Guide · Published October 18, 2026

Best Print on Demand Supplier for Pet Products (2026): Bandanas, Beds, Bowls and Collars Compared

Quick answer: pet products are a two-provider choice. Printful has a short, clearly priced pet line (bandana collars from $17.93, bowls from $21.92, collars at $17.57, feeding mats from $16.88) and gives you a full landed estimate before you confirm an order. Printify has the wider range, and it's the only one of the two with a print on demand pet bed. Gelato doesn't list pet products in its catalog as of October 2026, so it isn't a pet supplier right now.

Pet products are one of the most dependable gift categories in print on demand. People spend on their pets the way they spend on their kids, a custom bandana or a bowl with a dog's name on it is an easy impulse buy, and pet niches (one breed, one joke, one hometown) are narrow enough that a small store can own one.

They're also a category full of odd shapes. A collar's print area is a long thin strip. A bowl's is a short band. A bandana folds into a triangle. A design that looks great as a square file can turn into an unreadable smear on all three.

ApparelHub connects to Printful, Printify and Gelato, all live for our merchants, and we don't take a cut of anyone's print margin, so we've got no reason to push you toward one. This guide uses the costs and print areas from the providers' own catalogs as of this month.

Which supplier is best for print on demand pet products?

• Printful if you want known costs and a coordinated set. Its pet line covers a bandana collar, a bowl in two sizes, a collar, a leash, a collar and leash set, a feeding mat and a knitted sweater. Every one has a published base cost.
• Printify if you want range, and it's the answer if you want beds. Its catalog includes a pet bed in three sizes, two bandana styles, a stainless bowl in six colors, tags (printed and engraved), feeding mats, a retractable leash and several pieces of pet clothing: tank tops, a raglan tee, a hoodie, a fleece jacket and a parka.
• Gelato isn't in the running. Searching its catalog for pet or dog products returns nothing today. Gelato is strong for apparel, wall art and paper goods, but pet products aren't part of its line.

So the honest framing is this: Printful for a tidy accessories range with predictable pricing, Printify for breadth and anything you'd sleep on.

What do print on demand pet products actually cost?

These are Printful's base costs as of October 2026. Base cost is production only. Shipping and tax come on top.

Two things stand out. Collars cost the same in every size, so you can offer S through L without a pricing headache. And the collar and leash set is cheaper than buying the collar and the leash separately ($33.69 against $37.74), which makes it the natural bundle if you're going to sell a matching set anyway.

Printify's costs aren't in the table, and that's on purpose. Printify doesn't put base cost in the catalog data that connected platforms read. The real per-variant cost arrives when the product is created on Printify's side, which happens as part of building it, so on ApparelHub it lands on your variants automatically without anyone typing it in. The limitation: you can't sort Printify's pet catalog by cost before you build. If you want a fair comparison, build the same design on a Printify bowl and a Printful bowl and read the real numbers side by side.

Why do collars and leashes ruin most designs?

This is the pet-product trap, and it's about shape, not quality.

Look at the print areas. Printful's collar prints on a strip 996 pixels long and 43 pixels tall. The leash is 996 by 17. That's a ratio of more than 20 to 1 on the collar and nearly 60 to 1 on the leash. Upload a square logo and it either shrinks to a speck in the middle of the strip or gets stretched into something nobody can read.

What works on a strip:

1. Repeating patterns. Paw prints, bones, stripes, a small icon tiled end to end. A pattern doesn't care how long the strip is.
2. Short text, set large. A dog's name, a two-word phrase. Fill the height of the strip, keep it to a few characters, and use a heavy font. Thin lettering at that height disappears.
3. Nothing detailed. Faces, scenes and illustrations don't survive at 17 or 43 pixels tall. Save them for the bandana, the mat or the bed.

The bowl has the same problem in a milder form. Printful's bowl prints on a band of 728 by 90, so think "name across the side" rather than "picture on the side". Printify's 18 oz bowl has a taller band (1,200 by 450, with a front and a back placement), which gives you noticeably more room for a small illustration plus a name.

One more thing worth using: Printful's collar, leash and set all have a separate inside label placement (505 by 289). That's where a logo or your store name belongs, rather than crammed onto the strip.

How do you design for a bandana that folds into a triangle?

Bandanas look easy because the print area is a normal rectangle. Printful's bandana collar prints on 2,480 by 1,320 pixels. Printify's Evergreen bandana prints on 3,150 by 1,691 and comes in two sizes, 20 by 10 and 27 by 13 inches.

The catch is that a bandana is worn folded, with the point hanging down at the dog's chest. Most of what the buyer sees in photos is that point. A design centered in the rectangle, or spread across its full width, ends up partly hidden in the fold or tucked around the neck.

Practical rules:

• Put the hero element low and centered, toward where the point hangs.
• Treat the top edge as hidden. That's where the bandana wraps the collar or neck.
• Check the mockup, not the flat file. If the preview shows the folded bandana, judge the design from that view.
• Patterns are forgiving here too. An all-over pattern looks right however the fabric falls.

Printify also lists a separate clip-on bandana, sublimation printed, which suits full-color, photo-style artwork. If you want a pet portrait on a bandana, that's the style to look at.

What about pet beds and big-surface products?

