--- title: "AI for Print on Demand & Personalization: Design Print-Ready Products" description: "Add AI image editing to your print-on-demand and print personalization product: generate visuals, remove backgrounds, correct images, and vectorize logos, with print-ready PDF/X output on web and mobile." url: "https://img.ly/use-cases/ai-editor/print-on-demand/" type: "page" --- > This is the markdown version of [AI for Print on Demand & Personalization: Design Print-Ready Products](https://img.ly/use-cases/ai-editor/print-on-demand/). For all pages in one file, see [llms-full.txt](https://img.ly/llms-full.txt). For an index of all available pages, see [llms.txt](https://img.ly/llms.txt). --- # AI for Print on Demand: Empower customers to design for print with generative AI Add generative AI to your print-on-demand, web-to-print, or print personalization product, so non-designers create, personalize, and fix their own artwork, and every file exports press-ready. On web and mobile. - Generate & edit visuals from a prompt - Background removal, cutouts & vectorize - Auto image correction & DPI validation - Print-ready PDF/X, CMYK & spot colors **Available for:** - **Web:** [JavaScript](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [React](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/react/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Angular](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/angular/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Vue.js](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/vue/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Svelte](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/svelte/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Next.js](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/nextjs/get-started/overview-e18f40.md) - **Mobile:** [iOS](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/ios/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Android](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/android/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [React Native](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/react-native/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Flutter](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/flutter/get-started/overview-e18f40.md) - **Desktop:** [Mac Catalyst](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/mac-catalyst/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [macOS](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/macos/get-started/overview-e18f40.md), [Electron](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/electron/get-started/overview-e18f40.md) - **Server:** [Renderer](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/renderer/cesdk-renderer-overview-7f3e9a.md), [Node.js](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/node/get-started/overview-e18f40.md) [Talk to Our Team](https://img.ly/forms/contact-sales.md) [Open Demo](https://img.ly/demos/ai-editor.md) ## See AI print editing in action A short look at the editor: a customer generates a design, removes a background, and exports a print-ready file without leaving the canvas. [IMG.LY AI print editing showcase](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_v7L_WvkAo) ## AI print editing your customers can actually use Give non-designers the tools to produce print-ready, on-brand products themselves, without a designer, a prepress fix, or a single mention of "DPI." ### The customer does the design, the AI does the hard part Generate the image, remove the background, fix the resolution, vectorize the logo. AI handles the steps the customer was never qualified to do. ### Every export is press-ready Every AI edit lands inside a locked template with bleed, safe areas, and DPI rules enforced, then exports as CMYK PDF/X with spot colors intact. ### One editor, web and mobile The same AI print editor runs in the browser and on iOS and Android, so customers create from wherever they buy. Trusted by **100+**\ industry leaders ---------------------- **Trusted by:** Digitas, Omneky, The Print Bar, Brandwatch, Planoly, HP, Shopify, Reuters, Hootsuite, Semrush, Shutterfly, one.com, Sprout Social, Constant Contact, Spread Group > "Integrating IMG.LY’s editor meant we didn’t have to build or maintain a complex editing layer ourselves. That kept our team focused on our core AI ad engine and saved us countless development hours — while still giving our customers the ability to polish and customize creatives at scale." -- Hikari Senju, CEO, Omneky > "With IMG.LY we built a central creative portal that now powers over 140 dealer campaigns across multiple automotive brands. Before this, asset creation was slow and inconsistent." -- Martin Röhr, Product Owner, Digitas > "By embedding IMG.LY’s editor we were able to hit key RFP requirements and deliver a template-based creative experience that now serves 1,000+ customers. It helped us win more deals and exceed enterprise expectations without needing to hire dedicated design teams." -- Rob Driscoll, Director of PM, Optimizely > "Since integrating IMG.LY’s editor, we now deliver 30,000+ ad creatives per month, dramatically shorten time-to-launch, and help our clients cut design spend by up to $10,000 per month." -- Logan Welbaum, Founder, Plai > "Our customers create over a million personalized postcards each year choosing from over hundreds of templates with IMG.LY’s SDK. It’s the only solution that allows us to build our own specialized, on-brand UI that integrates