Free CR80 card template and artwork checker

Upload card art to see it at true scale (85.60 × 53.98 mm) with bleed, trim, safe area and the ISO chip and stripe, then download a print-ready file.

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ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1
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Or download the blank template below.

Pick your card type, then drop your artwork.

Artwork checks

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Drop your design and it is checked at once for:

resolution at card size (300 dpi)
bleed past the card edge
text or logos too close to the edge
detail under the chip, stripe or signature panel
colors that print duller in CMYK

Card type

Orientation

Contact chip

Magnetic stripe

Slot punch

Signature panel Embossed numbers Round hole RFID/NFC antenna zone

Bleed

Safe area

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CR80 card size at a glance

A CR80 card is 85.60 × 53.98 mm (3.370 × 2.125 in), 0.76 mm thick, with 3.18 mm corners. At 300 dpi that is 1011 × 638 pixels.

Pixels rounded half up. The ISO column is the nominal card; the imperial column starts from the 3.375 × 2.125 in that printer drivers often quote.
	ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1	CR80 in inches (3.375 × 2.125)
Millimeters	85.60 × 53.98	85.73 × 53.98
Inches	3.370 × 2.125	3.375 × 2.125
72 dpi	243 × 153 px	243 × 153 px
96 dpi	324 × 204 px	324 × 204 px
150 dpi	506 × 319 px	506 × 319 px
300 dpi	1011 × 638 px	1013 × 638 px
600 dpi	2022 × 1275 px	2025 × 1275 px
With 1/16 in bleed, 300 dpi	1049 × 675 px	1050 × 675 px
With 2 mm bleed, 300 dpi	1058 × 685 px	1060 × 685 px
With 3 mm bleed, 300 dpi	1082 × 708 px	1083 × 708 px
With 1/8 in bleed, 300 dpi	1086 × 713 px	1088 × 713 px

Thickness tolerance is 0.68 to 0.84 mm and the corner radius may be 2.88 to 3.48 mm, per ISO/IEC 7810:2019. Every size and printer canvas, in one place: the CR80 card size guide.

How to check your card artwork

Four steps. The checks run the moment your file lands, in your browser.

Pick the card type, or start from a blank template
Payment, hotel key, gift, ID badge or smart card: the chip, stripe, signature panel, embossing, punch and antenna zone appear where ISO and card factories put them. Toggle any layer on or off.
Upload the artwork
Drop a PDF, PNG, JPG, SVG, AI or PSD file. A print-ready PDF is placed by its trim box and a card-sized image fills the card exactly. Anything else opens in a placement dialog where you drag, zoom and turn it.
Read the checks and fix the warnings
Each check passes, warns or fails, and Show highlights the pixels it is about. Turn on Print colors to preview your RGB file in CMYK.
Download the print-ready file
A PDF with trim and bleed boxes, a PNG at 300 or 600 dpi or at your card printer’s own canvas, the layered template pack, or a proof sheet for your client.

What the checker tests, and the rule for each

The same things a prepress operator looks at first. The rules are published here so you know exactly what passes.

Check	Pass rule	Why it matters
Resolution	300 dpi or more at card size passes; 200 to 299 is a warning; under 200 fails	Below 300 dpi, photos and small text print soft. A vector PDF or SVG always passes.
Bleed	The design reaches the bleed line on every side	Cards are cut from sheets. Art that stops at the edge can show a sliver of white when the cut drifts.
Safe area	No sharp detail (text, lines, logos) within 3 mm of the edge	A cut can drift by a millimeter or more; text near the edge looks cramped or gets trimmed.
Chip area	No sharp detail under the chip plate plus 0.5 mm	The chip covers that area completely, and the milling around it cuts the print.
Magnetic stripe and signature panel	No sharp detail under them	Both are applied over the print and hide whatever is underneath.
Embossing	Nothing important on the back behind embossed numbers	Embossing pushes through the card and distorts the back.
Print colors	Fewer than 3% of pixels move more than ΔE 12 in CMYK	Bright RGB greens, blues and oranges cannot be printed in CMYK and come out duller.

