The Backprinting Thread (Tips, and Questions)

Andy · July 29, 2006

Ask your backprinting questions here!

SmugMug Help - Backprinting

OK One tip is, how to enter the © symbol on with your keyboard? It's very simple:

PC: Hit Alt+0169
MAC: Option-G

Voila!

Another tip, from AnneMcBean

AnneMcBean wrote:

If you want to do backprinting differently for a gallery, run it through the cool preview and keyword features in the control panel backprinting first. That way you know exactly what to expect when you plug it into the customize gallery backprinting.

JBurt · July 29, 2006

Andy wrote:

OK One tip is, how to enter the © symbol on with your keyboard? It's very simple:

PC: Hit Alt+0169

Voila!

Sorry Andy, I couldn't get it to work.

Another question: The backprinting window is blank in the individual galleries. Is that just for customizing that gallery or did my control panel blurb not take?

limbik · July 29, 2006

On PC: Accessories > Character Map select the © "copy" then Ctrl-V to paste.

Andy · July 29, 2006

JBurt wrote:

Sorry Andy, I couldn't get it to work.

Another question: The backprinting window is blank in the individual galleries. Is that just for customizing that gallery or did my control panel blurb not take?

ALT 0169 do not use the + key

The gallery backprinting will override anything in your control panel, for that gallery.

technocraft · July 29, 2006

Wow. Awesome. About Time.

I see that you've released a bunch of stuff - I'll have to take my time opening my presents...

JBurt · July 29, 2006

Thanks guys much appreciated.

Of course, you know you ruined the first mild Saturday in a couple weeks. I coulda been out playing in the sun.

It didn't even hit 100 here today.

dogwood · July 30, 2006

multiple lines?
First off, I love this feature.

Is there a way to have multiple lines on the backprinting or does everything end up as a single line? Just curious how much I can cram on there...

Andy · July 30, 2006

dogwood wrote:

First off, I love this feature.

Is there a way to have multiple lines on the backprinting or does everything end up as a single line? Just curious how much I can cram on there...

One line. 40 characters.

dogwood · July 30, 2006

thanks

Andy wrote:

One line. 40 characters.

Scala · July 30, 2006

Umm, do the prints for standard or power users contain any backprinting? The filename or imageID would be useful someone wants to order more? I can't find any prints I ordered through Smugmug right now so I though I'd ask.

Andy · July 30, 2006

Scala wrote:

Umm, do the prints for standard or power users contain any backprinting? The filename or imageID would be useful someone wants to order more? I can't find any prints I ordered through Smugmug right now so I though I'd ask.

Nothing customizable, only some control numbers from the lab.

onethumb · July 30, 2006

Andy wrote:

OK One tip is, how to enter the © symbol on with your keyboard? It's very simple:

PC: Hit Alt+0169

What he meant to say was "Hold down the ALT key and press 0169".

Don

Andy · July 30, 2006

onethumb wrote:

What he meant to say was "Hold down the ALT key and press 0169".

Don

PC user 22 years, amazing how fast I forgot Heh.

JBurt · July 31, 2006

onethumb wrote:

What he meant to say was "Hold down the ALT key and press 0169".

Don

Yeah I know. That's what I was doing. Didn't woik for some reason. The Character Map (which I had forgotten about.

Hmm maybe I need to add more memory) worked just fine.

flyingdutchie · July 31, 2006

onethumb wrote:

What he meant to say was "Hold down the ALT key and press 0169".

Don

And remember, it works only with the numbers on the key-pad!!

- Press the ALT key and hold it down.
- Then press the 0 on the key-pad/num-pad.
- the 1,
- the 6,
- the 9,
- and release the ALT key.

rainforest1155 · August 1, 2006

Html-codes are filtered from captions/gallery descriptions when using one of the variables, are they?
Is there any possibility for the siteowner to check the backprint for specific pictures in the cart before shipping an order? I would like to see if my used variables give me the result I expect.

How about giving us the option to create user defined variables with our own content (filtering other variables using regular expressions)?

Thanks,
Sebastian

TristanP · August 4, 2006

I have a suggestion:

Can we get a SMUGYEARTAKEN in addition to the SMUGDATETAKEN? I think it would be useful for some to have the {© "year" www.domainname.com} as a copyright notice.

flyingdutchie · August 4, 2006

TristanP wrote:

I have a suggestion:

Can we get a SMUGYEARTAKEN in addition to the SMUGDATETAKEN? I think it would be useful for some to have the {© "year" www.domainname.com} as a copyright notice.

