Three live properties. Each one runs on the same rule: it has to survive a real production day.
Vendor-neutral analysis for large format and DTF. We read the press releases so you don't have to, then say what actually changes on the floor. Buying guides, teardowns, and cost math — no booth talk.
One subscription, every DTF production tool. Gang sheet builder, knockout, halftone studio, DPI inspector, underbase lab. Browser-based, nothing to install, files stay local where the tool allows.
Drop transparent PNGs, set size and quantity, auto-pack a true 300 DPI sheet for any roll from 13 to 24 in. Preflight catches low-res files before you commit film. No login, no watermark, nothing uploaded.
I started in electrical and telecom in the 1980s, which meant I learned machines before I learned screens. Large format came next — not running presses, but on the supplier and manufacturer side: product development, sales engineering, technical documentation, training the people who did run the presses, and fixing workflow problems before a shop ever hit them. DTF since 2012, when I was running digital product development at Marabu and started testing direct-to-film years before there was a commercial printer to buy one on.
Somewhere in there I got tired of two things. Vendors telling shops what mattered without ever having to make it work, and software written by people who'd never sat across the table from a shop owner explaining why a workflow was broken. So I started writing both myself — the analysis and the tools. Damn Good Company is where they live.
Custom tools, workflow automation, and market intelligence — scoped for one shop at a time, not sold off a shelf.