Print on Demand for Brands: A Production Partner for Growing Shops

In short: Once your shop gets orders every day, print on demand is no longer a starter tool. It's your production. Then different things matter than at the start: capacity at peak times, consistent quality, a real brand presence and production close to your customers. MarketPrint is a print-on-demand print shop with its own sites in Germany and in Houston, Texas, and produces for more than 1,100 shops.

When You Need a Production Partner

At the start, almost any print-on-demand provider is good enough. As you grow, the differences show:

Peaks: A successful ad day or Black Friday brings several times your normal volume.
Repeat buyers: Someone buying for the second time notices every change in color, size or fabric.
Reviews: At a hundred orders a day, every percentage point of errors costs you a lot of reviews.
New markets: As you grow, customers from other countries come in.

6 Things That Matter for Brands

1. In-house production instead of a middleman

A middleman passes your order to whichever partner print shop is cheapest right now. In-house production means fixed machines, fixed processes and consistent quality. MarketPrint prints in its own facility of more than 3,000 m² in Mindelheim, including on four Kornit machines.

2. Capacity and speed, even at peak times

Ask for a clear delivery time and how the provider handles peaks. MarketPrint aims for a delivery time of 3 business days and spreads the work across two sites of its own. How delivery time adds up is explained in How Fast Is Print on Demand?.

3. Quality control before shipping

Every item is checked before it's packed. Misprints get reprinted instead of shipped. That's the basis for few complaints.

4. A presence like a real brand

Neck printing: Your logo on the neck instead of someone else's label.
Own premium blanks: Cuts like the oversized VACANCY collection that not every provider has.

5. Production close to your customers

Europe from Germany, the USA from Houston. Orders are automatically assigned to the right site. Learn more in Print on Demand for Europe and the USA.

6. All channels from one source

Shopify, Etsy, WooCommerce and TikTok Shop through one provider. And if you work with AI, you can create products directly with Claude or ChatGPT through the MarketPrint MCP.

MarketPrint in Numbers


Founded	2020 in Mindelheim in the Allgäu region
Production space	more than 3,000 m² in Mindelheim, plus the Houston, Texas site
Team	more than 60 employees
Machines	including 4 Kornit machines
Shops	more than 1,100
Delivery time	3 business days (target)
Shopify app	4.8 out of 5 stars from 128 reviews

As of October 2026.

Bulk Orders Too

Besides print on demand, MarketPrint also produces larger quantities, for example for a collection, an event or merch. Learn more on Bulk Orders and Merchandising.

How to Test MarketPrint Risk-Free

Install the MarketPrint app for Shopify. Getting started is free.
Create your bestsellers and order samples.
Switch over step by step. How to do that without losing sales is explained in Switching Print-on-Demand Providers.