Creating POD Products with Pattern Generator
Lemon time! One of the softest and happiest colors for illuminated places is Lima-Lemon. There are countless combinations thanks to their neighboring Orange, Yellow and Green tones on the HUE wheel.
In previous posts, we explained how to create a set of high-quality digital papers. However, what other exciting things can be done with patterns?
Have you heard about Print on Demand (POD)?
It is a collaborative commercial service where you provide the graphic design, and they provide all the logistics of printing your design on specific products, order management, payments, and shipping the merchandise to your customers.
On which products can your designs be printed? It depends on the company that provides the printing service. Even so, there is usually a wide variety of products for the home, for him, for her, for kids, and even pets. It's a great space to create new applications every day.
What are the most popular POD services?
Below is a list, in no specific order, of the most popular companies offering print-on-demand service:
- Printful
- Printify
- SPOD
- Apply Dropship
- CustomCat
- T-Pop
- LuluXpress
- JetPrint
- Teelaunch
Two desirable features in POD Services.
- Use vector images instead of raster images
Vector images, e.g., SVG, do not lose their resolution when scaling up or down. They do not suffer from pixelation, blurring, distortion, etc. Also, the file size is smaller compared to a raster image like BMP, JPG, PNG, etc.
- Automatic coverage of the printing area using a seamless pattern
Why create a huge image that covers the entire printing area, when the POD Service accepts a seamless tile that will automatically repeat as a pattern where it is required? There is no excuse. Let's create a small seamless pattern SVG, and the POD Service will take care of the rest.
With the previous two features, your productivity and simplicity will increase drastically.
Sign up POD Services for Free and try them out
Please sign up any of the previously mentioned print-on-demand services and evaluate the products and design process they offer.
You will find this activity very interesting, and if you are not sure yet, we leave you some examples created in our 5-minute test.
Creating a Quick Print On Demand Design
Let's test a print-on-demand design using Printify
- We're using our Lemon-Lime digital paper set and selected this cute pattern:
- Now, in Printify, we will select some products from their catalog.
- Let's make some samples with cups, pillows, a small bag, a tote bag, and a medium apron.
- Just upload the Lima Pattern and apply it to each product.
- After applying, we can preview the products with a hyper-realistic finish.
That is all. Enjoy the result, and try new ideas using 's Free Pattern Generator.
