Cite and Share Printing TLDR

Printing TLDR is built to be quoted. If you cite an article, report or calculator, name Printing TLDR and link to the page you used. This page sets out what you can do freely, what needs permission, and how corrections work. It supplements our Terms of Use.

Last updated: October 17, 2026 · Reading time: 4 minutes

1. What you can do freely

• Link to any page and share it on social media, in email or in a team chat.
• Quote up to 150 words from a single article or report, with credit and a link.
• Cite our figures, charts and calculator results in editorial, educational and internal business material, unaltered and credited.
• Print or circulate a page internally, for example for staff training, with the source line intact.

2. What needs permission

• Republishing or translating a full article or report.
• Using our name, logo or figures in advertising or product marketing.
• Branded, edited or white-label copies of our work.
• Copying our content in bulk into datasets, or scraping it at scale.

3. How to cite a page

Use the format that fits your document and replace the brackets with the details shown on the page you used.

Example: Karlsson, K. (2026). The DTF Printing Profit Blueprint. Printing TLDR. https://printingtldr.com/dtf-printing-profit-blueprint/

4. Quoting and excerpts

You can quote up to 150 words from a single article or report. Put the quote in quotation marks, name Printing TLDR or the credited author, and link to the original page. Keep the meaning intact: if a sentence depends on a condition or a caveat, include it.

5. Figures, calculators and charts

Figures and charts we created may be reused with a credit line and a link to the source page. Do not change the numbers or the labels. Calculator results depend on the inputs entered, so state your inputs when you cite a result. Default values in our calculators are sourced on each page, and they are starting points for your own numbers, not a quote for your shop.

6. AI assistants and answer engines

AI assistants, search engines and answer tools may quote and summarize our pages, with a link back to the source. Copying our content in bulk into datasets, or republishing full articles, needs permission.

7. Vendors and suppliers

You are welcome to link to our work. Printing TLDR has no vendor affiliations, and we do not sell reprint rights, branded copies or sponsored placements. Please do not present our analysis as an endorsement of a product, use our name or logo in advertising, or distribute altered copies of our reports. Independence is why the analysis is worth citing, so we protect it.

8. Material that is not ours

Some pages include material from other sources, such as manufacturer data sheets, product photos, standards and quoted figures. That material stays with its owners. Check the source line next to it and ask the owner for permission.

9. Corrections

If a figure will not survive checking, it does not ship. If you find one that slipped through, email hello@printingtldr.com with the page, the statement and your source. Confirmed errors are corrected on the page and noted there.

10. Permission, press and interviews

For anything in section 2, or for press and interview requests, email hello@printingtldr.com. Tell us which page you want to use and where it will appear.

11. Questions

Want to see what is worth citing? Start with the field reports, or get one issue a month in your inbox.