Online Designer

template platform for creating print products

Use Adobe to import template data and work in admin mode

Check out how PrintNow's cutting-edge template development process outshines the competition!

  • Create professional and customizable templates using Adobe InDesign, and easily export them to IDML format for seamless import into PrintNow.
  • Gain access to template admin controls for innovative template development.
  • Create assets using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop.
Adobe software interface showing template import options and admin tools.

Explore our feature-rich text editor options

Easily manages text using a creative user interface

  • Configure custom font libraries
  • Bold, italicize, and underline your font families
  • Modify font placeholder size and rotation
  • Change font size and color character by character
  • Left, center, right, and jusify alignment controls
  • Leading controls to space in-between lines
  • Tracking controls to space in-between characters
  • Change opacity levels on text
  • Control drop shadow (angle, distance, opacity, & color)
  • Control outline (thickness & color)
  • Color libraries to load for color assignment
  • Custom color sliders and CMYK, RGB, & HEX inputs
  • Color picker eye drop control to color text from selection
  • Wrap, no wrap, and scale text modes
  • Admin controls to restrict functionaliy at the item level
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Get ready to manage pixel perfect files and images like a pro

Image editor tools to make visual creation a breeze

  • Modify image size and outer and inner rotation
  • Fit to mask, fit to box, & scale image modes
  • Ability to crop images within mask and change size
  • Image effects, drop shadow, border, & filters
  • Upload image types like .PDF, .AI, .SVG, .PSD, JPG, PNG, TIF
  • Save images to "My Images" library
  • Create image asset libraries assigned to templates
  • Free and paid stock image and storage integrations
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Multi-select group features that enhances the user experience

The ability to group elements creates efficiency and harmony in your designs with aesthetic benefits

  • Select multiple text and image elements
  • Create a group that keeps multiple elements together
  • Size, rotate, & move efficiently
  • Easily select individual elments within groups
  • Ungroup and regroup controls
  • Improves template design for you and your customers
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Modern color palette to guide the design of text and images

Discover a stunning color palette that is slick and simple to control

  • Material color palette picker design
  • Create your own default color palettes
  • Tow custom color slide selections
  • CMYK, RGB, & HEX input
  • Color picker pixel reader
  • Recently used colors appear in the palette during a user session.
  • Ability to attach color palettes at the template and item level
  • Ability to lock down color options
Design tool interface showing a modern color palette for customizing text and images.

Customize patterns, backgrounds, layouts, & elements

Interactive seamless patterns that can add WOW to any product

Seamless patterns and backgrounds enhance design options, engage customers, and will boost sales on creative products.

Intelligent layout support for your print templates

Layouts enable admins to assign swappable template designs to products without creating them as separate products.

Element libraries help users with their designs

Clip art element libraries can be uploaded to Storefront shared albums or assigned to specific templates created in PrintNow.

Design interface with tools for customizing patterns, backgrounds, layouts, and elements.

Built-in pricing calculator and option selector

PrintNow's pricing options can also be enabled within the Print Editor for easy order changes and speedy checkout without starting over.

  • Enable calculator, enable size, enable quantity
  • Number of pages shown will updated based on printed sides
  • Ability to toggle layers on editor based on option selections
Mockup of a pricing calculator with customizable options and real-time price updates.
"The built-in pricing calculator transforms the workflow by updating costs and displays instantly as the user makes design changes. No more exiting the application—everything happens seamlessly within the Print Editor, making decision-making effortless and efficient and improving conversions"
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Kara Jones

Marketing & Sales, U.S. Press

Complete item level controls to fine-tune the perfect design

Easily find element layers to edit or rearrange using PrintNow's Print Editor layers panel.

  • Layer control that identifies all text and image items by name
  • Drag and drop items to change sort order
  • Show and hide layers
  • Lock and unlock layers
  • Precise X & Y positioning
  • Change width, height, & rotation precisely
  • Access Edit > Layering for sort order
  • Use right-click context menu for sort order
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Image API's

stock photo  & file storage — integrations

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Connected to millions of stock photos and vector files

Create high-quality print products and improve your service by having and offering access to millions of high-quality, licensed stock photos, graphics, and vector files.

  • Depositphotos is one of the world's leading content marketplaces. Our library has over 200 million files, including royalty-free stock photos, vector images
  • Pixabay offers Stunning royalty-free images & royalty-free stock. Over 4.9 million+ high quality stock images shared by a talented community.

Get user files from anywhere and improve file upload

With integration into Filestack, you can retrieve user content from anywhere and enhance file and image uploads with a powerful, easy-to-use API.

  • Beautiful UI with over 20 integrated sources
  • Uploads that are 100X more reliable with an content ingestion network (CIN)
  • Secure transfer to handle the most sensitive files
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Custom Skins

based on Google material — deliver a better experience

PrintNow's Print Editor is designed to enhance the user experience right from the start. It offers customizable options to tailor it to your brand and personal preferences.
  • Define Primary, Surface, and Accent colors quickly & easily.  
  • Set background images on main workspace and proofing windows
  • Replace SVG icons with your own sets
  • Use the Custom CSS editor to fine tune the look and feel of your custom skins
  • Upload a logo to tie it all together
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More Editor Features

on one unified web-to-print platform

Reliable Adobe template import

You can make perfect templates by creating your designs in Adobe InDesign and importing IDML files, or by creating them in the Print Editor Admin.

Simple modes

Simple mode allows users to modify predefined autofill profiles, text, and image fields.

Advanced editor

The best choice for most product templates offering refined controls that can be customized.

Project link sharing

Sharing a project gives the recipient the ability to save and edit the project in their account.

Online Proof Approval

Live proofing support in the Editor and the capability to download PDF files for approval.

Amazing Unified Admin controls

Behind the amazing Print Editor displayed to all end users on the front end is an incredible Unified Admin, where all creativity and magic comes to life.

Create asset libraries to grow online design

Make asset library goodies helpful for customers customizing online designs. Create amazing background graphics, seamless patterns, elements and images.

PDF print-ready merge engine

A file delivery service that can be downloaded directly from Admin Tools via FTP or Enterprise APIs.

Print Editor API integration

A print editor REST-based web service for third-party ecommerce storefront integrations.

Driving growth and efficiency for print service providers

From print-on-demand products to online packaging, the most innovative companies trust PrintNow to transform their operations.

PrintNow's automated template-driven systems enforce brand consistency while providing complete design flexibility. Fast artwork processing and delivering exactly what customers expect is absolutely crucial to our business success.

Shannon Mosser
Director Of Manufacturing, ReminderMedia
BestChoice Print & Marketing Solutions logo, providing high-quality printing and marketing services to enhance brand visibility and business growth.

PrintNow has streamlined our entire operation, improving online design, ordering, order tracking, and automation. For our expanding print business, this powerful and cost-effective technology is essential, and the support and updates are exceptional.

Eric Knutson
President, Lynn Card
BestChoice Print & Marketing Solutions logo, providing high-quality printing and marketing services to enhance brand visibility and business growth.

PrintNow has been a valuable partner that transformed our print operations with their intuitive platform, dramatically reducing processing times and boosting efficiency through smart automation—all while preserving the personal touch our clients love.

Karla Mejia
Co Owner, MyPrintXpress
BestChoice Print & Marketing Solutions logo, providing high-quality printing and marketing services to enhance brand visibility and business growth.