Free ID Card Generator – Create Print-Ready ID Cards

Make Print-Ready ID Cards at True Card Size

An ID card has to do two things at once: carry the details that identify a person and physically fit a lanyard, wallet, or badge holder. This tool handles both. You fill in the name, ID number, designation, department, valid-until date, blood group, and emergency contact, upload a photo, choose a colour theme and orientation, and design the front and the back — then export a print-ready PDF sized to the exact card standard. There is no account, no watermark, and no fee, which makes it practical for a small office issuing staff badges, a school printing student cards, an event handing out crew passes, or a club making member cards. The sizing is the part most online makers get wrong, and it is what makes this one print correctly. The standard ID card size, called CR80 or ID-1, is 85.6 by 54 millimetres — the same as a credit or debit card. Print shops and card printers expect exactly that. At 300 dots per inch, the resolution needed for crisp printing, that works out to 1011 by 638 pixels, and the tool renders your card to those precise dimensions on export. It waits for the fonts to load, captures the front and back designs to a high-resolution canvas, and places each on its own page in a PDF whose page size is set to 85.6 by 54 millimetres. Optional safe-area guides show a dashed boundary a few millimetres inside the edge so you keep important text away from where a cutter might trim, which is the guidance every print shop gives. Here is a worked example. Set the orientation to landscape, type the name Priya Verma, ID number EMP-1024, designation Software Engineer, department Engineering, and upload a headshot. The front preview shows the organisation banner in your accent colour, the photo on the left, and the details on the right. Turn on the QR option and the tool encodes the ID number EMP-1024 into a small QR on the back, so a scanner can read the ID without anyone typing it. Click the print PDF button and you get a two-page PDF — front then back — each page exactly 85.6 by 54 millimetres at 300 DPI, ready to hand to a card printer or a print shop. The photo upload follows careful, mobile-safe handling because that is where these tools usually break on phones. When you pick an image, the tool loads it through a reliable path that also copes with iPhone HEIC photos, then re-encodes it to a stable image and centre-crops it to fill the photo box without stretching faces. It never holds onto a temporary browser image reference that a phone can discard under memory pressure — a bug that causes a thumbnail to appear but the final card to come out blank. Because of that care, the photo you see in the preview is the photo that prints. A few tips get you a professional result. Use a clear, front-facing headshot with even lighting and a plain background for the photo box. Keep the name and designation short so they do not wrap awkwardly, and switch on the safe-area guides while designing, then rely on the true-size PDF for the actual print. For durability, print on PVC card stock or laminate a paper print, and if you use the QR, test that a scanner reads the ID number before printing a batch. One honest note: this produces neutral, general-purpose card designs for organisations and events — it does not replicate government-issued identity documents, and you should only make cards you are authorised to issue. Everything runs entirely in your browser, so the photo and all the details you enter are processed locally and are never uploaded, stored, or shared.

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