I was excited looking for this video after watching a couple of the other reviews. I must say i am dissapointed about the score system that only considers quality of the printing. After analyzing 9 companies I would have loved to see a final summary that sets scores also to quality of the tshirt, pricing, branding options, delivery times, app usability, customization options, etc.
Did you see the title of the video? This video was only about quality. I have a ton of other videos on my channel in reference to the other things you mentioned
@@KerryEgeler As you mentioned, this is just for quality, but it would be nice to see you to do another video and informed us on the above comments suggestions.
What?!?! How about after wash? That is like the most important metric mate! I'd recommend you remake this with after 3 washes results included in the video.
Very surprised to see some of these results considering my personal experience with some of them. It’s be nice to see some real color tests as this is only a 2 color print (white & red). Maybe due a true color wheel palette design (comic strip maybe) for a true color test as when I’m reviewing samples I want to see the whole picture from the supplier. Can they change colors on a fine line vs no line. Overall good reviews but it’d be nice to have a true print test. I think this shows your everyday run of the mill quality for each provider really well but not true capabilities.
Agreed its all relative. Printful for example is the highest cost. Imagine paying 30 bucks for a cool tshirt only to receive a huge gouge in it, not only would a customer be disappointed but they'd pass that frustration to the seller in the form of a bad review. Knowing the price I'd totally go for a cheaper brand with better manufacturing.
Hi, did you or could you do a multiple washing machine test? Because I mind that more important than the original print quality. Even if it looks good, if its destroyed after 1 wash, its useless. Let us know :)
Great video! I just subscribed. I am hoping to open my POD Shopify store soon and this is valuable info. I have received hoodie or tshirt samples from Printify/Monster Digital, CustomCat and SPOD, so it was great to see your comparison. I haven’t heard of Fuel but will look at them also. Thanks!
I think Printful is really the best. That imperfection was a rare fluke. Their quality is great and my top supplier for my shirts. I am super impressed with SPOD though. Have to see if they're cheaper than Printful😂
Printful takes care of misprints rather quickly. All companies are going to have misprints. This is normal. How they handle them is a different story. This reason alone means I don’t do business with teelaunch any longer. (Some others too not in this video)
Monster digital should have the largest print area of them all at 15 by 17 which is usually used for most of their shirts especially bella canvas. To be honest I surprised the white worked with Monsters Digital and Printful because in my pass orders it came out really bad so like most people I switched to lighter grey to get a double pass of white for black tees for white prints with them. And did you use a cmyk red or an rgb red ?
@BLACK SHEEP CYBER Due to the Kornit printers both printful and Monster Digital use, the color white either comes faded or washout , so a lighter grey or off white is a good option to get the desired result . A Printful rep even told me you have to add either a hint of yellow or green etc to the white to create a double layer, but I find the lighter grey option more consistent and much easier. That said POD companies like Shirtly that use Brothers GTX don't have that defect and can print white nice and crisp without black dots consistently.
@@instantplayerclassicjh2580 This is great information. I have received white text/black hoodie samples from Printify/Monster Digital with this exact problem. Sent me down a rabbit hole of samples from CustomCat & about to try SPOD hoodies. I will go back to Monster Digital and try the light grey on the dark colors. I was sold on Printify before the “see through” text because of costs, color selection.
Hey, Kerry. Which one smelled the least like vinegar? I've been trying to find the some kinda balance between the best quality and the least bad smelling pod products.
I used Apliiq for print on demand dropsipping for a while, and here's some things I noticed. - Their website is full of glitches that will make you have to constantly contact them to clarify things with your orders or designs. You may be charged twice for an item, or your customer will recieve the wrong item because of a glitch on their end. - Quality is very hit and miss. Your sample will be great, but subsequent orders that go to your customers might have poor quality embroidery, misplaced designs, etc. Also, the quality of their basic 1301 Streetwear tee seemed to change - some orders it was a darker or lighter black, some had loose threads, etc. I found it hard to trust that Apliiq would actually send out a decent order, and when you're trying to keep consistency in your brand and designs, this can be very tiring. - The time it take sfor your customer to recieve an order is terrible. THREE weeks. When someone on your online store sees it'll take 3 weeks to recieve their new shirt, they just won't order from you. - Their customer service is excellent, though. And they will fix any problems. Alas, sometimes it's just too late.
