PressReady

The gap

A proof is a picture of the job, not the job.

It shows the art on a tilted product render, at the wrong scale, in the wrong colour space, with the imprint area drawn as a dashed box nobody can select. Getting from that to a file your press accepts is manual work, and it happens on every single order.

By hand

Open the proof, hunt for the imprint box
Trace it, or eyeball the dimensions from the callout
Isolate the art, strip the product mockup behind it
Scale to actual size and hope the callout was right
Convert colour, build a white underbase, choke it
Minutes per file, and a different result per operator

With PressReady

Drop the proof in
The square imprint box is found and locked automatically
Skewed boxes on the product view are rejected, not used
Art comes out at exactly 1:1
Underbase, spot channel, and choke are already correct
Seconds, and identical every time

Three tools, one upload

Whatever the job runs on.

Screen print and heat transfer

A layered TIF at 700 DPI with an unlocked art layer over an RGB composite, plus a named spot channel your RIP already understands. The white underbase is choked so it cannot halo past the colour.

OUT: .TIF + underbase + 300 DPI crop

Laser engraving

Clean vector at 1:1 scale with every shape converted to 100% K black, written as the legacy Illustrator format engraving software actually ingests. Background panels and white fills are dropped, since a laser never marks them.

OUT: .AI vector, actual size

Cup and drinkware

Flat art pulled from the bleed box, squished to production size, then arc warped so it prints straight on a tapered wall. Calibrated against real cup warp guides, with the cutter line redrawn.

OUT: .PDF warped, 5 / 12 / 16 / 20 oz + stadium

How it works

It reads the proof the way your art lead does.

The hard part was never the export. It was finding the imprint area reliably across every layout a distributor invents, including the ones where the same box appears twice.

Find every candidate box

Dashed borders, solid stroked rectangles, and separate hundred percent artwork pages are all recognised.

Throw out the ones drawn in perspective

Proofs repeat the imprint box on the tilted product render, where it is skewed into a parallelogram. Picking that one is what makes art come out crooked, so only boxes square to the page survive.

Lift the art, drop the mockup

Background panels standing in for product colour, and fills close enough to white to be page rather than ink, are left behind.

Write what the machine wants

Spot channels, choked underbase, pure K vector, or an arc warp, depending on where the job is headed.

Pricing

One price. Every tool.

One price with no per seat maths and no file counting. If a proof layout ever shows up that we cannot read, send it over and it gets added.

Most shops

Standard

$199

per month, unlimited files

All three tools, unlimited files and users
Full resolution output, no watermark
New proof layouts added on request
Next business day support

Request a demo

Annual

$1,990

per year, two months free

Everything in Standard
Priority on new format support
One onboarding session for your art team