Printful Review: Pros and Cons for T-Shirt Printing

Custom Branded T-Shirts, Apparel and Other Merchandise

Updated 7/30/20: This Printful review will cover the pros and cons we’ve found in using Printful’s custom design platform. You’ll find screenshots and video as well toward providing a comprehensive review of this print-on-demand (POD) service.

Table of Contents

• Custom Branded T-Shirts, Apparel and Other Merchandise
  • Audio Article – Printful Review:
• Custom Designs with Printful
  • Design Variety
  • Quick Starter or Perfectionist?
• The Print on Demand T-Shirt Market
• Printful Review
• Review Categories
• 1. User Design Experience: 4 Star
  • Printful Design PROS
  • Printful Design CONS
  • Video overview of Printful’s platform PROS & CONS
• 2. Printful Review: Fabrics & Product Library: 4 Star
  • Printful’s Current Apparel Manufacturer Partners
  • POD Fabric Limitations
• 3. Printful Review: Integration Ease: 5 Star
  • Printful Shopping Integration Platforms
• 4. Printful Review: Fulfillment & Payments: 5 Star
  • Printful Fulfillment
  • POD Fulfillment Usually Takes Longer
  • Printful Payment Processing
• 5.  Printful Review: Customer Service & Resources: 4 Star
  • Printful Customer Service
  • Resources & Tutorials
  • The Elusive Search
  • How Printful Can Save Money and Time
• Printful Review Conclusion: 4.2 Stars Total Rating
  • Printful Review Summary
• Designing Your Own Creations
  • What Could You Create for Your Brand and Followers?
  • Create Branded Products to Sell
• Gifts
  • Gift Your Creations
  • Gift Other’s Creations

This Printful Review article may help you with ideas and decisions as to which convenient print on demand service to use.

Audio Article – Printful Review:

Here’s one of our long sleeve iYogaDaily designs!

Custom Designs with Printful

Design Variety

Printful offers a large variety of products to choose for your art and ideas, but we will only be covering the apparel printing in this article. 

Keep in mind that once you learn one printing platform’s system, you’re able to maneuver the next one more quickly. Many of the platforms have similar elements so the learning curve might be reduced.

Whichever printing company you start with will seem to be the hardest at first. We started with TeeSpring and experimented with Zazzle and RedBubble over the years before printing on Printful.

For creators, creating is often easier than sales and marketing, so print on demand allows you to discover what sells best before you make a lot.
~iCreateDaily.com

Quick Starter or Perfectionist?

If you’re inclined toward perfectionism, then you’ll just want to get something out there quickly and then refine as you go. If however, you’re inclined to launch quickly and then fizzle out, you’ll want to approach it with more care and thought.

The following quote is an opposite variation on Seth Godin’s “just ship it” concept, which we’ve written about elsewhere. But there’s always another perspective, and ours is that the two together represent a balance.

THE MARRIAGE OF QUICK START AND PERFECTION

1. Make lots and get it out there quickly
2. Ongoing refinement and improvement

“Don’t be in a rush to get big.  Be in a rush to have a great product.”
~ Eric Ries, American entrepreneur, blogger, author