Choose POD when
- You want listings live without pre-printing a run.
- You sell on Brakebee and connected channels from one catalog.
- You’d rather keep cash in the studio than in inventory.
- You still want the same lab that prints your wholesale orders.
Create Print-On-Demand products from your high-res files, set your price above lab cost, and sell on the marketplace and connected channels — we print when it sells.
Upload a file or use a sample. Pick a substrate and size. This is a test-run of how your work sits on the same materials we print for marketplace orders and wholesale runs.
You list the work once. We print, pack, and ship from Phoenix only when a buyer pays. No closet of unsold prints. No second print-shop login.
Neither path is a downgrade. They’re two doors into one Phoenix shop. See wholesale runs if you need units this week.
Upload high-res files into Brakebee. Pick substrates and sizes from the same menu we run for wholesale. Set your price above lab cost. When an order lands, the Phoenix floor prints, hand-checks, packs, and ships.
Drop the files you already print from. That catalog is shared with wholesale, so you are not maintaining two versions of the same painting. Use a high-resolution file with color and crop you already trust — the same master works for marketplace listings and wholesale runs.
Aluminum, canvas, framed, photo paper, and the other finishes the lab already runs. Match the material to the work — not to a generic merch catalog. The preview above is the fastest way to see the crop on aluminum, canvas, and framed.
Price above lab cost so the margin is yours. One listing can sell on Brakebee and connected channels without a separate print-shop account. Start from lab cost and add what the work is worth.
No inventory sitting in a closet. The same hands that check wholesale runs check marketplace orders. Same Phoenix lab, same quality bar. If you later need a booth stocked, you move the same file to a wholesale run — you don’t start over.
Working artists don’t need another vendor relationship. You need a lab that already knows the file, a listing that can sell while you’re in the studio, and a bulk-order door that uses the identical art when a show lands on the calendar.
One set of files. Aluminum, canvas, framed, and more — choose the substrates and sizes that fit the work. Change a crop or add a size without rebuilding a second catalog for shows.
Sell where your buyers already are. Listings stay tied to your Brakebee catalog, not a separate print-shop login that drifts out of date the week you get busy.
When an order lands, we print, check, pack, and ship from Phoenix. You keep making work. The floor is the same one that runs wholesale.
POD only prints when it sells — same files, same lab, same quality as the wholesale runs you stock for shows. You are not choosing a cheaper product. You are choosing when the ink hits the substrate.
Wholesale is the parallel tool, not a different business. The same files and Phoenix lab power bulk orders for booths, galleries, and inventory. Move freely between print-on-demand and runs — neither path is a lesser option.
POD vs wholesale decision guide — same files work for both paths.
See wholesale runs →Not sure whether to list a piece as print-on-demand or order a wholesale run for the next show?
Same files work for both paths — here’s when each makes sense.
Read the practical decision guide → File prepSharp files print sharp. Resolution, color, crop, and format — before you list.
How to prepare files for gallery-quality prints → Shows & inventoryNeed prints in hand for a fair, gallery, or booth? Order a run from the same Phoenix lab — same files, no second shop.
See wholesale runs → JournalStories and how-tos for listing work, choosing materials, and selling prints on Brakebee.
Browse artist articles →Yes. That’s the point. One master file in your Brakebee catalog can list as print-on-demand and go out as a wholesale run. You don’t re-upload to switch paths, and you don’t accept a different quality bar.
Same Phoenix lab. Same hand-check. Same substrates. POD changes when we print — after it sells — not how we print. Wholesale is for when you need the units in hand.
Lab cost is the floor, not the retail. You set the listing price above that so the margin is yours. Price the work the way you would in a booth, then confirm the lab number still leaves room.
Marketplace orders print when they sell; wholesale runs are scheduled as a batch. Both are hand-checked in Phoenix. Need a hard show date? Ask artist support and we’ll work from the Phoenix floor’s actual queue.
Marketplace listings, connectors, and print-on-demand — from the Brakebee journal.