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Print Templates at Real Trim Sizes

Every template here is built at a real trim size — the size the paper is cut to after printing — with the bleed, the safe margin and the resolution target already set. 231 templates across 255 pages, in 15 categories. Open one in the browser, change what you want, and print it or send it to a shop.

Start from what you are making

Posters20 templates · 18 x 24 inInvitations & Cards28 templates · 5 x 7 inSocial Media24 templates · 1080 x 1350 pxInfographics44 templates · 8.5 x 11 inBook Covers11 templates · 6 x 9 inFlyers8 templates · 8.5 x 11 inMagazine Covers8 templates · 8.5 x 11 inWall Art6 templates · 11 x 14 inBrochures6 templates · 11 x 8.5 inBusiness Cards8 templates · 3.5 x 2 inCertificates8 templates · 11 x 8.5 inCalendars & Planners16 templates · 8.5 x 11 inMenus9 templates · 8.5 x 14 inBanners & Signs8 templates · 48 x 24 inWorksheets9 templates · 8.5 x 11 in

Or start from the size you were given

Most people arrive here holding a number, because somebody else chose it: the printer said 18 × 24, the frame is 11 × 14, Amazon said 6 × 9, the venue said tabloid. These pages start from the number.

The three numbers on every template, and what they actually mean

Every template on this site publishes the same three numbers, and they are the three that decide whether a file prints correctly. They are worth ninety seconds.

Trim size is the finished size — what you hold after the blade has been through it. It is not the size of the paper that went into the press, and it is not the size of the file. An 18 × 24 poster is trim 18 × 24; the sheet it was printed on was bigger, and the file was bigger too.

Bleed is the extra image beyond the trim, and on nearly everything here it is 0.125 inch on each side. It exists because the blade does not land in exactly the same place on every copy in the stack — it moves by a fraction of a millimeter — and any background color that stops exactly at the trim line will show a white sliver on some of them. Bleed gives the blade somewhere to be wrong. An 18 × 24 poster with bleed is an 18.25 × 24.25 file, and the outer eighth of an inch is designed to be thrown away.

DPI is dots per printed inch: how many pixels land in one inch of paper. It is not a quality setting and it is not a property of a photograph on its own — the same picture is 600 DPI in a small frame and 90 DPI stretched across a poster. Crevano judges every photograph against the target this document is set to, not against a fixed 300, and tells you the number: a selected photo reads something like 220 DPI at 6.40in wide — sharp at this size, with the axis it was limited by named underneath, because the tight axis is usually not the one you expect.

Why the target is not always 300

Three hundred pixels per inch is the right number for something held in the hand. It is the wrong number for something on a wall ten feet away, because the eye that resolves 300 DPI at arm's length cannot resolve anything close to that at ten feet. A 24 × 36 poster at a true 300 DPI is a 7,200 × 10,800 pixel image — 78 megapixels — that nobody standing in front of it can tell from one at half the size.

So the templates carry different targets on purpose, chosen by how far away the thing is read from. A card is 300. A large-format poster is not. The number is in every template's spec block, and the app holds your photographs to whichever number that document is set to.

A template opens a page. It is not a file you download.

Clicking a template opens it in the studio with the trim, the bleed, the margins and the target already set, and every element on it separate and editable — the headline is text you retype, the photograph is a photograph you swap, the color band is a shape you recolor. Nothing is flattened into a background you have to work around.

Multi-page templates open as multi-page documents. The four-page property brochure is four pages; the seven-page quarterly report is seven. Each page can carry its own size, so a book cover at 8.5 × 11 and an interior at 6 × 9 can sit in the same file and come out of one PDF at their own true sizes.

What it costs

The studio is free and does not need an account. Every template, the whole photograph and word-art library, laying out, editing, saving a project to your own device, and image exports at full size — free, with no watermark on anything, ever. Anything you make is yours to publish and sell, including commercially, with no royalty and no credit.

The print side is the paid line, at $12 a month or $99 a year with a 14-day trial. The current terms are on the pricing section, and that page is the one to trust — this one is about the templates.

Questions

What size should I make it?

Start from where it ends up. A thing held in the hand wants a card or letter trim; a thing on a noticeboard wants 11 × 17; a thing read across a room wants 18 × 24 or bigger; a thing that goes in a frame wants the frame's size exactly. If somebody else already gave you a number — a printer, a publisher, a venue, a frame — use theirs. Every size we carry has its own page above.

What is bleed, and do I need it?

Bleed is 0.125 inch of extra image past the trim on every side, and you need it whenever any color or photograph is meant to run right off the edge of the finished piece. You do not need it when everything sits inside a white border — letterhead, most wall art, anything you print at home and trim yourself. Turning bleed on when nothing reaches the edge just adds an eighth of an inch of white that gets cut off.

What does 300 DPI actually mean?

Pixels per inch of printed paper, not a quality slider. A 3,000-pixel-wide photograph is 300 DPI across 10 inches and 100 DPI across 30 inches — same file, three times the paper, a third of the detail. It is why the app shows you the number for the size you are actually using it at rather than a checkmark.

What is the difference between trim size and paper size?

Trim is the finished piece. Paper size is what goes through the press or the printer. They are the same only when the piece is printed edge-to-edge on a sheet exactly its own size, which is rare. An 8.5 × 11 flyer with bleed is printed on something larger — often 9 × 12 or a full 12 × 18 sheet with several up — and cut down.

Can I print any of this on a home printer?

Some of it. A home printer can do 8.5 × 11 and, if it takes tabloid, 11 × 17. It cannot print to the edge on most models, and the ones that claim borderless do it by scaling the page up slightly, which moves everything. Anything larger than tabloid, and anything that genuinely has to reach the edge, goes to a shop. The per-size pages say which is which.

What will the print shop ask me for?

A PDF at the trim size with the bleed included, and the trim size stated in the email. That is usually the whole conversation. If they ask for crop marks or for a vector file, ask before you send — Crevano writes each page as a lossless 300 DPI image inside the PDF, which prints beautifully and is not the same thing as vector type.

Why are some templates measured in pixels?

Because they never touch paper. A social post, a channel banner or an email header has no trim and no bleed; it has an exact pixel size the platform will display and nothing else. Those templates are sized in pixels for that reason, and the resolution check on them is judged against the screen target rather than a print one.

Are these really free, and can I sell what I make?

Yes to both. The templates and the library are free with no account and no watermark, and what you make is yours to publish and sell — a book on Amazon, a listing on Etsy, print-on-demand, or work you hand to a client. No royalty, no credit, and the permission does not expire.

Which template should I start from if I am not sure?

The one at the size you need, not the one that looks closest to your idea. Changing colors, type and photographs takes minutes; changing the trim size after you have laid a page out moves every element on it. Pick the number first.

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