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12/2/2023

About Printful & Print-on-Demand

Printful is an on-demand printing and fulfillment company that helps people turn their ideas into brands and products. Whether you wish to create your own online brand or gift someone a personalized t-shirt, Printful can help you get it done. Whenever someone—you or your customer—makes a purchase, Printful will automatically receive the order, fulfill, and ship it.

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Build your brand with no upfront investments or monthly fees
Choose products your customers will love from a catalog of quality items, including apparel, accessories, and more
Connect your Printful account with the most popular ecommerce platforms and marketplaces
Grow a global brand and ship your products worldwide from Printful fulfillment centers across the globe
Rely on a dedicated, around-the-clock customer support team
Get everything you need to run your business from design creation to order fulfillment all in one place

Why print-on-demand

Every purchase, big or small, has a footprint. One in every five garments reaches a landfill without being worn even once. By choosing print-on-demand, you choose apparel that’s created only as the order is placed, creating less fabric waste than conventional manufacturing. It’s Printful’s goal to make on-demand manufacturing the norm for a planet with finite resources and people with infinite ideas.

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Printful memberships

In addition to the free version, Printful has two memberships, which unlock low and stable prices and other benefits—get up to 33% off products with t-shirts starting only from $8.55.

Printful Growth Membership
Reach $12K over the last 12 months or pay a monthly fee of $24.99

FREE 14-day trial
Up to 20% off DTG products
Up to 30% off other categories
Product branding discounts of 7%
Personalized product transfer assistance
Unlimited stores per account

It can pay off with just 4 orders a month, and you can cancel at any time. Best of all, unlike other print-on-demand providers, if you reach the sales target, you’ll get the membership for free for a whole year.

Once you’ve become a Printful Growth member, you can use the new prices to accelerate your growth and upgrade to Printful Business—get access to even lower prices and other exclusive benefits.

Printful Business Membership
Upgrade from Printful Growth by reaching $60K+ over the last 12 months

Up to 22% off DTG products
Up to 33% off other categories
Product branding discounts of 9%
Sample order discounts increased to 25%
Free digitization for all embroidered products
Large front print for select products
Personalized product transfer assistance
Priority support
Unlimited stores per account

Global and efficient shipping

Around 81% of Printful orders are delivered in the same region they’re fulfilled. Having fulfillment centers close to customers is good both for the business and the planet. Strategically located fulfillment centers allow for faster shipping times and lower shipping costs, and it also helps with reducing the CO₂ emissions produced when transporting orders.

DTG

Many of Printful’s products are printed with the direct-to-garment (DTG) technique. With DTG, ink is sprayed onto the garment, which helps it soak into the fabric better and makes the print less prone to fading. The main advantage of DTG is that it’s easy to print one-offs because there’s almost no setup time.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is a technique where your design is embroidered on a product. It’s great for finer details, also logos and texts. Printful offers embroidery on hats, apparel, bags, and home & living items. They professionally digitize all embroidery graphics by converting your design graphic into a stitch file that the embroidery machine can process.

Printful uses two main types of embroidery:

Flat embroidery—the thread is embroidered flat onto the product
3D puff—a foam insert gives the embroidery a raised look

Cut & sew technique is used for all-over print products—apparel, accessories, and home & living items. All-over print products are made in two steps:

Sublimation printing: Graphics are printed onto sublimation paper using specialty inks. Fabric is placed between two sheets of sublimation paper and goes through a heat press. The heat then transforms the sublimation ink into a gas that gets absorbed into the fabric. This ensures a consistent and vibrant all-over print that covers the whole product.
Cut & sew: After a graphic is printed onto the fabric, the shape of the garment is precision-cut and hand-sewn with industrial sewing machines. This gives the product a durable construction.

Eco-friendly products

Printful’s eco-friendly product collection is growing along with the needs of customers. Customers can currently choose from a range of materials like organic cotton, recycled cotton, recycled polyester, recycled nylon, as well as organic and recycled fabric blends. The collection consists of items made of at least 70% organic or recycled materials or such material blends.

Quality check

Printful’s automated software checks graphics for quality before fulfillment and an AI tool evaluates if the image needs any adjustments before printing. Fulfillment specialists check quality while orders are being fulfilled and run a final quality check after the blank product is customized.

Branding for white label

Printful doesn’t put its branding anywhere to avoid distracting from your product. They’re a white-label drop shipper, which means when a customer orders something from your store, they won’t see Printful mentioned at any point. You can communicate the effort you put in through branding as Printful offers many ways for you to incorporate your brand into every order.

Inside label: Take advantage of tear-away tags and all-over print garments—put your brand on the inside label of your products
Outside label: Put your logo on products and use promotional branding to raise brand awareness and reach more customers
Custom Packaging: First impressions count when it comes to packaging. While a plain, white poly mailer still gets the job done, custom packaging will make your customers adore your brand even more.
Pack-ins: Make your orders more personal with branded pack-ins such as flyers, business cards, or stickers.
Packing slips: Upload a design with your logo and write a custom message—Printful will add it to the packing slips and stick them to the outside of your packages.
White-label tracking page: On top of providing easy access to shipping details, make your customers feel connected to your brand by customizing the order tracking page.

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