On the front: business name, your name and the number people can reach you on. On the back: space for the next appointment with your emergency number, your office hours or a QR code to your website. In a few minutes you have a print-ready PDF with 3 mm bleed that any online print shop will accept.
What belongs on a trades business card
The card stays on the kitchen table after the quote or ends up stuck to the fuse box. So what matters is what people need in an emergency: business name, your name with your master title, your trade, a phone number that is easy to read, plus email, website and address. Five clear lines beat ten tiny ones.
Write your business name and trade exactly as on your website, your Google profile and your Impressum. That way people find you online under precisely that name, and everything looks consistent.
The back: appointment, emergency service, office hours or QR code
As an appointment and emergency card, the back has room for the date of the site visit or installation, with your emergency number underneath. The customer has everything in one place, even if a pipe starts leaking at the weekend. Alternatively, the back can show your office hours, a large QR code or just your business name in your colour.
The QR code opens your website, saves your contact details straight to the phone (vCard) or leads to the Google review form. It is large enough to scan reliably in print, and it works well on the card you leave with the customer after the handover.
How to order the cards from a print shop
Download the print PDF. It contains the front and back as two pages of 91 × 61 mm: an 85 × 55 mm final size plus 3 mm bleed all round. At the online print shop, choose 85 × 55 mm, printed on both sides, and upload the file.
Background and colour bars reach 3 mm beyond the final size, so even a slightly offset cut leaves no white strip. Text, logo and QR code, on the other hand, sit at least 4 mm inside the edge. Switch on “Show trim and safety lines” to see both limits in the preview.
In the PDF and SVG, all text is converted into vector paths. The print shop does not need any fonts, and the printed card looks just like it does on screen. The PNG file has 300 dpi for print shops that only accept image files.
Colours are set up in RGB and converted to CMYK for printing. Strong shades such as racing red or ultramarine often look a little more subdued on paper. If you want to be sure, order a small run first.
Free fonts and icons only
All fonts come from Google Fonts and are licensed under the SIL Open Font License; icons such as the hard hat, lightning bolt or paint roller come from Lucide (ISC licence). So you print without licence fees. The generator runs entirely in your browser, and your data stays with you.