Printful doesn't carry a pet bed. Printify does, in 28 by 18, 40 by 30 and 50 by 40 inches, and the print area is enormous: 15,600 by 12,600 pixels, with a recommended image size of 20,280 by 16,380.

That size is the whole story. A 50 by 40 inch bed is a big physical surface that gets looked at up close every day, so a small or upscaled image goes soft fast. Two rules:

1. Make the artwork for the largest size you'll sell. Scaling down is safe. Scaling up is where blur comes from.
2. Prefer patterns and big shapes over a single small subject. A tiny centered illustration on a 50 inch bed looks lost. A repeating pattern, or one large bold graphic, looks intentional.

Feeding mats sit in between. Printful's mat prints on 3,000 by 2,286 and comes in bone and fish shapes, which means the edges of your design get cut to that outline. Keep anything important away from the edges of the file, especially the narrow ends of the bone.

If you've already designed for big flat surfaces, the habits carry over from our guides to blankets and pillows.

What should you check before selling pet products?

Pet products get used in a way a poster never does: chewed, washed, dropped and left in the sun. A few things to check on the live product page before you build:

• Materials and care. Look at what each product is made of and how it's meant to be cleaned, then put that in your listing. Buyers ask.
• Sizing. Collars and clothing need a size chart in your listing. Printful's collars come in S, M and L, its sweater runs from 2XS to 2XL, and Printify's clothing runs its own sizes. Don't guess on the customer's behalf.
• Claims you can't back up. Don't call a product chew-proof, indestructible or anything similar unless the provider says so on its own product page. Pet owners test those claims.
• Order a sample. One collar or one bowl tells you more about color, strip legibility and finish than any mockup.

How do you price pet products so they're profitable?

Most pet accessories have base costs in the $17 to $25 range, which is right where apparel sits, but the retail ceiling is set by what people pay for a non-custom version in a pet store. A $17.57 collar has to sell for well above that once you add shipping and fees, so make the personalization the reason for the price.

Three habits:

1. Price against landed cost, not base cost. With Printful you can get production plus shipping plus tax before you confirm an order, so use it for each destination you ship to.
2. Bundle where the provider already did the math. The collar and leash set is the clear example.
3. Track margin per product, not per store. A sweater at $37.74 base and a feeding mat at $16.88 are different businesses. Our guide to tracking profit margins in a print on demand store covers how to set that up.

For a broader look at setting retail prices, see how to price print on demand products.

Where ApparelHub fits, and where it doesn't

ApparelHub sits above the providers. You connect your own Printful, Printify and Gelato accounts, keep your own pricing, and we take no share of your print margin.

For pet products specifically:

• Mix providers in one store. Fulfillment is chosen per product, so your Printify pet beds and your Printful collars can sell side by side from the same storefront. More on that in connecting multiple print providers to one storefront.
• Printify costs captured automatically when you build, so you don't retype them.
• Full landed-cost estimates for Printful before you confirm an order.
• Margin guardrails that warn you before a price drops below cost.
• Listings on the channels you already use: Shopify, WooCommerce, Wix and TikTok Shop are all live.
• Bring your own agent. ApparelHub doesn't run an agent for you and doesn't have its own AI. We expose the whole pipeline through an Agent API, an MCP connector and a Claude skill so the assistant you already use can drive it, on every plan including Free. Pet stores tend to be lots of small variations (one design across collar, bandana, bowl and mat), which is exactly the repetitive building an agent handles well. Setup lives at apparelhub.ai/agents.

What we won't claim: we can't sort Printify's pet catalog by cost before you build, we can't make a detailed illustration readable on a 17 pixel leash strip, and we can't file a quality claim with the provider for you if a bowl arrives scratched. That last one is still a job in the provider's own dashboard.

Frequently asked questions

Does Printful sell pet beds? Not as of October 2026. Printful's pet line covers bandanas, bowls, collars, leashes, feeding mats and a sweater. For a print on demand pet bed, Printify is the option.

Does Gelato have pet products? No. Gelato's catalog returns no pet or dog products as of October 2026, so for pet products your choice is Printful or Printify.

What's the cheapest pet product to start with? On Printful, the 19 by 14 inch feeding mat at $16.88 base cost, followed closely by the collar at $17.57 and the bandana collar at $17.93. Printify doesn't publish cost in its catalog data, so build one product on each and compare.

Why does my design look tiny on a collar? Because the print area is a thin strip, 996 by 43 pixels on Printful's collar. A square design has to shrink to fit the height. Use a repeating pattern or a few large letters instead.

Can I put a pet photo on these products? Yes, on the bigger surfaces: bandanas, feeding mats, beds and the sweater front. Printify's clip-on bandana is sublimation printed, which suits photo artwork. Avoid photos on collars, leashes and bowl bands, where there isn't enough height to show a face.

Where to start

If you're adding a pet line, start small: one design built across a Printful bandana, collar and bowl, so you learn how it behaves on a rectangle, a strip and a band. Add a Printify pet bed once you've got a design that works at a large size. Order a sample of each before you market them.

Create a free account, connect your own provider accounts, and build the same pet design against both Printful and Printify to compare real costs. If you'd rather hand the repetitive building to an assistant you already use, start at apparelhub.ai/agents.