Printing TLDR

AI for Print Shops

Prompts you can paste into Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini today, and an honest look at where AI helps in a print shop and where it doesn’t. Everything here is free and vendor-neutral.

Prompt libraries

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100 AI Prompts for Print Shops

100 free, copy-ready prompts for quoting, file checks, color, press, finishing, DTF, claims and customer mail. Fill in your job details and paste into the assistant you already use.

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Gemini Image Prompts for Print Production

Nine image prompts for mockups, scale references, installs, lighting and substrates, plus the limits you need to know before any of it goes near a printer. PDF version included.

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Nano Banana Prompts for DTF Printing

Eighteen print-safe prompts for DTF artwork: a master prompt, templates, client edits and fixes, plus the aspect ratio, 300 DPI pixel math and preflight rules that decide whether the file prints clean.

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Analysis

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AI Print Shop Quoting and Workflow Automation

Where AI is useful today in quoting, artwork checks, customer communication and production data, what it costs to set up, which tasks it is not suited for, and what your workflow needs in place first.

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More AI prompts, tools and field reports are added here as they are published. Looking for production tools instead? See the large format hub or the DTF hub.

By Kjell Karlsson, 30+ years in large format printing, 10+ in DTF. Last reviewed: October 2026.