Spod has been giving me a lot of issues. The site is glitching, not loading my designs, can't edit. When I click on a design it doesn't load up. I'm so disappointed, so now I'm going to have to go to a different pod company that will sync up well with shopify. Plus, spod customer service has not addressed the problem. 😫
This is a great informative video but as someone who is in the very early stages of their POD business I’m sooo confused which company to go with, especially as I’m in Australia. Are there companies better for certain graphics types, like is one better at printing plain white fonts vs lots of colour graphics?
Thanks for the review. Im wondering though, do you use straight up white in your design files or somewhat of a greyish color? Essentially can you share the hex code for the white color you use?
Really interesting! Thanks for the comparisons! I think I liked Fuel the best but your top picks look on the money. Which of these top companies do you like best for the quality of the shirts and variety of products, shirts and colors?
Teescape is the most vibrant colors you’re gonna find for DTG on demand. Hands down the best colors. They lack capabilities and focus on what they do best. Admirable and if you use them for basic garments, you won’t regret it.
I'm wondering which POD offers the best tees the premium ones like domrebel use or something similar, i tested out apliiq and the quality of the bella canvas 3001 was just average, same with the printing.
Pickey, picked me, you showed a score for Customcat = 9+5+5=19 but said 20. Same for Aop+ score of 6+5+4=15 But said 14. I must be very wrong!!!! So that means Spod WINS with a high score of 21 1st place. While Fuel in at 20 @ 2nd place. Printful & Customcat ties at 19 comes in 3rd. TeeLaunch is 4th. Apliiq & is at 5th.
I fully agree. I used to order 30-50 tees from them every month, now I order zero from them. The prints are complete crap, most fall apart after the first wash, even when the customer washes in cold water on delicate cycle. I just gave up and moved everything to Printful. More expensive but customers complain 90% less now.
Literally all of the t-shirts was at a quality that i would return and want my money back if i bought them, yet you was acting like they are minor imperfections. These print on demand companies all need shutting down.
Would of been interesting to give the price of each including the shipping cost.
Would have liked a follow up on which brand withstood the best quality retention after multiple washes.
Yes!
The people printing the shirts, for the POD's with lower scores, took imperfect action! They read the shirt and said..."Okay." 😎
😂😂😂😂
🤣🤣
I just want a print on demand shop that prints all over and has high quality sweatshirts that aren’t paper thin.
I was excited looking for this video after watching a couple of the other reviews. I must say i am dissapointed about the score system that only considers quality of the printing. After analyzing 9 companies I would have loved to see a final summary that sets scores also to quality of the tshirt, pricing, branding options, delivery times, app usability, customization options, etc.
Did you see the title of the video? This video was only about quality. I have a ton of other videos on my channel in reference to the other things you mentioned
@@KerryEgeler As you mentioned, this is just for quality, but it would be nice to see you to do another video and informed us on the above comments suggestions.
The bad registration on some of them is a deal breaker for me. The white behind the red looks terrible to me.
Yooo! This is a really high quality upload. I hope the algorithm Gods serve you well
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
THIS VIDEO NEEDS more views! Wow, thanks for the quality content!
Thank you!
What?!?! How about after wash? That is like the most important metric mate! I'd recommend you remake this with after 3 washes results included in the video.
Very surprised to see some of these results considering my personal experience with some of them. It’s be nice to see some real color tests as this is only a 2 color print (white & red). Maybe due a true color wheel palette design (comic strip maybe) for a true color test as when I’m reviewing samples I want to see the whole picture from the supplier. Can they change colors on a fine line vs no line. Overall good reviews but it’d be nice to have a true print test. I think this shows your everyday run of the mill quality for each provider really well but not true capabilities.
Good feedback
I think price and shipping should be included in your categories...Thank You
Agreed its all relative. Printful for example is the highest cost. Imagine paying 30 bucks for a cool tshirt only to receive a huge gouge in it, not only would a customer be disappointed but they'd pass that frustration to the seller in the form of a bad review. Knowing the price I'd totally go for a cheaper brand with better manufacturing.
Thanks so much for doing this! Wondering about awkward styles quality
You bet!
