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Print Prep

The last mile between a finished design and a print file the factory won't reject. Live today: three background removers (Balanced for the finest edges, Smart, which checks its own cutout and redoes it when lettering goes missing, and Premium, which keeps glows and smoke see-through), DPI Fixer (trims margins and sizes the art to the exact pixels of a product's print area at 300 DPI), DPI Fixer Ultimate (the same after a 4× AI upscale, for small or damaged art), the 4× Upscaler on its own, DTG-to-Vector (raster artwork to clean SVG paths for screen-print, vinyl-cut and embroidery) and a workflow that removes the background and fixes the DPI in one run. A colour-count reducer and a copyright screen are on the roadmap.

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wowmachine/fast-upscaler-4x

Enlarge an image four times with an AI upscaler tuned for faithful results: clean edges, no invented detail, whites stay white and textures are kept. It also cleans JPEG artefacts, and transparent PNGs keep sharp cut-out edges. Images over 1536 px on the long side are reduced first, so the result is at most 6144 px.

bolt50~10s
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wowmachine/dpi-fixer

Make a design print-ready for a real size. Pick the product or type the size, and DPI Fixer trims the empty margins, resizes the art to exactly the pixels that size needs at 300 DPI (or the DPI you choose) and writes the DPI into the PNG. Transparency is kept. For small or damaged designs, use DPI Fixer Ultimate.

bolt30~5s
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wowmachine/dpi-fixer-ultimate

For designs that are too small or in bad shape: a 4× AI upscale rebuilds clean edges and removes compression artefacts, then DPI Fixer trims the margins and fits the art to the exact pixels of your product's print size at 300 DPI (or the DPI you choose). Same options as DPI Fixer.

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bolt80~20s
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wowmachine/noise-cleanup

**COMING SOON.** Clean up AI-generated artwork before it goes to print: removes banding, compression blocks, stray speckles and generation artefacts while keeping line work and flat colour areas sharp.

bolt30~20s
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wowmachine/pod-pre-print-preparation

Turn a design into a print-ready file in one run: pick the product, and the background is cut out (optional), the empty margins are trimmed and the art is fitted to the exact pixels that print area needs at 300 DPI, with the DPI written into the PNG. The sizing step picks itself — a small or soft design is rebuilt with a 4x AI upscaler first, a large one is resampled directly — so you never have to know which tool your file needed.

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bolt9~25s
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tostadora/workflow-remove-bg-and-fix-dpi

Cut out a design and make it print-ready in one run: Fast Background Remover removes the background and the empty canvas, then DPI Fixer fits the art to the exact pixels of the product's print area at 200 DPI. You get a transparent PNG with the DPI written in.

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bolt31~13s
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wowmachine/dtg-to-vector

Wowmachine's raster-to-SVG vectorizer. Pass a flat illustration, a logo, an icon or any raster artwork and the model returns a clean SVG with precise vector paths — scalable without quality loss, ready for production design, print and web.

bolt1~8s
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wowmachine/ip-copyright-detector

**COMING SOON.** Flag designs that may infringe a trademark or copyrighted brand — logo similarity, recognisable characters, registered marks — before they reach a customer order.

bolt80~20s
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wowmachine/print-tech-convert

**COMING SOON.** Convert a design for a target print technology (DTG, sublimation, DTF, screen printing, UV). DPI, transparency rules, ink-count constraints and edge cleanup applied in one pass.

bolt60~30s
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wowmachine/dtg-to-1-color-vinyl

**COMING SOON.** Convert a multi-colour DTG-ready design into a single-colour vinyl-ready file — palette collapsed to one ink, edges cleaned, transparency removed.

bolt50~30s
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wowmachine/screenprint-reducer

**COMING SOON.** Collapse a multi-colour design to N print-ready inks (1–9) for screen printing or embroidery. Delivers separated layer files.

bolt40~25s
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wowmachine/1-step-premium-background-remover

Our premium background remover in a single pass, for about half the price: your image is rendered twice and the transparency of every pixel is measured instead of guessed, and that cut-out is what you get, with no retries. When a design needs more than one try, the premium remover checks its result and redoes it. For flat designs on a plain background, the fast remover is quicker and just as clean.

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bolt49~25s
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wowmachine/premium-background-remover

Our premium background remover, for the very difficult cutouts the others get wrong: glows, smoke, ink and other see-through parts, white lettering on a coloured background, photos. It renders your image twice and measures the transparency of every pixel instead of guessing it.

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bolt95~45s
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wowmachine/smart-background-remover

Background removal that checks its own work. When your image has a plain background, our fast remover cuts it out and we check that nothing of the design went with the background — a title, a caption, a frame. If something did, our balanced remover redoes it and the better cutout is delivered. Photos and busy backgrounds go straight to the balanced remover.

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bolt2~15s
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wowmachine/balanced-background-remover

Our balanced background remover. Drop in a single image — product photo, portrait, AI-generated render, illustration — and the model returns a clean alpha-channel cutout, tuned to survive fine edges like hair, fur, fabric folds and glass.

bolt1~10s
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From AI render to print-ready file

Clean cutouts, exact print sizes at 300 DPI, 4× AI upscaling and raster-to-vector.

Frequently asked questions

What's available right now in this category?

Eight live tools: three background removers (Balanced for the finest edges, Smart for designs whose lettering must stay, Premium for glows and smoke), DPI Fixer (pick a product such as a t-shirt, mug or A3 poster, or type a size, and get a PNG with exactly the pixels that size needs at 300 DPI), DPI Fixer Ultimate (a 4× AI upscale first, for small or damaged art), the 4× Upscaler, DTG-to-Vector and the Remove bg and fix DPI workflow (a cut-out sized for the product at 200 DPI, in one run). The Fast remover, for photos and most designs in seconds, is in Background Removers.

Which background remover should I use for a print file?

Fast cuts out photos and most designs in about two seconds, for 1 credit. Use Smart (2 credits) when lettering or a frame sits apart from the main subject, so nothing goes missing; Premium (95 credits) for glows, smoke and other see-through effects; and Balanced (1 credit) for the finest edges, like flyaway hair or fur. Before printing, check the result over the checkerboard shown under it: parts the same colour as the background are the ones to look at.

DPI Fixer or DPI Fixer Ultimate?

Start with DPI Fixer: it is cheap and right for most designs. Use Ultimate when the source is small for the print size or visibly damaged (blurry edges, JPEG blocks): the AI upscale rebuilds the edges before the art is sized. Writing a DPI value alone never improves a print; both tools change the pixels.

When should I vectorize an AI-generated design?

Whenever the destination is screen-print, vinyl cut, embroidery, or any process that needs flat color zones and clean paths. DTG-to-Vector is tuned for illustrations and logos with reasonably distinct color regions; complex photo-realistic outputs don't vectorize well — keep those as raster.

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