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Professional Users: Backprinting

Who are they gonna call the next time they want great photos? Maybe you if they see your name on the back of each print you sell.

Our print partner, EZ Prints, enables backprinting on all print sizes and finishes. There is space for 40 characters per print. Only letters, numbers, parentheses, dashes, and underscores are supported and all letters will be automatically capitalized.

Two lines are printed on each print. The first is for use by EZ Prints, and the second will use your custom backprinting. If you don't have backprinting in place, "SMUGMUG" is printed on that second line.

How to do it:

Log in, if you haven't already. Then go to your Control Panel. Click the Pros tab.

Click the edit link next to the word "backprinting". You'll see the backprinting tool:

backprinting tool

So many options...so few characters...

Type in the text you want and click Save.

Or...Simply click on one of the keywords on the left to include it in the text for backprinting. For example, placing the keyword SMUGIMAGECAPTION in the text would print the first 40 characters of the photo's caption on the back of each print of that photo.

That's all there is to it.

Note:  You can choose different backprinting for a specific gallery in Customize Gallery.

Available keywords: SMUGMYNAME, SMUGNICKNAME, SMUGFIRSTNAME, SMUGLASTNAME, SMUGEMAIL, SMUGCONTACTEMAIL, SMUGDOMAIN, SMUGDATETAKEN, SMUGIMAGEID, SMUGIMAGECAPTION, SMUGIMAGEFILENAME, SMUGIMAGEKEYWORDS, SMUGALBUMID, SMUGALBUMTITLE, SMUGALBUMDESCRIPTION, SMUGALBUMKEYWORDS .