UPrint Design RIP

Design it. Print it. No other design software needed.

Name: UPrint Design RIP
Brand: UPrint Global
Price: 34.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Design, AI graphics, the AI assistant and the RIP, all in one place. Draw it, trace it, or describe it and let the AI make it. Then lay out the sheet and print white toner. One app, one window, no dongle.

$34.99 a monthOr $699 onceFull design canvasAI artworkWhite toner done right

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Trace to vector inside the software, side by side: the original artwork with its yellow background on the left, the traced version on the right with the background knocked out to transparent, scoring 74 percent of the fine detail kept, 191 curves, 3099 points and five colours — Real screen · left is your file, right is the trace with the background already knocked out

Left is the file the customer sent. Right is what came back: clean shapes, and the paper behind the artwork already gone, so it will not print as a block of toner around the design.

Already bought a UPrint system? Your RIP came with it. Check which edition you already have before you buy anything on this page. Check my edition and get the latest version.

Node level editing

A real drawing board, not a hobby toy.

A traced logo does not arrive as one flat lump. It comes in as its parts, each one its own shape with its own colour. Zoom in and every curve is yours: drag a node, turn a corner into a curve, delete the one that should not be there.

The design canvas zoomed into a traced illustration, every curve showing its editable node handles, with the node editing bar offering Corner or Smooth, Delete node, and Done — One traced part, 700 nodes, all of them yours

Pen and nodes

Draw from nothing, or reshape what the trace gave you. Corner or smooth, add or delete, on any curve.

Shaping

Weld, trim and intersect. Contour for a cut line or an outline. The tools a sign shop expects.

Every part separate

Each traced colour lands as its own piece, so recolouring a customer’s logo is a click, not a redraw.

AI image generation, built in

Type it. Print it.

Describe the artwork. Pick a print style. Seconds later it is on your canvas with the background already cut out, ready for the white map.

Bold flat vector illustration of a woman with pink, blue and yellow flowers in her hair on a bright yellow background, generated by the software — Made in the app · the file is named ai-flowergirl

Eleven print styles

Bold vector, line art, sticker, tee graphic, badge, distressed, photo, cinematic, animated, anime, comic, watercolour. Pick the one that prints.

Comes out cut out

Turn on Cut-out ready and the background is gone before you see it. No knocking out a white box by hand on a dark shirt.

Feed it a logo

Add a reference image and the AI redraws from it, so a customer’s own logo can steer the result instead of being described in words.

You own the account

It runs on your own OpenAI key, about four cents an image, and the app prints that cost before you spend it. We do not mark it up or meter you.

Fill the sheet in one click

Six up on an A4 sheet, in one click.

Set the gap you want between copies, press Fill the page, and it works out how many fit and lays them out. Or set the grid yourself with Step and repeat. The expensive part of a transfer is the sheet, so the money is in how little of it you waste.

An A4 page in the design canvas filled with six copies of the same traced artwork in two columns and three rows, with the Repeat panel open showing a 15mm gap across and 10mm down — A4 · Fill the page · 2 by 3 = 6 up, 15mm across and 10mm down

Background removal

The box behind the logo, gone.

A customer sends a logo sitting on a solid square. Printed on a dark shirt that square is a slab of toner you paid for and nobody wanted. Two ways to get rid of it, and you pick whichever suits the file in front of you.

The design canvas with a bold vector tiger illustration still sitting on its solid blue background — Before · solid blue background

The same tiger on the design canvas after the AI cut-out, the blue gone and the transparency checkerboard showing through, with the teal star behind the tiger kept and the whiskers intact — After · one click, checkerboard means transparent

Let the AI cut it out

One button. It works out what the subject is and takes everything else away, including the gaps inside letters and handles if you ask it to keep the holes. Best for photographs and messy edges.

Or pick the colour yourself

Point at the background with the eyedropper and set how far the match should reach and how soft the edge should be. Exact, repeatable, and better than the AI on a flat brand colour.

Refine edges

Then paint the last five percent by hand.

