DIY Made Easy: Print Place Cards at Home in Only 5 Steps

Printing your own place cards from home is a breeze. Below you will find two comprehensive tutorials that outline the entire process of personalizing and printing your place cards from start to finish. Creating your own table cards has never been so easy. For extra flair consider embellishing your place cards with bows or ribbon!

Tutorial 1: How to Print Your Own 4-Up Place Cards	Tutorial 2: How to Print Personalized Pre-Cut Place Cards
If you would rather speed things up a bit, we offer a selection of 4-up place cards pre-scored and pre-perforated on an 8 1/2 x 11 sheet of cardstock for maximum ease.	With a selection of over 80 precut place cards, we guarantee you will find the perfect match for your occasion.

We want you to spend your time creating an elegant table card that truly embodies the theme of your event. Both tutorials can be found below.

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How to Print Pre-Cut Place Cards

Elegant personalized place cards are just minutes away with our free templates and this step by step guide. In this tutorial you will learn how to set up the Word document, set a custom document size for printing, as well as print your beautiful place cards!

Step 1 – Download the free printing template

Download the free printing template provided on our web site appropriate for your product. The downloaded file will contain the template itself as well as a few additional helpful files to make your DIY project as easy as possible. This printing template is also available on each Place Card product page.

 

Step 2 – Open the template file in Microsoft Word

Open the template file in Microsoft Word or with another word processor that reads the DOC format.

• The template is formatted to the dimensions of the flat place card (4.5 x 5 inches
• Margins are set to .5 inches all around except for the top.
• The top margin is set to 3.25 inches to accomodate for the back side of the card which you will not be printing on.

Once folded, its finished size will be 4.5 x 2.5 inches. You’ll have a better idea once you see the printed place card.

 

 

 

Step 3 – Enter your guests names and table numbers

Change the sample place card wording so that it’s relevant to your event. Type the name and table number for one of your guests. Consider Changing the font face and size. Perhaps you’ll choose text to match that of your invitation.

We’ve set up our template and we’re almost ready to print.

We suggest cutting a plain piece of paper down to the dimensions of the place card and use it as a printing test. Load the test sheet into the printer and adjust the printer’s plastic guide to rest flush against the paper.

Step 4 – Time To Print!

Before printing, we need to set the custom document size of our place card. Otherwise, the printer assumes we are printing on a standard 8 1/2 x 11 sheet instead of a place card.
Printing On a PC	Printing On a MAC
Go to File/Print and choose your printer. Click the Properties button to access the printer driver. Find the area for paper size. Enter a custom value using the dimensions of our unfolded place card – 4.5in wide by 5in high. Accept the changes and hit OK. You’ll find yourself back at the print dialog box. Hit OK once more and print your test sheet. Only the bottom half of the test sheet will be printed.	Go to File/Print and choose your printer. Click the Page Setup button to access the printer driver. Under Paper Size, scroll to the bottom and select Manage Custom Sizes. Click the [+], Click ‘Untitled’ and name your new custom paper size ‘4.5 x 5’ Next to Paper Size, enter the custom dimensions of our unfolded place card-4.5in width by 5in height and hit OK. You’ll find yourself back at the Page Setup dialog box. Hit OK once more to return to the Print dialog box. Finally, press Print and print your test sheet. Only the bottom half of the test sheet will be printed.

Step 5 – Fold and Finish

Fold the sheet in half as you would fold a place card. The front panel printing should be vertically and horizontally aligned.

Like What You See?

Once you’ve settled on the look of your place card, you should save the template to your Documents folder. At your convenience, you can go back to your customized template and finish typing the rest of your names and table numbers.

 

Lets Print the Rest!

You can load your place cards into your printer and print the cards one by one, changing the template wording to show a different name and table number for every card, or you can set up a mail merge. A mail merge requires some extra setup time so we’ll leave that lesson for another article.

 

 

 

 

Congratulations! You’ve learned how to print professional looking place cards using LCI Paper’s free template and your printer.

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Learn How to Print Your Own 4-Up Place Cards

 

The easiest way to print your own place cards is by ordering our 4-Up Computer Printable Place Cards and downloading our free Word printing template. All you have to do is type in your guests’ names and table numbers and click print! Because these come on a standard size 8 1/2 x 11 inch sheet, you dont have to mess with any printer settings and you can print with any home inkjet or laser printer! Here’s how:

 

Step 1 – Download Our 4-Up Place Card Printing Template

The downloaded file will contain the template itself as well as a few additional helpful files to make your DIY project as easy as possible. This printing template is also available on each Place Card product page.

Step 2 – Open the file 4Up-Place-Cards.doc in Microsoft Word

This file is located inside your ZIP file download. When you open it, you will see a document with four names and table numbers.

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Step 3 – Enter your guests names and table numbers

Replace the sample names and table numbers with the information for your guests. If you like, you can change your fonts and font sizes, add graphics, and be as creative as you like.

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Step 4 – Print your personalized place cards

Click File > Print. Because these sheets measure 8 1/2 x 11 inches–the same size as plain copy paper–you won’t need to change any settings. Print one 4-Up sheet and make sure you’re happy with the results.

You can print a test on a sheet of copy paper, then hold it up in front of the 4-Up sheet to make sure everything is lined up to your preference.

Continue to work with your Word template, replacing names and table numbers with another set of four guests, printing that sheet, and repeating.

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Step 5 – Fold and tear to complete your place cards

1) Fold and remove outer edges:	2) Separate by folding and tearing:	3) Finally, fold along the score line:

If you would like to learn more about printing all of your place cards at once read more: Print 4Up Place Cards with Microsoft Word Mail Merge!

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