Printcart Canvas – Canvas Print Designer & Edge-Wrap Preview for WooCommerce
| 开发者 | printcart |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年10月4日 02:11 |
| PHP版本: | 7.4 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.1 |
| 版权: | GPLv2 or later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
Printcart Canvas – Canvas Print Designer & Edge-Wrap Preview for WooCommerce
Printcart Canvas is a canvas print designer for WooCommerce that lets customers upload photos, choose a size, layout and edge style, and preview the gallery wrap before they buy. Every photo gets an automatic print-quality check, prices are calculated on the server, and paid orders reach production with every canvas detail attached.
Live demo: try it as a customer on our demo store —
- Classic Photo Canvas
- Portrait Canvas Print
- Square Canvas Print
- Panoramic Canvas Print
- Deluxe Gallery Canvas
- Live edge-wrap preview in 4 edge styles: Image Wrap, Mirror Wrap, Blur Wrap and Solid Colour
- Colour, Black & White or Sepia, applied to the print file
- Optional extras: photo retouching, hanging hardware and back finish, priced per product
- 34 photo layouts, from one photo to six on a single canvas
- Starter photo: the designer opens with a sample photo the customer keeps or replaces
- Template Library: import a ready-made canvas product with sizes, depths and prices in one step
- Print-ready CMYK PDF for every order line, with trim, bleed and cut line
- Sizes grouped by shape, plus a custom size field
- Automatic print-quality (DPI) check before checkout
- Secure server-side pricing
- Print sheet calculated for every size and depth, with no template per size
- Artwork review queue with a quality verdict for every file
- Paid orders sent to Printcart automatically, with retry
- Guided product setup with one readiness verdict per product
- Gallery-wrapped canvas prints
- Photo canvas gifts: family, pets, weddings and travel
- Photo collage canvases with two to six photos
- Square, portrait, landscape and custom-size canvases
- Wall art and art reproductions for artists and galleries
- Canvas print shops selling gallery-wrapped canvases online
- Photo labs and print studios adding canvas to an existing WooCommerce store
- Print-on-demand and wall-art brands that need accurate edge previews at scale
- Printshops using Printcart that want a dedicated canvas workflow
- See the edge before buying. The canvas updates as the customer changes size or edge style, and Printcart renders an edge-wrap preview image of the finished piece.
- Four edge styles: Image Wrap (the photo continues around the sides), Mirror Wrap, Blur Wrap and Solid Colour in any colour, shown in the designer, the edge preview and the print file.
- Colour, Black & White or Sepia. The photo changes live, and the same colour is printed.
- Extras with every canvas. Hanging hardware (Sawtooth Hanger or Adhesive Hanging System), back finish (Classic Back or Dust Cover) and photo retouching, each priced from your pricing template.
- 34 photo layouts. One photo or up to six, from full-bleed to hero-and-grid arrangements.
- Edit from the cart. Until the order is placed, the customer can reopen the design from the cart and the price updates with the size.
- Easy photo placement. Fit, fill or reset each photo, zoom, and replace any photo in its cell.
- Honest quality feedback. Every photo is rated on a five-step quality scale against the chosen size, so customers know before ordering whether a phone photo is sharp enough.
- Your options, your products. Sizes, depths and edge styles come from your Printcart printing option, including sizes grouped by shape and a custom size field.
- DPI Profiles. Set the minimum quality per product type and decide what happens below it. By default customers are warned, never blocked.
- Prices you can trust. Printcart calculates the price on the server and holds it as a single-use, 30-minute reservation, re-priced when the item is added to the cart. A price sent by the browser is never trusted.
- No blank canvases. A canvas cannot be added to the cart with an empty face unless you allow it.
- Print sheets without templates. The print sheet is calculated from the face size and depth. An optional production profile adds back-wrap and staple allowances and checks every sheet against your printer's roll width.
- Canvas templates. Save size, wrap, print sheet, defaults and pricing rules once and apply them to many products.
- Setup that tells you what to do next. Product Setup gives each product one readiness verdict and the next action to take.
- Artwork queue. Review every customer file with its quality verdict, then approve it or request a replacement.
- Production-ready orders. Each order line records size, depth, edge style, layout, preview and design file. Paid orders are sent to Printcart automatically, with a retry on the Orders screen, and sending can be turned off on the Connection screen.
- Support-friendly. Diagnostics checks the environment and connection and builds a support bundle with every credential removed. Store credentials never reach the browser.
