Im-Press

One-off prints, straight from every web shop Im-Press serves.

Im-Press prints one item at a time, each with its own design, colour and size, for charities, councils and businesses. We built the link that brings every paid order from every shop to their press, and sends the tracking back.

Product development

Infrastructure + security

Orders a month

300+

Every one printed to order

To connect a shop

5 min

A new WooCommerce shop plugs in and starts sending orders

Minimum order

A single personalised item is worth printing

Printing for

At a glance

Client: Im-Press Garment Printing
Sector: Garment printing and order fulfilment
Platforms: Online-shop plug-in, order console and web service
What we did: Order integration, fulfilment console, hosting and support

Why it mattered

Shop plug-ins print one design on repeat. Im-Press prints one-offs.

Over a quarter of UK retail sales now happen online (ONS, September 2025). The usual print plug-ins assume one shop selling the same design over and over. Im-Press prints one item at a time, each one different, for lots of small shops at once. Nothing off the shelf did that.

For supportersBuy a t-shirt, get a tracking emailNobody has to chase an order. When it ships, the shop knows and so does the person who bought it.

For Im-PressTake on another shop, not more adminEvery new shop plugs into the same console. A local printer can say yes to small customers the big platforms ignore.

The deadlineThe tour started the following week.Baton of Hope is a UK suicide-prevention charity. It needed its merch on sale before its 2025 national tour set off. Its shop was sending orders to Im-Press in time.

Orders

Every item is its own print job.

No two orders are the same. The moment a supporter pays, Im-Press gets everything that makes theirs different: the design, the colour, the size, their name and where it’s going. Nobody copies anything out of an email.

IM-PRESSOrder #1042ProductHope Run tee

Colour, sizeNavy / MArtworkFront print, A4NameSAM 12, frontShip to14 Harbour Row, Portsmouth

Illustrative orders

Agreed products

Nothing gets printed by mistake.

Each shop sells from a list of products agreed with Im-Press. An order for anything else is stopped at the door, with a plain note on the shop’s side saying why. Add the product, resend, and it goes through.

The online shopOrder #1042 · Hope Run tee, Navy / MSent to Im-Press

Agreed productsHope Run teeTour toteRemembrance hoodieOn the list

IM-PRESSIm-Press consoleAcceptedOn the agreed list, so it goes straight into the print queue.

Agreed products go straight to the press. Nobody at Im-Press has to check them.

Illustrative orders

Tracking

Tracking finds its own way home.

When a parcel ships, Im-Press adds the tracking number once. The shop updates, the order closes itself, and the customer gets their tracking email. Nobody copies a number from one screen to another.

IM-PRESS#1042 · Hope Run teeRoyal Mail

Mark as shipped

Online shop · Order #1042ProcessingTracking added: Royal Mail AB 1234 5678 9GB

Your order is on its wayTrack it with Royal Mail

Illustrative orders

Many shops

Set up once. Every new shop just plugs in.

A small printer can’t pay a developer every time a customer opens a shop. So every shop adds the same plug-in and gets its own key, and every order lands in one console. We look after the lot. When Baton of Hope moved to a new website, its products came across unchanged.

Baton of HopeKey 1Speak Their NameKey 2New websiteKey issued

IM-PRESSAll orders#1042 · Hope Run tee · Navy / M

Illustrative orders

Day to day

Built in weeks. Kept running since.

Sent the moment it’s paidNo batch at the end of the day, and no inbox to watch.

Never printed twiceIf a shop sends the same order again, Im-Press still sees it once.

One catalogue, every shopA product agreed once works on every site a customer runs.

Hosted and supportedWe’ve run it since 2025, and change it when Im-Press asks.

The results

From one charity shop to 300+ orders a month.

Charities and councils now sell online and leave the printing to Im-Press. Their supporters get their orders, and their tracking, without anyone chasing. Event seasons are bringing thousands of orders a month, through the same console.

Aug 2025First shop goes liveBaton of Hope’s merch shop sends its orders straight to the press, days before its tour.
Aug 2025Tracking goes automaticShipped orders close themselves, and customers get their tracking by email.
Dec 2025A new website joinsBaton of Hope moves to a new site, and its products come across unchanged.
Now300+ orders a monthHosted and supported by us, with changes made whenever Im-Press asks.

Every order we print is one of a kind. Now they pour in from every shop ready for the press, and the tracking finds its own way home. It’s given a Portsmouth print shop the reach of the big platforms.