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Printing Box, Bounding Box, Scaling - For Beginners

Roy Bainbridge

started a topic almost 6 years ago

Hi All,

Can someone with more experience with FPD point me in the right direction, please?

Attached is a screenshot of my T-Shirt in the product builder. As you can see I have boxes everywhere.

I'm getting confused between the following:

Printing box
Bounding box
Print Size (in Product Builder settings)
Should my Printing Box be set as my Bounding Box?
The max print area for any t-shirt designs should be 397x490mm, 300dpi, sized to scale (not sure what this means) and saved with a transparent background.

I'd be extremely grateful if someone could point me in the right direction with all of the above, please?

Many thanks,

Roy

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Rafael D
said almost 6 years ago
- Printing box
  If you use our admin solution (admin.fancyproductdesigner.com) you can use a printing box. When setting a print size, a rectangular printing box with the same aspect-ratio will be added to the canvas. When exporting the order with the print-ready export in the ADMIN solution, only the content in the printing box will be visible in the exported file!
- Bounding box
  You can set the printing box as bounding box or define your own or upload an image that will be used as bounding box. All elements you like can be clipped, limited or placed inside this box. You can read more about it here: https://support.fancyproductdesigner.com/support/solutions/articles/5000548169-using-bounding-boxes-to-restrict-elements
- Print Size (in Product Builder settings)
  Is the size you can define for the printing box. You can either choose between predefined sizes (p.e. paper size, A4, Letters or business cards, ...) or enter your own size.
- Should my Printing Box be set as my Bounding Box?
  This depends on what you like to get. Usually people do that.
- The max print area for any t-shirt designs should be 397x490mm, 300dpi, sized to scale (not sure what this means) and saved with a transparent background.
  You can set a printing box with that specific size. Also you can exclude the layers within the product builder from export so the T-Shirt won't be shown in the print file. For 300 dpi please use our admin solution on admin.fancyproductdesigner.com
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Roy Bainbridge
said almost 6 years ago

Thanks for taking the time to respond. This is really useful.

Regarding the print size. I've set it to 397x400mm however this appears larger than the T-Shirt in the preview. This is where I'm getting confused as I assume this will scale down the users image?

Thanks,
Roy

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Rafael D
said almost 6 years ago

Once the printing size is set you can scale down the preview box to fit the shirt without affecting the quality or printing size of you product.
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Roy Bainbridge
said almost 6 years ago

When you say the printing size, do you mean the printing ratio? When I set the printing size, I then scale down the box to fit the shirt which obviously changes the printing size.

Thanks
Rafael D
said almost 6 years ago

no, it doesn't. The printing size will remain the same if you scale down the box in the product builder.
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Harouna Sy
said over 5 years ago

Hi, i have the same problem as Roy. Can you please tell how to scale down the preview box without affecting the printing size ?
Thanks
Rafael D
said over 5 years ago

You can add the printing box in the view settings, then click on edit printing box in the product builder and resize it in the bottom right corner or via the insert numbers in the dialog. The printing size will remain.
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Szabo Istvan
said over 5 years ago

How do I set the printing box size to A4 in the json?
Rafael D
said over 5 years ago

Please open a support ticket on our website, so we can help you with your issue.

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