This company provides a full technology stack of software and inkjet solutions for the print industry, serving markets from labels and packaging to commercial printing. Their offerings automate prepress workflows, manage color accurately, and integrate 3D visualization for packaging design. They deliver tailored solutions across enterprise workflows, native PDF editing, and high-speed Digital Front Ends (DFEs).
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
Industrial print manufacturers face challenges in optimizing their printing processes, minimizing operational errors, and ensuring consistent color output across diverse applications like labels, packaging, textiles, and 3D printing. The complexity of managing prepress workflows, color variations, and integrating different printing technologies can lead to inefficiencies and increased costs.
Solution
Hybrid Software Group provides a suite of enterprise software solutions designed to streamline industrial print manufacturing, offering workflow automation, native PDF editing, 3D prototyping, and color management tools. Their offerings include the CLOUDFLOW workflow automation suite, PACKZ PDF editor, and iC3D packaging design software. These solutions enable manufacturers to automate prepress processes, visualize packaging designs in 3D, and achieve spot-on color management across various printing applications. By integrating these technologies, Hybrid Software Group helps customers enhance production efficiency, reduce errors, and improve the overall quality of printed output. The group also provides high-speed Digital Front Ends (DFEs) and RIPs, along with printhead drive electronics, offering a full technology stack for digital printing.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes tag and label printers, flexible packaging printers, folding carton printers, corrugated printers, trade shops & pre-media houses, commercial & screen printers, metal can & direct-to-shape printers, brand owners, and print OEMs and software vendors.
Features
- PACKZ: All-in-one PDF editor for labels and packaging
- CLOUDFLOW: Workflow automation suite for labels and packaging
- iC3D: 3D packaging design and prototyping software with a library of modeling templates
- Colorspace: Integrated color management for labels and packaging
- ColorAnt, CoPrA, and ZePrA: Tools to measure, correct, and optimize color
- VDP Execute and PACKZ VDP: Scalable variable data printing (VDP) solutions
- Navigator RIP: Drives various CTP, CTF, and DTS devices with TIFF or direct interface
- SmartDFE: AI-accelerated Digital Front End for high-speed, single-pass inkjet presses
- Intelligent Flexo and Velvet Screening: Surface screening solutions for flexo printing
- Proofscope: Soft proofing and collaboration tool
- Mako Core and Harlequin Core: SDKs for smart print applications
- Meteor Inkjet: Production-ready drive electronics for industrial inkjet printheads