What is Print-on-Demand And Why Is It On a Handmade Marketplace?

The Rise of Print-on-Demand (POD) Is Confusing Marketplaces, But Artists, Makers, & Artisans Still Sometimes Need It

Valerie Schafer Franklin
Creators Rising
Published in
12 min readJul 17, 2023

--

A photo print of artwork coming out of an industrial machine
Photo by Bank Phrom on Unsplash

Print-on-Demand (POD) is a hard-to-explain manufacturing outsourcing process that is growing rapidly in popularity — and controversy. In this post, we’ll try our…

--

--

Valerie Schafer Franklin
Creators Rising

Building Artisans Cooperative (https://artisans.coop), running a family craft business (walnutstudiolo.com) and writing for fun about food.