18 business cards (85x55 mm) fit on one A3 sheet at actual size
An 85x55 mm business card is 85 x 55 mm. The sheet is A3, 297 x 420 mm, a built-in preset in FitPrint. The layout below is what FitPrint produces with its defaults: Fit most packing, Original size scaling, a 5 mm gap between items and a 5 mm side margin. Nothing is scaled: each item is placed at 85 x 55 mm, its true size.
Where each item lands
Positions are millimetres on the A3 sheet as FitPrint wrote them, with y measured from the bottom edge.
| x (mm) | y from bottom (mm) | Width (mm) | Height (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10.5 | 352.14 | 85 | 55 |
| 106 | 352.14 | 85 | 55 |
| 201.5 | 352.14 | 85 | 55 |
| 10.5 | 284.29 | 85 | 55 |
| 106 | 284.29 | 85 | 55 |
| 201.5 | 284.29 | 85 | 55 |
| 10.5 | 216.43 | 85 | 55 |
| 106 | 216.43 | 85 | 55 |
| 201.5 | 216.43 | 85 | 55 |
| 10.5 | 148.57 | 85 | 55 |
| 106 | 148.57 | 85 | 55 |
| 201.5 | 148.57 | 85 | 55 |
| 10.5 | 80.71 | 85 | 55 |
| 106 | 80.71 | 85 | 55 |
| 201.5 | 80.71 | 85 | 55 |
| 10.5 | 12.86 | 85 | 55 |
| 106 | 12.86 | 85 | 55 |
| 201.5 | 12.86 | 85 | 55 |
What other settings place
| Settings | Items per sheet | Placed size |
|---|---|---|
| Fit most, 5 mm gap and 5 mm margin (default) | 18 | 85 x 55 mm |
| Stack, 5 mm gap and 5 mm margin | 6 | 85 x 55 mm |
| Fit most, no gap or margin | 21 | 85 x 55 mm |
| Fit most, 10 mm gap and 10 mm margin | 18 | 85 x 55 mm |
| Stack, no gap or margin | 7 | 85 x 55 mm |
Turned portrait, 20 fit: business cards (85x55 mm) (portrait) on A3 (fit most, no gap or margin).
What the status line says
With 18 business cards (85x55 mm) in the list, FitPrint's status line reads exactly "18 items · 1 A3 sheet". Add one more and it reads "19 items · 2 A3 sheets": the extra item starts a new sheet rather than shrinking anything.
How to lay this out in FitPrint
- Drag your files in. Open FitPrint and drag your 85x55 mm business card files onto the window. Each file appears in the list with its size in the caption.
- Choose the A3 sheet. Click A3 in the sheet preset grid. FitPrint then lays the items out on a 297 x 420 mm sheet.
- Keep scaling on Original size. Original size places every item at 100 percent, so a printed item measures exactly what the file says it measures.
- Leave packing on Fit most. Fit most packs as many items per sheet as fit. With the default 5 mm gap and 5 mm side margin that is 18 business cards (85x55 mm) per A3 sheet.
- Change the gap or side margin only if you need to. The defaults are a 5 mm gap and a 5 mm side margin. The settings table on this page shows what every other recorded setting places on this sheet.
- Export and print at actual size. Click Export PDF, then set Scale to 100 percent and Pages per Sheet to 1 in the print dialog so nothing re-scales the exported file.
Related layouts
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- Business cards (85x55 mm) on every sheet
- Business cards (85x55 mm) (portrait) on A3
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- Business cards (85x55 mm) on A5
- Business cards (85x55 mm) on Letter
- Business cards (85x55 mm) on Legal
- Business cards (85x55 mm) on F4
- Business cards (85x55 mm) on Tabloid (11x17 in)
- Business cards (85x55 mm) on 4x6 photo paper
- Business cards (85x55 mm) on 8x10 paper
- All actual-size layouts
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