Printful: Print on Demand

July 27, 2019

I've tried a number of POD companies and the mock-up generator is one of the most important factors in selecting a company. Printful has done their best with the ability to be as creative as possible with designs, even including a number of supports. My biggest disappointment is the lack of a basic X and Y component when placing your design on a shirt. When I find a location I like I have to rely on counting arrow clicks on my keyboard in order to remember where I placed my design if I want to use the location again for a different shirt. In addition, my shirts rely on a non-embroidered pocket logo design that I have to do my best to eyeball where to place it. It would be nice if Printful had a quick option asking if you'd like the large front design area or the pocket area. I understand that I can download the template and design on Adobe, but I am not yet adept at this skill. Overall: Positive: easy mock-up generator, quality products, and wonderful support. Work On: Add X/Y on generator and a pocket logo location for non-embroidered designs

Aug. 1, 2019

UPDATE 2: Back to 1 star. I am very shocked with how the customer support handles problems. UPDATE, bumping my 1 star to 2: The short of it is Printful might be totally fine for you if you just want to slap some designs on t-shirts and then sell them on Etsy without any regard for quality. But if you want to start a brand and are concerned about quality, this probably isn't for you. The main reasons for this are: poor customer support, a painful mockup editor experience, and a lack of variety in the t-shirt options (not enough heavy cotton a la streetwear, too many soft fitted tees that warp/stretch/don't last). The editor in particular is rough. Using it is a painfully haphazard experience. For example, if you have different versions of the same design (i.e. the same design in white (for dark shirts) and the same design in black (for light shirts)), you have to manually re size and position them separately. The grid is useless for getting the placement identical between these two designs, so you wind up having to move things just a touch, save, check the mock up, then go back and adjust again if needed. Either that or you can settle for your customer clicking between product images and noticing that one design is slightly higher than the other. A small thing to notice, but it makes a world of difference in presenting your brand in a professional way. A good brand should have consistency and avoid simple mistakes like that. And then when it comes to resizing the image, you have to drag the corner of the design while watching the DPI go up or down. Thing is, it doesn't go up or down by 1 DPI at a time. If you have one design perfectly placed and sized at 377 DPI and now you're trying to match another design identically, the DPI will constantly jump between 373 and 378. Again, resulting in a difference that is super tiny, but makes a huge difference in your brand image and consistency across product variants. Other limitations of the editor include not being able to edit the design on the mockup that you will actually use. Let's say you want your mockups to be flat product shots. You'll still have to edit the shirt on a doofy looking model. This again results in too much work between editing and understanding how your final product will look. If you want to get artsy and do a black design on a black shirt, your mockup will be a plain black shirt--no design in sight. Even in other cases (not pure black ink on black fabric), large areas of black in a design will be replaced with the fabric of the shirt. The problem is, that's not how the actual product will look. The black will be printed (that's the beauty of DTG, no limitations on screens like screenprinting), but that means what your customer sees on the mockup vs what they will actually receive after purchase look totally different. I'm hoping for improvements in the future. If I'm so frustrated, why do I continue to use it? Because it does the bare minimum for now. For now is the key there. Right now I'm using Printful as a foundation for building my brand with limited capital, but if my brand grows to a point where I can leave printful OR if competition springs up that can address these issues, I currently don't see many compelling reasons to continue using it.

July 26, 2019

This has been the most important component for developing my online store. I am excited to see how everything progresses THANK YOU

July 25, 2019

Very nice! This app came highly recommended. Very easy to set up and use. This will be my go to app. Niice!

July 24, 2019

I enjoy working with Printful. There is so much information and the "help" people are so helpful and kind.

July 22, 2019

I recommend this app. Once you do the set up, it's totally automatic. Give it a try you will be glad you did.

July 21, 2019

I can edit even after I load to store if I make a mistake with the design. Very easy to use. I love it! Glad I tried them

July 21, 2019

I love it. I would've loved it even more if I could print my designs on full scale on t-shirts for example. What I mean by that is to print the full front of the t-shirt and not only a part of it. But it's still great.

July 21, 2019

I added this app to my shopify store. I already had some 200 products in my store using other print on demand companies. When I downloaded the printful app, it automatically synced every single product in my store. I had to go into the printful app and manually tell printful to "ignore" each of the products not meant for printful. I then talked to customer service and was told that I would have to repeat this process for each product that I add to my store in the future. So every single product in my store now and in the future would be connected to printful and I would have to go in each time and "ignore" each product. This wouldn't be a issue if printful was my only supplier, but they aren't, If you plan to use printful exclusively then this won't be a problem for you. I add designs every week that are intended for other vendors so this would be a major hassle.

July 21, 2019

Great integration. Responsive customer support. Big product variation to choose from. Print and embroidery quality is good.

July 20, 2019

Bisher ist alles super! Ich freue mich schon auf die ersten Bestellung! Es macht wahnsinnig viel Spaß.

June 9, 2020

its OK, they need more advance embroidery machines that can do more complex designs, they deserve a chance. The alternatives provided for some options do not really provide an alternative with the limited colour selection.

July 20, 2019

I've used this app in the past with a lot of luck. I'm not certain what's changed since using it again other than now fulfillment is happening out of NC. Two out of my first three customer orders have needed to be redone. One was missing an entire side and had the label printed on the front. The second order was on a tee that the stitching missed the seam entirely and had a hole in the shoulder as it was not stitched together. It's apparent Printful is having QC issues or not doing QC at all. This makes it difficult and rather embarrassing to launch a brand using this company right now.

July 19, 2019

Amazing integration with Shopify. All menus that I made in shopify are working in Printful. Very satisfied with it.

July 19, 2019

'Printful's inept attempt to provide a POD service, do not trust what they display', 29s screen capture showing the laughable state of their print file offering - https://youtu.be/lF7bDVTcpho Printful founder Davis must have raised some cash, not enough it seems, and now trying to deliver a platform with a skeleton crew. Printful shows me I have a 2XL tag file uploaded, on opening I see it is actually an XL tag uploaded. Seriously, how do you push this live when ppl are planning to use it to build a business? From reports via shopify reviews the printing is not better. Support is laughable, copy paste on how to upload a print file. ** Printful are learning on your dollar, AVOID at all cost. **

Aug. 8, 2019

This app makes starting your on clothing line a breeze. The customer support and the suggestions are very helpful

July 18, 2019

I'm about to launch my clothing line in a few weeks. I could not have done it without Printful. Amazing app, you should use it if you're looking to launch an apparel company!

July 18, 2019

just starting..................................................................................................

July 17, 2019

its pretty easy to catch on. everything is simple. best thing to do is look at the reviews and cross refrence the reviews to make sure you order the right thing and provide the best service

July 17, 2019

Ever order takes 30+ days to arrive (if it ever does) Web interface is poorly designed with nothing but white background washing out all the functions on screen to make ordering easy but since you have to constantly search around for functions its just too tedious to work with. They use DHL e- commerce shipping which is the WORST company to to logistics and freight with. Tracking information is too vague and items were lost. I will not be recommending Printful as they have proved to me how mickey-mouse this Print-on-demand company actually is.find someone local, get your stuff made and stock it yourself.