Print Outsourcing Software
Outsource print production without losing control
Print outsourcing software that connects your storefront to trade printers and fulfillment partners. Automated order routing, blind shipping, real-time pricing, and order tracking — built for print brokers, resellers, and shops outsourcing overflow.
The hidden cost of manual print outsourcing
Every manual step between your storefront and the trade printer is time, money, and risk. The more you outsource, the more these problems multiply.
Common outsourcing pain points
Manual order routing
Copying order details from your system, logging into the trade printer's portal, re-entering everything, and uploading files. For every single outsourced job.
Phone and email fulfillment
Calling or emailing trade printers for quotes, submitting orders manually, and tracking jobs across multiple portals. No visibility, no automation.
No real-time pricing
You quoted a price to your customer, but the trade printer's cost changed since you last checked. Now you're absorbing the difference — or having an awkward conversation.
Blind shipping headaches
Coordinating with trade printers to ship under your brand, with your packing slip, to your customer's address. When it goes wrong, your customer sees the trade printer's name.
No margin visibility
Your retail price is set, but without automated cost tracking on outsourced jobs, you don't know if you're making 30% margin or 3% until the invoice arrives.
How automated print outsourcing works
Customer orders
A customer places an order on your branded storefront with real-time pricing.
PrintNow routes
Order routes automatically to the right trade printer based on your rules.
Trade printer produces
The trade printer receives the order, files, and specs — produces the job.
Blind shipped
Finished product ships directly to your customer under your brand.
Connected trade printer partners
Real API integrations — not just referral links. Orders, pricing, tracking, and shipping data flow automatically between PrintNow and each partner.
4over
One of the largest US trade printers offering business cards, brochures, postcards, booklets, banners, and more. Direct API integration with automated ordering, real-time pricing, and blind drop shipping.
Products: Business cards, postcards, brochures, booklets, banners, posters, flyers
Sinalite
Canadian trade printer serving North America with competitive pricing on commercial print products. API integration supports automated order submission, tracking, and fulfillment.
Products: Business cards, postcards, flyers, brochures, booklets, door hangers
MyOrderDesk
Order management platform connecting to 140+ print fulfillment companies worldwide. Route orders to the right provider based on product type, geography, or turnaround requirements.
Products: Apparel, drinkware, promotional products, signage, packaging, and 140+ fulfillment partners
Print outsourcing features that scale your business
Automated order routing
Define rules by product type, quantity, substrate, or customer. Orders route automatically to the right trade printer — or split across multiple fulfillment partners — without manual intervention.
Blind shipping
Trade printers ship directly to your customer under your brand. Your packing slip, your return address, your branding. The customer never knows the job was outsourced.
Real-time wholesale pricing
PrintNow fetches live pricing from trade printer APIs at order time. See your margin on every outsourced job before it ships — no surprises when the invoice arrives.
Order tracking across partners
Track every outsourced job from submission through production and delivery — across all your trade printer partners — from a single dashboard.
File transfer automation
Print-ready files transfer automatically from your storefront to the trade printer's production queue. No manual downloads, uploads, or FTP — files arrive with the order.
Hybrid in-house + outsourced
Produce core products in-house while outsourcing specialty items, overflow volume, or products that don't justify equipment investment. Routing rules handle the split automatically.
Built for every print outsourcing model
Print brokers
Sell print without owning presses. Route every order to the best trade printer for the job — automatically.
Print resellers
White-label a full product catalog under your brand. Your customers order on your storefront; trade printers handle production and shipping.
Shops outsourcing overflow
Keep core products in-house and send overflow or specialty jobs to trade partners when demand spikes or capabilities don't match.
Print-on-demand platforms
Build a marketplace where users design and order custom products, fulfilled automatically through connected print partners.
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