For printers
You carry the liability. Now you can see the risk.
Every order file is a rights decision, and you've been making it blind: platforms send the print files and keep the merchant data, while courts trim safe harbor for the people who actually manufacture. One API call changes what you know before the job reaches your queue.
The file tells you nothing about the rights.
A famous band's logo arrives via API. It's either fully licensed merch from an official account, or a counterfeit. Identical pixels, opposite legal outcomes, and the deciding fact belongs to someone else. Infringement is strict liability: “we just printed what was sent” has never been a defense, and judgments against printers run into the millions.
Until now, your only options were print blind or turn down revenue.
How it works.
- Check at intake.
- One API call before the job reaches your queue: CLI, webhook, or API, live in an afternoon. Milliseconds per file.
- Get one of four answers.
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No match, authorized, unauthorized with the holder's licensing contact attached, or matches known third-party IP (treat as high risk). Verdicts are advisory: the production decision stays yours.
no_match match_authorized match_unauthorized match_reference
- Build the record.
- Every check is logged: a documented good-faith trail, order by order. When you proceed on a match, record the basis. The shop that checks and decides knowingly stands in a different place than the shop that never looked.
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Verification isn't just protection. It's access.
Verified shops are listed in the public provider directory, where rights holders and licensees route licensed work. As license agreements start requiring verified production, the directory is where compliant capacity gets found. And an unauthorized match isn't only a rejection: the holder's licensing contact is attached, so a risky order can come back as a licensed one.
- A listing in the verified-provider directory
- Licensed programs require verified printers: be findable
- Unauthorized matches carry a path to licensing, not just a no
- A compliance record your insurer and your enterprise clients understand
Free. Permanently. Here's the one condition.
Run your entire line through verification: no per-order selection. That's what makes the directory listing mean something and the good-faith record hold up. The registry earns from rights holders and platforms, never from printers: you are the network, not the customer.
Built with the people who actually print.
The beta is running with working shops now. An API key and an afternoon gets you live.