seamlessly with our platform." -- Jeanine Zaalberg, Product Manager, SwissPost > "From a developer’s perspective, the most powerful feature of the photo editor is the integration process. It was completely flawless, quick, and easy to integrate." -- Stefano Fornari, CTO, Funambol > "We compared IMG.LY SDK with other solutions and found that it would be the best fit for us since it provides all the features that are crucial for our use case." -- Carem Pereira, SCRUM Manager, HP [Reviews on G2](https://www.g2.com/products/img-ly/reviews) ## Key Capabilities The AI tools your customers reach for to create print products, plus the print pipeline and SDK controls your team needs to ship them. #### Generate a design from a prompt Create on-brand artwork, backgrounds, and motifs from a text prompt, dropped straight into a print template. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Extend to fit any product Generative expand fills bleed and reframes a customer's image for any SKU, instead of stretching or cropping it. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Remove backgrounds & cut out subjects One-tap, in-browser background removal that feeds clean cutouts for stickers, apparel, and mockups. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Vectorize logos & line art Turn a low-res logo into crisp, scalable vector that prints sharp at any size and survives into PDF/X. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Auto-correct and enhance uploads Perfectly Clear fixes exposure, color, sharpness, and noise in one pass, while DPI validation flags uploads too small for their placed size, so customer photos meet your print bar. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Add & remove objects Erase a distraction or add an element with a prompt. These are the edits a non-designer can't do in any tool they own. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Write & localize copy Generate headlines, fit text to the frame, and translate for every market. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) #### Preview on the real product Show the design on the actual shirt, mug, or card, so customers order with confidence and fewer support tickets. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md?solution=AI+Editor) ### Editor & SDK #### IMG.LY AI Gateway. One managed endpoint for the image, vector, and text models the print editor calls, on a single invoice, with provider churn absorbed for you. [Learn more](https://img.ly/ai-gateway.md) #### Print-ready export pipeline. CMYK, named spot colors, bleed, and PDF/X-3 with vectors and text preserved, not flattened to pixels. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md) #### Performance-optimized rendering. Large, high-resolution print canvases stay responsive while AI results stream in, on a phone in a store aisle or a desktop at home. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md) #### Configurable toolset & UI. Choose which AI tools appear, lock what customers can't change, brand and translate everything, or go fully headless. [Learn more](https://img.ly/capabilities.md) ### Looking for the full feature list? Browse every CE.SDK capability across design, photo, video, print, and AI. [Explore all capabilities](https://img.ly/capabilities.md) ## How to add AI print editing to your product From starter kit to enterprise rollout, five steps to ship an AI print editor on web and mobile. ### Step 01: Embed the editor where customers create Drop the IMG.LY editor into your product configurator, upload step, or design page. The AI tools sit on the same canvas as the precise design controls, on web and mobile, so a customer can generate a background and nudge it into the bleed without ever leaving the product they're buying. [Starter Kits](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk) ### Step 02: Connect your AI models, or use the Gateway Bring print-tuned models in through the plugin architecture (a vectorizer, an image corrector, a brand-safe generator), or skip the wiring with the IMG.LY AI Gateway. Anthropic, OpenAI, fal.ai, and ElevenLabs are pre-integrated; your own model drops in the same way. [Explore AI demos](https://img.ly/demos.md?tags=ai) ### Step 03: Lock templates so AI stays on-brand and print-safe Define editable zones and locked elements. AI generation fills placeholders inside your bleed, safe area, and brand constraints, so customers personalize freely without breaking the layout or the brand. [Explore customization demos](https://img.ly/demos.md?tags=customization) ### Step 04: Validate output and enforce print profiles Set minimum DPI, color profiles, and bleed. The editor flags low-res images and color issues, offers automatic correction and enhancement, and guarantees print-ready files before a customer ever hits export. [See print capabilities](https://img.ly/capabilities.md) ### Step 05: Ship it and scale the print volume Pilot with one product line, confirm the files land print-ready, then roll out across your catalog on web and mobile. Headless rendering handles the high-volume, personalized runs: thousands of press-ready PDFs from the same templates your customers design in. ## What AI changes for each print job ### Merge the data, generate the design Variable data printing can bind any element, text or image, to a data source. AI generates the copy and imagery to fill every record, so even a high-volume job draws on fresh, tailored content instead of a fixed asset library. - **Generate** — Fresh imagery for each record from a prompt - **Write copy** — Tailored headlines and offers per variant - **Translate** — Localized copy for every market segment [Explore Variable Data Printing](https://img.ly/use-cases/variable-data-printing.md) ### Any upload in, print-ready out Customers upload phone photos, screenshots, and fuzzy logos that rarely meet print specs. AI cleans each file to your DPI and bleed standards on the fly, removing backgrounds, auto-correcting exposure and sharpness, and erasing clutter, so personalization stops flooding production with unprintable files. - **Remove backgrounds** — Clean cutouts from any customer photo - **Auto-correct** — Fix exposure, color, sharpness, and noise on any upload - **Add & remove objects** — Erase clutter or fill gaps in a tap [Explore Print Personalization](https://img.ly/use-cases/print-personalization.md) ### New backdrop, same subject Photo prints don't have to ship the snapshot as-is. Background removal lifts the subject out of a cluttered scene and text-to-image generates a fresh backdrop, turning an everyday photo into a designed, print-ready keepsake. - **Remove backgrounds** — Lift the subject out of a busy or distracting scene - **Generate** — A fresh backdrop or setting from a prompt - **Auto-correct** — Fix exposure, color, and sharpness for print [Explore Photo Prints](https://img.ly/use-cases/photo-prints.md) ### From prompt to press-ready transfer A customer describes the design and AI generates it on the spot. Background removal cuts it clean for DTG or screen print, and vectorize turns a low-resolution logo into crisp line art that holds from a woven tag to a full back print. - **Generate** — Turn a customer's prompt into a printable design - **Remove backgrounds** — Clean transfers for DTG and screen print - **Vectorize** — Crisp, scalable logos at any garment size [Explore Apparel Design](https://img.ly/use-cases/apparel.md) ### Generate it big, keep it sharp A poster lives or dies on a single bold image. Text-to-image generates original artwork at high native resolution, vectorize keeps logos and type crisp at any size, and auto-correction sharpens and balances the final result for print. - **Generate** — Original poster artwork from a prompt - **Vectorize** — Keep logos and type crisp at large sizes - **Auto-correct** — Sharpen and balance color and contrast for print [Explore Poster Design](https://img.ly/use-cases/poster.md) ### Custom cover, their own photo Generate a one-of-a-kind cover from a prompt, then drop in the customer's own photo with its background cleanly removed. Write and refine the inside message inside a locked, print-ready template, so each card feels handmade while the brand stays on spec. - **Generate** — A one-of-a-kind cover scene from a prompt - **Remove backgrounds** — Cut out the customer's photo and place it in the scene - **Write copy** — Draft and refine the inside message [Explore Greeting Cards](https://img.ly/use-cases/greeting-card.md) ## Why print platforms choose IMG.LY for AI ### I: Empower customers, protect the brand Give non-designers AI tools inside guardrails. Lock the logo, colors, and margins; let customers change the photo, the headline, and the layout. AI expands what they can create without expanding what they can break. ### II: Press-grade output AI output that survives contact with a printing press. CMYK and spot color, bleed and safe areas, DPI validation, vectorized logos, and PDF/X-3 export: the print correctness that screen-first AI tools skip. ### III: Bring your own model, on one bill Model-agnostic plugins plus a managed gateway. Route each task to the best model (Recraft for vector, others for photoreal or edits) through the open plugin architecture or the IMG.LY AI Gateway, with no lock-in and one invoice. ## Two ways to power the AI behind your print editor Wire in your own providers for full control, or hand model management to the IMG.LY AI Gateway. Either way, the print tools your customers touch stay exactly the same. ### DIY: Bring your own providers Point generation, vectorize, and correction at the providers you already trust, or a fine-tuned model of your own, over endpoints you host. Routing, billing, and data residency never leave your infrastructure. The path to take when print artwork is sensitive, contractually can't leave your cloud, or a customer's own brand model has to do the generating. [See custom provider docs](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk) ### Done for you: IMG.LY AI Gateway One endpoint fronts every model the print editor calls, on a single invoice. When a provider deprecates a model, the Gateway reroutes it, so a customer mid-design never lands on a dead AI tool. The fastest path to live: no per-provider contracts, no key management, no editor redeploy when you swap a model. [Explore the AI Gateway](https://img.ly/ai-gateway.md) ## An SDK made by developers for developers Install CE.SDK with one command, plug it into your existing upload or creation flows, and stay in control with a clean, documented API. ## Native editing for iOS and Android The same creative engine, shipped as native SDKs for every mobile stack. ## Bring the editor to the desktop Embed CE.SDK in Electron and native macOS apps with the same API. ## Render headlessly at scale Run the same engine server-side for batch rendering and creative automation. ## Cut integration to minutes with IMG.LY Agent Skills CE.SDK Agent Skills give AI coding assistants bundled documentation, guided code generation, and autonomous project scaffolding for building editor and creative