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QR Codes on Business Cards: Size, Quiet Zones, and Why Yours Might Not Scan

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A QR code on a business card has one job: someone points a phone at it and lands on your site before the card goes back in a pocket. When that scan fails, the code is not decoration. It is dead space you paid to print. The good news is that scan failures almost always trace back to a handful of measurable printing decisions, and the company that invented the QR code publishes exactly what those numbers are.

If your code has to fit a 3.5-inch card

Start with the module, the single black or white square that makes … Read more at Free Business Cards

How Small Is Too Small for Business Card Text

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Illustration of a magnifying glass over the small text on a business card

Design guidance from the people who build business card software puts a hard number on a question most card owners never ask: Easil, whose design platform ships with business card templates, recommends a minimum of 8pt for text on standard documents like business cards and flyers, because anything lower becomes genuinely difficult to read. A card can carry beautiful colors and a clever logo and still fail at its one job if the phone number makes someone squint.

The fix is not complicated, but it asks for honesty about two things: how small the type actually is, and how much … Read more at Free Business Cards

Magnets USA Creates New Business Card Model

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BusinessMarks

Magnets USA Creates New Business Card Model

If you want your prospects to remember your company and what your company does, getting them a business card that they will keep and look at is an important step. Magents USA has created a business card that is also a bookmark. The item is called a BusinessMark. These products contain your business information on one side and an eye-catching bookmark design on the other. Hopefully your prospects will utilize the cards as bookmarks when they purchase their next business book to read on the way to New York.

Even if the BusinessMark … Read more at Free Business Cards