1.Fuel 2.Printful$ 3.SPOD 4.Custom cat Awkward Styles and Printify with SwiftPOD
Love this but wish you did placement aswell. Thats my biggest problem. Centreing
Super helpful…just subscribed 😍Thanks a million
Very welcome!
Hi, did you or could you do a multiple washing machine test? Because I mind that more important than the original print quality. Even if it looks good, if its destroyed after 1 wash, its useless. Let us know :)
I saw someone one youtube here did a washing machine test...I just don't remember who. Some lady, I think.
nope, I was wrong...just checked my watch history. It was Shimmy Morris.
I used apilq I was upset with them but I like how they are quick wit responding
Great video! I just subscribed. I am hoping to open my POD Shopify store soon and this is valuable info. I have received hoodie or tshirt samples from Printify/Monster Digital, CustomCat and SPOD, so it was great to see your comparison. I haven’t heard of Fuel but will look at them also. Thanks!
Thank you for watching!
which one did you use?
Thx Kerry! This was gr8 and very informative.
Thank you!
great video, you should have added pricing.
I think Printful is really the best. That imperfection was a rare fluke. Their quality is great and my top supplier for my shirts. I am super impressed with SPOD though. Have to see if they're cheaper than Printful😂
Agree Printful has impressed me recently. But it will say that the imperfection did not come through as well on video. Was pretty large and ugly
Printful takes care of misprints rather quickly. All companies are going to have misprints. This is normal. How they handle them is a different story. This reason alone means I don’t do business with teelaunch any longer. (Some others too not in this video)
Thank you for this! Amazing info!
Very welcome!
Great video Kerry. I feel stuck with Printful because they are the only ones that offer more print options.
What do you mean?
Monster digital should have the largest print area of them all at 15 by 17 which is usually used for most of their shirts especially bella canvas. To be honest I surprised the white worked with Monsters Digital and Printful because in my pass orders it came out really bad so like most people I switched to lighter grey to get a double pass of white for black tees for white prints with them. And did you use a cmyk red or an rgb red ?
@BLACK SHEEP CYBER Due to the Kornit printers both printful and Monster Digital use, the color white either comes faded or washout , so a lighter grey or off white is a good option to get the desired result . A Printful rep even told me you have to add either a hint of yellow or green etc to the white to create a double layer, but I find the lighter grey option more consistent and much easier. That said POD companies like Shirtly that use Brothers GTX don't have that defect and can print white nice and crisp without black dots consistently.
@@instantplayerclassicjh2580 This is great information. I have received white text/black hoodie samples from Printify/Monster Digital with this exact problem. Sent me down a rabbit hole of samples from CustomCat & about to try SPOD hoodies. I will go back to Monster Digital and try the light grey on the dark colors. I was sold on Printify before the “see through” text because of costs, color selection.
Hey, Kerry. Which one smelled the least like vinegar? I've been trying to find the some kinda balance between the best quality and the least bad smelling pod products.
Costs. Because some of them were so close, see how much they cost would help out a ton.
I used Apliiq for print on demand dropsipping for a while, and here's some things I noticed.
- Their website is full of glitches that will make you have to constantly contact them to clarify things with your orders or designs. You may be charged twice for an item, or your customer will recieve the wrong item because of a glitch on their end.
- Quality is very hit and miss. Your sample will be great, but subsequent orders that go to your customers might have poor quality embroidery, misplaced designs, etc. Also, the quality of their basic 1301 Streetwear tee seemed to change - some orders it was a darker or lighter black, some had loose threads, etc. I found it hard to trust that Apliiq would actually send out a decent order, and when you're trying to keep consistency in your brand and designs, this can be very tiring.
- The time it take sfor your customer to recieve an order is terrible. THREE weeks. When someone on your online store sees it'll take 3 weeks to recieve their new shirt, they just won't order from you.
- Their customer service is excellent, though. And they will fix any problems. Alas, sometimes it's just too late.
I know this video is old, but can you pls review Pea Print quality at all?
Spod has been giving me a lot of issues. The site is glitching, not loading my designs, can't edit. When I click on a design it doesn't load up. I'm so disappointed, so now I'm going to have to go to a different pod company that will sync up well with shopify. Plus, spod customer service has not addressed the problem. 😫
This is a great informative video but as someone who is in the very early stages of their POD business I’m sooo confused which company to go with, especially as I’m in Australia. Are there companies better for certain graphics types, like is one better at printing plain white fonts vs lots of colour graphics?
