Cards · Print Desk

Your design

Front
Choose a file

Back
Choose a file

PDF, PNG, JPG or SVG. If your front is a PDF with two pages, page 2 is used as the back. Without a back, only the fronts print.

Card size

Size

Width Height Direction Fit Bleed in your file If your design includes extra edge for cutting (often 3 mm), enter it. Use 0 if the file is exactly the card size. Print the bleed so small cutting errors show no white edge

Sheet

Paper Sheet direction How many cards Leave empty to fill one sheet. Left and right margin Top margin If printing sits too close to the top edge, make this bigger. Printers cannot print right up to the paper edge, and the sheet can sit a little off when it feeds. Bottom margin Many inkjets, including Epson L-series, cannot print the bottom 14 mm or so. Gap between cards Cut marks

Printer and alignment

Your printer Printer flips on Move the back to the right (mm) Move the back up (mm) Print a test, hold it to the light, and nudge the back until it lines up. Negative moves left or down. Print a ruler to check the scale

Alignment test

Prints just five small crosses per side on one sheet, so use scrap or plain paper. Print the front, turn the sheet over the same way you will for the real job, then print the back on the other side. Hold it up to the light.

Look at the back side, upright. The front crosses show through. If the back crosses sit 1 mm to the right of them, type -1 in “Move the back to the right”. If they sit 1 mm too high, type -1 in “Move the back up”. Then print the test again.

Add a front to begin.

Colour preview

Front

Back (as it looks from the front once turned over)

1Your design

2Card size

3Sheet

4Printer and alignment

Alignment test

Your design

Card size

Sheet

Printer and alignment