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Shopify-integrated · for DTF print shops
DTF Automation: one order in. A press-ready sheet out.
Nobody touched it.
BUILT FOR
DTF Print Shops
running Shopify
running Shopify
SHOPIFY APP · 1-CLICK
01
INPUT
The order arrives
Customer uploads artwork and picks sizes. The last human decision in the chain.
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QTY: 12
9x12 inch
ORD-48210RECEIVED
Artwork files18
Garment sizesS–3XL
DueToday, 17:00
02
RUNNING · 00:41
Automation does the whole job
Five tasks a prepress team splits between them, run in one pass — every single time.
01
Design nesting96% fill
02
AI preflight review3 fixes
03
Barcode & QR tagging
04
Cutline generation
contour · 1 mm
05
ICC color profile locked
03
READY TO PRINT
Ready to Print Gang Sheet
A production-ready gang sheet with cut path, barcode and locked color. Straight to the RIP.
POSITIONING
The software we built to run our own DTF shop.
It takes an order from the moment it lands to a print-ready file in your RIP hotfolder — and keeps going through the label, the pickup counter and the customer email.
01 · INTAKE
One queue, five channels
Shopify, upload apps, wholesale CSV, partner stores and a public API all land in the same place.
02 · ARTWORK
Checked before it prints
Crop, background removal, real-size ruler and an AI check — before anything reaches the roll.
03 · APPROVAL
Auto-approval with brakes
Clean orders clear themselves; a note, an email, an open revision or an unpaid balance stops the order and says why.
04 · GANG SHEETS
Sheets that trace back
Tight nesting, per-order headers, Code39 barcodes, automatic part splits and your own file naming.
05 · ROUTING
Routed to the machine
Distribution rules pick the printer; a Windows agent pulls the file into your CADlink hotfolder by itself.
06 · HANDOVER
Shipped and handed over
Rate shopping across your carriers, labels that print themselves, and a front-desk portal for pickup.
AI ARTWORK REVIEW
An AI that looks at the art before the printer does
✓Confidence score on every file — low-res, cut-off edges and empty artwork get caught, not printed.
✓Training mode — it reviews alongside your operator first, so you watch it be right before you let it decide.
✓Ordered size vs. real print size checked at 300 DPI, per item.
✓Every flag names its reason — the operator sees what's wrong, not just that something is.
AUTO-APPROVAL
The clean ones clear themselves. The rest tell you why.
✓Master toggle plus per-product rules — on for gang sheets, manual for custom work.
✓Safety gates — customer note, a post-order email, an open revision, unpaid balance, ship status, AI check.
✓One item fails, the whole order stops — no half-approved orders splitting attention.
✓Every skip carries a badge telling the operator exactly why it stopped.
ARTWORK REVIEW
A review screen, not a folder of downloads
✓Auto & manual crop — kill the whitespace that eats roll.
✓Ruler and magnifier — check the real print size at 300 DPI before it costs you film.
✓Ordered size vs. print size side by side, so a mismatch never reaches the roll.
✓Background removal, rotation, replace file — one click each.
✓PNG, JPG, SVG, PDF in — a normalized, print-ready asset out.
✓Presence indicator — two people never review the same order twice.
THE BOARD YOU RUN THE DAY FROM
Every problem order, surfaced. Every clean one, out of your way.
✓Scan a barcode to pull up an order, confirm a print, or mark a pickup.
✓Rush and SLA flags with ship-by ordering and day cut-off awareness.
✓Filters that hide the noise — fulfilled, picked up, refunded — and surface no-file, background and postponed orders.
✓Per-location counters so each shop sees its own queue.
✓Notes stay with the job, on the order and on the line item.
SHIPPING & FRONT DESK
Scan = buy + print. Nobody types an address.
✓ShipStation, EasyPost, Easyship — rate shopping across the carrier accounts you already have.
✓Carrier rules and parcel presets pick the box and the service for you.
✓USB scale bridge — weight straight off the scale.
✓PrintNode auto-print — the label prints at the right location the moment it's bought.
✓Front-desk portal — scan, checklist, picked up. No Shopify login for counter staff.
PRODUCTION NUMBERS
You finally know what a day of printing actually cost
✓Inches printed per day, per product type, per location — in inches, feet and meters.
✓Gang sheet and part counts with failures called out, not buried.
✓Workflow distribution — uploaded gang sheets vs. transfer-by-size vs. ready-to-press.
✓DTF and UV yield on demand — roll utilization you can price against.
TICKETS & SHOP FLOOR
A customer problem stops living in someone's inbox
✓Built-in tickets per office, per person, tied to the order number.
✓Wallboard for the floor — open tickets and their age, on a screen everyone walks past.
✓Revision requests by private link — no account, no login; the customer uploads the corrected file there.
✓Rounds are tracked — a full answer puts the order back in the queue automatically.
✓Gmail connected — customer threads attach themselves to the right order.
Print Agent on the RIP PC
A Windows service that pulls its own jobs into the CADlink hotfolder and sends a heartbeat, so you can see from anywhere that it's alive.
Roll widths 11"–36"
300 DPI, configurable gap and edge padding, dynamic height with tolerance and automatic split into parts. PNG or TIFF.
Loyalty & UGC built in
A discount rate that grows with monthly volume, plus a QR code on the sheet footer that rewards customer videos.
Run by a shop, not a sysadmin
Shopify embedded app, multi-store and multi-location isolation, GDPR webhooks, retention rules, rate limiting.
CONNECTS TO WHAT YOU ALREADY RUN
Shopify
Gmail
ShipStation
EasyPost
Easyship
PrintNode
CADlink hotfolder
Google Drive
NAS / server share
Upload PRO
USB scale
Public REST API
Gmail connects both ways: customer threads attach themselves to the right order, and revision requests go out from your own inbox.
Installs on your Shopify store. The moment an order lands, the gang sheet builds itself — cheaper, faster, identical every time.
0.3%
Reprints, not 6.4%
Every file is preflighted the same way, so wrong-DPI and missing-bleed reprints stop eating your film.
90 sec
Order to press file
Same-day cutoffs get later, rush jobs stop breaking the queue, and nobody waits on prepress.
0
Operator mistakes
No mis-scaled art, no forgotten cutline, no wrong color profile at 6 pm on a Friday.
96%
Film utilization
Tighter nesting than hand-layout — fewer meters of film per order, straight off your margin sheet.
1,000,000+
linear inches printed through this software — proven in live production at DTF shops, not a beta. Every sheet above was built by it.
✓ One-click Shopify install, no dev work
✓ Runs unattended, 24/7
✓ Pricing scales with your daily print volume
✓ Keep your own RIP and printer