17 guides
Print on demand and Etsy guides
Reference pages for people selling print on demand. Every number on them is either published by Etsy or Printify, or counted from the photographs in this catalogue. Where something is judgement rather than fact, the page says so.
Etsy listings
The rules Etsy publishes, and what to do inside them.
How many photos can an Etsy listing have?
Twenty, since Etsy raised it from ten. The useful question is which twenty, when you sell sixty colors.
20 photos, 2000px, first image decides the click
Etsy listing video maker
Five to fifteen seconds, square, silent. Etsy has taken listing videos for years and most print on demand shops still skip them.
5–15 seconds, audio stripped, 2 per listing
Etsy tags: thirteen slots
Thirteen tags of twenty characters, free, and most listings waste half of them. What Etsy states, and what only looks like a rule.
13 tags, 20 characters each
Six ways to increase sales on a print on demand shop
Seasonal timing, testing the first image, titles buyers type, a photo for every color, niche depth and listing video. With the video.
Six steps, 6:23 of video
Printify and printing
What the platform needs from you, and what the printer does to it.
Printify for beginners
Eight steps from an empty account to a published product, including the two decisions that quietly cost people money later.
No income claims anywhere on it
How to connect Printify to Etsy
The connection, the step that stops orders sitting unfulfilled, and the part most guides leave out: what does not come across.
Add a payment method before you go live
Printify print file size and DPI
300 DPI, transparent PNG, sRGB, and 4500 × 5400 for a standard t-shirt front. Plus the five mistakes that reach the customer.
4500 × 5400px at 300 DPI
DTG printing: what prints well and what does not
Six things the process does to a design, each as symptom, cause and fix. Every one of them looks correct on a screen.
White underbase is why transparency matters
Blanks and colors
Counted from the photographs in this catalogue, not copied from a supplier sheet.
How many colors does each blank come in?
Colorway counts per garment, and what each one commits you to in photographs. Numbers that exist nowhere else.
325 colorways, 719 mockups
Bella+Canvas 3001 vs Comfort Colors 1717
Weight, fit, feel and the color gap nobody mentions: the 3001 carries far more shades, and most of the difference is heathers.
169 colorways against 62
Which garment colors match across blanks
A cross-reference of which shades photograph the same across Bella+Canvas, Comfort Colors and Gildan.
Matched by appearance, not by name
The mockup catalog
Every garment and every color, photographed. Free to browse with no account.
719 mockups, 11 styles
Money and tools
What a sale actually leaves you, and what else is out there.
What you actually keep on a sale
One shirt, every fee, all the way down. Most calculators in this niche quietly drop the payment processing fee.
$8.17 left on a $24.99 shirt
A Placeit alternative for Printify sellers
How a Printify-connected batch differs from a template library, and an honest section on when the library is the better tool.
Includes when not to use us
Free mockup generator
Every design on every color of a blank, full resolution, no watermark. Free account, no card.
3 designs, unlimited colors, $0
Bulk mockup generation
The arithmetic of a color range, and what changes when the multiplication is done for you.
One placement, every color
The Printify import
Paste a free read-only token and your artwork, placement and enabled colors come across on their own.
Two read scopes, nothing else
The tool underneath
Every color you sell, in one batch
These pages exist because the same problem turns up in all of them: a shop sells more colors than it can photograph by hand. Connect Printify, import your designs, and every color renders at once.