Sell custom-printed products with CPrint-ai

1. What CPrint-ai does

CPrint-ai adds a personalization editor to the product pages you choose. Your shoppers make the product their own, see it live, and you receive a print-ready file with their order.

On a product you enable, a shopper can:

• Upload their own photo and crop / position it on the product.
• Restyle it with AI into one of eight art styles (oil painting, pop art, watercolor, and more).
• Remove the photo background with one tap.
• Add custom text in the fonts and colors you allow.
• Personalize multiple sides (front, back, left, right).
• See it live - the customized design becomes the product image through cart and checkout.

When the order comes in, CPrint-ai renders a print-ready 300-DPI file for every side and attaches it to the order, so you (or your print partner) can fulfill it.

2. Quick start (3 steps)

You can be live in a few minutes. Start on the Free plan - no commitment.

3. Build a customizable product

Open Settings to see your Layer Templates - the list of products you have made customizable. Click Add New to create one, or Edit an existing template.

The Layer Template Configurator

A template has three parts: the product, one or more sides, and the layers (zones) buyers fill in. Work top to bottom:

4. The shopper experience

On an activated product, your shopper sees a single-screen editor. A typical flow:

• Upload & personalize their photo into the image layer.
• Crop and position it within the zone you defined.
• Restyle with AI - pick one of your enabled art styles.
• Remove the background if they want a clean cutout.
• Add their text in the fonts and colors you allow.
• Switch sides (front / back / ...) and personalize each.
• Add to cart - the finished design becomes the product image and travels through checkout to the order.

Here is the AI restyle in action - a shopper's photo transformed while keeping the same subject:

Uploaded photo

Oil Painting

Pop Art

Pencil Sketch

Generated with CPrint-ai's own AI tools. The input photo is an AI-generated sample standing in for a shopper's upload.

5. AI & image features

AI Restyle Advanced / Pro

Turns the buyer's photo into an art style while keeping the subject recognizable. Eight styles are available:

Background removal All plans

One tap cleanly cuts the subject out of its background - great for clean product placement or layering onto your mockup.

Text & fonts All plans

Buyers type custom text into the text layers you set up, choosing from the fonts and colors you allow. Adding and editing text is instant and unmetered.

6. Orders & print-ready files

When a customized order is placed, CPrint-ai automatically renders a print-ready 300-DPI PNG for every personalized side, bundles them into a ZIP, and attaches it to the order (usually within about 5-10 seconds). The output resolution follows the template's Print size - longest edge (inches).

Show the design in the order confirmation email

Shopify does not let apps edit your email templates automatically, so CPrint-ai gives you a small snippet to paste once. Buyers (and you) then see each side's design right in the order confirmation email.

The snippet (for reference):

{% for line in line_items %}
  {% assign previews = line.properties['_cprint-ai_sidePreviews'] %}
  {% if previews and previews != blank %}
    <p style="margin:12px 0 6px;font-weight:bold;">Your custom design - {{ line.title }}</p>
    {% assign urls = previews | split: '|' %}
    {% for u in urls %}
      <img src="{{ u }}" width="150" style="max-width:150px;border:1px solid #eee;border-radius:6px;margin:0 8px 8px 0;" alt="Custom design preview" />
    {% endfor %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

7. Plans, limits & billing

CPrint-ai has four plans. You can start on Free and change plans anytime from the Billing page; billing is handled securely through Shopify.

• Custom text and background removal work on every plan, including Free.
• AI Restyle requires Advanced or Pro.
• An image generation is one AI restyle or background-removal operation. Adding text is free and does not count.
• Going over your monthly allowance bills each extra image at your plan's rate (table above). Your usage and any overage estimate show on Home - Plan Usage.

8. Analytics

The Analytics page shows how personalization is performing for your store:

• Revenue generated by customized orders, over the period you choose.
• Image generations per day, and the generation-to-order conversion rate.
• Averages per shopper, per product, and per order.
• Recent activity - a log of generations, with whether each was included in your plan or billed as an extra.

9. Reliability & troubleshooting

Still stuck? Use Contact Support inside the app.

10. Glossary & quick reference

Where things live