Personalization app for makers. Stop laying out every order by hand.

Businesses that make personalised products themselves: makers who print, engrave or cut in-house (sublimation, DTF and DTG, UV, laser engraving or vinyl), print shops and photo labs, sign shops, framers, trophy and engraving shops, and brands whose trade printer prints from their files. Kastomise gives you the print files; it doesn’t print or ship anything, and it doesn’t connect to print-on-demand services.

Trade print, DTF and DTG, sublimation, UV printing, laser engraving, vinyl cutting, and print and cut. In a product setup’s Settings, answer “How is this product made?” and Kastomise suggests the file and settings for that method, such as a transparent PNG with hard edges for DTF, a laser SVG for engraving, or a CMYK PDF/X-4 with bleed for a trade printer. You can change any of them. Its Technique check then warns you about text smaller, or lines thinner, than the method’s typical minimums, or than your supplier’s own numbers. Shoppers never see these warnings.

A print-ready file for each print area of every order, in the format you choose for each product setup: a CMYK PDF/X-4 with a transparent background and the FOGRA39 or GRACoL 2013 colour profile embedded, a transparent sRGB PNG, an sRGB JPEG on white, a laser SVG or PDF, or a cutter SVG for vinyl that also downloads as a DXF. Laser and cutter files are at true size in millimetres, with text as outlined shapes. Any file can be mirrored, and the PDF, PNG and JPEG can have bleed. The PDF can also have crop marks, plus a cut line and white ink in spot colours, and a PNG can be an engraving file, with text in solid black and photos in greyscale. Images are made at the resolution you set (300 PPI by default, anywhere from 72 to 600). These are standard file types, but printers’ software differs, so run a test file through yours before you take orders. Download one file, a zip per item, or a zip of the whole order from the Orders page in your dashboard. There’s nothing to resize or re-place.

Photos, logos, text and your own designs. They upload JPG, PNG, HEIC, WebP, SVG or PDF files (only a PDF’s first page is used), and an SVG, PDF or WebP logo keeps its transparent background. They pick one of the photo layouts you draw, from a single photo to a collage of more than four, and drag and zoom each upload into place. Each photo section asks for a photo, an image or a logo, as you choose, and every message shoppers read about it uses that word. They type their own text and choose its colour and alignment, within the character limits you set. You choose the fonts, including your own uploaded ones: give each line its own font, or let shoppers pick from a list you choose. You can also offer your own designs, uploaded as SVG artwork, and a design can set its own lines of text in its own fonts. An “Upload your own” choice takes a shopper’s logo or photo instead. On Pro and Studio, shoppers can also pick a colour for each area of a 3D model of the product.

Each personalised order appears on the Orders page in your dashboard with a print file for each print area and a preview of each, what the shopper typed and chose (with the fonts and layouts it printed in), and the proof they approved before adding it to the cart. Each file shows its print size, resolution and lowest photo resolution, with a warning when a photo is low resolution. The order’s zip adds a job sheet with a page for each personalised item. You can export orders as a CSV, including a fixed-column layout for merge software, and mark items printed as you go.

Yes. Send it with a setup request: a dieline or your supplier’s template (SVG, PDF, AI, EPS or an image), a spec sheet, or just a product link. We build the product setup from it at its exact sizes, as a fixed-price service, and check it against your spec before you review it. To build it yourself, type your template’s sizes into the editor: every print area, photo slot and line of text is measured in centimetres, and you can also drag them into place on the editor’s canvas, which measures in centimetres too.