Set Up Canvas Print Sizes, Prices

Part 3 of 8 in the WordPress Canvas Print series

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Key takeaways

✓Check resolution, bleed, safe area, color mode, transparency, and font handling before the file is sent to print.

✓Use AI checks as a first pass, then keep a human approval step for expensive, large-format, or brand-sensitive jobs.

✓Match the Printcart app to the storefront platform, buyer journey, and order workflow you already use.

✓Test product sync, customer design data, checkout metadata, and fulfillment callbacks before launch.

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

What do you need before you start?

Printcart Canvas installed and connected (see Install Printcart Canvas and connect your store).
A canvas product, for example one imported from the Template Library (see Import a ready-made canvas product).

The screenshots come from a demonstration WooCommerce store running Printcart Canvas 4.5.9 with the UK Standard Canvas template. Store credentials and internal identifiers are masked. Want to see it first? Open the live demo store and press Design your canvas.

How do you set up sizes, prices and the print sheet?

Step 1Open Product Setup

Edit the product in WooCommerce. The PC Canvas box in the sidebar shows its status and a Product Setup button. A green dot in the step list means that step is complete.

Expected result: Product Setup opens with the product verdict and the step list on the left.

PC Canvas box on the WooCommerce product edit screen with the canvas status and the Product Setup button

Step 2Link the product to Printcart

In Link to Printcart, use Find this product in Printcart (or Create in Printcart) and Fetch First Side. Tick Use PC Canvas for this Woo product and press Save Mapping.

Expected result: The status reads Done and shows the linked Printcart product.

Product Setup step Link to Printcart: product linked, Use PC Canvas ticked and buyer option families mapped

Step 3Map the printing options

Under Printing options, press Check Printcart again. PC Canvas finds which Printcart fields hold the size, edge style and edge depth choices. Press Save Mapping. If you later change the options in Printcart, press Reload field list from Printcart.

Expected result: All three fields read Saved.

Product Setup printing options step with the size, edge style and edge depth fields all Saved

Step 4Choose the pricing template

Under Price, choose the pricing template. Buyers are always priced live by Printcart from their selection; the template's base price is only the estimate shown before a size is chosen. Every selectable size is priced, and a size that is not in your table is refused before Add to cart. Press Save price settings.

Expected result: The price section shows your pricing template and its base price.

Product Setup price section with the UK Standard Canvas pricing template selected

Step 5Set the size and wrap

Under Size & print sheet, enter the design face width and height, the wrap depth and unit, the bleed margin and the safe margin (keep faces and text inside it). Press Save size & wrap. Size limits apply to the finished face, so a size beyond your limit is never offered, in either orientation.

Expected result: A to-scale preview of the face and the derived sheet size appear.

Product Setup Size and wrap section with face size, wrap depth, bleed and safe margins and a to-scale preview

Step 6Set the print sheet production values

Name the two frame depths (for example Classic 0.75 in and Deluxe 1.5 in) and set the back-wrap allowance and the staple margin. The sheet is built face, frame depth, back wrap, then staple margin, with the cut line just inside the outer edge. For an 8 × 8 in canvas at 0.75 in with a 0.2 in back wrap and a 2 in staple margin, the sheet is 8 + 2 × (0.75 + 0.2 + 2) = 13.9 in square. Tick the confirmation and press Save Production Values.

Expected result: Each value is explained next to its field, and the sheet size updates.

Print sheet production values: Classic and Deluxe frame depth names, back wrap allowance and staple margin

Step 7Set up the 3D preview

Under 3D preview, keep Enable backend 3D edge preview ticked, choose the default edge style and wrap depth, and press Save on this site, then Update in Printcart. The preview is drawn from the profile Printcart holds, so both are needed.

Expected result: The 3D preview profile is saved on both sides.

Product Setup 3D preview profile with default edge style, wrap depth and preview image settings

Step 8Render a test preview

Under Test preview, choose a PNG (up to 10 MB), press Upload Sample Artwork, then Render Test Preview. This proves the preview works end to end before a buyer tries it.

Expected result: The status reads Rendered and the 3D image appears. Buyer app then summarises the face, depths, sizes, edge styles and pricing the designer will receive, and Preview Buyer App opens the designer exactly as a buyer sees it.

Product Setup test preview: sample artwork uploaded and the rendered 3D edge preview

Do rotated sizes cost the same?

Yes. Prices come from a table on width, height and depth, and a size and its rotation, such as 20 × 30 and 30 × 20, always return the same price.

How do I know which sheet width my printer needs?

Printcart Canvas calculates the print sheet for every size and depth on top of the finished face. Size & print sheet shows the production sheet next to the buyer-facing size, and the roll limit check stops sizes your printer cannot take.

What happens if a buyer picks a size without a price?

It is refused before Add to cart with the message "This size isn't available — please choose another size", so no canvas is ever sold at the wrong price. Prices are shown with two decimals.

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 Set Up Canvas Print Sizes, Prices and the Print Sheet in WooCommerce?

This guide covers file quality, proofing, and production risk 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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Set Up Canvas Print Sizes, Prices and the Print Sheet in WooCommerce — common questions

What do you need before you start?

Do rotated sizes cost the same?

Yes. Prices come from a table on width, height and depth, and a size and its rotation, such as 20 × 30 and 30 × 20, always return the same price.

How do I know which sheet width my printer needs?

Printcart Canvas calculates the print sheet for every size and depth on top of the finished face. Size & print sheet shows the production sheet next to the buyer-facing size, and the roll limit check stops sizes your printer cannot take.

What happens if a buyer picks a size without a price?

It is refused before Add to cart with the message "This size isn't available — please choose another size", so no canvas is ever sold at the wrong price. Prices are shown with two decimals.

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Printcart Canvas – Canvas Print Designer & Edge-Wrap Preview for WooCommerce

Printcart Canvas is a WooCommerce plugin for selling canvas prints online. Customers upload photos, choose a size, layout and edge style, and preview how the picture wraps around the frame before they buy. Every photo gets a print-quality check, and paid orders reach production with a print-ready PDF. It is built for canvas print shops, photo labs and wall-art brands.

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