Bantam Tools Studio™

349.00 USD

Bantam Tools Studio™ is the creative engine behind Bantam Tools Drawing, Painting, and Writing Machines. Powerful yet approachable, it helps professional artists, educators, and crafters turn digital designs into physical art using traditional materials.

Comes included with:
Bantam Tools ArtFrame™
Bantam Tools HandWriter®
Bantam Tools WaterColorBot™ 
Bantam Tools EggBot™

Bantam Tools Studio™

Bantam Tools Studio™ is powerful yet easy-to-use software that prepares digital designs for precise, physical artwork using pens, brushes, and other traditional materials.

  • Prepare your design for Bantam Tools Machines.

    Bantam Tools Studio™ prepares your designs for Bantam Tools Drawing, Painting, and Writing Machines. Arrange your artwork, select your tools, and preview your composition before bringing it to life. From line drawings to paintings and your letters, Studio connects your ideas with the pens, brushes, and materials that make them physical.

  • No-Pain, Reliable Software.
    Don’t Waste Time.

    Bring your setup into one place with Bantam Tools Studio™. Choose tools, adjust settings, and prepare the motion that turns your design into real artwork. Painting workflows handle brush dipping and paint loading, while the Text Add-On provides lettering controls. Spend less time on setup and more time exploring what you want to create.

  • Explore What’s Possible with Pen, Motion, and Imagination.

    Bantam Tools Studio™ helps you explore what’s possible with Bantam Tools Drawing, Painting, and Writing Machines. From generative art to personalized ornaments and handwritten letters, it brings your ideas to life through ink, paint, and motion. It’s clever, connected, and confident software designed for people who create with machines.

Real Paint. New Possibilities.

Bring digital ideas to life with real brushes, pigment, and paper. Explore Bantam Tools Painting Machines and discover what you can create with Bantam Tools Studio™ 

  • Digital Artwork to Real Paint

    Bring your next painting into focus with Bantam Tools Studio™. Arrange your artwork, assign colors to your tools, and preview your composition before bringing it to life with real brushes, pigment, and paper. Bantam Tools Studio™  translates vector paths into precise physical movement, connecting your digital ideas with the expressive possibilities of paint.

  • Painting Workflow, Built In

    Painting workflows live inside Bantam Tools Studio™, with palettes that map the physical locations of your colors and water. Preconfigured tools handle brush dipping, paint loading, and motion, bringing the steps of machine painting together in one place. Focus on your artwork instead of building the system from scratch, whether you’re setting up your first composition or experimenting with a new palette.

  • Precise Motion. Expressive Materials.

    Every stroke is physically painted by the machine while the materials behave organically. Water flows, pigment spreads, and paper absorbs, creating the transparency, layering, and variation that give a painting its character. Your artwork provides the structure; the materials bring their own expression. For artists, educators, and creative coders, it’s a way to explore color, texture, and motion through a process that brings computation and physical media together.

Bantam Tools Studio™ Text Add-On

Expand Bantam Tools Studio™ with the Bantam Tools Studio™ Text Add-On to bring your words to paper. Included with Bantam Tools HandWriter and available as a separate purchase for other Studio users.

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  • Make Every Artwork Personal

    Sign your artwork, create certificates of authenticity, and write letters to your patrons. The Text Add-On brings the care you put into your work to every detail that accompanies it, creating a personal connection in real ink.

  • Put their name on it

    With Bantam Tools EggBot, add custom names to eggs and ornaments for personalized gifts, keepsakes, and seasonal collections. Use the Text Add-On to make each piece feel special, from a holiday ornament to a gift for a friend.

  • Included with The Bantam Tools HandWriter®.
    Available for Bantam Tools Studio™.

    The Text Add-On is included with Bantam Tools HandWriter, with tools to create personalized letters, notes, and more in real ink. For other Studio users, it is available as a separate purchase to expand your creative workflow.

Bantam Tools Studio™

Description

Bantam Tools Studio™ is the creative engine that powers the Bantam Tools ArtFrame™ and EggBot™, transforming digital designs into precise, physical art. Designed for artists, educators, and makers, Bantam Tools Studio™ bridges the gap between digital creativity and hands-on craftsmanship, giving you full control over how your artwork comes to life.

Bantam Tools Studio™ takes your SVG files and generates ready-to-plot G-Code, optimized for Bantam Tools machines. Whether you’re drawing detailed linework, plotting geometric patterns, or decorating spherical ornaments or eggs, the software handles the technical work so you can focus on the creative process.

Inside Bantam Tools Studio™, you’ll find intuitive controls for paper setup, artwork scaling, pen management, and motion settings. The new Tool Library keeps your pen collection organized with individual speed, lift, and pressure profiles. The Preview window shows exactly what your machine will draw, while the automatic color detection system simplifies multi-pen plotting.

Every feature in Bantam Tools Studio™ is built for precision and clarity. From smart path optimization to customizable tool profiles, it provides the power and flexibility professionals expect while remaining accessible for classrooms and studios.

Whether you’re teaching design fundamentals, creating fine-art editions, or crafting one-of-a-kind ornaments, Bantam Tools Studio™ turns your creative vision into motion with confidence, reliability, and style.

Bantam Tools Studio™

Key Feature

  • SVG to G-Code Conversion: Turn vector artwork into clean, optimized G-Code for plotting.
  • Multi-Pen Workflows: Detect colors, layers, or groups and assign tools for seamless pen changes.
  • Tool Library: Organize pens, markers, and brushes with saved speed, lift, and draw depth per tool.
  • Paper and Artwork Controls: Fit to margins, scale, rotate, center, and set custom media sizes.
  • Real-Time Preview: See exactly what will plot, then pop out the preview for larger viewing.
  • Path Optimization: Reorder paths, group by color, control precision, arcs, and long-move splitting.
  • Setup Sheets: Auto-generate a printable summary with tools, operations, media, and settings.
  • Machine Profiles: Choose Bantam Tools ArtFrame™, EggBot™, including max paper size and speeds.
  • Performance Tuning: Set XY and Z feedrates, acceleration presets for precision or speed.
  • Z Control: Pen up height, draw depth, and Z offset for varied materials and surfaces.
  • Keyboard Shortcuts: Quick actions like unit swap, open, and save for faster workflows.
  • Cross-Platform: Available for macOS and Windows

Bantam Tools Studio™

Specifications

Machine Compatibility: Bantam Tools ArtFrame™, Bantam Tools EggBot™

Operating Systems: Compatible with macOS and Windows

File Compatibility: SVG input, G-Code output (compatible with standard G0, G1, G2, G3, M3, and M5 commands)

Machine Arts Magazine will be included for free with every order of an Art Machine

Machine Arts Magazine

Machine Arts Magazine spotlights the artists, pioneers, and innovators shaping this field, blending in-depth interviews with studio visits, practical guides, and richly illustrated features. Readers will find stories that connect past and present, vintage hardware revived alongside cutting-edge generative work, while also gaining hands-on insights into tools, techniques, and materials.

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