Waste less film. Automatically.
Film is the number-one DTF consumable. KOVA's nesting engine arranges every pending design onto gang sheets to consume the least film across the roll — one click, optimized, and repeatable.
Deterministic packing that pays for itself
Skyline bottom-left strip-packing with 90° rotation, tuned for the way a DTF roll actually prints.
Least-film packing
Designs are sorted tallest-first and placed to minimize trapped area, trying both orientations. The roll is a fixed-width strip — KOVA minimizes the length of film consumed.
A QR beside every design
Each design reserves a label block to its right, so the printed film comes out pre-labeled per unit. Labels never overlap art — it's guaranteed and unit-tested.
Exactly 300 DPI
Sheets rasterize to a print-ready PNG at exactly 300 DPI with embedded QR codes. Missing artwork prints a loud red flag — never a silent blank.
Reprints come out byte-for-byte identical
The packer is fully deterministic: the same units always produce the same sheet. A reprint lands in exactly the same layout, so there's never a surprise on the second run — and utilization is reported per sheet so you can see the savings.
- Same input → same output, every time
- Per-sheet utilization percentage surfaced in the UI
- Automatic multi-sheet overflow past the max length
- Oversized pieces rejected with a human-readable reason
Files land in your hot folder, untouched by hand
A 90-line, zero-dependency agent runs on your RIP PC. It polls KOVA for print-ready sheets and drops each file into your NeoStampa hot folder — writing atomically so the RIP never grabs a half-written file.
- Click "Send to RIP" — the file just appears in the queue
- Atomic temp-then-rename write prevents corrupt prints
- Per-printer routing by profile and film width
- Outbound-only polling — no inbound firewall holes
Know what's backed up before you walk the floor
Sheets today, film used today, units to nest, low-DPI warnings — the operator dashboard turns the whole production line into four numbers you can read from the door.
Stop ganging sheets by hand
Let the engine pack your film and drive your RIP. Start free and nest a demo queue in minutes.