Build up to 56 individual channels, one per ink, directly compatible with Adobe Photoshop channel import and export.
Color Separation & Print Design
Pointcarre is print design and pre-press software built for textile, wallpaper and flooring professionals. Advanced drawing tools and textile-specific AI make professional printing results effortless to achieve. One single application for three different technical worlds, digital, rotary and screen.
Digital Printing
Ink is jetted directly from a digital file onto the fabric. No screens, no engraving, the fastest route from a finished design to a printed sample.
Colorways in Seconds
Reduce the number of colors in a design in a few seconds while preserving the details of the original, to produce new colorways fast.
Repeat Maker
Automatic AI powered repeat, an exclusive Pointcarre feature particularly useful for digital printing's continuous fabric runs.
Precise Color Libraries
Pantone® TCX, TPG, Solid Coated, and the Archroma Color Atlas are embedded, so the color you pick is the color you match.
Direct to Printer, No RIP Needed
Spectral and color data are embedded straight into the TIFF file. Pointcarre sends it directly to your textile printer, Epson and Mimaki included, bypassing any RIP already in place, so the color is never reworked by an external process on its way to production.
Rotary Printing
Each color is engraved onto its own cylinder. As fabric runs continuously underneath, ink is forced through the engraving, one cylinder per color, the industrial standard for large volume runs.
Channel Separation for Engraving
Separated channels, gradients included, become the direct source used to engrave each cylinder.
Overlap for Safe Registration
Pointcarre's Overlap adds a slight recovery between adjacent colors in the separation, absorbing small registration shifts on press before they show as gaps.
Natural Blend Color
Simulate how inks blend before a single cylinder is engraved, an exclusive Pointcarre feature. In rotary, where changing a cylinder is costly, it means fewer rolls, less ink and fewer physical samples.
Soft Proofing & Gamut Warning
Preview the design against the real printer's color profile on screen, and get warned of any color it cannot reproduce, before production starts.
Color Reduction for Cost Control
Fewer channels mean fewer cylinders to engrave. Reduce color count in seconds while keeping the design's detail intact.
Screen Printing
Ink is pushed with a squeegee through a stencil stretched on a flat screen, one screen per color, common for garments and short to medium runs.
Spot Color Separation
Screen printing works mostly in flat spot colors. Each one becomes its own isolated channel, ready for screen exposure.
Pantone® & Spot Matching
Embedded Pantone® libraries help match hand mixed inks precisely, essential when every color on a screen print is mixed to order.
Color Reduction to Control Screen Count
Every color means another physical screen. Reduce a complex design down to a producible number of colors in seconds, without losing the detail.
Clean Repeat for Placement Prints
Clean up and align a motif precisely for a placement print, whether it is a chest logo, a panel or an all over repeat.
Export Ready for Screen Exposure
Each separated channel exports as its own film positive, one per color, ready to expose your screens straight from the file.
Real Color Blending
Current methods of blending colors provided by most software are unreliable. The Pointcarre color engine is different.
Most design software blends colors as flat pixels on screen, calibrated to
nothing but the monitor they are displayed on. Pointcarre's color engine works differently: every swatch drawn from the
Pantone®, Archroma or ColorWall CSI libraries carries its own LAB values and spectral data, so when colors overlap or
blend, the result is calculated from real color science, not a screen approximation.
Combined with soft proofing and gamut warning against your own printer profile, this lets you validate the physical
rendering of a rotary print digitally, before a single meter is produced, cutting the cost and the number of samples needed.
AI Assisted Print Design
Design Maker
Describe the print you want and Design Maker proposes original textile designs, inspired by the mood of a reference image you choose. Learn more about Pointcarre AI →
Repeat Maker
Import any artwork and Repeat Maker instantly builds a seamless repeat, horizontal, vertical or multidirectional, ready to drop into your print layout. Learn more about Pointcarre AI →
AI Upscaling
Turn a low resolution scan or photo into a production ready file. AI Upscaling increases resolution while keeping the sharpness your print needs. Learn more about Pointcarre AI →
Beyond its AI tools, Pointcarre provides you with a variety of tools and features with open ended use for a free expression of your creativity.
