Personalization vending kiosk

A kiosk system for personalizing an article, wherein the article comprises an item to be personalized assembled with components of packaging in a pre-hooped configuration, the system comprising:

• a housing;
• a personalization system within the housing comprising a plurality of system components configured for personalizing the article;
• a conveying system within the housing and configured to transfer the article in the pre-hooped configuration between the system components;
• and
• a control system configured to receive a personalization order and in response control the system components of the personalization system and the conveying system so that the article is personalized without human intervention once within the housing,
• wherein the personalization system comprises at least one of an embroidery system or a direct to garment printing system (DTG system),
• wherein the DTG system comprises:
• a pretreatment system configured to apply pretreatment solution to the article;
• and
• a direct to garment printer configured to print a personalization onto the article based on the personalization order,
• wherein the conveying system is configured to transfer the article with the pretreatment solution applied from the pretreatment system to the direct to garment printer,
• wherein the pretreatment system is configured to apply the pretreatment solution to a sub-portion of the article based on a personalization size and location indicated in the personalization order,
• wherein the pretreatment system comprises a plurality of dispensing heads each configured to dispense the pretreatment solution,
• wherein the plurality of dispensing heads are arranged along a first direction,
• wherein the control system is configured to move the article relative to the plurality of dispensing heads in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and
• wherein the control system is configured to cause dispensing of the pretreatment solution from any combination of one or more of the plurality of dispensing heads while causing the conveying system to move the article relative to the plurality of dispensing heads in order to apply the pretreatment solution to the sub-portion of the article based on the personalization order.