Product and Service Quality

Choose quality—choose Printful

From on-demand fulfillment and creative services to stellar customer support, we’ve got you covered

Build your brand with no upfront investments

Choose products your customers will love from our catalog of quality items, including apparel, accessories, and more

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Grow a global brand and ship your products worldwide from Printful fulfillment centers across the globe

Get next-level visuals for your brand with the help of our graphic designers, photographers, and videographers

Store your non-Printful inventory and save even more time with our Warehousing & Fulfillment services

Rely on a dedicated, around-the-clock customer support team

Get everything you need to run your business from store setup to order fulfillment all in one place

Cut down the time spent working on my store

I really love Printful, it's been useful to cut down the time spent working on my store as I have a full-time job alongside this.

Naomi Ruth

Nemki

Started a business with zero capital in my spare time

Printful allowed me to start a business with zero capital in my spare time. It was easy to set up and Printful does all the hard work for me. All I have to do is supply the ideas and the traffic, and then everything else is taken care of.

Dominic

Dogecore

The printing always comes out perfect

I was looking for a printing company that felt current with their products, but also had great customer service—I found both of those and more with Printful. The printing always comes out perfect and I love how I can attach a custom logo to the packages so my customers think it’s coming right from my own Brothers Green factory, it’s a nice little touch! I haven’t had one issue in 2 years with Printful!

Mike Greenfield

Brothers Green

Empower your brand with the help of industry-leading tech

With over $83.7M invested in printing equipment, we run a business focused on high quality results

Combining sustainability and quality

When it comes to fulfillment, we have two main goals—ensuring the best quality and making fulfillment as eco-friendly as possible.

To achieve this, we continuously invest in the newest technologies from companies who care about sustainable fashion:

Kornit series printers and inks for DTG apparel
Happy and Tajima embroidery machines for hats
MS printers and inks for all-over print products
Mimaki inkjet printers for sublimation products
Mimaki UV printers and inks for phone cases
Epson series printers and inks for wall art
SubliJET HD ink for mugs
Gravotech machines for engraving

All orders go through our 3-step quality check before we ship them out

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

Create your one-of-a-kind fashion brand

Sell your products worldwide with our on-demand dropshipping service

Fulfill your ideas responsibly

We only print products on-demand. Most of our printers use less electricity, water, and chemicals than standard industry printers. We’re gradually introducing more eco-friendly packaging, and looking into partnering with more sustainable brands.

Create less waste

One in every five garments ends up in a landfill without being worn even once. You don’t have to worry about that—we customize the product after your customer has already placed an order. This way when making your products, we produce less waste than traditional made-to-sell retail stores.

Be close to your customers

Get orders to your customers efficiently thanks to several Printful fulfillment centers across the globe, with partner facilities in Australia and Japan. Around 78% of Printful orders are delivered in the same country they’re fulfilled. Being closer to your customers means reducing our carbon emissions from shipping.

Team up with like-minded partners

You can be sure you’re partnering with a company that values sustainability and cares about the planet. Follow our continued efforts to help build your brand.

Enjoy top-quality results

We provide the best print quality in the industry—our colors are vivid and match the original print file as closely as possible

Your designs come to life on high-quality materials, and are fulfilled responsibly and packaged with care

We source products and fabrics from ethical brands and suppliers that comply with labor, environmental, and safety standards. Some of our products are cut and sewn by our in-house professionals.

We fulfill each product with the technique that’ll yield the best results

We use direct-to-garment or DTG printing for most of our apparel products. It’s like using a regular printer, but on garments. Designs are printed directly onto the garment and absorbed into the fabric.

DTG printing yields quality prints, it's cost-effective for one-off orders, and there's almost no limit to the colors and fine detail you can use in your designs.

DTG inks are eco-friendly, CPSIA-compliant, non-toxic, non-hazardous, and soluble in water. They're free from heavy metals, formaldehyde, and Alkylphenol Ethoxylates (APE).

Embroidery is a technique where your design is embroidered on a product. It’s great for finer details, also logos and texts. We do embroidery on hats, apparel, bags, and home & living items

We professionally digitize all embroidery graphics by converting your design graphic into a stitch file that the embroidery machine can process.

We use three 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
Partial 3D puff—a combination of flat and 3D embroidery

We use the cut & sew technique for our 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.

To personalize jewelry and keychains we use a diamond tool for mechanical engraving. This method offers great precision and attention to detail which is necessary for smaller products like jewelry.

The sublimation technique is done on ready-made blank products. We use it for some accessories and home & living items.

Graphics are printed on sublimation paper with specialty inks. Each product is wrapped with the printed paper and goes in the heat press, where ink turns to gas and gets absorbed in the fabric.

We use a specific mug sublimation technique for mugs. The paper is wrapped around the mug and placed in an oven or conveyor. Then the inks turn to gas and are absorbed into the polymer coating of the mug.

UV printing is used to customize phone cases. With this process, graphics are printed onto the case. The ink is cured with UV light as soon as it comes in contact with the case, which polymerizes it and forms a hard coating.

For some products, we use printing techniques specifically suited for each product, for example, sticker, canvas and poster, and postcard printing, so your designs are seamlessly transferred onto the product and look as beautiful as you intended them to be.

We package your products so they get to your customers safely

We use post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic packaging for all apparel orders shipped from our in-house facilities. PCR plastics are made from items people recycle every day, like plastic bags and bottles.

We use polymer mailers for DTG, all-over print, embroidered apparel, and most sublimated products in most of our partner facilities. Poly mailers are lightweight, moisture-resistant mailers made from polyethylene film.

We use compostable eco mailers for all printed apparel orders fulfilled in Australia. The mailers are made from a combination of cornstarch, PLA (vegetable-based plastic material), and PBAT (composting co-polymer). These mailers have the supplier’s name and composting instructions on them.

Polymer bags are see-through bags we use for two or more apparel products. Each item is packaged in its own polymer bag, which are then placed in a polymer mailer.

We are working on reducing the use of plastic in the packaging process to save the environment and avoid overpackaging while shipping items without causing any damages.

Hats and large quantity orders come packaged in corrugated cardboard boxes.

Our posters come in triangular cardboard boxes to ensure safe delivery without any creases or damages and avoid the use of plastic caps.

We use an eco-friendly black leatherette-covered box with a magnetic closure and cloth inlay to pack jewelry. When shipped, they’re put in an additional cardboard box.

Kraft mailers are used to ship phone cases. They are paper mailing envelopes and they provide protection against tearing and punctures. When shipping our biodegradable phone cases, we use a small cardboard box.

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Meet our team

We cherish our employees as much as our customers

Our quality would be impossible without each and every member of our team. At Printful, we all see the value in what we do and we’re driven to do the best we can to help our customers succeed.

Besides paid time off, healthcare benefits, and a safe and friendly work environment, our employees have the opportunity to grow, from internal training sessions to in-house libraries, and professional development courses. We also like to motivate one another—be it a month-long running challenge or helping out with a challenging task.

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