ensuring fidelity to the original design.
Among the many innovations within TextilePro are advanced controls for the manipulation of colors, variable data and ink laydown. Caldera has rolled its existing pattern calculator, Tex&Repeat, into the suite to help companies create accurate but adaptable patterns to speed up design decisions.
TextilePro also incorporates a photoshop plug-in to simplify colorization, swatch swaps and other variations when sending designs to print.
Specialists in different areas of inkjet software, production and workflow at Caldera’s Technical Support Desk helped users appraise their business development plans, whether technological or application-led.
“Wide-format printers are looking to extend production into soft signage and apparel, while industrial-scale textile houses want to assimilate the benefits of digital print,” explained Sébastien Hanssens, Vice-President – Marketing and Communications, Caldera. “TextilePro accommodates every production situation within the clear, profit-focused suite now enjoyed by thousands of Caldera-based companies worldwide.”
Alongside the launch of this solution for textile printers, Caldera celebrated its 25th year in business. Entering the field in 1991 to provide imaging solutions to the nascent digital print market, Caldera has since become synonymous with software RIPs for inkjet processes and will celebrate its commitment to the market at FESPA Digital while envisioning how its solutions can help customers grow into exciting new production areas.
“Textile and industrial print are only the beginning of a shift in how and why we print,” foresees Joseph Mergui, Chief Executive Officer. “When we started out 25 years ago we could only imagine the progress that inkjet would make. As our customers and partners refocus to take advantage of these opportunities, Caldera’s message throughout 2016 is that we are there to support them.”
As a part of that mission Caldera released the fourth edition of its customer-focused Gamut magazine, a technology and business annual that, this year, puts people in the spotlight. While key features will explore the history and future of the software manufacturer, Gamut’s scope also includes exploratory and informative pieces on a variety of market areas.
Technical but accessible features written by industry experts Sophie Matthews-Paul, Laurel Brunner, Ben McCabe and James Matthews-Paul cover a range of prominent topics from RIP pricing and maximizing finishing investment to industrial print.