Business card maker

Make a business card online for free: a print-ready PDF with bleed for a print shop, or an A4 sheet of ten to print at home. Nothing is uploaded.

How to make a business card online

1
Enter your contact details
Name, job title, company, the ways to reach you and an optional logo. Every line is fitted to the card, so long titles shrink rather than run off the edge.
2
Pick a size and layout
European 85 × 55 mm, US 3.5 × 2 in, Japanese 91 × 55 mm or 90 × 50 mm, in six layouts. The back can carry a QR code with your contact details.
3
Download the PDF and print it
One card with bleed and crop marks for a print shop, or an A4 sheet of ten for a home printer. A 300 DPI PNG of each side comes separately.

What this business card maker gives you

This business card maker turns the lines of a card into finished files: name, job title, company, phone, email, website and address, plus a logo if you add one. Pick one of four sizes, including the European 85 × 55 mm and the US 3.5 × 2 in, and one of six layouts, such as a colored bar down the left edge, a split card or a framed one. The card is drawn as you type, and the back can carry a QR code with your contact card. You get files, not an order: a print-ready PDF of one card with bleed and crop marks or an A4 sheet of ten cards for a home printer, plus a PNG image of each side. Nothing is printed or mailed, so there is nothing to wait for and no shipping to pay.

Printing at home or at a print shop

For a print shop or an online printer, keep One card with bleed under What to download. The PDF page is the card plus 3 mm on every side, 91 × 61 mm for an 85 × 55 mm card, with crop marks, and with Print both sides on, the second page is the back. To print the cards yourself, choose A4 sheet of ten instead. In landscape the sheet holds ten cards in two columns of five, with cut lines across the whole page, and the backs follow on a second page for the other side of the paper. Print at actual size, because any scaling changes the size of every card. The sheet has no bleed, since neighboring cards share a cut, so cut along the lines with a ruler or a paper trimmer.

What bleed is and why 3 mm

A printer never cuts exactly on the line. Sheets shift by a fraction of a millimetre as they run through the press and the guillotine, so a background that stops precisely at the edge of the card leaves a white hairline down one side of some of the cards in the stack. Bleed is the fix: the artwork is extended 3 mm beyond the trim on every side, the press cuts through that extension, and any drift lands inside the extra ink rather than outside the design. That is why the PDF page here is 91 × 61 mm for an 85 × 55 mm card, the card plus 3 mm on each side, with crop marks in the bleed area showing the cutter where the real edge is. The mirror image of the rule is the safe area: text and logos stay 3 mm inside the trim, so the same drift never clips a phone number.

Your contacts stay in this tab

The card is drawn in your browser, and the PDF and PNG files are written there too. Your phone number, email and logo are never uploaded to any server, and neither is the vCard behind the QR code. The draft is saved in this browser only, under the key pulsarkit.draft.business-card, for 30 days, and can be wiped with one button.

Frequently asked questions

Is this business card maker free?

Yes. There is no account to create, no payment form and no watermark on the card, and nothing to install, because the maker runs in your browser. Make and download as many cards as you need.

Do you print and ship the cards?

No. PulsarKit does not print or mail anything, so there is no order and no shipping fee. You download the files and choose where they are printed: on your own printer with the A4 sheet, or at a print shop or online printer with the single-card PDF.

How many cards fit on an A4 sheet?

Ten in landscape, in two columns of five. In portrait the same sheet holds nine 85 × 55 mm or 91 × 55 mm cards, or twelve 3.5 × 2 in or 90 × 50 mm cards. The sheet is A4 only; there is no US Letter version.

Can I make a digital business card?

The maker is built for paper, but two parts work on a screen. The PNG of each side is 1,075 × 720 pixels for an 85 × 55 mm card, bleed and crop marks included; the logo goes only into the PDF. The QR code on the back holds your details as a vCard, so people scan them instead of typing. For a contact QR code on its own, use QR Code Generator.

Which alphabets can I use on the card?

Latin letters with accents, Cyrillic, Greek and Devanagari. Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew and Thai are not supported: the page lists the characters it cannot print and makes no file. Western European text is set in Helvetica, Times or Courier; anything beyond that switches the whole card to Noto Sans in a single weight, so the name stands out by size rather than bold.

What resolution does my logo need?

The logo is fitted into a 22 mm square in the top corner of the front. At 300 DPI that square takes about 260 pixels, so a PNG, JPG or WebP of 300 pixels or more on its long side prints sharp. A smaller logo is scaled up to the same size and prints softer, and the form warns you about it.

What goes into the QR code?

Either a vCard with your name, company, job title, phone, email, website and address, or just your website address. If the vCard is too long to stay readable at this size, drop the address from it; the tool offers exactly that.

Will a print shop accept this PDF?

The PDF is the card plus 3 mm of bleed on every side, with crop marks, and its text and shapes are vector. Two things a print shop's file check may flag: colors are sRGB, not CMYK, and Western European text uses the standard PDF fonts Helvetica, Times or Courier by name rather than embedding them. Send the file and ask before you order a large run.