pixonaut
Web-to-print software · early access

Your customer designs right on your product page, and what they see is exactly what prints.

Pixonaut is web-to-print (W2P) software. Its designer is part of your own product page, not an iframe, or of a page we host for you. Your customers make the product theirs and approve a proof, and your printshop gets a print file of exactly that, pixel for pixel.

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  • Ready on day one

    Sell on WooCommerce? Our plugin and block theme put the designer on your product pages and send paid orders to your printshop.

    Connect your store

  • Or build your own

    Embed the designer with a script tag and drive designs, prints and orders through the API, all documented.

    Embed the designer

  • AI that helps you design

    Ask Pixel, the studio’s assistant, for a template and it builds one, generates pictures for it, and proposes every change for you to confirm.

    Try it free
Northwind Apparel’s club tee: a black T-shirt printed with “Riverside Run Club”, beside the designer’s form with colour swatches, sizes and the club name, and the Flat, On model and Design views under it.

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Pixonaut designer
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Club tee

$29.00 · organic cotton

You approve a proof of exactly what will be printed.

The built-in form.Mount the designer and it draws the fields the template offers, with the blank’s colours and sizes beside the preview and its views under it: flat, on a model, or the design alone.

Pixel parity

Same pixels at both ends.

One renderer runs in your customer’s browser and on our servers. The proof they approve and the file your printshop prints come from the same font bytes, the same text shaping and the same layout. No second guess at print time.

In the browser. The proof your customer approves, drawn on their own device.
Job ticket
Trim
300 × 400 mm
Bleed
3 mm
Colour
CMYK + 1 spot
File
PDF
Order
#10482
At the printshop. The print file and its job ticket, with bleed and crop marks added.
  • Identical in every browserChromium, Firefox and WebKit draw the same bytes as the server.
  • Made for the pressCMYK PDFs with spot inks and cut contours, sized from the product in millimetres.
  • Checked before it is paid forA design that cannot print is refused while the customer can still fix it.

See every feature

How it works

From a template to an order.

You design the product once. Every customer makes their own from it, and every order arrives at the printshop ready to print.

  1. Author

    Build a template in the studio: text, pictures and shapes, and which of them a customer may change, and how. Publish it when it is ready.

  2. Personalise

    Embed the designer on your storefront. Customers see a live preview and approve a proof of exactly what will be printed. The designer and its pages speak English, Swedish, German, French, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål and Finnish, and more to come.

  3. Approve and print

    Your server approves each design once it is paid for, and Pixonaut renders the print file and its job ticket.

  4. Order

    The print goes to your printshop, and you follow the order until it ships.

Who it is for

Three ways to sell, one designer.

Web-to-print software at a price for every volume. Pixonaut costs less than the large personalisation platforms at every order count. It costs more than the lighter product designers, and for that it brings what printing needs: press-ready files, automations, proof approvals, and print-on-demand alongside your own printer.

Printshops

Customers design their own orders.

  • A designer on your site, or on pages we host
  • Print-ready files with bleed and cut contours
  • A job ticket with every print
Pixonaut for printshops

Personalised stores

A designer on your product pages, embedded or hosted.

  • Customers design on your product page
  • A proof they approve before they pay
  • We handle the communication with your printshop
Pixonaut for personalised stores

Brands & creators

Design your own collection and sell it anywhere.

  • Start from a blank, such as one from Printful
  • Mockups of every product for your store
  • We handle the communication with your printshop
Pixonaut for brands & creators

Your shop keeps the commerce. Pixonaut holds no catalogue and takes no payments: products, prices and checkout stay in your shop. Pixonaut answers whether a design can be printed, and makes the files that print it. It never prints or ships: it handles the communication with your printshop.

Localized templates

One template, in every language you sell in.

Give a template its text, labels and layout per language, and keep one template to maintain. Each customer designs in the language your page names, and the print matches what they approved.

  • English
    Name on the posterAnna
  • Deutsch
    Name auf dem PosterAnna
  • Français
    Nom sur l’afficheAnna
One template. Its heading, its field’s label and the heading’s size differ per language; the name the customer typed is theirs in each.
  • Text, labels and choicesTranslate a layer’s text and a field’s label, help text and choices. What a language leaves alone reads as the original.
  • Layout per languageMove, resize or hide a layer in one language when its words need the room. Every language shares the template’s layers.
  • Prints what they sawA design keeps the language it was made in, and its print file renders the template as that customer saw it.

Selling in more than one market? See how it works for personalised stores and for brands & creators.

Integration

A script tag on your product page.

Load a release of the designer from our CDN and mount it with your publishable key. Your server approves each design once it is paid for; webhooks tell you when its print and order move on.

  • Every release stays at its own address, checked by its integrity.
  • Use the built-in form, or draw your own around the canvas.
  • Retry any write without making a second design, print or order.
Embed the designerDesign to order, request by requestAPI reference
<div id="pixonaut"></div>

<script
  src="https://cdn.pixonaut.app/sdk/<version>/pixonaut.iife.js"
  integrity="sha384-…"
  crossorigin="anonymous"></script>

<script>
  Pixonaut.mount('#pixonaut', {
    apiBase: 'https://api.pixonaut.app',
    publishableKey: 'pk_…',
    templateId: 'classic-tshirt@2',
  });
</script>

The releases page lists each version and its integrity.

Early access

Get a place for your shop.

Pixonaut opens to a few shops and printshops at a time. Leave your email and we will write when there is a place for you.

Join the waitlist

One email when there is a place. Nothing else.

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