Sharp detail is found with an edge filter: text, lines and logos have strong edges, a soft photo mostly does not. Print colors come from a round trip through the coated FOGRA39 CMYK profile.

Download a CR80 template: PSD, SVG, PDF or PNG

Every download carries the same geometry, with or without your artwork, landscape or portrait, with the chip and stripe guides you turned on.

File	Open it in	What is inside
PDF with layers	Acrobat, InDesign, card factories	Both sides, trim and bleed boxes set, every guide on its own Acrobat layer
SVG with layers	Figma, Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity	Vector guides as named groups (layers in Inkscape), your artwork underneath
PSD with layers	Photoshop, Photopea, Affinity, GIMP	300 dpi, guides on the trim and safe lines, one layer per guide
Print-ready PDF	Card factories and print shops	Your art at 600 dpi with bleed, trim box set, optional crop marks
Print-ready PNG	Online printers, desktop card printers	300 or 600 dpi with bleed, or the exact canvas of your card printer
PNG template with guides	Canva and other apps without layers	300 dpi with bleed, the guides you turned on drawn over your art or over white
Proof sheet PDF	Email to a client or a printer	Front and back with the guides, the spec and the check results

Illustrator opens the SVG with each guide as a named group (use Release to Layers to split them) and opens PDFs flattened, so Illustrator users should take the SVG. Canva has no layers: upload the PNG template as a background and delete it before you export. Hide or delete the guide layers before you send a file to print.

Where the chip, stripe and other parts go

Measured from the top-left corner of the side named, with the card in landscape. Portrait cards are the same card turned a quarter turn clockwise, so the chip moves to the top.

Part	Size and position	Basis
8-pin contact chip (front)	13.0 × 11.8 mm plate, 8.56 mm from the left edge, 17.99 mm from the top	ISO/IEC 7816-2 contact field; standard 8-contact module
6-pin contact chip (front)	11.0 × 8.3 mm plate, 9.56 mm from the left, 18.47 mm from the top	ISO/IEC 7816-2 (no C4 or C8); standard 6-contact module
3-track magnetic stripe (back)	12.7 mm tape, top edge 4.5 mm from the top, edge to edge	ISO/IEC 7811-2/-6: top at most 5.54 mm, reaching at least 15.95 mm
2-track magnetic stripe (back)	8.4 mm tape, top edge 4.5 mm from the top	ISO/IEC 7811-2/-6: reaching at least 11.89 mm
Signature panel (back)	75 × 8 mm, centered, top 19.9 mm from the top	No standard size; raised items start at 19.05 mm or lower
Embossed number (front)	4.32 mm line centered 32.56 mm from the top, first digit 10.18 mm in	ISO/IEC 7811-1, 19 digits at 3.63 mm
Embossed name area (front)	up to 14.53 mm tall, ending 2.54 to 3.30 mm above the bottom edge	ISO/IEC 7811-1, 4 lines of 27 characters
Slot punch	12.7 × 3.2 mm, near side 4.76 mm from the edge, centered	Badge slot punch makers (1/2 × 1/8 in, 3/16 in in)
Round hole	5 mm, center 7.5 mm from the edge	Card factory standard hole
RFID/NFC antenna zone	between a centered 81 × 49 mm and 64 × 34 mm rectangle	ISO/IEC 14443-1, Class 1 card

Keep artwork 2 mm clear of the chip, the stripe and the signature panel, as issuers and card printers ask. The details: where the chip goes on a card and magnetic stripe dimensions.

CR80 or ISO ID-1: why pixel tables disagree

Because two numbers for the width are in circulation, and some tables mix up 72 and 96 dpi.

ISO gives the width as 85.60 mm, which is 3.370 in. Printer drivers and US templates round it to 3.375 in, which is the top of the ISO tolerance. At 300 dpi the first is 1011 px wide and the second 1013 px, so both answers you see online are right for their starting point. Use the size your printer asks for; when in doubt, use the ISO size and add bleed.

