An alternative to installed separation software

Where the difference is

• What you pay for. A yearly licence against a price per export. Twenty exports cost under fifteen dollars and do not expire.
• Installing. A browser tab against an installer. No Windows-only build, no licence tied to a seat, no updates to keep up with.
• Where it runs. On your own computer. The artwork is not uploaded to a server, which for a client’s work under an agreement is often what decides it.
• When you pay. After seeing the result on your own artwork, rather than before.

Who that trade suits

If you separate two or three jobs a month, a yearly licence pays back badly: you are buying access rather than work. Paying per export comes out several times cheaper and drops straight into the quote for a particular order.

If you are a designer rather than a printer it is simpler still. You need to hand a finished set to a shop, not keep a professional tool for a year. Checking the artwork and counting the inks is free here anyway.

If you run a shop with a daily flow and a workflow already built around your RIP, installed software may suit you better. We will say so plainly: where separations happen several times a day, a yearly licence stops being expensive.

What comes out at the end

One archive: a film per plate, a combined layered PDF, a PSD for finishing by hand, a preview for the customer, an ink map, and a written report with print order, angles and line count.

The report is not a formality. It is the part that lets a set go to the shop without anybody ringing back to ask which plate prints first.

What is not here

Printing straight through a RIP. Files are saved, and your RIP sends them to the imagesetter the way it sends anything else.

A vector editor. This prepares artwork for print; it does not replace Illustrator.

All of it can be checked with no account: open the artwork, separate it, look at the halftone and the ink coverage. Only the export is paid.

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