OnPrintShop wins EDP Award for web-to-print platform at FESPA 2026

By AI, Created 2:20 PM UTC, May 21, 2026, /AGP/ – OnPrintShop won the Best Print Commerce Solution honor at the EDP Awards 2026 in Barcelona, with judges recognizing its AI tools for storefront setup, translation and content generation. The award highlights how print providers are using automation to move faster into online commerce without adding complexity.

Why it matters: - The award signals growing industry demand for web-to-print tools that cut setup time and reduce manual work. - OnPrintShop’s AI features are aimed at helping print businesses launch and run online storefronts with fewer design, copy and translation resources. - The recognition came from the EDP Awards, one of the print industry’s better-known technical honors.

What happened: - OnPrintShop won Best Print Commerce Solution at the EDP Awards 2026. - The award was presented at FESPA Global Print Expo 2026 in Barcelona. - An independent jury of experts from 20 European print trade publications selected the winner. - The EDP Awards recognized software competing in the global print e-commerce and web-to-print market.

The details: - OnPrintShop said its platform is used by more than 2,000 print businesses worldwide. - The platform uses generative AI to create product descriptions, marketing content, product images and multilingual storefronts. - OnPrintShop said print businesses can go live up to 70% faster using those tools. - Key capabilities include AI-generated SEO-optimized product descriptions, AI image generation from text prompts, translation into 19+ languages and text-in-design translation that preserves layout and print-ready formatting. - The platform also includes AI-assisted image background removal, smart image enhancement and behavior-based product recommendations. - OnPrintShop supports B2B, B2C, franchise, trade and reseller models. - The platform covers wide format, commercial printing, labels and packaging, photo and wall art, and promotional products in one system. - OnPrintShop said no custom development is required on the printer side. - The EDP jury said OnPrintShop makes AI practical and usable in everyday e-commerce workflows. - The jury also said the platform simplifies storefront setup and improves the customer experience without adding complexity. - Dharmesh Acharya, co-founder of OnPrintShop, said the award validates a belief that AI should solve real production-floor problems rather than create new ones. - Acharya said the platform is designed to remove friction where print businesses lose time, money and opportunity. - OnPrintShop demonstrated the platform at FESPA Global Print Expo 2026 at Booth 3/B29. - The demo showed end-to-end workflow from storefront setup through order fulfillment across multiple print segments. - FESPA Global Print Expo is described as the world’s largest specialty print exhibition, drawing tens of thousands of print professionals each year.

Between the lines: - The win puts AI-enabled automation at the center of a category that has often been limited by setup complexity and staffing demands. - The jury’s emphasis on usability suggests the market is rewarding practical tools over feature depth alone. - OnPrintShop is positioning AI as a way to make web-to-print faster to deploy, not just more sophisticated.

What’s next: - OnPrintShop is likely to continue using the award and the FESPA demonstration to market its platform to print providers expanding into online commerce. - The company’s global install base and broad integrations suggest further growth will depend on how well it converts technical features into faster store launches and higher storefront performance.

The bottom line: - OnPrintShop’s EDP Award gives the company a high-profile validation for a simple pitch: AI can make web-to-print easier to launch, easier to run and easier to scale.