What’s new in Printbox: September 2026

September brings a brand-new editor: the Wall Art Editor. Shoppers can now design a whole gallery wall in one project instead of buying prints one by one. Below: what it does, why we built it, and everything else that shipped this month, from AI-written photo captions in Smart Editor to live 3D previews, a new mockup design editor, and a rebuilt admin panel.

Meet the Wall Art Editor

The Wall Art Editor is a new editor for gallery walls. Shoppers see their own photos as framed prints on the wall of a real room and design the whole arrangement in one project:

• They mix print sizes, and prints snap neatly into line.
• They set the frame and material for the whole wall at once or print by print.
• The price updates as they go.
• The finished wall goes to the cart as a single project they can reopen and keep editing.

The first release works best with square formats, or catalogs where each product has one orientation.

The Wall Art Editor is part of Premium Editor Features. If your store already has Premium Editor Features, you have access to the Wall Art Editor too.

Why we built it

Shoppers who wanted several prints had no way to order them together, and clients kept telling our sales team exactly that. Once shoppers see the whole wall, adding more prints and bigger ones comes naturally. For you, single-print orders grow into complete walls, which is a direct way to grow wall art sales. A single print as a gift still works just as well.

It follows the idea behind every Printbox editor: shoppers get full creative freedom, even on a phone screen, while you keep detailed control over how each product is configured.

AI-written photo captions in Smart Editor (Private Beta)

Before: the photos are in, the text box is empty, and finding the right words for every page takes longer than picking the photos did. Many shoppers leave those boxes empty.

Now: a shopper taps a text field on a page with a photo and asks for a caption. They get a short line that describes that photo, written in your store’s language and sized to fit the field. They can edit or delete it like any other text.

The result is a photo book that reads as finished, not as a set of pages with empty boxes.

Also new this month

3D visualizations with a live model preview

You can now set up products shown on a 3D model in the editor (mugs, frames, phone cases) in the new admin panel, with the model on screen while you work. Upload the model files in one place, position the artwork, and the preview renders it on the model straight away. A built-in check warns you if the artwork area runs outside the texture, before any shopper sees it.

A redesigned mockup design editor

Mockups are the images drawn around a shopper’s artwork: the frame around a print, the cover of a book, the body of a mug.

Before: upload a PNG, save, check it in the editor, start over.

Now: one screen, with pages and layers on the left, a live canvas in the middle, and layer settings on the right. Four preview tabs (Editor, Render, Fillable, Visualization) show how the mockup looks everywhere it’s used. You see before saving whether a frame overlaps the photo in the editor or only in print.

A new admin panel, designed as a whole (Beta)

The new admin panel now covers most of what you configure day to day:

• Product family configuration: everything that defines a product family in one sidebar.
• Global search: projects, orders, customers, product families, and attributes from one field at the top of every page.
• Asset manager: bulk upload, tags, filtering, and bulk actions.
• Dashboard: orders, created projects, and rendered projects over the last 1, 7, 30, or 90 days.

Every list works the same way and remembers your sort, filters, and page when you come back. The classic panel stays one click away while the remaining areas move over.

Smaller upgrades worth knowing

• Fine-tune any page in Smart Editor, cover included. The book still builds itself in seconds. When a shopper wants one spread or the cover exactly right, they can now add photos and text to the cover and move text freely on inside pages. They can reset to the original design at any time.

• Photo filters in the Flex Editor. Black and white plus presets such as Orlando, Miami, and Key West, previewed right on the product. Shoppers no longer leave to edit a photo in another app and upload it again, which is a common point for shoppers to drop out.

Existing clients: want the Wall Art Editor live for the high season? Talk to your project manager now.

Curious about one of these features? Tell us which one and what you sell, and we’ll show you how it would work on your products.

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