Why textile work fragments
Motif development, repeat construction, colour separation and production artwork are usually four different tools and three different file formats. Every handoff is a chance for the artwork that gets approved to diverge from the artwork that gets printed.
Keeping the design and its specification together removes the handoffs rather than documenting them.
Designed against real constraints
A print that cannot be produced at the target price is not a design, it is a proposal. Artifax works from the materials you actually buy at the prices you actually pay, so a textile is costed as it is designed.
The same range data that balances the assortment applies here: option counts, price architecture and material choices are visible while the artwork is still editable.
Through to the factory
Production-ready tech packs are generated automatically, in the format vendors already use, with colorway-specific instructions included. The artwork arrives as a specification rather than an attachment.
Related
See also seamless repeats, print design, tech pack, or read how Artifax fits the rest of the workflow.