A design editor that
finishes the job
in CMYK.
Print production should not need legacy desktop software. Popcorn draws in a browser tab and exports the file the printer wanted.
Most tools stop
just short.
A press wants separated colour with an output intent attached. A cutter wants a contour on its own plate. Consumer software hands you an export and wishes you luck, and the gap gets filled by a prepress operator fixing your file.
We built the piece that closes that gap. It is slow, unglamorous work and it is the whole reason the product is worth using.
These are the languages the presses and the cutters already speak. Learning them properly is the work. The point is that nobody using Popcorn has to.
One artwork, six plates.
The only photograph on this site that is still in colour, because this is the one page where colour is the subject.
The four process inks, converted with the output intent the printer named, not with a guess.
The brand colour goes out as a real ink, set to overprint, because that is what it is on the press.
The die line travels on its own separation, so the cutter knows where to cut without a phone call.
Six separations, one file, and nothing comes back to be fixed.
What a day in it
actually looks like.
Illustrative jobs, not case studies. No customer is named and no result is claimed on anybody else’s behalf.
The brand green leaves as a real spot ink, the cut line as something the cutter recognises, the bleed already correct. One file out, nothing back.
Text flows across pages on its own. Change a style once and the document follows. Any image too low resolution to print is flagged before it is sent.
One design, a spreadsheet of names, one press-ready file with every badge laid out to fit the sheet. An afternoon instead of a week.
Open it and export
something real.
Popcorn is live and you can try it now. If you want it inside your own workflow or under your own brand, that conversation starts here.