To create business cards, there are many online services, or you can simply use a program such as Microsoft Word, creating and formatting the page in order to draw a business card with the exact proportions. Alternatively, to facilitate the task, you can use a free Windows program that is professional and simple to use to create business cards, badges, flyers, flyers, pre-labeled forms and identification badges to print .
There are at least two good programs that can be used for free with no purchase obligations and no heavy limitations.
1) SpringPublisher allows you to create and print business cards, postcards, letterheads or other types of cards in minutes.
Attention during the installation procedure not to also install the sponsor which, in this case, is the usual Babylon Toolbar completely useless for the purposes of the program.
SpringPublisher allows you to immediately open a template already designed to create a personalized business card.
Some templates are free while others can be downloaded only by paying a premium account.
It is however possible to modify the model using the program interface which allows you to add images, borders, frames, text and graphic shapes.
If you choose to create a template from scratch, there are various options for configuring the size of your ticket or flyer which are preset according to European or American standards.
You can create a ticket, a pre-marked sheet for letters on headed paper, a flyer or flyer or a postcard; each of them can have two sides: front and back .
On the left side there are all the elements that can be added to the ticket and the buttons to add a geographical map and a QR code are noted.
In the upper part there are the save options: you can save the project to complete it later or to keep it or you can immediately proceed to print the sheet or save the ticket in an image file.
The only limitation of the free version is the maximum saving resolution of 180 DPI, small for drawings and images that require printing in high quality, but sufficient for the simplest business cards.
Regarding the QR code, the program allows you to generate one according to the use you want to make of it.
With a QR code, anyone with a smartphone can simply scan the code from the camera and, as appropriate, store the details of the business card in its address book, visit the website indicated or send an email to the address indicated .
In another post all the ways to create and open QR codes .
Business cards are printed on an A4 sheet with 6 cards on one sheet .
2) Easy Card Creator Free is another program to create business cards and flyers from the computer.
This time the software comes with a greater number of customization possibilities and there are no limitations despite being freeware.
From Easy Card Creator you can create a business card, a badge, barcode labels, identification badges and even postcards .
From the initial interface you can immediately select the one you want to create with the dimensions already specified according to the standards.
On the left side there are the buttons to add text boxes, an image or a logo and, each of these elements can be resized with the mouse and customized by changing its rotation or transparency and position.
from the Card menu at the top, you can also add a background.
The bar at the top allows you to see a print preview and print the ticket.
The limit of this program is that it is designed for single prints, so if you need a badge on the fly, it becomes excellent but if you want to print many business cards to be delivered around, it doesn't work because you can only print one element for each page .
Furthermore, the created ticket cannot be saved on the computer.
To save the created tickets and print more than one on each page, it is better to save the ticket as an image using the image capture from the desktop and the cropping function of a program like IrfanView.
After saving the image of the ticket or badge created, you can open Word, and create an A4 sheet by inserting this image 6 times.
If you want a more professional business card, I recommend using a web application to create free online business cards, including the famous VistaPrint which has very low prices and sends them directly to your home.
In another post instead the guide to print business cards using Word and custom templates .
Another free program to create a business card or a pre-labeled page is Scribus, an open source software for creating pages for editorial printing (DTP) similar to Microsoft Publisher.
