Print on Demand Automation
Scale your POD business from 10 to 10,000 products. Generate professional mockups in milliseconds, not minutes.
The POD Challenge
Every POD seller knows the pain: you've got a killer design, but you need mockups for t-shirts, hoodies, mugs, posters, phone cases... Creating them manually takes hours. Hiring a designer costs thousands. And those "mockup generator" tools? They're slow, expensive, and don't scale.
The Old Way
- ✗Open Photoshop, import design, adjust smart object, export → 5-10 minutes per mockup
- ✗Pay $0.05-$0.15 per mockup with other APIs → costs explode at scale
- ✗Manual process means errors, inconsistency, and burnout
The SudoMock Way
- ✓One API call → production-ready mockup in under 1 second
- ✓$0.002 per render → 25x cheaper than competitors
- ✓Fully automated → new design uploaded? Mockups generated automatically
Typical POD Workflow
Here's how successful POD sellers use SudoMock:
Upload Your Mockup Templates
One-time setup: upload your PSD mockups (t-shirt front, back, hoodie, mug, etc.) to SudoMock. We extract smart objects and generate UUIDs.
Connect Your Design Pipeline
When you upload a new design (to S3, Cloudinary, or your CMS), trigger a webhook to n8n/Zapier/Make.
Auto-Generate All Mockups
Your automation calls SudoMock for each product type. 10 mockups generated in parallel in under 5 seconds total.
Push to Your Store
Automatically upload mockups to Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, or your Printful/Printify product listings.
Implementation Example
Generate mockups for multiple product types from a single design:
1// Generate mockups for all product types2const MOCKUP_TEMPLATES = {3 tshirt_front: {4 mockup_uuid: "uuid-tshirt-front",5 smart_object_uuid: "uuid-so-tshirt-front"6 },7 tshirt_back: {8 mockup_uuid: "uuid-tshirt-back", 9 smart_object_uuid: "uuid-so-tshirt-back"10 },11 hoodie_front: {12 mockup_uuid: "uuid-hoodie-front",13 smart_object_uuid: "uuid-so-hoodie-front"14 },15 mug: {16 mockup_uuid: "uuid-mug",17 smart_object_uuid: "uuid-so-mug"18 }19};2021async function generateAllMockups(designUrl) {22 const renderPromises = Object.entries(MOCKUP_TEMPLATES).map(23 ([productType, template]) => 24 fetch("https://api.sudomock.com/api/v1/renders", {25 method: "POST",26 headers: {27 "Content-Type": "application/json",28 "X-API-KEY": process.env.SUDOMOCK_API_KEY29 },30 body: JSON.stringify({31 mockup_uuid: template.mockup_uuid,32 smart_objects: [{33 uuid: template.smart_object_uuid,34 asset: { url: designUrl, fit: "cover" }35 }],36 export_options: {37 image_format: "webp",38 image_size: 1920,39 quality: 9540 }41 })42 })43 .then(r => r.json())44 .then(data => ({45 productType,46 mockupUrl: data.data.print_files[0].export_path47 }))48 );4950 // Generate all mockups in parallel!51 const results = await Promise.all(renderPromises);52 53 return results;54 // Returns: [55 // { productType: "tshirt_front", mockupUrl: "https://..." },56 // { productType: "tshirt_back", mockupUrl: "https://..." },57 // ...58 // ]59}Cost Comparison
Let's do the math for a typical POD operation with 100 designs and 10 mockup variants each:
| Provider | Per Render | 1,000 Mockups | 10,000 Mockups |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Photoshop API | $0.15 | $150 | $1,500 |
| Competitors (avg) | $0.05-0.10 | $50-100 | $500-1,000 |
| SudoMock | $0.002 | $2 | $20 |
Save 75x on Mockup Costs
Platform Integrations
POD Best Practices
Use High-Resolution Templates
Upload mockup PSDs at 3000x3000px or higher. You can always scale down, but you can't scale up without losing quality.
Standardize Your Design Sizes
Keep all your designs at consistent dimensions. This ensures they render correctly across all mockup templates without manual adjustment.
Cache Your UUIDs
Store mockup_uuid and smart_object_uuid mappings in your database or config files. Don't call the upload endpoint repeatedly for the same PSDs.
Use WebP Format
WebP files are ~30% smaller than PNG with similar quality. Faster loads, lower storage costs, better SEO scores.
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