Companies like this put your art in their packaging with their company logo and name, invoice in their company name, and add your customers to their mailing list, all of which is horrible for you as the artist.Ī good POD, a real POD, does the exact opposite of those things. Their primary goal is to make tons of money by taking advantage of artists, paying small percentages of the total sales, printing low quality items, and using the artist to bring them customers which they promptly steal and market other artists’ work to. Their print on demand service is simply a by-product of that goal. Their primary goal is to show and sell an artist’s work. Companies like this should be thought of more as online art galleries as opposed to print on demands. While it’s true that these companies have a POD service attached to their sites (several different ones in fact), they’re not strictly PODs themselves. I think for most people, print on demand means companies like Redbubble, Zazzle, or Fine Art America. Well then, this is the post you’ve been looking for.īefore we talk about what qualities we should be looking for in a POD service provider, I feel the need to talk a bit about the big companies that come to most people’s minds when they think of print on demand.

This is the most accurate and up to date information you’ll find on this subject anywhere.īy now I’m sure you’ve all heard of a little thing called print on demand (POD for short), but do you really know what it is, why you should be using it, and which print on demand services to avoid like a hoard of hungry zombies? *UPDATE: This article was originally written in January 2016, and has been updated as of December 2016 with new information to reflect the current state of print on demands for the artist.

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