https://www.zazzle.com/pd/spp/pt-zazzle_wrappingpaper?size=6ftroll&media=wrappingpaper_matte
Rolls used to be 30" high by whichever length the customer chose - 6, 15, 30, 45 or 60 feet.
The canvas in the Design Tool (on Horizontal) represented 36"/ 3 feet which was repeated horizontally for whatever length needed. So twice for a 6 foot roll, five times for a 15 foot roll, and so on.
The specs have now changed and the About product info says this:
The first part about designs being scaled down uniformly doesn't seem concerning. However, the second part about where they are now tiled/repeated at leaves questions as the roll lengths haven't changed to match.
This graphic shows a 6-foot roll tiled twice at 36", and then a 6-foot roll tiled twice at the new 34.8" :
It doesn't fit anymore. That gray area represents the 2.4" of left-over space at the end of the roll where you'd only see that little bit of the next tile.
Here's a 15 foot roll tiled at 34.8" instead of 36":
Now that left-over space at end of roll equals 6 inches.
As you go up in roll size that left-over space increases. (12" for a 30ft roll, 18" for a 45ft roll, 24" for a 60ft roll.)
I've been viewing various rolls in the MP and none of the previews show this left-over space which would be evident by seeing cut-off designs on that end of the roll. So that's good, but what does it mean?
Does it mean that
A) the end of the roll we can't see in the previews is where the partially tiled design panel is
or
B) the actual roll lengths have been shortened to fit the new shorter tiling lengths but the specs haven't been updated to show the new shorter lengths, which would look like this:
A customer might not notice their roll being 2.4 or even 6 inches shorter than stated, but someone dropping over $100 on the largest roll size might probably notice being shorted two whole feet of paper.
I am hoping a Mod can confirm what has happened with this change here. Did the actual roll lengths change to accommodate the new shorter tiling of 34.8", or are the roll lengths the same meaning one end or the other of the roll will have only a partial design tile on it even though we can't see that in the previews?
* If one uses the "Tile" placement instead of Horizontal, then the Design canvas represents/ed a 6" x 6" square that was tiled across the roll length. So same as above, if now tiled at 34.8 inches instead of 36, it doesn't work out, there would now be left-over space / partial design at one end of the roll or the other unless the actual roll lengths have changed.
Right. But for the many designs that aren't just seamless patterns, like the countless photo collages for example, it would look really weird having it cut-off part way through a photo. If this is what's happening I am grateful that the previews aren't showing the cut-off end of the design, but I'd like confirmation of what exactly is happening with this. Not that I have ever sold a 60-foot roll, but at that length one is losing two feet of paper to an incomplete design.
Thanks for catching and reporting this, @ColsCreations
It is really awful and incomprehensible that Zazzle doesn't notify designers of these changes. What are they thinking? Creating happy customers does not seem to be the goal.