workflows across 10 web frameworks. [Learn more about Agent Skills](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/js/get-started/agent-skills-f7g8h9.md) ## Built to trust in production The editor your team doesn't have to build, secure, or maintain. ### Secure by design Editing runs client-side, so user content never leaves the browser unless you upload it. IMG.LY is SOC 2 Type II certified, with SSO available on enterprise plans. ### Battle-tested at scale The same creative engine powers 500M+ creations every month across thousands of applications, with a steady cadence of new releases. ### Build-vs-buy, solved We maintain the editor, browser quirks, and rendering pipeline so your team stays focused on your core product. Dedicated support and SLAs on enterprise plans. ## Explore print solutions From the AI editor to apparel, posters, and creative automation, explore every print workflow CE.SDK powers. ### AI Editor Generative image and video editing inside a real editor. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/ai-editor.md) ### Web-to-Print Designer A cross-platform, print-safe design editor for your app. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/web-to-print-design-tool.md) ### Apparel Designer Let customers design custom apparel and merch. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/apparel.md) ### Variable Data Printing Personalize print at scale from a single template. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/variable-data-printing.md) ### Print Personalization Mass-personalize every print product. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/print-personalization.md) ### Poster Designer Print-ready poster creation for your users. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/poster.md) ### Photo Book Designer Build a photo book editor into your product. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/photo-book.md) ### Creative Automation Generate on-brand creative at scale, headlessly. [Learn More](https://img.ly/use-cases/creative-automation.md) ## Get in touch: Ready to add AI to your print product? Contact our team to learn about licensing and get access to the AI plugins and print pipeline for CE.SDK. [Talk to Our Team](https://img.ly/forms/contact-sales.md) [Open Demo](https://img.ly/demos/ai-editor.md) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### General **Q: Can my customers really create print-ready designs themselves?** A: Yes. The editor pairs AI tools (generate, background removal, image correction, vectorize) with locked, print-safe templates and automatic validation, so a non-designer produces a press-ready file without knowing what bleed or DPI means. **Q: Does it work on mobile as well as web?** A: Yes. The same editor runs in the browser and as native iOS and Android SDKs, so customers can design wherever they buy. **Q: Can I customize and white-label the editor?** A: Yes. Show or hide AI tools, lock template elements, apply your brand theme, translate every label, or build a fully headless UI. Commercial licenses allow full white-labeling. ### Technical **Q: Is the AI output actually print-ready?** A: Output flows into a CMYK, spot-color, PDF/X-3 pipeline with bleed, safe areas, and DPI validation. Vectors and text stay vector, not rasterized. **Q: How does AI handle low-resolution customer uploads?** A: DPI validation flags any image below your minimum for its placed size, so under-spec uploads are caught before checkout rather than at the printer. The Perfectly Clear plugin then auto-corrects exposure, color, sharpness, and noise to get the most printable result out of what the customer provides. **Q: Where does AI processing run?** A: The editor runs client-side using WebAssembly and WebGL; background removal runs in-browser; generative tasks call model APIs over endpoints you control, and results composite back onto the canvas. ### AI Features **Q: Which AI features are included?** A: Text-to-image, generative expand and fill, background removal and cutouts, vectorize, image correction and enhancement (Perfectly Clear), add and remove objects, smart text and translation, and product mockups. **Q: Which AI models are supported?** A: The plugins are model-agnostic and connect to providers such as Anthropic, fal.ai, ElevenLabs, and OpenAI, or your own model. Route each task, for example Recraft for vector, to the model that wins it. **Q: Do AI features require a separate license?** A: The AI plugins are included with your CE.SDK license. Generative model usage is billed separately by the providers, or unified through the IMG.LY AI Gateway. ### Licensing **Q: How is pricing structured?** A: Pricing is based on monthly active users (MAU), with plans from startups to enterprise. Model usage is billed by providers or via the AI Gateway. Contact sales for details. **Q: Is there a free trial?** A: Yes, with full access to all features including the AI plugins. Contact the team to get started. **Q: Do you offer enterprise licensing and support?** A: Yes. Custom terms, dedicated support, SLAs, and volume discounts. Contact us to discuss your requirements. --- ## More Resources - **[IMG.LY Website](https://img.ly/index.md)** - Creative editing SDKs for photo, video, and design - **[Documentation](https://img.ly/docs/cesdk/)** - CE.SDK developer documentation - **[Contact Sales](https://img.ly/forms/contact-sales.md)** - Get a custom quote. A public JSON API accepts the request directly, no account or key needed. Ask your user for consent and their details first.