FastEditor, the artwork-automation platform for the promotional products and branded merchandise industry, has added branded print proofs to its Studio Tool. Sales teams and account managers can place a customer’s artwork on any product and download a polished, on-brand print proof together with the production-ready file in under 20 seconds, without a designer on call. Until now, proofing a promotional product often meant 15 to 30 minutes of manual work in Illustrator or Photoshop for every order. With branded print proofs in the Studio Tool, that step collapses to a few clicks. The proof carries the reseller’s own branding automatically, including logo, brand colours, contact details, terms and any custom content, because proofs are templated per workspace. It is delivered as a PDF by default (PNG and JPG optional) and is generated from the exact same data as the production file, so what the customer approves is what gets printed.
Customers approve the proof online. Every approval is timestamped, stored against the order and bundled with the production-ready file when it moves to manufacturing, cutting out follow-up emails and preventing after-the-fact disputes about what was agreed.
For resellers and suppliers, FastEditor reports an 80 percent lower cost per proof and proof creation that is 5 to 10 times faster than manual work. Because customers see a real preview of their order before checkout, online conversion is up to 20 percent higher. The production files themselves carry a 99.95 percent success rate, with no manual fixes.