Lab printing is an optional fulfillment path for a Picsha Books store. Instead of a print-ready PDF landing in your admin page, the finished book goes to Picsha's professional photo-book lab partner. The lab prints and binds it and ships it white-label, either straight to your customer or to your counter for pickup. Your customer sees only your storefront and your brand.
It is off by default, and Graphx switches it on per store. Stores that print their own books need do nothing, and a store that runs its own Photogize Lab uses Sending orders to Photogize Lab instead.
What changes for you
- Nothing about the storefront. Same address, same AI-designed book, same checkout.
- A catalogue built from the lab's sizes. Seven book sizes from 5×5 to 11×8.5, hardcover and softcover, matte covers, gloss pages, full bleed. You choose which to offer and set your own prices. Sizes without a lab product are hidden from the storefront.
- No invoice. The lab's charge for each order (printing, shipping, and the lab's tax) is deducted from that order's payout, at cost. The rest lands in your bank account as usual.
- Pickup still works. A pickup order ships to the counter address you enter on the Lab printing card, and you hand it over.
- Ship to home too. On the same card, each of your shipping rates is mapped to a lab shipping tier (standard, expedited, or rush). Tracking goes out to the customer under your store's name. The lab ships anywhere in the US and Canada.
- A window to change your mind. Orders hold at the lab for about three hours before going on press. Cancel inside that window and nothing is charged. Deleting a free or test order cancels it at the lab first; once the lab has started printing, the order can only be archived.
Setting up your book sizes
On the Book sizes card each size picks a lab product in place of a width and height. For each size:
- Lab product. Choose it first. As soon as you do, the lab's cost appears under the row: what the lab charges at your included page count, and per extra page (shipping and tax are added per order). The same happens in the Add size form, so you see the cost before you set a price.
- Label is optional. Leave it alone and it takes the lab product's name, such as "8 × 8 hardcover", and follows the product if you change it. Type your own ("Coffee-table book") and it stays.
- Base price. The lowest the platform accepts is $19.
- Pages included. 20 minimum, the lab's floor.
- Extra page price has to be entered on a lab-printed store. $0 is allowed and means one flat price, but the lab still bills you for every extra page, so that cost comes out of your share.
A price below the lab's cost gets a Priced below lab cost badge. Edit as many rows as you like and press any Save: every edited row is saved, and a row that cannot be saved says why.
What you see on orders
Each lab order carries a lab badge, its status at the lab, tracking numbers, the lab cost, and whether it has been deducted. If the lab needs something (an address, a price above cost, a size matched to the wrong lab product), the order says so and offers a button to fix it. An order priced below the lab's cost holds rather than printing; fix the price and retry.
Getting it turned on
Contact help@graphx.com. Turning it on and choosing a lab product for each of your sizes takes about fifteen minutes.
Related: Picsha Books: sizes, pricing, and the print-ready PDF.
Questions? help@graphx.com
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