IF YOU ARE NEW TO PRINTFUL OR ON-DEMAND PRINTING PLEASE READ IN FULL BEFORE CREATING OR INTEGRATING YOUR PRINTFUL ACCOUNT WITH YOUR STORE! I WASTED TWO DAYS SETTING UP PRINTFUL, DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES I DID!
Printful is not good quality on any level and I am not sure why so many people are stating it is, maybe these people have never ordered their own items from Printful or maybe they do not care about anything except making money from overpriced low-quality items? I ordered all different brands of tops, made sure to get samples using different designs and used different styles so I could see how good Printful really is and experience how my customer's orders would go from click to front door delivery.
Printful has a nice concept and it would be a great way to decrease steps when processing orders if the items printed were of quality, the packaging was up to par, there was no odors, shipping wasn't so long, and customer service was 10 times better.
Printful has a long list of things that need improving in order to be considered a quality printer.
1. Shipping takes way too long!
2. The quality of the print was faded and dull, no vibrancy of any kind no matter what kind of top was used.
3. The odor that came with these tops is horrendous to the point I had to keep them in a bag in a closet, there is no way I can sell these shirts or give them to models for our photoshoot smelling like this. In all my years in retail printing, I have never had to wash the items first due to odors, so I won't start now!!!
4. The packaging is just ridiculous, only people looking to secure their bottom line would send their customers orders in this basic plastic, dirty, uninspiring packaging. The slip wasn't even correct, all my information was wrong and had a California address instead of my business address that I have a business license for.
5. I order an outside label for the Hoodie that never got printed. I have no clue why because I definitely included\ a png design for my label so I could see how it would look.
6. The Gilden hoodie I got is the most basic hoodie Gilden has which will fade in just a few washes, this cost me $20.75 with printing at Prinful, but would have only cost me $17.99 with printing if I would have printed it locally and it would have been the heavier better quality Gilden hoodie, with my label printed on the back as I paid for. Plus it wouldn't smell so bad.
7. Printful and other on-demand printers claim there are no upfront costs when that is a lie. All of your customer's orders need to be paid by you upfront prior to Printful fulfilling the order. UMMM isn't this considered an upfront cost???? No upfront cost means Printful gets paid on the backend after funds have cleared for the transaction, not prior to fulfilling the order. I thought the credit card being on file meant once orders were filled by Printful there was a date when Printful would deduct their fees from my card but only after the transaction has cleared and shipped, which is a true no upfront cost scenario.
8. The customer service is complete BS, Printful could care less about you being their customer on any level with all these folks claiming they are so great. Again I do not understand how? There is no account manager that reaches out to make sure you understand how to use Printful or to make sure you have everything set up or integrated correctly. There is no way to call Printful! When I contacted chat support I got like a robot response that was not at all useful and when I told the agent I was not satisfied and was ending services, the response was Okay, I will forward your suggestions to our team, end chat!
9. Printful costs too much for the quality of the printed items and the shipping packaging. If you value your brand, your customers, and the fact they are spending their hard-earned money on your items, then I would suggest not taking the Printful route. My customers would ban me if they received any of these items from Printful, especially in the manner it was all received!
10. Using Printful is supposed to save time and money but I will make $13 off of a $40 order paying Printful $27, while providing my customers smelly, dull printed items that come in terrible packaging that will take at least 7 days to process and deliver vs me using my local Atlanta Printshop, shipping items in my own logoed packaging, while receiving high-quality vibrant prints that have zero odors, includes my brands labels and I can pick up same day or have them shipped to me for free making me $22.00 from a $40 order paying my local printer $17.99, subtracting my custom packaging and frills, I make $19.00 per order from $40 transaction and all I have to do is put the items in the box, tape it up and schedule FedEx to come to my business to pick up my customers orders, providing me the freedom to make more money without giving my customers less. read more