Let customers design it right - and see it real - before they buy.
A built-in design studio runs right inside your store: customers lay out their own artwork on a guided canvas, watch it come to life in live 3D, and check out - while your team gets a clean, print-ready file every time.
We review every request personally and reply within one business day - then your 14-day trial starts, no card needed.
The problem
Bad files are slow files.
When customers email artwork that's low-resolution, in the wrong color mode, or has text running off the edge, someone on your team has to catch it, explain it, and wait for a fix. That back-and-forth is where orders stall and reprints happen. Every bounced file is a reprint, a delay, or an hour of free prepress.
Give customers a designer that keeps them inside the lines, and the file arrives ready to print.
every bad file costs you twice - once to catch it, once to run the job again
What's inside the studio
Everything a customer needs to design print correctly.
Built for the way print actually works - guides, multi-page layouts, real 3D, and a clean file at the end.
A real canvas designer, in your store
Customers add text, upload artwork and logos, drop in shapes, swap colors, and arrange layers - right on your storefront. No separate app to download, no design skills required.
Bleed, trim and safe-area guides built in
Every template shows the bleed line, the trim line, and the safe area. Customers can see exactly where the cut lands, so important text never gets chopped and edges never come out white.
Multi-page layouts
Booklets, menus, brochures and folded pieces get front, back and inside pages on the same canvas - so a multi-page job is set up right the first time, not pieced together from separate files.
Live 3D preview
As the customer designs, the product turns in 3D - a business card, a folded flyer, a mug, an apparel piece. They see the real thing before they commit, so they buy with confidence and ask for fewer changes later.
Print-ready output, automatically
When the order lands, your team gets a 300 DPI CMYK print-ready PDF with fonts embedded and bleed in place. The file the customer designed is the file you send to press.
Your templates, your products
Start customers from your own ready-made templates for every product you sell, with the sizes and options you offer. They customize inside the lines you set - not from a blank page.
Bleed · Trim · Safe
The cut lines your customers never knew they needed.
Most design problems come down to one thing: the customer couldn't see where the paper gets cut. The studio shows it on every template.
- Bleed - the extra edge that runs past the cut, so backgrounds reach the border with no white slivers.
- Trim - where the blade actually lands, so the finished size is exactly what they ordered.
- Safe area - keep logos, phone numbers and key text inside this line and nothing important gets clipped.
How it works
From blank canvas to print-ready file.
Customer picks a product
They choose a product on your branded store and open the designer - or start from one of your templates.
They design it themselves
Text, photos, logos, colors and layout, all on a guided canvas with bleed, trim and safe-area lines visible the whole time.
They see it in real 3D
The live preview turns the flat design into the finished product, so what they approve is what they get.
You get a print-ready file
On checkout, a 300 DPI CMYK PDF with embedded fonts and correct bleed drops straight into your workflow.
The difference
Designing over email vs designing in your store.
Shop-management tools like Printavo run your floor well - but the designing still happens over email. The studio moves that whole loop onto your storefront.
Designing over email
- Customer sends a Word doc, a screenshot, or "just use our logo".
- Your team rebuilds it, emails a proof, and waits.
- Three rounds later the file is finally print-ready - unbilled hours in.
Designing in your store
- Customer lays it out themselves on a guided canvas, inside the lines you set.
- Bleed, trim and safe area are visible the whole time - and the 3D preview shows the finished piece.
- Checkout hands you a 300 DPI CMYK print-ready PDF. No rebuild, no round-trips.
Weighing the two side by side? See the full Printmio vs Printavo comparison →
Live 3D preview
Live 3D preview
When they can see it, they buy it.
A flat preview leaves customers guessing. A live 3D view shows the folded flyer folded, the mug as a mug, the finished card with its real proportions - turning as they design.
- → More confidence at checkout - fewer abandoned carts.
- → Fewer "that's not what I expected" change requests after the order.
- → What they approve on screen is what comes off the press.
Live 3D preview is available on the Growing Shop plan and up.
Comparing this with a standalone designer like DesignNBuy?See how we compare, side by side →
See the studio on your own products.
A 30-minute screen share where your customers' jobs go from canvas to print-ready file. We approve every founding shop personally and set it up with you - no credit card, no setup fee.
14-day free trial after approval · No credit card · $0 setup · We set it up with you