Two errors are common. A CR80 card is 243 × 153 px at 72 dpi; 324 × 204 px is its 96 dpi size, often mislabeled. And many copies of the ISO chip-contact table give contact C8 as 28.85 mm; it is 26.85 to 28.55 mm, the same row as C4.

Desktop card printer image sizes

Direct-to-card printers map their canvas onto a ready-made card, so the file has no bleed. Retransfer printers print about 1 mm past each edge, so their canvas is a little larger than the card.

Printer	Canvas at 300 dpi (landscape)	Type
Zebra ZC100 to ZC350, ZXP 7	1006 × 640 px	Direct to card, no bleed
Entrust Sigma DS4, CR805 direct	1013 × 638 px	Direct to card, no bleed
Magicard 300, 600, D, K, E+	1013 × 642 px	Direct to card, no bleed
Magicard Rio Pro, Enduro+, Pronto	1016 × 642 px	Direct to card, no bleed
MagTek ExpressCard	1016 × 648 px	Direct to card, no bleed
Exact card at 300 dpi (HID Fargo DTC, Evolis)	1011 × 638 px	Direct to card, no bleed
HID Fargo HDP5000, HDP5600	1035 × 661 px	Retransfer, prints over the edge
Magicard Ultima, Prima	1036 × 663 px	Retransfer, prints over the edge
Matica XID 8300	1036 × 664 px	Retransfer, prints over the edge

Sizes as the printer makers state them in their spec sheets and driver manuals. HID Fargo’s direct-to-card printers print an 85.3 × 53.7 mm area and Evolis asks for a CR80 page, so for those the exact card at 300 dpi is the safe choice. The PNG download offers every canvas above.

What the checker can and cannot prove

It measures what a file says: pixel size, effective resolution, how far the design runs, what sits under the chip and stripe, and how far colors move in CMYK. It cannot read the intent hidden in a flattened image, check fonts, overprint or spot colors, or test a chip, a stripe or an antenna. The print-color preview is an approximation of coated CMYK, not a contract proof.

Your card factory’s own template and spec always win. Use this one to arrive with a file that needs no second round.

More free card tools and guides

What size is a CR80 card in pixels?

At 300 dpi a CR80 card is 1011 × 638 px (ISO size, 85.60 × 53.98 mm). With 3 mm bleed on every side it is 1082 × 708 px, with 1/8 in bleed 1086 × 713 px. If you start from the imperial 3.375 × 2.125 in, the 300 dpi size rounds to 1013 × 638 px.

What does CR80 stand for?

CR80 is a card-industry size code, not an ISO term, and it has no official expansion. It names the ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1 format: the size of a credit card, a driving license and most ID badges. CR79 and CR100 are the smaller adhesive and larger badge sizes.

How much bleed does a CR80 card need?

Most card factories ask for 3 mm on every side; US printers often ask for 1/8 in (3.175 mm), some for 2 mm. Desktop card printers that print on ready-made cards need no bleed at all. The template tool offers all four.

What is the safe area on an ID card?

The safe area is the zone where text and logos are safe from trimming: 3 mm (1/8 in) inside the card edge is the common rule. Keep important content 2 mm clear of the chip, the stripe and the signature panel as well.

Where is the chip on a card?

On the front, left of center: an 8-pin plate is 13.0 × 11.8 mm, starting 8.56 mm from the left edge and 17.99 mm from the top, centered on the ISO/IEC 7816-2 contacts. A 6-pin plate is smaller and sits slightly higher.

How far is the magnetic stripe from the edge?

The stripe is on the back, along the top. Its top edge must be no more than 5.54 mm from the top of the card (ISO/IEC 7811), and factories lay it at about 4.5 mm. A 3-track stripe is 12.7 mm wide and a 2-track one 8.4 mm.

Is CR80 the same size as a credit card?

Yes. Credit and debit cards, driving licenses and most ID badges are all ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1: 85.60 × 53.98 mm, 0.76 mm thick, with 3.18 mm corners.

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