We're building the operating system for print shops
Custom-apparel demand exploded, but the software running the back of the shop never caught up. KOVA exists to turn production from a pile of spreadsheets, lost art files, and wasted film into one calm, traceable system — from the customer's design all the way to the shipping label.
Walk into most custom print shops and you'll find the same story: orders arriving from a storefront, a marketplace, DMs, and walk-ins; artwork emailed back and forth until someone hopes it's high-res enough; designs ganged onto film by hand in Photoshop; and multi-item orders getting split across a packing bench and shipped half-empty. The craft is world-class. The plumbing is held together with tape.
KOVA is that plumbing, done right. The customer builds a print-ready file on your storefront and a live DPI gate catches bad art before a cent of film is spent. Orders from every channel funnel into one pipeline and explode into individually-barcoded units. A deterministic engine nests those units onto gang sheets that waste the least film, and a tiny on-prem agent drops the files straight into your RIP. On the floor, a scan tells every operator exactly what to do next — press this, put that in bin A1, this order is complete, buy the label.
One system. From their design to your dock. That's the whole idea.
How we build KOVA
The shop floor comes first
Every feature is judged by whether it holds up next to a heat press at 2pm on a Friday. If it doesn't help an operator finish the order in front of them, it doesn't ship.
Waste is the enemy
Wasted film, wasted motion, reprints, half-packed boxes — the whole product is a war on the small losses that quietly eat a print shop's margin.
One source of truth
One physical shirt, one unit, one QR code — from the customer's design to the tracking number. No parallel spreadsheets, no guessing which file goes with which order.
Build on what shops already run
We connect Shopify, S&S, NeoStampa, and your carriers instead of asking you to rip them out. KOVA is the connective tissue, not another silo.
Come run your shop on KOVA
Whether you're pressing a hundred shirts a week or ten thousand, KOVA scales with you. Start free and see the whole pipeline in demo mode.