Canvas products
Create a product from a physical sheet size where the whole sheet is printable — no mockup, no print-area setup. Ideal for DTF, transfers and full-canvas prints.
A canvas product has no product photo behind the design. The customer designs on a plain sheet of a chosen physical size, and the entire sheet is printable. It is the fastest product type to set up because there is nothing to position.
Use it for:
- DTF transfers and heat transfers sold by sheet size.
- Stickers and decals cut to the design.
- Posters, prints and banners where the artwork fills the medium.
- Any print-by-the-sheet service where customers supply the artwork.
Step by step
- Go to Products → Create product → Create canvas product.
- Enter the sheet size — the physical width and height of what you print. This is the design surface and the print area at once.
- Name the product and choose a print method. For DTF, pick the method whose export settings match your printer. See Print methods.
- Create the product, then Publish to Shopify.
Sheet settings
The sheet size is stored on the product and can be changed later from the product page — the confirmation Sheet settings saved appears when it is updated. Changing the sheet size affects new designs; designs already saved keep the size they were created at.
Offer several sheet sizes by creating one canvas product per size (A4, A3, 22×24…), or by creating variants for each size and setting per-variant print areas.
What is different from a normal product
| Normal product | Canvas product | |
|---|---|---|
| Background | Mockup photo or mask + color | None — a plain sheet |
| Print area | Positioned inside the product | The whole sheet |
| Sides | Front, back, sleeves… | A single sheet |
| Setup time | Minutes per side | One field |
Side fees do not apply to canvas products
Canvas products use a single sheet, so per-side pricing has nothing to count. If you assign a pricing profile with side fees to a canvas product, Customezo warns you that those fees will not apply there. Use add-on fees instead. See Pricing & fees.
Getting good print files
- Set the export DPI on the print method to what your printer needs — 300 DPI is typical for DTF.
- Set a minimum image DPI so shoppers are warned (or blocked) when they upload artwork that is too small for the sheet size. A 22×24 inch sheet needs a very large image to hit 300 DPI.
- Decide whether you want a trimmed PNG in addition to the full-sheet file. Trimming crops to the artwork’s bounding box, which is useful for single transfers and cut files. The PDF is never trimmed.
- Set the background — transparent for DTF, white for posters.
All of these live on the print method: Print methods.
Next
Publishing & sync — get the product into your store.