The Refine cut-out workspace open over a tiger illustration, with Keep, Remove, Soft edge and Cut line modes, a brush size slider, live result and snap to edges, and red brush strokes marking the background to be removed — Refine cut-out, running in UPrint Studio RIP · red marks what goes

No automatic cut-out is perfect on hair, fur or a soft edge. Refine opens its own workspace over the artwork: Keep and Remove brushes, a Soft edge that fades a hard cut to clear, and a Cut line you place by clicking points. Snap to edges follows the artwork for you, and the result updates live as you mark.

It is not a preview and it is not a mask you have to keep managing. What you paint is written back as full resolution artwork, so the thing you print is the thing you fixed.

Keep and remove

Brush back a strand the cut-out ate, or wipe out the bit it kept.

Soften the edge

Fade a hard cut so it does not read as a sticker on the garment.

In both editions

Refine edges sits in Studio's Quick Fixes and on the Design canvas. Nobody has to upgrade to tidy an edge.

Scan

Paint it by hand. Print it on anything.

If you paint, draw or letter by hand, you do not have to learn to do it again on a screen. Put the work on the glass and scan it straight into the app. Everything below is one real card, scanned on a Canon flatbed, taken all the way through.

A hand painted card of pink flowers in a striped vase on a blue ground, inside a yellow and pink patterned border, as it came off the scanner glass with a white margin down the right side and along the bottom — 1 · Straight off the glass · 215.9 x 296.9 mm at 300 dpi

The crop tool open over the scanned card, with an angle dial set to zero degrees and Reset, Apply crop and Cancel buttons — 2 · Frame it, and turn the angle dial if it went on crooked

The same card after the crop: the white glass margin is gone and shows as the transparency checkerboard, and the artwork fills the frame ready to print — 3 · Cropped, the glass margin gone, ready for the sheet

Straight off the glass

The scanner is a tab in the app, not a separate program. Your machine appears in the list when it is switched on, you pick the quality, and the page arrives at its real size in millimetres rather than a guess.

Crop and straighten in one step

Art never lands square on a scanner. Frame it at its own angle and the app gives you a straight image in one go, instead of crop, rotate, crop again.

Then clean it up

Knock the paper white out, clean the edges, lift the contrast, and see it on the product colour before you commit a sheet.

In both editions

Studio RIP has the scanner too. Bringing a customer’s artwork in off the glass is not a design job, it is a Tuesday.

The station your press may not have

On most presses, white takes the black slot.

On the presses we drive, white is not an extra station. It takes the black one. One slot holds white or black, and you swap the cartridge to change which. On some machines there is no black toner in the building at all.

That is real. No software removes it.

What we do is stop it being your problem. The white layer is built in software, per job, from your own artwork. You choose how much and whether it goes under the colour or over it, on screen, before a sheet moves.

And when white is sitting in the black slot, your blacks are built from the colours that are still loaded instead of the job failing. You set it once and get on with the day. You do not walk to the machine to change your mind.

White under the colour

For dark and clear products. The white goes down first so the colour has something to sit on.

White over the colour

For the jobs that need it. Same job, same screen, no trip to the machine.

Black without black toner

When white is in the black slot, your blacks come from the remaining colours rather than failing.

Measured, not borrowed

Stock profiles are written for an offset press. Yours is not one.

Most white toner software hands your press a stock colour profile written for an offset printing press on coated paper. We ran all 21 CMYK profiles in the Windows colour store through the exact path the software would use, and read off what each one asks the press to lay down.

They all landed in the same place. Those profiles ask for 179 to 211 percent ink. Our environments do the same work on 81 to 89 percent. They are built for a press that keeps responding past 60 percent drive. A white toner engine does not.

Roughly double the toner, for colour that is further away, on every sheet.

2×

the toner a stock offset profile asks for

stock CMYK profiles run, not assumed

What we are not claiming. That comparison is a calculation, not a print run, and it is built on measurements of our own engine. Your press is not our press. So we ship you the environment we measured, and we will sit on a call and check it against your own printed colour.

Export

It is your artwork. Take it anywhere.

Nothing you make is locked in this software. A print ready PDF for a press, an SVG or DXF for a cutter, a layered PSD for a customer’s designer, an AI for their Illustrator, or a transparent PNG for the web shop. One menu, one click.

