Diseñar la tarjeta nunca fue el problema. Lo es el archivo que la imprenta devuelve. 3mm de sangrado, marcas de corte, texto real.
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Sangrado y marcas de corte: 3mm
Europe, Türkiye, most of the world
Sangrado y marcas de corte: 3mm
Sangrado y marcas de corte: 3mm
Esta es la tarjeta de ejemplo. Pon tus datos y el archivo de imprenta pasa a ser tuyo.
Listo para enviar
El archivo se exporta en RGB y casi todas las imprentas online lo convierten al recibirlo. Convertir a CMYK bien exige un perfil ICC ajustado a la máquina y al papel; hacerlo a ojo desplaza todos los colores, y eso es peor que dejarlo en manos de la imprenta.
Canva, Adobe y Vistaprint regalan un diseñador de tarjetas, y lo hacen bien. Diseñar la tarjeta nunca fue donde esto falla.
Donde falla es el archivo. La imprenta necesita que el diseño se extienda 3mm más allá del borde por cada lado, porque la guillotina que corta un taco de quinientas tarjetas se mueve una fracción de milímetro y sin ese margen aparece una franja blanca en un canto. Necesita marcas de corte. Necesita que el texto sea texto y no una imagen de texto. Una exportación gratuita no suele traer nada de eso.
Así que esto es un diseñador medido en milímetros: la vista previa está a tamaño físico real con el sangrado y el área segura marcados, y la exportación trae el sangrado, las marcas y las dos caras en páginas separadas.
Pick the size where you are
85 by 55mm across Europe and Türkiye, 3.5 by 2 inches in the United States and Canada. A card cut to the wrong standard does not fit the wallet it is going into.
Fill it in and pick a look
Name, title, company, the ways to reach you. Four layouts and a set of palettes chosen for contrast, because a pale grey that looks refined on a screen disappears on paper.
Read it at actual size
The preview is a real 85 by 55mm on your screen, with the bleed and the safe area marked. Seeing 3mm as an actual 3mm is what makes the setting mean something.
Export the print file
Trim size plus 3mm of bleed on every edge, crop marks outside it, front and back as separate pages, and the text as text. That is the file an online printer's upload form is expecting.
None of this is about the design. It is about whether the order goes through.
Typical free export
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Each of these is a reason a real print order gets rejected or comes back wrong, and each is measurable in millimetres.
QR de contacto que te guarda en su agenda
El reverso puede llevar un QR vCard. Al escanearlo se guardan tu nombre, cargo, teléfono, correo y web en sus contactos, en vez de abrir una web que van a olvidar. Se dibuja en vector con la zona de silencio que exige la norma, así que se escanea desde la tarjeta impresa.
No bleed
The single most common rejection. Without 3mm of artwork past the trim, a stack of cards cut together comes out with a white edge on some of them.
A line wider than the safe area
Anything within 4mm of the cut is at risk. A long web address is usually the culprit, and it is the one thing on the card that has to be readable.
Text and card too close in tone
Screens are backlit and paper is not. Contrast that looks elegant on a monitor can be genuinely hard to read on an uncoated stock.
Type below about 6pt
Offset printing fills in the counters of small letters. Nothing here is set below 6.4pt for that reason.
Too many lines of contact detail
Four is what a card holds comfortably. A fifth makes the whole thing look crowded and gets read less, not more.
A logo too small to print
A logo that looks fine on screen at 200 pixels wide is soft at print size. Six hundred pixels is the minimum worth using.
Why the file stays in RGB, and why that is the honest answer
Printers work in CMYK, and you will see tools advertise a CMYK export as a feature. Converting properly needs an ICC profile matched to the specific press and the specific paper, because the same file prints differently on a coated and an uncoated stock. Converting approximately, which is what a browser based tool can do, shifts every colour in the file, usually making them duller and slightly wrong in a way you only discover when the box arrives. That is worse than not converting, because it looks like the job was done. Almost every online printer converts on receipt using the profile for the press your job is going on, which is the conversion you actually want. So the export stays in RGB, the page says so, and if your printer asks specifically for CMYK the right move is to send this file and ask which profile they want. Telling you that is less impressive than a checkbox and more useful than one.
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