Honest comparison: InkSoft, DecoNetwork and OnPrintShop alternatives

How do InkSoft, DecoNetwork, OnPrintShop and PrintBlob compare at a glance?

	InkSoft	DecoNetwork	OnPrintShop	PrintBlob in WooCommerce
What it is	“The E-Commerce Platform for Branded Merchandise”	“Print shop management software for online stores, quotes, orders, artwork, supplier products, and production”	Web-to-print software, cloud-hosted	A product designer plugin for WooCommerce; PrintBlob Pro is its paid add-on
Made for	Apparel decorators, promotional product distributors and print businesses	Screen printers, embroiderers, DTF and DTG printers	Commercial, large format, trade and in-plant printers, print franchises, B2B and B2C	Shops that print garments and take orders their customers design
How it is paid	A flat monthly fee with no contract; the pricing page shows its one-time software licence as free	A monthly plan, month to month, plus a one-time licence fee; no refunds, with a 14-day grace period from sign-up	A fixed monthly subscription, with no transaction or commission fee; prices through a demo	The plugin is free; PrintBlob Pro is $69 a year or $99 once (limited-time offer until 31 December 2026); no fee per sale; WooCommerce is free and the hosting is yours
Where the shop runs	On InkSoft; its designer can also be embedded in a website	On DecoNetwork	On OnPrintShop’s cloud, on Amazon AWS	In your own WordPress, on your hosting
Online stores	Stores for teams, schools, fundraisers, companies and events, and web-to-print sites; how many depends on the plan	One online store on the first plan and more on the higher ones, with fundraiser, team sports, corporate merch and affiliate stores	One B2C storefront in every plan; B2B corporate storefronts on the higher plans	Your WooCommerce shop; no separate team or company stores
Online designer	Yes, with vector designs, clip art and fonts, and print-ready PDFs	Yes, in every plan, with rules for each decoration process	A designer studio with templates, proofing and 3D preview from the Startup plan; RGB and CMYK mapping	On the product page: photos, logos and text on the product’s photo, in every colour; PrintBlob Pro adds the back, the sleeves, your own products, a 3D view, design templates and a clipart library of your own art
Quotes, invoices, approvals	Quotes, invoices, art approvals and sales presentations	Quotes, invoices, artwork approvals, and payments through DecoPay, powered by Stripe	Order and quote management, estimating, design proofing	None; WooCommerce takes the order and the payment
Production	Production management	Production calendar, workflows, batch production, barcode actions, purchase orders, shipping labels	Workflow rules, a job board, live order tracking	PrintBlob Pro: a print queue, oldest first, each order’s print files in one ZIP
Decoration methods	Screen print, embroidery, DTG, heat transfer, sublimation, promotional products, signage, awards	DTG, sublimation, embroidery, screen printing, transfer, rhinestone templates and DTF, each with its own pricing, upload formats and production files	Business cards, flyers, packaging, large format, labels and stickers, apparel and signage	A print price per printed side, lowered by quantity with PrintBlob Pro’s quantity breaks; PrintBlob Pro’s print files are a transparent PNG at 300 DPI, suited to DTG, DTF and transfers, and a vector PDF and SVG at the print size, with a CMYK PDF through your printer’s ICC profile
Supplier catalogues	Not on the pages read	17,000+ products from suppliers such as SanMar and S&S Activewear	Supplier integrations	None

Where is print-shop software stronger?

• One system from quote to delivery. InkSoft and DecoNetwork put stores, the designer, quotes, invoices, artwork approvals and production in one account; OnPrintShop does the same for commercial print, with estimating and workflow rules. With WooCommerce and PrintBlob, the shop and the designer are covered and the rest is yours to add.
• Stores for groups. Team, school, fundraiser and company stores, each with its own products, are what these platforms are built around. A WooCommerce shop is one shop.
• Pricing by decoration method. DecoNetwork prices each decoration process its own way and reduces colours for screen printing; InkSoft and DecoNetwork both name embroidery beside the printing methods. PrintBlob has one price per printed side, whatever the method, which PrintBlob Pro’s quantity breaks lower by quantity.
• Blanks from suppliers. DecoNetwork brings in supplier catalogues and raises purchase orders; PrintBlob has none.
• Paper and commercial print. OnPrintShop serves business cards, flyers, large format, labels and packaging, with B2B storefronts. PrintBlob does not make paper products.
• Onboarding. DecoNetwork includes one-to-one onboarding and weekly live training; InkSoft lists free training and support.