Just pick one and move on. If you don’t like it, switch. Take action!
@@KerryEgeler you are sooo right!!! Just the kick in the butt I needed ⁉️
Thanks for your effort
Hope it was helpful
can you do a review for Shirtly too? maybe Printailor? thanx!
I’ll check into it
@@KerryEgeler Thanx! Most interested in Printailor... Really interested about the print quality, looks kinda different than most of pod services offer
Thanks for the review. Im wondering though, do you use straight up white in your design files or somewhat of a greyish color? Essentially can you share the hex code for the white color you use?
White
Great video.
Thank you so much
Very nice video!! Were all of these prints DTG?
Yes
is there one that i can edit the neck label?
Kerry, out of the top 4 , who had the best prices?
Fuel is always the lowest
Really interesting! Thanks for the comparisons! I think I liked Fuel the best but your top picks look on the money. Which of these top companies do you like best for the quality of the shirts and variety of products, shirts and colors?
Probably SPOD
@@KerryEgeler Hello, is SPOD still who you would go with today? (16 Apr 22)
Amazon merch has the great quality. It's just hard to get into the program...
Printful uses random printers so how can the quality be accurately assessed... I have had issues with the consistency. Any thoughts?
Printful does not use random printers, they own their facilities and print their own stuff
This is great but what t-shirt brand did you use? That will make a big difference in print quality. Gildan ain't gonna print like Bella.
Thanks for this insight. You didn't review TeeScape. Curious.
Not even close to being a top POD provider, just one that I personally use 🤷🏻♂️
Teescape is the most vibrant colors you’re gonna find for DTG on demand. Hands down the best colors. They lack capabilities and focus on what they do best. Admirable and if you use them for basic garments, you won’t regret it.
Very usuful for a starter. Will love to see a recent AOP hoodiesside by side comparation.
Awesome!
Sorry if I missed it, but what black base t-shirt (brand) was used for all these? I imagine they are all the same make of t-shirt?
Mainly the bella and canvas 3001
The imperfections score: lower is good or higher is better?
I think higher is better on all
What print on demand place would you recommend for track suit pants or joggers
Not sure on this one!
I'm wondering which POD offers the best tees the premium ones like domrebel use or something similar, i tested out apliiq and the quality of the bella canvas 3001 was just average, same with the printing.
Try Apliiq maybe?
Pickey, picked me, you showed a score for Customcat = 9+5+5=19 but said 20. Same for Aop+ score of 6+5+4=15 But said 14. I must be very wrong!!!! So that means Spod WINS with a high score of 21 1st place. While Fuel in at 20 @ 2nd place. Printful & Customcat ties at 19 comes in 3rd. TeeLaunch is 4th. Apliiq & is at 5th.
Hmmmm I’ll check it out! You’re the first one to bring it up!
@@KerryEgeler that was the first thing I saw also, the math was wrong.
@@jesusduran2974 I try hard 😁
question for all pod users: what sales channel do you sell on?
Shopify
Hey which one of these companies have the best wholesale price?
We really like Awkward Styles, check videos on the channel
I like printful
The quality is nice
Ummm Screen Printing is a Direct to garment method...
Your dog biting the package might have took a chunk out of the letter C on the Printful shirt?...SBN RESONATE
👀 woof woof
it would have beedn good to see how they compared after a few washes, and you really do need to brush up on your maths.
Truth on the math
Side note: reviews show that *spod* is shady and inconsistent with customer satisfaction. they're not worth it.
so fuel better?
Custom Cat has by far went downhill in the last year. Their prints are absolute garbage and it’s embarrassing to send to customers.
Bummer
I fully agree. I used to order 30-50 tees from them every month, now I order zero from them. The prints are complete crap, most fall apart after the first wash, even when the customer washes in cold water on delicate cycle. I just gave up and moved everything to Printful. More expensive but customers complain 90% less now.
Literally all of the t-shirts was at a quality that i would return and want my money back if i bought them,
yet you was acting like they are minor imperfections.
These print on demand companies all need shutting down.
Strongly disagree. But I guess you’re entitled to your opinion
horrible camera quality
Old video 🤷🏻♂️ we’ve improved