- Install and activate the plugin, then connect your Printcart account under PC Canvas > Connection
- Link a WooCommerce product to its Printcart printing option
- Follow the readiness verdict in Product Setup until the product is ready to sell
- Choose your quality rules under DPI Profiles
- The Printcart designer opens over your product page
- The customer uploads photos, picks a layout, a size and an edge style
- The preview and quality rating update as they go
- The customer adds the canvas to the cart and checks out
- Every canvas choice is saved on the WooCommerce order line
- The artwork appears in the Artwork queue with its quality verdict
- The paid order is sent to Printcart with its design file and print sheet
- The preview is a rendered image of the finished canvas, not a rotatable 3D model.
- Multi-panel canvases (one picture split across several frames) are not available yet.
- A Printcart account is required. Preview renders use 1 Printcart token each and quality checks use 2 tokens per check, taken from the store's Printcart wallet, never from the customer. See External services below.
- Each Printcart plugin is a complete solution for one product niche. One store runs one Printcart solution. To run several Printcart solutions on one store, see Printcart Connect (integration service, Printcart Advanced plan or above).
- Selling T-shirts, mugs, business cards or stickers as well? Printcart Store is our web-to-print product designer for every other product type.
- Need a complete canvas or wall-art store built for you? See solution.printcart.com.
- Ask on the support forum
- Email support@printcart.com
安装:
- Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active.
- Install the plugin from Plugins > Add New, or upload the ZIP through Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin, and activate it.
- Go to PC Canvas > Connection. Enter your Printcart Store SID, Secret and Unauth Token, and run the connection test.
- In your Printcart store, create the printing option for your canvas products: an edge style, optionally an edge depth, and a size. PC Canvas reads it from Printcart, so there is nothing to recreate in WordPress.
- Open PC Canvas > Products, choose a product, and follow Product Setup: link the Printcart product and side, map the printing option, set the size and wrap depth, and bind a canvas template for the price.
- When the product's readiness verdict says Ready, the button appears on its product page.
- Review incoming designs under PC Canvas > Orders and PC Canvas > Artwork.
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常见问题:
Is Printcart Canvas free?
The plugin is free. It needs a Printcart account, which powers the designer, the edge-wrap preview and the print-quality check. Preview renders use 1 Printcart token each and quality checks use 2 tokens per check, taken from the store's Printcart wallet. Your customers never pay for them.
Do I need WooCommerce?
Yes. Canvas prints are sold as WooCommerce products, and every canvas choice is saved on the WooCommerce order.
Do I need Printcart Store (PC Designer) as well?
No. Printcart Canvas is a standalone plugin with its own PC Canvas menu. Use Printcart Store if you also sell T-shirts, mugs, business cards or other products.
Which canvas edge styles are supported?
Four: Image Wrap (the photo continues around the sides), Mirror Wrap, Blur Wrap and Solid Colour in any colour you choose. You decide which ones each product offers through its Printcart printing option.
Is the preview a real 3D model?
No. The canvas in the designer updates as the customer changes size or edge style, and Printcart renders an edge-wrap preview image of the finished canvas. It shows the face and the wrapped sides, but it is an image, not a model the customer can rotate.
How does the print-quality (DPI) check work?
Each photo is rated on a five-step scale against the canvas size: when it is uploaded, when the size changes, and again at add to cart. Zooming or moving a photo does not trigger a new paid check. On the DPI Profiles screen you set the minimum quality per product type and what happens below it. By default customers are warned but never blocked. If the store's token balance runs out, the rating is still shown as an estimate and no sale is blocked.
Which sizes and depths can I sell?
Any size and depth your Printcart printing option offers, including sizes grouped by shape (square, portrait, landscape) and a custom size field. Each side can be from 3 to 120 inches, and frame depth from 0.25 to 3 inches.
Can customers put several photos on one canvas?
Yes. Customers choose from 34 photo layouts, from a single photo to six photos on one canvas. You can also choose which of them each product offers, and which one it opens with. Multi-panel canvases, where one picture is split across several frames, are not available yet.
How are prices calculated?
Printcart calculates the price on the server from the customer's selection and holds it as a single-use, 30-minute reservation, re-priced when the item is added to the cart. A price sent by the browser is never trusted.
What does my production team receive?
Each order line records the size, depth, edge style, layout, preview image and design file. The print sheet is calculated for that size and depth, and the file appears in the Artwork queue with its quality verdict for approval.
Are orders sent to Printcart automatically?
Yes. Paid orders are sent to Printcart for production in the background, and any failed send can be retried from the Orders screen. You can turn automatic sending off on the Connection screen.
What data is sent to Printcart?
Only what each feature needs, such as the photo and canvas settings for a preview, or the order data and design file for production. Paid orders are sent by Printcart Connect, the library bundled with this plugin: it sends the whole order, including the customer's name, email, phone and addresses, so Printcart can produce and ship it. Every service and the data it receives is listed in the External services section.
Is it compatible with WooCommerce HPOS?
Yes. Order data is read and written through WooCommerce's HPOS-compatible order APIs.
