At the FESPA Digital 2016 organised recently in Amsterdam, Caldera introduced TextilePro, which is combined with the intuitive but powerful interface of the company’s core V10 platform with a wealth of tools specific to production onto fabric substrates. Recognising the skills gap often found by wide-format houses diversifying into textile, TextilePro helps operators avoid common errors by maintaining colour information in RGB until the last possible moment, ensuring fidelity to the original design.
Of the innovations within TextilePro are advanced controls for the manipulation of colours, 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 colourisation, swatch swaps and other variations when sending designs to print.
