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Upload your designs. The AI auto-nests, generates the white channel with adaptive choke, and exports a RIP-ready file in seconds. No Photoshop. No subscription required.
DTFGSA is the AI-powered DTF (Direct-to-Film) gang sheet builder for print shops, screen printers, and apparel decorators. The platform replaces 15-30 minutes of manual Photoshop nesting per gang sheet with a 1-second AI workflow that produces production-ready files at 85-95% film utilization — meaningfully better than typical 65-75% manual layouts.
The builder runs entirely in your browser. No installation, no plugins, no Photoshop subscription. Drop your designs in, watch the AI arrange them, click export. Your DTF RIP receives a clean layered TIFF or PSD with the white spot channel already applied at the correct adaptive choke per design.
Drop in PNG, JPG, AI, PDF, TIFF, PSD, or EPS files. Multiple at once. The builder handles transparency, color profiles, and DPI normalization automatically.
The AI nesting algorithm sorts designs by size, rotates each to optimal orientation, and packs them tightly. Completes in under 1 second for typical sheets.
White spot color layer generates automatically with adaptive choke per design — preventing both haloing and edge softness on the final print.
One click outputs a layered TIFF, PSD, PDF, or PNG with named spot color separations. Drop it straight into Cadlink, AcroRIP, Wasatch, or OnyxHub.
| Workflow step | Manual (Photoshop) | AI builder (DTFGSA) |
|---|---|---|
| Open canvas + import designs | 3-5 min | 10 sec |
| Layout / nest designs | 10-20 min | <1 sec |
| Generate white channel | 5-10 min | 0 (automatic) |
| Apply choke per design | 3-5 min | 0 (adaptive) |
| Export layered file | 2 min | 5 sec |
| Total per sheet | 23-42 min | ~1 min |
For a shop running 20 gang sheets per day, the AI builder saves roughly 7 hours of layout labor daily — equivalent to one full-time hire's bandwidth.
Quick math: at $20/hr loaded labor cost, AI nesting saves a 20-sheet-per-day shop approximately $35,000-$50,000 per year in layout labor alone, before counting film waste reduction (typically another $10-25K/year at this volume).
Free to use the builder. You pay only when you export a production-ready file:
See full pricing page for tier-by-tier feature breakdown.
Yes. The DTFGSA builder is free to use with no signup, no credit card, no subscription. Build, AI-nest, generate white channel, preview unlimited gang sheets — all free. You only pay $0.15 when exporting the final production file (or via subscription).
It arranges your customer's designs on the gang sheet automatically, choosing the best rotation and position for each to minimize wasted DTF film. The algorithm uses bin-packing optimization (bottom-left-fill, simulated annealing, No-Fit Polygon) to hit 85-95% packing efficiency in under 0.1 seconds — vs 65-75% for typical manual layouts.
The white spot channel needs to contract slightly inward from the artwork's edge to prevent visible white halos around the print. Adaptive choke calculates a different contraction amount per design based on edge complexity, minimum feature width, and design size. DTFGSA's adaptive choke (Growth tier and above) is the only commercial implementation as of 2026 — all other builders use a single fixed choke value across the whole sheet.
Yes. The builder embeds into your Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Wix, or custom site. Customers upload artwork, see real-time pricing, design their gang sheet, and check out via your existing payment flow. The builder inherits your store's branding for a seamless customer experience.
Free tier (pay $0.15 per export) gives you the full AI nesting, automatic white channel, and editor. Paid subscriptions add AI image tools (Starter $40/mo), adaptive choke + TIFF spot color export (Growth $159/mo), white-label and priority support (Pro $319/mo), or custom domain + SLA (Enterprise $799/mo).
No signup required. Drop your designs, watch the AI nest them, see the white channel, decide whether to export. Free to test on real artwork.
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