The design tools have been specified by fellow textile designers so they are tailored to your work.
Work
in repeat
Designers can draw directly in repeat. Several repeat settings are available : straight, half drop, mirror, with or without overlap. With automatic Toss effect, an item can be set with a repeat mode.
Layers
Being able to work on items in a single layer to improve your editing comfort and reduce the size of your file. All regrouped items can be easily selected, moved, copied, and edited separately from the same layer
Free
transform tools
Pointcarre Layers preserve an artwork with all its original characteristics, enabling you to perform nondestructive editing to the layer. You can rotate and resize without losing quality from the original image.
Color
Families
Regroup colors in families is an amazing feature that lets you group together related colors and organize them inside the swatches panel. Modify an original color and instantly apply your edits to its related family.
56
Channels
Unlock your true creative potential, Pointcarre supports up to 56 channels. The separation can be done automatically, or manually.
Combo collection
Simply powerful, create up to 255 different Combos from a specified color source. With ColorMood, you can also create variants from a photo!
Remarkable filters
Get more graphic design possibilities by using powerful
filters to manipulate, retouch and enhance your designs.
Apply special effects like Comics, Mix edges and Blur. With
just a click, you can create a woven Ikat pattern.
Professional Color Libraries Included
Every Pointcarre license ships with industry color references built in, ready to match and bind directly to your separated channels, at no extra cost.
Pantone® Fashion
Home + Interiors, COTTON and PAPER editions, 2,801 references with LAB and spectral data.
Pantone® Solid Coated
2,390 solid coated references for print ready matching.
Pastels & Neons
210 Pantone® references for the pastel and neon shades standard charts don't cover.
Nylon Brights
21 dedicated Pantone® references for high visibility nylon and technical textiles.
Archroma Atlas
4,320 cotton and 1,440 polyester references, useful to check print colorways against dyeable ranges.
ColorWall CSI
3,709 references from one of the industry's most used commercial color systems.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is color separation in textile printing software?
Color separation breaks a multicolor design down into individual color channels, one per screen or print head, so it can be reproduced accurately by digital, rotary or screen printing.
Does Pointcarre support screen printing, digital printing and rotary printing?
Yes. Pointcarre's Color Sep module covers digital, rotary and screen printing workflows in the same document, from design to production ready separated channels.
Can I print my t-shirts with Pointcarre?
Yes. Design your artwork in Pointcarre, separate it into individual color channels, match each one to your ink references with the built in Pantone® libraries, reduce colors if you want to control the number of screens, and export each channel as its own ready to expose film positive. From there, your shop exposes the screens and prints the shirt the traditional way.
How many print channels can Pointcarre separate?
Up to 56 channels, compared to the 24 most other CAD tools are limited to.
Does Pointcarre work with RIP software?
Pointcarre works with any textile printer. For most digital printers, Epson and Mimaki included, it sends the production file directly, bypassing any RIP already in place since the color data is already embedded in the file.
Can I import Photoshop files into Pointcarre?
Yes. A PSD file with layers opens as an All Over design, and a PSD file with channels opens directly as a Color Sep document with every channel preserved.
Does Pointcarre run on both Mac and PC?
Yes, natively, with the exact same interface and file format on both platforms.
What color libraries come with Pointcarre for print design?
Every license includes the Pantone® Fashion Home + Interiors, Solid Coated, Pastels & Neons and Nylon Brights libraries, the Archroma Color Atlas, and ColorWall CSI, all with exact LAB and spectral data, at no extra cost.
Can Pointcarre generate new print designs with AI?
Yes, through Design Maker for new AI generated designs and Repeat Maker for instant seamless repeats, both built specifically for textile production.