Lumi PROColour & ink control
ICC profile transforms with all four rendering intents, GCR/UCR separation and total-ink limiting per fabric, so heavy prints don't bleed or cockle.
Lumi Pro · Textile RIP software
From design file to fabric, without the guesswork.
Lumi Pro is a production RIP engine for digital textile printing. It separates your artwork into real ink channels, screens it, checks every job before it reaches the head, and streams it straight to your printer.
Running in daily production at our own studio in Bangalore
8ink channels, incl. Blue, Red, Orange & Grey
18screening modes, plus smart auto-select
3 GB+BigTIFF artwork, processed out-of-core
4 KBstreaming memory footprint while printing
0third-party SDKs — native Windows 10 & 11
What's inside
Everything between the design and the print head
Lumi Pro was written from scratch in C for one job: getting textile artwork onto fabric accurately and without wasted metres. It pairs a graphical studio with a scriptable command-line engine that share the same settings and print queue.
18 screening modes
Error diffusion, ordered and clustered-dot halftoning, plus hybrid and edge-aware modes. Leave it on Auto and Lumi Pro picks the best one for the image.
Step & repeat
Build seamless rapports straight from a single tile — straight, half-drop, half-brick or mirrored — and auto-fill the full roll width.
1-click nesting
Pack several designs onto one roll automatically. Lumi Pro shows the packed length, efficiency and waste in m² before you print a single metre.
Pre-flight & verification
Live checks before the RIP, and a structural check after it — resolution, pass count, media width and data integrity are verified before anything is sent.
Calibration lab
Print targets, measure patches, build linearization curves and verify with ΔE. Spectrophotometers are detected automatically over USB.
Hot folder & queue
Drop files into a watched folder and they're ripped and queued automatically. The GUI and CLI share one queue, so scripts and operators never collide.
Fabric presets
Save resolution, pass count, ink limit, screening and direction as one named preset per fabric, and switch between them in one click.
Shop-floor diagnostics
Nozzle checks, bi-directional alignment combs and feed rulers are built in, alongside port and driver diagnostics for when a machine misbehaves.
Beyond CMYK
Real 8-colour separation for textile inks
Textile inks don't behave like paper inks. Lumi Pro converts the overlaps in your artwork into dedicated Blue, Red and Orange channels, and uses Grey ink for the light part of the black ramp — for cleaner saturated colours and smoother neutrals on fabric.
- Gamut expansion — Blue from cyan + magenta, Red and Orange from magenta + yellow, each tunable.
- Light-ink splitting — smooth handover from light to dark inks for 6- and 8-channel setups.
- Per-machine ink maps — channel mix and gain live in a plain config file you can tune on site.
CMYKBROrGy
RGB / CMYK artwork→ICC + ink limit→8-channel split→screening
Rapport engine
One tile in, a full roll out
Workflow
Five steps, one screen
The same pipeline runs whether an operator clicks through the studio, a file lands in the hot folder, or a script calls the CLI.
01
Load
TIFF (incl. BigTIFF), PNG, BMP or JPEG, with embedded ICC profiles.
02
Lay out
Pick a fabric preset, then repeat or nest designs across the roll.
03
Separate
Colour-manage, ink-limit and split into the printer's ink channels.
04
Verify
Pre-flight and post-RIP checks catch problems before ink is spent.
05
Stream directly to the printer with live progress and transfer rate.
Printers & connectivity
Proven on our own machines first
Every feature is tested on the printers in our studio before it ships. Lumi Pro also carries profiles for 30+ industrial textile and sublimation printers, with drivers for Mimaki, Epson and Hoson/BYHX boardsets.
● Production-proven
Mimaki TX2-1600
1.6 m direct-textile printer driven natively over IEEE 1394 FireWire, with full 8-colour acid-ink separation, 360 and 720 dpi modes, and bi-directional printing.
Mimaki 8 profiles
Epson SureColor 3
Monna Lisa (Epson & Robustelli) 3
Roland 4
Mutoh 3
EFI Reggiani
Atexco
DGI
D.gen
Konica Minolta
MS Printing Solutions
Flora
Gongzheng
Grando
Homer
Hosonsoft / BYHX boards
Profiles outside the TX2 are being validated machine by machine. Running something not on this list? Tell us — new drivers are prioritised by what customers actually run.
Network (TCP/IP)
RAW printing on port 9100 over Ethernet. No drivers to install — enter the printer's IP, probe, and print.
IEEE 1394 FireWire
Native FireWire streaming for legacy industrial machines, with a one-click driver installer and built-in bus diagnostics.
Ships with
Fabric presets tuned in production
Starting points we use every day. Adjust them, or save your own for every fabric on your shelf.
| Preset | Printer | Resolution | Passes | Ink limit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cotton Poplin | Mimaki TX2-1600 | 720 dpi | 4 | 300% |
| Silk Habotai / Chiffon | Mimaki TX2-1600 | 720 dpi | 4 | 280% |
| Fast Draft Swatch | Mimaki TX2-1600 | 360 dpi | 2 | 240% |
| Silk Habotai 16P | EFI Reggiani Vogue | 1440 dpi | 16 | 280% |
Lumi studio · Bangalore
Custom digital fabric printing, powered by Lumi Pro
Lumi Pro was built inside Lumi, our textile printing studio in Bangalore. Every custom fabric and Zari piece we produce goes through it — so every fix and every feature comes from real jobs on real fabric.
₹200–300per metre, digital textile printing
Any lengthyour fabric or ours, your design or ours
Online store Coming soon
- Order custom-printed fabric by the metre
- Upload your own artwork or pick from our Zari & silk collections
- Track your order live, from intake to dispatch
- GST invoices and order history in your account
FAQ
Common questions
What is RIP software, and why does textile printing need one?
A RIP (raster image processor) turns a design file into the exact dot pattern each print head fires. For textiles it also handles ink limits per fabric, extra ink channels like Blue, Red and Orange, and repeat patterns — things a normal printer driver can't do.
Which printers does Lumi Pro support?
Lumi Pro runs in daily production on the Mimaki TX2-1600 over FireWire. It includes profiles for 30+ textile and sublimation printers from Mimaki, Epson, Monna Lisa, Roland, Mutoh, EFI Reggiani, Atexco and others, which we're validating machine by machine. Tell us your model and we'll let you know where it stands.
What computer do I need?
A 64-bit Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC. Lumi Pro is a native application with no runtime to install. It connects to printers over Ethernet (TCP/IP port 9100) or an IEEE 1394 FireWire card.
Can I try it before buying?
Yes. We're onboarding a small group of print shops with trial licences ahead of launch. Email or WhatsApp us with your printer model and what you print.
Do you also print fabric for customers?
Yes. Our Bangalore studio does custom digital textile and Zari printing at ₹200–300 per metre, on your fabric or ours, from your artwork or our collections. Online ordering is coming soon; until then, message us directly.
Run your printer on Lumi Pro
We're onboarding a small group of print shops ahead of launch. Tell us which printer you run and what you print, and we'll set you up with a trial licence.