What changes when the packer stops being manual
Same operator, same RIP, same shirts. Only the gang-sheet tool changes.
Without NestSheet
- Operator nests 30 orders in Photoshop by hand
- White under-base hand-drawn per item, halo on dark shirts
- Forgets to mirror one sublimation job, reprints the sheet
- Export 6 TIFFs with wrong ICC profile, RIP silently re-profiles
- Typical sheet density: 62–71%
- Time per sheet: 35–50 minutes
With NestSheet
- Drop 30 orders in, packer yields 92–96% in under a second
- Alpha-derived white with per-job choke, no halo
- Mirror-per-workflow default, zero hand-checked toggles
- CMYK+W TIFF with embedded ICC matching your RIP
- Typical sheet density: 92–96%
- Time per sheet: 90 seconds — including review
Six things a gang-sheet tool should be doing
Everything that happens between a customer's files and a clean sheet on the press. NestSheet handles these so your operators can stop handling them manually.
Automatic gang-sheet nesting
Mixed artwork packed at 92–96% utilisation on any roll width from 30 cm to 120 cm. The packer respects rotation locks, minimum gutters, and artwork groupings you want kept together.
Correct white under-base generation
Alpha-derived white with per-job choke control, hard-threshold by default to avoid feathered edges. Preview shows the greyscale white channel the RIP will see before you export.
RIP-ready output
CMYK+W TIFF with embedded ICC profile exactly how MainTOP, Cadlink Digital Factory, AcroRIP, Roland VersaWorks, Mimaki RasterLink, Onyx, ColorLogic ZePrA, Fiery / CADlink, SAi Flexi expect it — with Wasatch SoftRIP and Mutoh VerteLith expanding. No re-export step.
Multi-sheet split planner
Orders that exceed a single sheet split across multiple sheets on gutter lines — never through artwork. Per-sheet filenames encode the Y-range and part index; a manifest.json ships in the zip for reorder traceability.
ICC-accurate on-screen preview
Drop in the profile your RIP uses; the preview renders through it. What you see is what the press will produce — not a generic sRGB approximation.
Static, crawlable marketing
This page and every marketing route ships as pre-rendered HTML. Bing, Yandex, Perplexity, Claude and ChatGPT all see the full content without executing JavaScript. Every route is a real document, not a shell.
Order list to printable file, four steps
White channel preview before you burn film
The grey map is the instruction your RIP will send to the printer. White ink density, per pixel. If there’s a halo on dark shirts, it shows here first.
- Per-job choke — 0.2 to 1.0 mm slider, live preview updates
- Hard threshold by default — no feathered edges, no halos
- Variable-dot opt-in — for shops that know they want it
Already in the stack you’re running
Order intake, RIP export, automation, file formats. No adapter layer, no custom scripts — the named things below are actually tested.
Two plans. Free forever or Pro at $49/mo.
Free covers exploration and low-volume work — no credit card, no trial countdown. Pro lifts the 3-per-day export cap to unlimited and includes every future tier until we stabilise pricing. Cancel Pro any month.
- 3 exports per day
- PNG + sRGB TIFF @ 300 dpi
- MaxRects nesting at 92–96%
- Community support
- Unlimited exports
- Saved sheets + priority queue
- DTF 8-channel TIFF (CMYK+W+K)
- All future tiers included until pricing stabilises
Technique, engineering, business math
We were spending half an hour per gang sheet in Photoshop. NestSheet does the same thing in 90 seconds and gives us a tighter pack than we did by hand. I stopped hiring for pre-press.
Built for the print-on-film industry
DTF print shops
Gang-sheet mixed orders without the manual Photoshop detour per sheet. CMYK+W TIFF with embedded ICC, writing straight into MainTOP, Cadlink Digital Factory or AcroRIP.
UV and UV-DTF shops
Varnish, white, and CMYK channels written with the spot-channel names your RIP expects. Per-substrate ICC switching for cups, acrylic, transfer film.
Sublimation shops
Mirror on by default, bleed-aware nesting, ink coverage estimate per sheet. Compatible with the sublimation RIPs the apparel industry actually uses.
Eco-solvent shops
Large-format friendly without memory bloat, cut-contour registration marks correct for GCC, Summa, Roland and Graphtec cutters, tiling for oversized prints.
Studio leads
Stable per-sheet filenames, manifest.json for reorder traceability, project history so reprints reproduce the exact file the customer received last time.
Developers
REST API access for scripted order intake and export pipelines. Webhook notifications on sheet-ready, reorder, and export events.
Answers before you ask
Which RIPs does NestSheet support out of the box?
Nine presets ship in the box: MainTOP, AcroRIP, SAi Flexi, PrintEXP, Caldera / Onyx, ColorLogic ZePrA, Fiery / CADlink, Mimaki RasterLink, and Roland VersaWorks. Wasatch SoftRIP and Mutoh VerteLith are expanding in compatibility. Additional RIPs are supported on request — we run a real shop-side integration test before claiming support.
Does NestSheet write the white channel for me?
Yes. White is generated from the colour alpha with a configurable choke amount (typically 0.2–0.4 mm for DTF). Hard-threshold by default to avoid feathered edges; variable-dot white is opt-in per job. You can override the generated white by supplying your own channel.
What happens when an order exceeds one sheet?
The multi-sheet split planner divides the order across N sheets using one of three strategies: fill-then-spill, balanced, or group-by-kind. Split lines are snapped to gutter rows so the cutter never runs through artwork, per-sheet filenames encode the Y-range and part index, and a manifest.json records the order-to-sheet mapping.
Can I use my own ICC profile?
Yes. Drop in the profile your RIP and press are calibrated against; the on-screen preview renders through it and the exported TIFF embeds it. If you are not running a custom profile, the RIP's default profile is already selected on export.
Do I need to install anything?
No — NestSheet runs in the browser. Modern Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox on macOS, Windows or Linux. Files are processed locally where the browser permits and on our servers for heavier operations; artwork is deleted on schedule and we do not use it to train models.
Does the marketing site work without JavaScript?
Yes. Every marketing route (landing, about, blog, use cases) is pre-rendered static HTML. Search engines and AI crawlers see the full content. JavaScript is only loaded for the product itself, at /app.
Is there a free trial?
Fourteen days, no credit card. Plug in an actual order list, generate real sheets, send them to your actual RIP. A trial that is a real trial.
How is NestSheet different from Photoshop?
Photoshop is a raster editor. NestSheet is a production tool. Photoshop does not nest, does not write correct white under-base for DTF, does not know what a RIP expects, and does not split multi-sheet orders on gutters. NestSheet does not retouch photos. Different jobs.
See it on your own orders
14-day free trial. No credit card. Plug in a real order list and measure the sheet density yourself.