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The fine print,
in plain words.
How the studio, the storefront and the prepress pipeline work — guides for print shops and the developers who build for them, from the team behind DesignMint.
ComparisonsDesignMint vs IMG.LY: a print studio or an editor SDK?IMG.LY’s CE.SDK is a general-purpose editor that runs almost anywhere. DesignMint is a print studio with the store and prepress attached. Where each one fits.Read the post
ComparisonsDesignMint vs ImprintNext: two ways to sell custom apparelBoth give print shops a product designer and a way to sell it. ImprintNext plugs into the store you already run; DesignMint brings its own store and prepress.Read the post
PrepressManual artwork prep vs the Prepress APIWhat a shop’s artist does to every customer upload, step by step — and the same chain as one API call, at 25 credits a run.Read the post
PrepressFrom a 500px logo to a press-ready fileWhat happens between a blurry customer upload and a file your press can use — triage, upscale, background removal, colour, vectors and a final check, in one call.Read the post
StudioWhy every print area is drawn in millimetresPixels lie about size. Real units don’t — which is why the studio draws every print area on the real garment, and exports at exactly the size it was designed.Read the post
CommerceOne product, five ways to print itDTG, DTF, embroidery, sublimation and laser on the same catalog — each with its own price, its own print areas and its own production file.Read the post
CommerceTeam orders without the spreadsheetA club ordering 74 hoodies shouldn’t mean a spreadsheet and three emails. One size-run grid, one design, one total — with the bulk price showing up the moment it applies.Read the post
MigrationMoving off Shopify or Woo without losing an orderA platform move is a script, not a weekend of copy-paste. Scope it in writing, script it, rehearse it on a copy until it’s boring — then cut over.Read the post
DevelopersEmbedding the studio in a Next.js storefrontThe studio ships as a React package: install it, hand it the metadata your Back Office saved, and mount one component. Here is the whole path.Read the postBuild notesGot a question
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