I was looking for this one too. For now, i hard-'coded' the year, but your suggestion would be very handy.

claudermilk · August 4, 2006

TristanP wrote:

I have a suggestion:

Can we get a SMUGYEARTAKEN in addition to the SMUGDATETAKEN? I think it would be useful for some to have the {© "year" www.domainname.com} as a copyright notice.

Another request for that.

SamirD · August 10, 2006

Andy wrote:

OK One tip is, how to enter the © symbol on with your keyboard?

I just cheated and highlighted the symbol above and then copy and pasted.

No ALT key sequences for me! (Yes, PC user for almost 20 years and I forgot how to do them too.)

Cindy · August 17, 2006

Control panel &/or gallery level backprinting
Just to make sure...
If I fill in the backprinting area in my control panel than ALL prints will be backprinted no matter what... even if I leave the gallery level blank where it requests what we want on the back???

devbobo · August 17, 2006

Cindy wrote:

Just to make sure...
If I fill in the backprinting area in my control panel than ALL prints will be backprinted no matter what... even if I leave the gallery level blank where it requests what we want on the back???

Hi Cindy,

I am pretty certain that if you set the backprinting up in the control panel that it will be applied to all photos sitewide. The options at the gallery level allow you to override the site wide settings for a specific gallery.

Cheers,

David

Andy · August 17, 2006

devbobo wrote:

Hi Cindy,

I am pretty certain that if you set the backprinting up in the control panel that it will be applied to all photos sitewide. The options at the gallery level allow you to override the site wide settings for a specific gallery.

Cheers,

David

Cindy · August 17, 2006

Andy wrote:

Thanks for confirming guys

SteveM · August 18, 2006

Copyright symbol
Just a side note on the alt-0169 © symbol. The actual backprinting prints the copyright symbol as (c), not the actual symbol, which was trivially (is that a word?) a little disappointing to me. This also makes me wonder, if I use the alt code, then use the remaining 39 characters of text space, would the last two characters be cut off, as the printhouse needs three characters to represent the alt code? Hmm! I also understand from a customer that the print is really tiny for both our backprinting and the EZprints #.

Still, it's great progress!

Steve
www.downriverphotography.com

Andy · August 18, 2006

SteveM wrote:

Just a side note on the alt-0169 © symbol. The actual backprinting prints the copyright symbol as (c), not the actual symbol, which was trivially (is that a word?) a little disappointing to me. This also makes me wonder, if I use the alt code, then use the remaining 39 characters of text space, would the last two characters be cut off, as the printhouse needs three characters to represent the alt code? Hmm! I also understand from a customer that the print is really tiny for both our backprinting and the EZprints #.

Still, it's great progress!

Steve
www.downriverphotography.com

Thanks Steve, we're looking into that (c) thing.

claudermilk · August 21, 2006

That's important. I've read that some places don't recognize the (c) in place of the real symbol.

pat.kane · August 21, 2006

Chris, as far as I can tell, "(c)" provides no legal protection. What is legal? Here's the info from my post on 29 Jul at http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=39204

Is the copyright symbol going to print (it shows up in the preview)? If so, is it legible?

I'd really like to place a valid copyright notice on the back of my images.

Ref: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html

The copyright notice must contain three elements:

1. The symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright,” or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and

2. The year of first publication...

3. The name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative designation of the owner.

Example: © 2004 Jane Doe

Most people aren't going to know how to enter the "circle C", so I think a new backprint keyword is needed (e.g., (C) or COPR).

We also need a SMUGYEARTAKEN keyword (the only other date option gives a full date).

Thanks,
Pat

SamirD · August 22, 2006

pat.kane wrote:

Most people aren't going to know how to enter the "circle C", so I think a new backprint keyword is needed (e.g., (C) or COPR).

We also need a SMUGYEARTAKEN keyword (the only other date option gives a full date).

Thanks,
Pat

I second these two.

Cindy · August 22, 2006

Andy wrote:

Thanks Steve, we're looking into that (c) thing.

Any news on this yet Andy?

Thanks,

SamirD · August 22, 2006

Cindy wrote:

Any news on this yet Andy?

Thanks,

He's probably sleeping right now. It's pretty late for the eastern half of the US to be up. :uhoh

The Backprinting Thread (Tips, and Questions)

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