CafePress.com

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CafePress.com is an online retailer that produces and dispatches a large variety of user-customized products on demand. Opening and operating a basic CafePress shop is free. A basic shop can be upgraded to a premium shop for a small monthly rate, allowing an unlimited number of products per type and additional maintenance and customization features.

CafePress was founded as a privately owned company in 1999 by Fred Durham and Maheesh Jain. As of February 2006, the site hosts over 2.6 million online shops with over 35 million products. CafePress.com is headquartered in Foster City, California, and its production facility is located in Louisville, Kentucky. Major accounts include Star Trek, Dilbert, Phil Collins, Peanuts, and Wikimedia. Shops are also frequently created for pop-culture phenomena such as JibJab.com and "All your base are belong to us".

The most popular CafePress item is the white t-shirt; according to a company fact sheet, almost half a million white shirts were sold in the first five years of the company's existence.

In July 2005, CafePress announced a partnership with Stamps.com to allow shopkeepers to sell "custom postage", similar to the already existing PhotoStamps service.

In November 2005, CafePress announced print-on-demand for dark apparel, starting with a Black T-Shirt.