Where is a WooCommerce shop with PrintBlob stronger?

• No monthly plan for the designer and no fee per sale. The free plugin costs nothing; PrintBlob Pro is $69 a year or $99 once (limited-time offer until 31 December 2026), however much you sell.
• The shop is yours. It runs in your own WordPress on your own hosting, with your theme and the WooCommerce extensions you choose; designs, customers’ images and print files stay on your server, and you are not tied to one vendor’s platform.
• A free start you can run for real. PrintBlob on WordPress.org takes front-printed t-shirt orders in every colour you sell and keeps each order’s design, with no time limit and nothing locked.
• The design on your product’s photo. Customers design on the product’s own photo, recoloured to every colour you sell; PrintBlob Pro adds your own products, the back and the sleeves, and a 3D view made from the product’s photos.
• Print files at the exact print size. PrintBlob Pro renders each printed side as a transparent PNG at 300 DPI, a vector PDF and an SVG at the print area’s size when the design goes into the cart, and for earlier orders from their saved designs.

Where PrintBlob fits

PrintBlob suits a print shop that mostly sells garments its customers design themselves, one order at a time, and wants that store in its own WooCommerce shop instead of on a platform it pays for every month. Customers design on the product page, each order keeps its design, preview and images, and PrintBlob Pro hands you print-ready files per printed side and a print queue. A shop that already quotes and invoices in a separate tool, or by hand, loses the least by moving.

Where PrintBlob does not fit

PrintBlob is not a print-shop platform, and it does not replace what InkSoft, DecoNetwork or OnPrintShop do around the store. It has no team, school, fundraiser or company stores, no quotes, invoices or approval step, no production calendar or purchase orders, no supplier catalogues, no pricing by stitches or colours, no colour separations or Pantone colours, no paper products and no B2B storefronts, and it runs only in WooCommerce. If your shop lives on those, stay on a print-shop platform or choose another one. The WooCommerce product designer alternatives page compares PrintBlob with the other designers you could put on a WooCommerce shop.

Sources

Every fact about another product on this page comes from these pages; plans and prices change, so read each pricing page on the day you decide. PrintBlob’s facts come from PrintBlob’s pricing and its features.

• inksoft.com: what InkSoft is and who it is for, stores, the designer, quotes and approvals, production management, decoration methods, the Printavo integration, and a flat monthly fee with no contract and free training and support, read 20 October 2026.
• InkSoft pricing: monthly plans, the one-time software licence shown as free, stores and users by plan, what every plan includes, and the bundle with Printavo, read 20 October 2026.
• InkSoft’s online designer and stores: designs, clip art and fonts, print-ready PDFs, embedding in a website, and the kinds of store, read 20 October 2026.
• deconetwork.com: what DecoNetwork is and who it is for, read 20 October 2026.
• DecoNetwork pricing: monthly plans with a one-time licence fee, month to month with no long-term contract, no refunds and the 14-day grace period, onboarding and training, the online designer in every plan, and stores by plan, read 20 October 2026.
• DecoNetwork features: quotes, orders, invoices, the production calendar, artwork approvals, DecoPay, supplier catalogues, purchase orders, shipping, affiliate and fundraiser stores, batch production and barcode actions, read 20 October 2026.
• DecoNetwork help: Enable a decoration process: the decoration processes and the rules for each (pricing, upload formats, colour palettes, colour reduction for screen printing, production files), read 20 October 2026.
• onprintshop.com: what OnPrintShop is, the print businesses it serves, storefronts, estimating, workflow automation and integrations, read 20 October 2026.
• OnPrintShop plans: a fixed monthly subscription with no transaction or commission fee, cloud hosting on Amazon AWS, storefronts and the designer studio by plan, and prices through a demo, read 20 October 2026.
• OnPrintShop’s online designer: the products it designs, templates and RGB and CMYK mapping, read 20 October 2026.
• printavo.com: what Printavo is, read 20 October 2026.

The facts behind these comparisons, each with its source and the day it was read, are open on GitHub in the comparison data. If one is out of date, open an issue there with the page that shows the new one.