Offer Canvas Edge Styles, Frame Depths

Part 4 of 8 in the WordPress Canvas Print series

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Key takeaways

✓Treat this as an ongoing operating workflow, not a one-time setup task.

✓Document the approval owner, fallback process, and production handoff before customers start ordering.

✓Review the workflow after the first real orders and tighten the steps that cause rework.

What do you need before you start?

Printcart Canvas installed and connected (see Install Printcart Canvas and connect your store).
A canvas product linked to its Printcart printing option.

The screenshots come from a demonstration WooCommerce store running Printcart Canvas with the UK Standard Canvas template (designer screens updated for Printcart Canvas 4.7.0). Store credentials and internal identifiers are masked. Want to see it first? Open the live demo store and press Design your canvas.

How do edge styles, frame depth and image colour work?

Step 1Map the option families

In Product Setup > Link to Printcart, each buyer option family maps to a Printcart field. A family left not mapped is hidden from buyers, so you decide what each product offers. The UK Standard Canvas template maps the colour, hanging, back finish and add-on families for you. Press Save Mapping.

Expected result: The mapped families appear as steps in the designer.

Product Setup Link to Printcart with the buyer option families mapped to Printcart fields

Step 2Buyers choose the frame depth

In the designer, Options > Printing > 2. Depth & Wrap offers the two depths you named as buttons, for example 0.75" (Classic) and 1.5" (Deluxe). The names are used in the designer, on the product page, in the cart and on the order, and you can rename them without losing a product's saved depth.

Expected result: The canvas redraws its wrap bands at the chosen depth, and the four edge styles are shown as picture cards under it.

Canvas designer Options panel, Depth and Wrap step: 0.75 inch frame depth selected and the four edge style cards Image Wrap, Mirror Wrap, Blur Wrap and Solid Colour, with a windmill photo on the canvas

Step 3Buyers choose an edge style

Image Wrap continues the photo round the sides. Mirror Wrap mirrors the edge of the photo onto the sides, so nothing important is lost round the frame. Blur Wrap carries a soft blur of the photo. Solid Colour makes the sides one flat colour: the panel then shows Solid edge color swatches, a hex field and Pick a colour from your photo. It prints through the whole back wrap.

Expected result: The designer preview, the rendered 3D preview and the print file all show the chosen style.

The same photo shown with the four edge styles: Image Wrap and Mirror Wrap on the top row, Blur Wrap and Solid Colour on the bottom row

Solid Colour edge chosen, with the Solid edge color swatches, a hex field and Pick a colour from your photo, and white sides around the windmill photo

Step 4Buyers choose the image colour

3. Image Options sets Full Colour, Black & White or Sepia. The photo changes live in the designer, the same colour is applied to the print file, and the order records it, for example "Image colour: Black & White".

Expected result: The photo on the canvas switches colour instantly.

Canvas designer Image Options step with Black and White selected and the windmill photo shown in black and white

Step 5Check the rendered edge preview

A moment after each change the note above the canvas reads "Updating preview…", then "Preview up to date": the wrap bands show the image Printcart rendered for the real frame.

Expected result: The buyer sees how the sides of the finished canvas will look before ordering.

Canvas designer showing the rendered edge preview with the mirrored photo on the sides

Which edge style should I recommend?

Mirror Wrap is the safe default because the whole photo stays on the face. Image Wrap suits landscapes with nothing important near the edge. Blur Wrap gives a soft, modern side. Solid Colour suits portraits and graphic designs, and white or black sides look clean on any wall.

Is the black and white conversion only a preview?

No. The colour mode is baked into the print file, so the canvas is printed exactly as the buyer saw it.

Can I offer only some edge styles on a product?

Yes. Edge styles come from the product's Printcart printing option, so you choose which ones each product offers.

Try Printcart Canvas

Printcart Canvas is free on WordPress.org, from Printcart, the web-to-print platform used by 2000+ stores. Download Printcart Canvas from WordPress.org, or try the live demo as a buyer.

What should you do next?

Stuck on a step? Email support@printcart.com with a screenshot of the screen you are on, or a support bundle from PC Canvas > Diagnostics; it contains no credentials.

Your launch checklist

What should you check before you launch Offer Canvas Edge Styles, Frame Depths and Black & White or Sepia?

This guide covers web-to-print launch planning, buyer experience, and repeatable production in Printcart. Before you offer it to your own buyers, place one test order yourself with a real product, a real design file and a real checkout, then answer the questions below.

Can a customer complete the flow without staff intervention?

Does the production team receive the exact artwork, option, and approval data they need?

Is there a clear fallback when artwork, pricing, approval, or fulfillment data is missing?

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