Format	What it is for
PDF	Print ready. The one you send to a press.
PNG	Transparent, for web shops and mockups.
TIFF	Lossless, for print work that must not be squashed.
JPEG	The everyday one, when that is all that is wanted.
BMP	For the old machine in the corner that still asks for it.
SVG	Vector, for the web and for other design software.
AI	Illustrator compatible, for a customer’s designer.
PSD	Layered, so the parts stay separate in Photoshop.
DXF	Cut and CAD, in mm, cm or inches, splines or polylines.
WEBP	Small files for the web.

And the whole printing side

Design RIP is Studio RIP with the drawing board.

Everything on the Studio RIP page is in here too, at no extra charge and with nothing priced again later.

White map per job

Set how much white, and where, on the Print panel with the paper and product.

Measured colour

Our own environment, built from a real white toner engine.

Mixed gang sheets

Different designs on one sheet, laid out and costed.

Cost per print

What the sheet costs you before you send it.

Edit a PDF

Fix a customer’s PDF without leaving the app.

Print check

It looks at the job and tells you what will go wrong first.

Three ways to pay

Start this month, or own it for good.

Already own a compatible white toner press? The RIP is sold on its own and works with the press you have. One licence activates one computer. Prices are in US dollars, and tax is worked out at checkout for your country.

UPrint Design RIP

Everything in Studio RIP, plus a full design canvas in the same window. Trace a logo to clean vector and edit it node by node.

✓Everything Studio RIP does
✓Trace to vector, and a pen tool to fix it
✓Stencil artwork into any shape, and edit it in there
✓AI artwork (needs your own OpenAI key)
✓Exports all ten formats, including cutter files

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UPrint Studio RIP

From $19.99 a month, $200 a year, or $495 once

Already design in Illustrator, CorelDRAW or Affinity? You may not need the canvas at all. Studio RIP is the same printing half on its own.

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Card payment on this page is on its way. Until then, order by email: tell us the edition and the plan you want and we will take the order by hand.

Want to try it first? Ask us for a 3 day trial and we send you a code that runs the full software on your own press. Ask for a trial.

Monthly gets you the same software as the once off, updates included, and stops the day you stop. Windows 10 64 bit (21H2 or newer) or Windows 11, 16 GB of memory, 6 cores, 15 GB free and a 1440 x 900 screen or larger. Fine on a 13 inch laptop: the canvas has a fullscreen button, so the design area and its tools take the whole screen when you need the room. Signed installer, publisher UPrint Global CC.

Before you buy

Will it work with my press?

Which printers does it drive?

OKI white toner: the Pro8432WT, and the A4 C711WT, which is the same machine as the ES7411WT and the Pro7411WT. The older C920WT and Pro9420WT as well.

Crio, which replaced OKI in the USA: the Crio 8432WDT, also sold as DigitalHeat FX. It is a Pro8432WT with a different badge, so the toner is the same toner.

Ghost Pro X, which is a Pro8432WT under another name.

Converted machines: the OKI C711, C712 and C833 with white toner in the black slot, and others like them.

Most of these were discontinued years ago and shops run them every day. Old is fine. If yours is not on this list, tell us the model and we will confirm before you pay, and we will say so plainly if we have not driven one yet.

Do I need to buy a UPrint printer as well?

No. If you already own a compatible white toner press, the software is sold on its own and works with the press you have.

What happens after I pay?

You get an order code and a download link. Install, enter the code, and it activates itself on that computer. Your colour environment installs with it, so there is nothing to load by hand.

How many computers?

One. Your order code locks to the computer you activate it on, and you can reinstall on that same computer any time with the same code. If that machine dies or you replace it, send us your order code and we will move you across. Need a second computer in the shop, tell us and we will sort you out.

Can I try it before I pay?

Yes. Ask us for a trial and we send you a code that runs the full software for 3 days on your own press. Not a cut down demo, the same build the paying customers get.

If I pay monthly, can I switch to owning it later?

Yes. Buy the once off whenever it suits you and the monthly stops. Nothing on your computer changes and no work has to move.

Stop paying someone else to draw it for you.

Try it free for 3 days. Install it today, print with it today.

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