What happens if Printcart is unreachable?
The customer sees a short message with a retry option, and checkout keeps working. If a product is not fully set up, the canvas designer stays hidden from customers and Product Setup shows what is missing.
Can Printcart build a complete canvas store for me?
Yes. Printcart also builds complete canvas and wall-art stores. See solution.printcart.com.
How do I get support?
Ask on the support forum or email support@printcart.com. The Diagnostics screen can build a support bundle with every credential removed, so you can share it safely.
更新日志:
4.8.0
- New: Printcart Connect. PC Canvas now uses the shared Printcart library for the store connection and for sending orders, so a site that runs more than one Printcart plugin keeps one set of keys and sends each order once. A "Printcart > Connection" screen appears under the PC Canvas menu.
- Changed: paid orders are sent by that library. It sends the whole order, including the customer's name, email, phone and addresses and every line, not only the canvas lines. External services lists exactly what is sent and how to turn it off.
- Changed: pasting a Store SID and secret on PC Canvas > Connection saves them in the shared connection; PC Canvas keeps its own copy too, so rolling back to 4.7.0 keeps working.
- New: "See it on a wall" on the product page shows the canvas, or the buyer's finished design, on a room wall to scale.
- New: choose from all 34 photo layouts per product, with a default layout and "See it on a wall" room preview for buyers.
- New: Image Wrap and Blur Wrap edges, image colour (Colour, Black & White, Sepia), retouching, hanging and back-finish options — priced and shown on every order.
- New: choose which photo layouts each canvas product offers, and an optional starter photo.
- New: PC Canvas → Templates. Browse the Printcart template library and import a ready-made canvas product (sizes, frame depths, edge styles and prices) in one click.
- New: Download PDF. Print-ready files for every order line, from PC Canvas → Orders, the order detail page and the WooCommerce order screen.
- New: canvas production profiles (Classic and Deluxe frame depth, back wrap, staple margin, cut line) and print output settings per store and per product.
- New: buyers see their design thumbnail and chosen size, frame depth, edge style and image quality on the product page, cart, checkout, order pages and order e-mails.
- New: buyers can edit a design from the cart; the cart line is updated and repriced automatically. Classic and block-based carts are supported.
- Improved: the 3D edge preview reflects the buyer's chosen size, frame depth and edge style, with a Refresh link on rendered previews.
- Improved: production-readiness checks run automatically in the background.
- Improved: custom sizes are checked against your print-roll limit before add to cart.
- Improved: clearer admin screens, labels and messages throughout.
- Improved: the designer loads from the standard Printcart address, with no extra setup.
- New plugin icon and banner on the WordPress.org listing.
- The listing title, short description, Description and FAQ are rewritten to say what the plugin does in plain language: the edge-wrap preview, the 34 photo layouts, the print-quality check and server-side pricing.
- "Tested up to" is now 7.1.2.
- The admin screen loader validates the request origin before it reads any other part of the request: the permission check, then the nonce for the screen the request names, then the screen query. A nonce issued for one PC Canvas screen can no longer load another.
- Admin actions are gated by one nonce check for both request transports, instead of a check chosen by transport.
- Every PC Canvas screen checks the user's permission before it verifies the nonce, so a nonce is never the only thing authorising a request.
- The Connection screen routes a submission by the form it names, so its two nonce checks cannot overlap.
- Admin view query values, including nested values, are sanitised immediately after WordPress decodes them and before any screen renders.
- Admin actions now verify permission and intent before request values are normalised into an explicit payload. Downstream helpers no longer read raw request globals.
- Values decoded from JSON are passed through WordPress core sanitizers before use, while encoded image URLs remain intact.
- Test artwork uploads now use the WordPress upload handler with PNG-only MIME validation and remove the temporary local copy after use.
- Malformed list values in admin actions are rejected safely instead of reaching scalar-only functions.
- The notice shown when WooCommerce is missing appeared on every admin screen for every user. It now appears only for someone who can activate plugins, and only on the Plugins and Dashboard screens.
- Saving Connection settings could fail with a PHP error if a field arrived as a list instead of a value.
- The dimension-unit notice no longer shows a close button that did nothing. The "Dismiss" link beside it is unchanged and still remembers.
- Form and URL values are sanitised where they are read, and data decoded from JSON is sanitised before it is used. No behaviour changes for merchants or shoppers.
- The "Send paid orders to Printcart automatically" switch on Connection could not be turned off in 4.3.0. It now stays off when you untick it.
- The dimension-unit notice now stays dismissed.
- The notice shown after a Product Setup action is no longer decoded twice.
