Mockups

A mockup is a product photo per printable side, the print area drawn on each photo, and the real print size in centimetres. Every product with the designer uses a mockup; the designer, the print files and the cart previews all follow it.

PrintBlob creates a T-shirt mockup when you activate it, with front and back print areas of 28 × 36 cm and 28 × 39 cm.

Set up a mockup

1. Open Products › Mockups and select Add mockup (or edit the T-shirt).
2. For each side, tick Customers can print on this side and select Choose photo.
3. Drag the blue box over the area that can be printed. Use its corner to resize it.
4. Enter Print width (cm) and Print height (cm): the physical size the print area represents.
5. Tick Recolour the photo to the colour the customer picks if the photo is of a white or light grey product.
6. Select Update.

Photos that work well

• A product on a transparent or plain white background.
• The same framing and size for every side.
• For recolouring: a white or light grey product, photographed evenly lit. Folds and shading are kept when PrintBlob recolours it.

Print files

When a customer adds a design to the cart, the browser renders each printed side as a transparent PNG at exactly the print size, at 300 DPI. A 28 × 36 cm print area gives a file of 3307 × 4252 pixels. Changing a mockup’s print size only affects new designs.

PrintBlob Pro adds Left sleeve and Right sleeve sides to mockups; see PrintBlob Pro.