I’m a designer at a large e-commerce company. I introduced Figma to a team that worked exclusively in Adobe, and I’m now leading an organization-wide shift to make Figma our primary tool—for web and print. We’re building a label-automation workflow entirely in Figma, and I believe there’s a big product opportunity for Figma here.

The problem

Enterprise security policies (ours included) often block Google/Microsoft data sharing, so external connectors aren’t viable. Yet modern print ops—labels, care tags, manuals, packaging—are data-driven at scale. Adobe tools have been hard to automate and to collaborate in; Figma is the only environment that fits our collaboration + automation needs, if key print/data features are native.

The opportunity for Figma

A secure, file-scoped, on-canvas data + print-ready export workflow would let commerce, manufacturing, logistics, and retail teams run high-volume print production inside Figma, expanding usage beyond design into ops, QA, vendor management, and localization.

What would solve it

1) Built-in “Sheet” inside Figma (file-scoped, no external sharing required)

• Create tables; import/export CSV/XLSX

• Bind columns to component text/variants/images

• Auto-instantiate frames/components per row (batch creation)

• Filters, data validation, simple formulas (e.g., concatenation)

• Two-way sync (data design) with an option to disable external connectors for compliance

2) Automatic barcode generation from a data column

• Types: Code-128, EAN-13, UPC-A, QR (with ECC), check digits, quiet zones, human-readable text

• SVG vector output placed in frames (clean scaling, proper overprint/rich black options)

3) Print-ready export

• PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-4, fonts embedded or outlined

• CMYK + spot color with selectable ICC profiles (FOGRA39, SWOP, Japan Color, etc.)

• Bleed, crop/registration marks, slug, safe margins

• Image resampling + resolution checks (200/300 PPI thresholds with warnings)

• Preflight for RGB objects, transparency/overprint, rich black, missing assets

4) Units & precision for print

• Work in mm/pt/in with exact numeric entry + rounding control

• Bleed/safe-area controls in mm and consistent units in export dialogs/reports

Performance-friendly compromise (if resources are tight)

• Keep files light during design, then convert at export only: resample to 300 PPI, CMYK/spot conversion with chosen ICC, outline fonts if needed, preserve vectors for barcodes/lines, add marks/bleeds. Even this “export-only” pipeline would unlock production use.

Why this matters (and why now)

I produce complex instruction manuals, care labels, and other data-driven assets at scale. For teams like mine, these capabilities aren’t nice-to-have—they’re essential. With many enterprises blocking external data sharing, a self-contained, native Figma solution is the only realistic path. Delivering this would cement Figma as the platform for data-driven print while deepening enterprise adoption across non-designer roles.

Is this on your roadmap? If not, would you consider exploring it (or partnering) soon? I’m happy to beta test and can share detailed production requirements. 

Thanks for considering this—bringing data-driven print into Figma would be a game-changer for us and, I suspect, for many enterprise teams.