- Each visitor is limited to 20 previews a minute (360 an hour) and 12 quality
checks a minute (240 an hour), so the Printcart tokens they spend cannot be
drained. Developers can change the limits with the
pc3d_buyer_rate_limitsfilter. - Database queries are fully prepared, and form values are sanitised as they are read.
- Compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage and the cart and checkout blocks.
- The product-page button's "Opening PC Canvas…" and "Try again" labels can be translated.
- WordPress 6.5 or later is required.
- The External services section now lists the token cost of previews and quality checks, every field order sync sends, and how to turn it off.
- If you turned automatic order sync off on 4.3.0, it stayed on. After updating, check the switch on PC Canvas > Connection.
- Paid canvas orders are sent to Printcart on their own, in the background and never during checkout. An order is sent once WooCommerce counts it as paid (processing or completed); a bank-transfer or cheque order waits until you mark it paid. A failed send is retried twice; after that, or at once when Printcart refuses the order (for example on a plan without order sync), the line shows "Sync failed" with the reason and the order gets a note. A line already sent is never sent twice.
- A switch on Connection, "Send paid orders to Printcart automatically". It is on by default and works with JavaScript off.
- A warning on Product Setup, Products, the product box and the Dashboard where PCDesigner - Web 2 Print Solution is still switched on for a canvas product. The product stays on sale through PC Canvas.
- "Design Files" is now "Artwork" in the menu, titles, buttons and the Dashboard. Page addresses are unchanged.
- Retry sync on Orders and Order Detail runs the same code as the automatic send, and a failed retry now shows Printcart's reason.
- PC Canvas now notices PCDesigner - Web 2 Print Solution, only to keep it out of the way on canvas products. It never changes PC Designer's settings.
- With PCDesigner - Web 2 Print Solution also active, canvas products set up before 4.0.0 could open its old designer. On every product PC Canvas serves, PC Designer's "Start Design" button and its after-add-to-cart editor redirect are now kept out of the way; other products are unchanged.
- Every order was marked "needs review". The order line now carries the preview the plugin rendered for the canvas the buyer ordered.
- The cart showed the canvas price as a sale. A canvas line now shows one plain price. The amount charged is unchanged.
- Retry sync could not have reached Printcart. It now sends the whole order once.
- The Artwork check now accepts the formats Printcart produces (SVG, PNG, PDF, JPG, WEBP). Uploads are still PNG only.
- Order Detail listed optional fields as missing; they now read "Not applicable".
- Keyboard focus is now visible on Product Setup's section links and on breadcrumbs.
- Review statuses, the input hash and the product setup status posted by the browser at add-to-cart are ignored. A preview address from the browser is used only when the server has no matching render, and only if it is an https Printcart address.
- The order sent to Printcart carries no customer name, email, phone or address.
- Automatic order sync is on after upgrading. To keep sending orders by hand, untick "Send paid orders to Printcart automatically" on PC Canvas > Connection.
- Added: admin screens load and save in place, with a status line; everything still works with JavaScript off.
- Added: Canvas templates hold a canvas's size, depth, edge, material, finish, frame, print sheet and price, and can be applied to products.
- Added: Product Setup in four steps after an Overview, with one next action.
- Added: store dimension unit and roll limit on Connection; Products views with counts and reasons.
- Changed: one readiness verdict everywhere; the menu is ordered by task.
- Changed: the Dashboard says "Connected" only after a passing connection test.
- Fixed: saving Product Setup with JavaScript off; the 3D edge template save redirect; a refused Price save showing a green notice; an invisible "Skip to section" link.
- Security: credentials appear only as their last 4 characters, on Connection only.
- Upgrading: pricing and 3D edge templates are merged into Canvas templates the first time a store manager opens a screen that reads them. Nothing is overwritten.
- Fixed: first-time guest shoppers could not add a designed canvas to the cart; they were told the price quote had expired.
- Fixed: canvas products could stop being orderable about 15 minutes after setup. The plugin now keeps a last-known-good copy of each product's Printcart field list and refreshes it in the background with WP-Cron.
- Fixed: on Product Setup > Mapping, "Save Mapping" and the "PC Canvas enabled" checkbox did nothing for a product whose Printcart field list had not been loaded.
- Added: automatic print-quality (DPI) checking, and a DPI Profiles screen. Each check costs the store owner 2 Printcart tokens; an empty wallet never blocks a sale.
- Added: Printing Options setup for a fresh store; mapping of style, material, finish, hanging hardware and add-ons; production sheet geometry; the print-roll limit; multi-panel canvases (not yet priced as a set).
- Added: a Connection setting, "Artwork", that refuses a blank canvas at add-to-cart. On by default.
- Changed: text domain is now
printcart-canvas-print. - Fixed: a finished design never reached the cart; every customer preview failed with "No artwork received"; uninstall left seven product settings behind.